Mimi, a rising star in the entertainment industry

TV Feb 12, 2025

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Mimi, a member of girl group Oh My Girl, has established herself as a ‘entertainment sensation’ by dominating the broadcasting industry. She is showing off her unstoppable moves to the point where her name is on every new entertainment program that is being introduced.

Following her popularity as a representative of the MZ generation of office workers on the ENA entertainment program ‘Kian Isseo’, which ended last month, she has been captivating viewers with her signature quirky charm and cheerfulness.

She will be appearing as an MC on Channel A‘s new entertainment program ‘Heart Pairing’, which will air from March 4th. ‘Heart Pairing’ is a new dating entertainment program prepared by the production team of ‘Heart Signal’, a representative dating entertainment program. Unlike ‘Heart Signal’, which depicts young men and women in the early stages of a relationship, ‘Heart Pairing’ depicts the process in which contestants of marriageable age gather together to find their future spouses.

Mimi will work with Yoon Jong-shin, Lee Chung-ah, Choi Si-won, and Park Ji-sun, a professor at Sookmyung Women’s University, and will seriously talk about her and her peers‘ views on love and economics.

She has also joined hands with ‘National MC’ Yoo Jae-suk. He will show off his bubbly charm in the new tvN entertainment program ‘Sixth Sense: City Tour’ (City Tour), which will air for the first time on the 13th of next month.

‘City Tour’ is a variety program that finds fakes that are more real than the real thing hidden inside the real thing, and is a new season that will be presented three years after ‘Sixth Sense’, which became a hot topic in 2022. This season, excluding Yoo Jae-suk, Song Eun-i, Go Kyung-pyo, and Mimi show off their friendship that is no less than that of ‘siblings’.

tvN’s ‘Pyonpyong Earth Arcade’ (Jiraksil), which made Mimi‘s presence known, is also returning for season 3. The program, which is currently being filmed in the Philippines, is a variety show in which Mimi, broadcasters Eun-ji, Lee Young-ji, and Ahn Yu-jin travel across time and space to catch a rabbit from the moon that ran away to Earth.

Mimi first gained attention in 7 years since her debut thanks to her honest and cheerful charm in season 1, which aired in 2022.

Mimi is determined to “put everything down and show everyone who she is in this season as well.


Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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