Choi Soo-young

Choi Soo-young
Sooyoung in March 2024
Born	(1990-02-10) February 10, 1990 (age 34) Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Education	Chung-Ang University
Occupations	Singer actress songwriter
Years active	2002–present
Agent	Saram Entertainment
Partner	Jung Kyung-ho (2013–present)
Family	Choi Soo-jin (sister)
Musical career
Genres	K-pop
Instrument(s)	Vocals
Labels	SM
Member of	Girls' Generation
Formerly of	Route 0
Website	smentertainment.com
Musical artist
Korean name
Hangul	최수영
Hanja	崔秀榮
Revised Romanization	Choe Su-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'oe Suyŏng
Website	esaram.co.kr

Choi Soo-young (Korean: 최수영; born February 10, 1990), known mononymously as Sooyoung, is a South Korean singer, actress and songwriter. She was a member of the short-lived Korean-Japanese singing duo Route 0 during 2002 in Japan. After returning to South Korea in 2004, Sooyoung eventually became a member of girl group Girls' Generation in 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most popular girl groups worldwide. Apart from her group's activities, Sooyoung has also starred in various television dramas such as The Third Hospital (2012), Dating Agency: Cyrano (2013), My Spring Days (2014), Squad 38 (2016), Man in the Kitchen (2017–2018), Tell Me What You Saw (2020), and most recently in Run On (2021), So I Married the Anti-fan (2021), If You Wish Upon Me (2022), and Not Others (2023).

In October 2017, Sooyoung left SM Entertainment although she remains as a member of Girls' Generation. She joined Echo Global Group and released her first solo single "Winter Breath" in 2018, before moving to Saram Entertainment in 2019.