IVE Wonyoung speaking Chinese

So, she actually is half Chinese.

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In case anyone is curious what she said (the second line was pronounced totally wrong but I could read the chinese subs)

爱豆上班了

今天我上班

大家好我们是IVE

Idol is here at work (this is a direct translation but I think this is the program's name because it's at the top left)

We are here today (the direct translation actually says today we are at work)

Hi everybody, we are IVE

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Ni de zhong wen zhen hao ah!

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Ke yi jiao cai fan jiu gou hao liao

cai fan hen rou yi de, gen uncle sou wo yao ze ge na ge hai you ze yi ge jiu ke yi le!

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i thought she is korean

and

y'all are able to access weibo?

She’s mostly Korean but I think one of her parents is half Taiwanese if I’m not mistaken

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i thought she is korean

and

y'all are able to access weibo?

theyve never really said, but iirc, she was born and raised korean, but most likely has a Taiwanese parent/grandparent

e/ nvm they did clarifiy, -She is part Taiwanese and her name in Chinese is Chang Yuanying (張員瑛). Her father is ethnically Korean but grew up in Taiwan while her mother is part Taiwanese and part Korean.

wonyoung is part taiwanese

she doesn't speak chinese

Learnt mandarin for 7 years and I remember nothing. Such a waste.

her chinese pronunciation is so cute

interesting

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So, she actually is half Chinese.

No lol

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No lol

but somebody just explained that she is

interesting

not bad...

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theyve never really said, but iirc, she was born and raised korean, but most likely has a Taiwanese parent/grandparent

e/ nvm they did clarifiy, -She is part Taiwanese and her name in Chinese is Chang Yuanying (張員瑛). Her father is ethnically Korean but grew up in Taiwan while her mother is part Taiwanese and part Korean.

No her mom is pure Korean but her dad is hwagyo, a Chinese-Korean, who was born in Korea but whose parents came from Shandong, China. Because of politics, most hwagyos who came from mainland China have Republic of China (Taiwan) passports though they might never been to Taiwan.

This is her dad's Chinese restaurant in Seoul.

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Hwagyos were heavily discriminated against despite running restaurants that created Korea's iconic jajiang noodles dish. This video gives you some understanding of the issues:

This might be why Wonyoung had avoided identifying too much with the Chinese side in Korea. It might affect her career. Hwagyos and Choseonjoks (ethnic Koreans from China) are treated worse than Chinese from China by Koreans.