Kim Ji-soo, known worldwide by her stage name Jisoo, was born on 3 January 1995 in Gunpo, South Korea. The eldest of three siblings, she grew up in a household that valued discipline and creativity, and as a child she played basketball, studied taekwondo and dreamed of becoming a painter or a writer. She attended the School of Performing Arts Seoul, where she joined the school’s drama club, before going on to study at the Korea National University of Arts. In August 2011, at the age of sixteen, she auditioned for and joined YG Entertainment as a trainee, beginning five years of vocal, dance and language training that would shape the rest of her career. On 8 August 2016, she debuted as the eldest member of BLACKPINK alongside Jennie, Rosé and Lisa, a girl group that would go on to become one of the best-selling and most-streamed acts in the history of popular music. Jisoo’s biography traces this early path from Gunpo trainee to global performer.

Jisoo’s years as a trainee were demanding even by the standards of the K-pop industry, requiring extensive vocal coaching, choreography and language study in Korean, Japanese and English before her label judged her ready to debut. Ahead of BLACKPINK’s launch, she made brief acting cameos, including a small role in KBS2’s The Producers in 2015 and a further cameo in tvN’s Arthdal Chronicles in 2019, both of which hinted at the acting ambitions she would later pursue in earnest. As BLACKPINK’s lead vocalist and one of its designated visuals, she quickly became a defining voice on the group’s earliest releases, and the quartet’s rapid rise, including headlining slots at Coachella, chart-topping releases and record-breaking YouTube premieres, gave Jisoo a global platform within only a few years of her debut. This period established the commercial and cultural foundation from which her later solo ventures would grow.

Jisoo’s individual breakthrough beyond BLACKPINK arrived in two distinct stages. The first was her move into acting: she took the lead role of Eun Yeong-ro in the JTBC and Disney+ political drama Snowdrop, which premiered in December 2021, and her performance earned her the award for Outstanding Korean Actress at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2022. The second, and arguably more significant, breakthrough was her solo music debut. On 31 March 2023, she released her first single album, Me, through YG Entertainment and Interscope Records. The album’s lead single, “Flower”, topped the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart and reached number one on the service’s chart in more than sixty countries, while Me itself sold over 1.17 million copies in its first week, the highest first-week sales total ever recorded by a Korean female solo artist, according to The Korea Times. These two moments, in acting and in music, marked Jisoo’s transition from group member to an artist with an independently bankable name.

Since her breakthrough, Jisoo has continued to accumulate accolades across music and television. “Flower” earned her the Best Digital Song bonsang and the Most Popular Female Artist award at the 38th Golden Disc Awards, while she also picked up Best Female Artist honours at the 2023 MAMA Awards and an Artist of the Year (Global Streaming) prize at the Circle Chart Music Awards, according to her full awards record. On the acting side, her 2025 zombie thriller Newtopia became one of the most-watched original series in Coupang Play’s history and reached the top ten in dozens of territories, earning her a second Seoul International Drama Award, this time for Outstanding Asian Star. In January 2025, she signed a global solo recording deal with Warner Records, releasing her debut EP Amortage the following month, a partnership The Hollywood Reporter described as the start of a new chapter in her solo career. The EP’s lead single, “Earthquake”, gave her a first number one on the US Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart, and her October 2025 duet with Zayn Malik, “Eyes Closed”, marked her first entry on the Billboard Hot 100.

Jisoo’s public standing extends well beyond record sales and streaming numbers. In November 2023, she and her BLACKPINK bandmates were invested as Honorary Members of the Order of the British Empire by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, in recognition of their work as COP26 climate advocates and their subsequent role as United Nations Sustainable Development Goals advocates, an honour confirmed on the British royal family’s own website. She has also been recognised repeatedly on Forbes Korea’s Power Celebrity rankings, and analytics firms have measured her among the most commercially influential public figures on Instagram, where a set of Dior photographs she posted during Paris Fashion Week was calculated to have generated the highest media impact value of any individual celebrity post at the event that season. This scale of recognition, spanning royal honours and measurable digital influence, has made her one of the most closely watched public figures to emerge from South Korea’s entertainment industry.

Jisoo’s endorsement portfolio is anchored by two of the most prestigious names in luxury fashion. She became a local ambassador for Dior Beauty in December 2019 before being elevated to global ambassador for both Dior’s fashion and beauty lines in March 2021, and Cartier reportedly moved to secure her as the face of its Panthère de Cartier jewellery line in 2022 by doubling the value of Dior’s own offer, according to allkpop. Her commercial pull for these houses is measurable: a set of Dior photographs she posted during a Paris Fashion Week appearance generated an estimated 15.7 million US dollars in media impact value, the highest of any celebrity post at the event that season, per data from insights firm Launchmetrics reported by Yahoo Lifestyle. She has since added further global ambassador roles with the American fashion label Tommy Hilfiger and the activewear brand Alo Yoga, alongside long-running partnerships with Samsung, Adidas and the Korean cosmetics brand Kiss Me, giving her one of the broadest and most valuable endorsement rosters of any K-pop artist.

In February 2024, Jisoo announced the launch of her own entertainment label, BLISSOO, a one-woman agency built in partnership with her older brother’s children’s health food company, Biomom, to organise her acting, music and commercial ventures independently of YG Entertainment, as reported by Billboard Philippines. The move followed the expiry of her personal solo contract with YG in August 2023; when BLACKPINK renewed its group contract with YG that December, the agreement covered group activities only, leaving each member, including Jisoo, free to pursue solo work through her own company, a structure CNN reported at the time of the renewal. BLISSOO now oversees Jisoo’s solo output, including her January 2025 global label agreement with Warner Records for her music, while she continues to perform and record with BLACKPINK under YG. The arrangement gives her direct commercial control over her solo brand in a way few K-pop idols of her generation have secured.

Jisoo’s real estate holdings in Seoul reflect the scale of her earnings from both her group and solo careers. She owns a residence in Hannam The Hill, one of the most expensive apartment complexes in South Korea, in the same complex where BLISSOO also keeps an office, and where other stars such as BTS’s Jin are reported to hold property. In October 2025, she added to that portfolio with the purchase of a unit reported to be worth around 20 billion Korean won, approximately 14 million US dollars, in the ultra-exclusive 27-unit L’ARBRE 27 villa complex in Gangnam, where she is now reported to be neighbours with HYBE founder Bang Si-hyuk, according to allkpop. Beyond bricks and mortar, her most significant asset is arguably BLISSOO itself, the commercial entity through which she now owns and controls her solo music catalogue, acting income and endorsement contracts.