SOUTH KOREA - New Jeans
Time|June 12, 2023
K-pop's next act
CHAD DE GUZMAN
SOUTH KOREA - New Jeans

Hyein just turned 15, but her birthday wish is unusually purposeful for a teenager: "I want to show more of my skills and different sides of me that I haven't shown yet," she says. This youthful drive to keep growing is a common denominator among Hyein and her New Jeans bandmates: Minji, Haerin, Hanni, and Danielle, who are all under 20.

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