Momo was most confident about her dancing skills. Although there were other Japanese trainees, she still didn’t talk much. Momo lived in the dormitory provided by the agency, and as she was shy it didn’t help that the only Korean words she knew were ‘annyeong haseyo,’ which means ‘hello.’ She did sing a Korean song during her audition, but didn’t understand a word of it. Her parents flew with her to Korea in April 2012, so that she could begin her training. She liked to challenge herself, so she was more excited than nervous at that time unfortunately, she was the only one who passed. Her big break came when a dance video of her and her sister on YouTube was seen by JYP Entertainment’s casting team, and they were invited to audition in Tokyo.
TWICE DEBUT YEAR SERIES
During season 3 of the reality television series “Superstar K Japan” in 2011, she and three others auditioned as a group called Barbie, and did a cover of 2NE1’s debut hit single, “Fire,” but failed to pass the preliminary round. When she was around 11, she appeared in the “Ma People” music video of the Korean hip hop and R&B singer, Lexy, in March 2008. She was inspired to become a singer by Amuro Namie – dubbed as the Queen of Japanese Pop – but what got her into K-Pop was watching the performances of Korean superstars, Rain and Lee Hyori.
She was as young as three when she started learning to dance, which became her passion as she continued to hone her skills through years attending Step Out Dance Studio in Osaka. She attended a local school for her primary education there is no record of later studies.
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