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Lee Min-Young (Hangul: 이민영 Hanja: 李敏英), also known as Min, is a South Korean idol singer, actress, model and dancer. She is the Lead Vocalist and Main Dancer of the Korean girl group miss A which is under AQ Entertainment, a JYP Entertainment sub-label. Before debuting with miss A, Min had some notable recognition in South Korea and some parts of America for being "Lil Jon's protege". She is considered as JYP's longest trainee having been trained for 8 years before debuting.

Biography
Min was born on June 21, 1991 in Seoul, South Korea. At a very young age, she had already been exposed to the entertainment industry as she had took part in "BoBoBo" (The Korean version of Sesame Street ). At 13 years old, she and Girls' Generation's member, Hyoyeon, formed a dance duo called "Little Winners". Videos of Little Winners have become a popular watch on Youtube. Min auditioned to be a part of JYP Entertainment when she was in the 6th grade. After a year of training, she was sent to the U.S. to train some more as she prepares for a U.S. debut. She went to study at the Repertory Company High School in Manhattan. Min had revealed on an episode of Oh! My School, a South Korean variety show, that on the sixth year of her training, she had ran away after being disheartened from the recurring delay of her U.S. debut. She said that no one, not even her family or JYP, knew that she had gone back to South Korea in 2008. She worked several jobs including being a Dance teacher and an English teacher for about 18 months.

New York, USA
For Min's U.S. debut, JYP teamed up with Lil Jon in the production of her album. She had an official MySpace account put up where two of her solo singles can be heard up until now. Her solo singles are "Dance Like This", "Go Ahead" and "Boyfriend".

miss A
In June 2010, JYP Entertainment announced that they will be debuting a 3-member girl group called miss A. They released their debut single, "Bad Girl, Good Girl", from their debut mini-album, "Bad But Good", on the 30th of June, 2010. The song went to #1 on music charts and gave miss A their first Mutizen award on MNet M! Countdown. They also took home the first place on KBS Music Bank and SBS Inkigayo. They made their first comeback stage on September 26, 2010 with their single "Breathe" from their mini-album "Step Up" on MNet M! Countdown where it was #1 for a week. Their comeback was praised for being very different from their debut stage as they exhibited a "doll-like transformation".

miss A was then invited to perform at the "KCC Switzen All That Skate Spring 2011" Ice Show from the 6th to the 8th of May. During the show, they performed their hits and their newly released track called "Love Alone". The song was released on the 2nd of May, 2011, and was said to have been created for the ice show. On July 10, 2011, miss A's official website released an audio teaser of their much awaited comeback single. The next day, Min's teaser was released. Min's teaser highlighted the anger one would have after being in a dysfunctional relationship especially when she slapped the man causing him to fall. The video gained even more attention when Min declared on her Twitter account that the slap teaser was real and that she "felt bad" for it. After the successful promotion of the first album, A Class, the group ventured out into the Chinese market where they released a Taiwan Special Edition of the album which includes Chinese remakes of their hits.

Solo Activities
After miss A's promotion for their debut mini-album, Min collaborated with her label mate, San E, for his debut single, "Tasty San". She joined him on his debut stages on various music shows for the month of September.

Min was selected to be a part of the G20 Seoul Summit that was held on November 2010. She was chosen to sing with 20 various idols from Beast, 2AM, Girls' Generation, 2PM, MBLAQ and more for its theme song. The recording was done separately for two days and one day for all the participants to gather for the recording of the chorus. The song, entitled "Let's Go", was released through a number of online music charts on the 15th of October, 2010.

On October 2010, Min was cast to appear on the pilot episode of KBS "Oh! My School", a South Korean variety show that replaced Star Golden Bell. Min was "expelled" from the show due to poor performance on the first episode. However, when the show came back on air as "100 Points Out Of 100", Min was "re-enrolled" with the help of her label mate and friend, Chansung of 2PM. She became a permanent cast member of the show then on until it was announced to be cancelled on May, 2010.

Rumors of Min being cast for an upcoming movie surfaced the internet throughout the month of November, 2010. A JYPE representative claimed that, "It is true that miss A’s Min received an offer to be cast in a movie, but it does not mean that it was accepted. Nothing is confirmed yet."

Trivia

 * She speaks fluent Korean and English.
 * She can speak basic Mandarin as a result from training with her group's Chinese members, Fei and Jia.