Bona (singer)
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Kim Ji-yeon, who performs as Bona, is a South Korean singer and actress. She belongs to the group WJSN and its sub-unit WJSN The Black. She became well-known for playing a gold medalist fencer in the drama Twenty-Five Twenty-One.
Career
Bona first appeared as a member of WJSN and its Wonder Unit on December 15, 2015, and officially debuted with the group on February 25, 2016, through the mini-album Would You Like? and the single "MoMoMo." Her acting career began in 2017 with a role in the KBS2 drama Hit the Top, followed by a lead part in the teen series Girls' Generation 1979. In 2018, she made a cameo in Radio Romance and later took on her second lead role in Your House Helper.
She also joined the cast of Law of the Jungle in the Northern Mariana Islands. In 2020, Bona played Lee Hae-deun in the KBS2 drama Homemade Love Story, earning the Best New Actress award at the 2020 KBS Drama Awards. Her breakout came in 2022 with the tvN drama Twenty-Five Twenty-One, where she portrayed a world champion fencer alongside Kim Tae-ri and Nam Joo-hyuk. The series became one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television.
Due to scheduling conflicts with that drama, she joined WJSN in the third round of Mnet's Queendom competition, which the group won in June 2022. In March 2023, she starred in the historical legal revenge drama Joseon Attorney as a Joseon-era princess. In February 2024, credited under her full name, she appeared in Pyramid Game as Sung Soo-ji, a student bullied at Baekyeon Girls' High School.
Did You Know?
- Bona was a trainee under Cube Entertainment before joining Starship Entertainment in 2013.
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- Wikipedia: Bona (singer) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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