Jimin, born Park Ji-min on 13 October 1995 in Geumjeong District, Busan, South Korea, is a singer, dancer and songwriter, and one of the seven members of BTS, where he serves as a lead vocalist and one of the group’s two main dancers. He studied contemporary dance at Busan High School of Arts before signing with Big Hit Entertainment, now HYBE Corporation, in 2012, after which he transferred to Korean Arts High School, graduating in 2014. He debuted with BTS on 12 June 2013, and went on to release two solo studio albums, “Face” (2023) and “Muse” (2024), while continuing to record and tour as part of the group, according to his biography on Wikipedia.

Jimin auditioned for Big Hit Entertainment in 2012 at the age of seventeen, after a teacher encouraged him to try out for an entertainment agency, and went on to have the shortest trainee period of any BTS member before debut. His background in contemporary dance initially counted against him internally, as it differed sharply from the idol choreography the group needed, and Jimin has said he was warned more than once that he might be cut from the line-up in the run-up to debut, only staying on with the support of fellow trainees. He later became known within BTS for prominent solo stage moments on tracks such as “Serendipity” and “Lie”, performances that hinted at the solo career he would eventually build, a formative period he has discussed in interviews reported by allkpop.

Jimin’s solo breakthrough arrived with his debut studio album “Face”, released on 24 March 2023 through Big Hit Music, led by the single “Like Crazy”. The song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2023, making Jimin the first South Korean solo artist ever to top that chart, while “Face” itself entered the Billboard 200 at number two, at the time the highest chart position reached by a Korean solo act’s album, an achievement Billboard reported in detail as it unfolded. The same run also carried him to number one on Billboard’s Artist 100 chart as a solo act, a first for any BTS member.

Jimin’s second studio album, “Muse”, released 19 July 2024, extended his solo chart run: it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with around 96,000 equivalent album units, making it the best-selling album by a K-pop soloist in the United States that year on pure sales. Its lead single “Who” peaked at number 12 on the Hot 100 across a 33-week run, described as the longest chart stay of any solo K-pop song, while “Muse” itself spent 76 consecutive weeks on Billboard’s World Albums Chart, the longest run recorded by any Asian solo act, according to the Korea Herald’s coverage of the album’s chart performance.

On Forbes Korea’s 2024 Power Celebrity 40 list, compiled while BTS was on hiatus for military service, Jimin placed seventh individually, the highest solo ranking of any BTS member that year and a sign of how his solo releases had sustained his public profile independent of group activity, as reported by Yahoo Entertainment at the time. He has also remained one of the most-followed K-pop soloists on streaming and social platforms throughout his solo era, a level of individual recognition that few idol-group members achieve outside their group’s own brand.

Jimin holds one of the more extensive individual luxury endorsement portfolios of any BTS member. Dior named him a global ambassador for its menswear line in January 2023, its first such solo appointment of a BTS member, with Jimin going on to appear at the brand’s Paris shows, a deal CNN covered as part of a broader wave of Korean stars being signed by European luxury houses. Two months later, in March 2023, Tiffany & Co’s own announcement unveiled him as a House Ambassador, fronting campaigns built around its Lock and Tiffany T collections. He added Korean haircare brand Lador as a global ambassador in late 2025, one of the few deals he holds outside luxury fashion and jewellery, alongside the group-level Samsung Galaxy campaigns BTS has fronted since 2019.

Jimin’s principal financial interest outside touring and music royalties is his HYBE shareholding. He was gifted 68,385 common shares by HYBE chairman Bang Si-hyuk around the company’s 2020 stock market listing, a stake of roughly 0.16 percent that he has retained in full, unlike some bandmates who have since sold portions of theirs. As of 19 December 2025, that holding was valued at approximately 21.4 billion won, or around $14.6 million, placing him and fellow member Jungkook among South Korea’s highest-value shareholders under the age of thirty, according to the Korea Times’ review of the company’s shareholder disclosures.

Jimin’s clearest disclosed physical asset is his home at Nine One Hannam, a nine-storey ultra-luxury complex in Seoul’s Yongsan-gu district often described as Korea’s most expensive residential address. He bought a unit there in March 2021 for a reported $5.3 million, paid in cash, the same month bandmate RM purchased a unit in the same building for a comparable sum, according to the South China Morning Post’s reporting on BTS members’ property holdings. The building’s other residents include some of South Korea’s most prominent entertainers, and resale prices there are reported to have risen substantially since Jimin’s purchase, though he has not disclosed any further real estate beyond that residence.