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— Before joining JYP Entertainment, she was studying at a dance academy in Osaka.
— When asked her reason for wanting to be a singer, she said: ''"Since my mother likes music, I used to listen to Pop songs very often since my childhood, and when my mother found her favorite music, we used to sing it together in the bathroom. I think that was when I started to like singing. But the moment I decided to be a singer was when my grandmother watched a Japanese entertainment show called "Karaoke Contest" every week. She would smile at me and say, '''<nowiki/>'I hope you could be on that show one day'<nowiki/>''', and since I was young I told her that I would enter that show. As I said that, my desire to be a singer grew until I wanted to be on the real stage. First I just wanted to be a simple singer, but I thought that if I became a K-Pop singer, I would travel around Asia, and receive a lot of love, so I decided to be a K-Pop singer."''
— She was called by JYP Entertainment when she was shopping with a friend in Japan. She was in ninth grade at the time and was hesitant to accept the offer at first, but was a huge fan of Dream High. When the casting director told her that Wooyoung and Suzy were in the company, she immediately accepted the offer.