JANG WONYOUNG: TMI

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PREFERENCES & TASTES

Food

• Jang Wonyoung loves to eat in general and has been praised for her mukbang skills.
• Jang Wonyoung is a huge fan of beef. She has said that she never gets sick of beef no matter how much she eats it.
  • Jang Wonyoung prefers her beef steak to be medium rare or medium.
  • She has said that she can finish a portion of beef for 2.5 people on her own.
• Jang Wonyoung also loves bread. She often waits in line to buy bread at famous bakeries in the early mornings.
  • Jang Wonyoung has mentioned the following baked goods as some of her favorites: corn crumble, sweet potato pound, chappssal doughnut, twisted doughnut (kkwabaegi), egg tart, french toast, apple cinnamon pound, chocolate muffin, croffle, and garlic bread.
  • She prefers tarts to cakes and received a birthday tart instead of a birthday cake on her birthday in 2019.

• Jang Wonyoung can’t handle spicy food that well.
• Jang Wonyoung likes the mint chocolate flavor.
• Jang Wonyoung is also a huge fan of chocolate, but not white chocolate. She prefers dark chocolate.
• Jang Wonyoung likes Hawaiian pizzas.
• Jang Wonyoung’s favorite fast food chain is Burger King.
• Jang Wonyoung definitely prefers red bean paste filled carp bread to the shu cream filling; she has never even tried the shu cream filled carp bread.
• Jang Wonyoung has said that she likes putting olive oil, salt, and pepper on vanilla ice cream.

Hobbies

• Jang Wonyoung likes to swim and play pigu (Korean dodgeball).
• Jang Wonyoung has also listed bike riding as one of her hobbies.
• Jang Wonyoung likes to stay at home and watch videos after taking a shower at the end of the day; she watches Korean dramas, Korean variety, American TV shows, mukbang, ASMR and foreign films.
• Jang Wonyoung likes to get pedicures (nail art).
• Jang Wonyoung does flying yoga.
• Jang Wonyoung had prepared for art school entrance exams when she was young, and she has said that one of her hobbies also includes adult coloring books.
• Jang Wonyoung has said that she wants to learn baking, as one of her favorite anime to watch when she was in elementary school was Yumeiro Patissiere.

Likes and Dislikes

• Jang Wonyoung is afraid of playing video games. She is also scared of horror movies and insects.
  • However, she’s not scared of thrill rides at amusement parks, saying that she is not afraid to go on any roller coasters in the world.
• Jang Wonyoung likes rom-com movies.
  • Her favorite movies of all time are Clueless and Devil Wears Prada.
  • Her favorite Christmas movies are Home Alone and The Chronicles of Narnia.
• Jang Wonyoung has mentioned the following K-Dramas as the ones that she has watched and enjoyed:
  • Hotel Del Luna, Extraordinary You, SKY Castle, You Who’s From the Stars, Reply series, The Legend of the Blue Sea, Boys over Flowers, and Twenty Five Twenty One.
• Jang Wonyoung likes dogs; she has said that she would like to get a Bichon Frise in the future.

• Jang Wonyoung’s favorite colors are white, purple, and pink.
• One of Jang Wonyoung’s signature facial expressions is her wink. Even as a little child, she used to greet her mother with a wink when going off to kindergarten.
  • She is quite skilled at doing the fast wink (63 fast winks within 30 seconds) and the slow wink that she uses for variety shows and select performances.

OTHER TRIVIA

• Jang Wonyoung is fluent in English and Japanese.
  • She has attended an English kindergarten when she was young, and she has also spent some time in Atlanta.
  • She started learning Japanese as a trainee, and during her activities as IZ*ONE, a group with many Japanese members and popularity in Japan, her Japanese greatly improved.
• Jang Wonyoung has said that her role model is actress Jun Jihyun (Gianna Jun), saying that she wants to become a multi-entertainer who is successful in many fields.
• Jang Wonyoung has said that she has actually seen a UFO in real life; after a hard night of practice, she was eating some food and looked up at the sky and saw a mysterious shining object zooming fast out of sight.
• Yaongi, the webtoon artist of the popular Korean webtoon True Beauty, has said that Jang Wonyoung is one of the idols that she uses as reference the most when drawing the main charcter’s clothes, hair, and makeup.

• Jang Wonyoung drinks a lot of water in her daily life; her makeup artist has said that Jang Wonyoung’s perfect skin is the result of her habit of staying hydrated and having a dedicated home beauty routine.
• Jang Wonyoung has a habit of asking her fans “Did you eat?” whenever she comes across them in places like fansigns or airports.
• In 2022, Jang Wonyoung donned “bongjam,” a kind of traditional Korean hair jewelry, to the FRED jewelry event held in Paris as the ambassador of FRED, a jewelry brand under LVMH. Her fashion choice received praise from Koreans as a public move of endorsing Korean culture in a global event.

JANG WONYOUNG’S NICKNAMES

Most of the nicknames on this page have originated from Korean media or conversations held in Korean among members.