Soyeon

Who Soyeon is

Soyeon (소연) is the leader of i-dle and the producer who makes much of its music. Before her debut she appeared on Mnet’s Produce 101 and Unpretty Rapstar 3 (Xports News, 27 October 2017), and on 5 November 2017 she made a solo debut first, with the digital single ‘젤리’ (Jelly), which she co-wrote and co-composed (Hankook Ilbo). The following year, on 2 May 2018, she debuted in (G)I-DLE.

Herald Muse, in an August 2026 report, introduced her as the self-producing artist behind ‘TOMBOY’, ‘Nxde’, ‘Queencard’ and ‘Fate (나는 아픈 건 딱 질색이니까)’. According to the same report she became a full member of the Korea Music Copyright Association in 2024, and in January 2026, under the producer name icebluerabbit, she worked on i-dle’s digital single ‘Mono (Feat. skaiwater)’.

A solo album after five years and two months

After her first solo mini album, Windy, in July 2021, she released her first solo full-length album, 끝내주는 인생 (Kkeunnaejuneun Insaeng), at 6 p.m. KST on 7 September 2026. TenAsia reported that it was her first solo release in about five years and two months and that it holds eight songs. The title track, ‘퇴사할게여 (Narr. 기안84)’, which Soyeon wrote with Poptime, Daily and Likey, interpolates ‘잘 부탁드립니다’ by Ex, the song that won the grand prize at the 29th MBC University Song Festival in 2005 (Segye Ilbo). Of the album’s title — which reads as “a life that’s the best” — she said, “Whatever the life, I think it will be a ‘great life’ by the time you’re a grandmother” (Topstar News).

Before the release she sang her new solo songs for the first time on the Waterbomb Sokcho 2026 stage on 22 August (Star News), and the intro film released on 26 August moved in order from her first-birthday party through her trainee years, Produce 101, i-dle’s debut and her producing, to the present in which she prepared the album (Sports Kyunghyang). On EBS1’s Space Gonggam she said of the title track, “It’s like a song that comforts me” (Topstar News, 3 September 2026).

‘퇴사할게여’ was number one on Melon’s TOP100 at 8 a.m. on 17 September, and Soyeon told Herald Muse, “I’ll keep making music that can be a small breath of fresh air in many people’s lives.” The same day Segye Ilbo reported that the album had been certified ‘triple gold’ on China’s QQ Music.

Off the stage

She was host and chief producer of Mnet’s Unpretty Rapstar: Hip Pop Princess, which ended on 18 December 2025 (MyDaily). In September that year Coach named Soyeon a new global ambassador for its autumn campaign, ‘Revive Your Courage’ (Singlelist). Her own YouTube channel is called 소녀소연백서 (Sonyeo Soyeon Baekseo).