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BLACKPINK is a South Korean girlgroup from YG Entertaiment. They debuted on August 8, 2016 with the song Whistle and Boombayah. Before their debut, YG Entertainment had been giving fans some clues about their identities since 2012. Besides the current BLACKPINK members, YG also gave other trainees a video introduction, such as Euna Kim and Kim Eunbi. In the end, only four trainees, Jennie (leader), Jisoo, Rosé, and Lisa were chosen and debuted as BLACKPINK. Are you curious about their appearances before they debuted? Here’s a collection of BLACKPINK pre-debut photos and videos.
Jennie
Jennie Kim is the leader of the group. She grew up in New Zealand, and is fluent in speaking English. Here’s her pre-debut photos and videos.
Yearbook Photo
With her friends in New Zealand.
During her trainee days at YG Entertainment.
Official photo from YG Entertaiment.
In 2016, after announcing the new girl-group, YG posted Jennie’s introduction photo.
Jennie in an MBC Documentary special.
Jennie in the YG trainee introduction video.
Jennie in the YG “new artists” video.
She showed off her singing abilities with the song Lotus Flower Bomb by Wale feat. Miguel.
In 2013, Jennie collaborated with G-Dragon in his song Black, and they performed together in music shows.
Not only did she help with the song Black, Jennie was also the model in G-Dragon That XX music video. She acted as G-Dragon’s ex-girlfriend.
Jisoo
Jisoo is the only member that doesn’t come from abroad, and she is famous as the visual in BLACKPINK. Here’s Jisoo’s pre-debut photos.
Jisoo’s childhood photo, which she shared on Instagram.
Yearbook photo.
During her trainee days at YG Entertainment.
Jisoo’s formal photo.
Official photos from YG Entertainment
Similar to Jennie, here are Jisoo’s introduction photos.
Jisoo’s photos for Nikon CF.
Jisoo in Music Videos
Jisoo has made appearances in two music videos. The first video is Epik High’s Spoiler + Happen Ending music video.
The second video is from HI SUHYUN – I’m Different music video. She also appeared with Bobby from iKon.
Jisoo in CF
Before debuting, she shot some commercial films (CF). One of them is the Samsonite CF with Lee Min Ho.
She also shot an LG CF with iKon.
It seems like she made a great impression in her commercials. She even shot for Angel Stone Mobile Game CF.
