Choi Sooyoung (최수영; born February 10, 1990, in Gwangju City, South Korea) is a singer, actress, model, spokesmodel, TV host, radio DJ, and member of the South Korean idol group, Girls' Generation.Before Sooyoung's audition to SM Entertainment and 2007 debut under 소녀시대 (Girls' Generation), she made a brief debut in Japan as a singer in the short-lived idol duo called routeφ in 2002. She first debuted with Marina Takahashi with the song "Start". While in Japan, she became close friends with BoA and Sunday from The Grace as they too were working in Japan as singers at the time. She was previously a DJ of ChunJi along with Sungmin of Super Junior. She was later replaced by Sunny due to taking a role in the... read more