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  On October 26, Monday, SM Entertainment shocked fans with the sudden announcement of an upcoming girl group debut, Aespa. One of the highly speculated members of the group is Chinese trainee, Ningning. However, numerous Korean netizens have voiced their opinions against her joining the group due to her ethnicity. Ningning is one of SM Entertainment's most famous trainee. She was introduced as a member of SM Rookies in 2016 and has been training with the company for over four years. She had previously appeared on the 'Mickey Mouse Club' with other SM Rookie members. (Photo : SM Entertainment) She is Chinese and was born in Harbin. She was born in 2002, making her 18 in international age and 19 in Korean age. Prior to signing with SM Entertainment, she was a member of the show 'Let's Sing Kids' in China alongside current NCT Dream member Chenle. Even as a trainee, she showed off impressive vocals and a strong command of the Korean language. While Ningning is lov...

  According to the data released by the Korean Brand Research Institue for individual girl group members brand reputation, BLACKPINK member's Jennie topped the list and is October's most popular female K-pop idol. Check out the rest of the list here. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) She is followed by  Oh My Girl's Arin  at second place and fellow member  BLACKPINK's Jisoo  in third place. (Photo : Pinterest) (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) To analyze the rankings of individual girl group members, the Korean Brand Research Institue extracted 75,469,921 of data from 510 individual girl group members from September 17, 2020, to October 17, 2020. They analyzed trends such as consumer participation, media exposure, social media usage, and community reception, which helps create a behavioral analysis of the consumers' reception of the girl group member. The brand reputation rankings are an index created through data analysis to find out how consumers' online habits and its im...