Girls' Generation (Facts)

Girls' Generation Kwon Yuri (Yuri)

Y U R I (유리)
Stage Name: Black Pearl YURI (흑진주 유리 - heukjinjoo Yuri)
Birth Name: Kwon Yu-ri (권유리)
Nicknames: Yul, Kkab-Yul (hyper/playful Yul), Kwon Seobang (Husband Kwon), Kwon Banjang (Class-President Kwon), BK Yuri
Position: Supporting Vocalist/2nd Main Dancer
Date of Birth: December 5, 1989
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Bloodtype: AB
Sibling(s): 1 older brother (Kwon Hyuk-jun)
Language: Korean (Fluent), English, Chinese (Fluent), Japanese
Specialty: Dance, Acting, Swimming
Casted: 2001 SM 1st Annual Youth Best Contest (Best Dancer, 2nd Place)
Training Duration: 5 Years 11 Months
School: ChungAng University (중앙대학교) Department of Theater | graduated from Neunggok High School
Career:
- 2005 KM Super Junior Show 'The King's Boyfriend'
- 2006 CF Dongil Highvill Lake City
- 2006 MV DBSK - 'Beautiful Life'
- 2006 CF China Chocopie CF (with Jang Dong-gun)
- 2006 CF East-West food Hat Choco mitte
- 2007 Movie 'Attack on the Pin-Up Boys' (as Ballet Girl)
- 2007 Sitcom KBS 'Unstoppable Marriage' (as Kwon Yu-ri)
- 2008 OST for SBS drama Working Mom 'Ggok' (with Sooyoung)
- 2008 Variety Show KBS2 'Kko Kko Tour' season 2
- 2009 MV K.Will - 'Tears are Dropping (눈물이 뚝뚝)'
- 2009 MV Joo Hyunmi & Seohyun - 'Jjalajajja (짜라자짜)'
- 2009 MC for MBC Music Core (with Tiffany)
- 2009 Variety show KBS2 'Invincible Youth' (as part of Girl7)
- 2010 CF 'Biotherm' (with Daniel Henney; Tiffany & Sooyoung)

TRIVIA

SNSD's biggest prankster.
Her image is that of sexiness, but she's also known for her "kkab" (crazy / hyper, playful acts).
Yuri often talks to herself in a self-hypnosis way.
Among her nicknames are "Black Pearl" and "Cola", both referring to her unique personality and her tanned skin.
She wrote the lyrics to one of SNSD's ballads, titled "Mistake". The song was included in SNSD's third mini-album.
Yuri is a health nut. Every morning, Yuri drinks grinded Ma juice mixed with milk, honey, and apples. She also regularly drinks Chinese herbal tonic.
She does yoga. On the variety show 'Invicible Youth', there was a segment of "Yuri's Yoga Classroom".
"Yuri" literally means "glass" in Korean.
Yuri collects Mickey Mouse items. She also likes anime/manga Crayon Shinchan.
She gained the nickname "BK Yuri" after she threw an impressive underhand opening pitch at a baseball game back in 2007. The nickname is taken from  Byunghyun Kim, a former major league player known for his underhand pitch.
Yuri's favorite Japanese food is takoyaki.
Yuri's ideal man is Song Seung-hoon.
She attends ChungAng University's Department of Theater along with BIGBANG's Seungri. Fellow member Sooyoung is her senior in the same department.

- Other Trivia -

♬ Becomes so feminine when close to a guy.
♬ Can make everybody tolerant when she starts fooling around.
♬ Can play violin and piano.
♬ Didn't have much girl friends to play with until she's joined SNSD since she doesn't have any sisters but brother, so she was friend with most of her brother's friends.
♬ Her favorite dishes are jjajjangmyun and omurice.
♬ Her first crush was one of her brother's friends. She even bought chocolate and put it in his mail box.
♬ Her hair grows so fast.
♬ Her hobby is yoga.
♬ Her name means 'glass'.
♬ Her mindset when she's in school are: she's not 'SNSD Yuri' but just Yuri, try to avoid getting attention and not stand out, and study hard.
♬ Her specialty is swimming.
♬ HyoYeon used to be angry at Yuri and treated her like an enemy before because she was jealous at how many people thought Yuri was the best dancer in SNSD.
♬ It takes 3 days for Yuri to master a choreography.
♬ Jessica is her closest friend.
♬ Like kissing stuff.
♬ Likes to collect candles and the most recent one she bought looks like chocolate. and even smells like chocolate.
♬ Likes to cry.
♬ Likes listening to Jason Mraz.
♬ Likes to immitate other members.
♬ Like to talk to herself.
♬ Loves Mickey Mouse.
♬ Makes the most dance mistakes.
♬ One time, the members pranked Yuri in the April fools day in 2008. Yuri was so shocked that the members didn't wanna give this kind of prank to her anymore.
♬ Proud to her s-line body.
♬ She the organized queen.
♬ She was chosen my her fellowbandmates as a member whose looks became more refined since their debut days.
♬ She can't cook. But she holds cooking contests with Taeyeon sometimes. And as expected, Taeyeon is always the winner
♬ She can't do math well.
♬ She can't play badminton well.
♬ She cried most of the time, if she's talking about members.
♬ She fall asleep after 10 minutes watching film and wake up 10 minutes before the movie ends. When the members laughing or claping at the movie, she suddenly walk up and laugh with them without knowing the reason.
♬ She forgot her "Honey" lyrics, she just kept smiling when it's her turn (Honey Live Performance, December 22, 2007).
♬ She has an ahjussi fan who used to manage and deliver them chinese food. He always came with free dishes for the girls because he likes Yuri very much.
♬ She has a mole right above her bellybutton.
♬ She is a bug catcher.
♬ She is a never-say-die person when she's competing with others.
♬ She is a prankster. She has teased Fany with fake bugs.
♬ She is scared of elephant. When SNSD went to Thailand to promote, she was the only one who didn't ride on the elephant.
♬ She is the lawyer of SNSD cause when in an argument, she list down what she has to say first.
♬ She said that his ideal guys is "someone who can adeptly change a tire."
♬ She once put the fart-pillow on a chair and covered it, Maknae was her victim when she innocently sit on it and then embarrassedly tried to explain that it wasn't her who farted.
♬ She once scared the girls with her fake rat. She put it in their garbage can, covered it but let the tail out.
♬ She once tied other members shoelaces together and ran away.
♬ She scared SuJu's Leetuek because of her dinosaur noises.
♬ She takes care on her health so well.
♬ She usually bring up the mood in their family during Lunar New Year by singing "trot" in front of her grandmother and grandfather and doing cute things.
♬ Slowest member in learning new moves
♬ She had a boyfriend when she was in grade 10
♬ She used to own a blog (tossi) and no one believed it was her until she posted her baby picture.
♬ The girls said that Yuri and her brother are really similar to each other and they even thought that Yuri grew beard.

♬ When she's tired, she sleeps with her tongue slightly sticking out.
♬ When she was browsing internet, she locked the door. Then she came out and Yoona asked her why she is so much sexier since that event.
♬ Yuri and Sooyoung once went over to a public bath house and was noticed by other high school girls there, who in the end figured that SNSD wouldn't come to such place and left without saying a word to them.