Karina

Karina is the kind of performer who makes you do a double-take — the face of aespa is genuinely that striking, and yet she backs it up with real chops every single time. As the group's leader and main dancer, she set the tone for SM Entertainment's boldest concept in years: the whole "AI avatar" universe could have been a gimmick, but Karina played it with such conviction that it actually landed. What gets me is how she handles both the ferocious choreography and the softer, melodic moments with equal composure — she never looks like she's just surviving a routine, she looks like she owns it. Her Got the Beat supergroup outings showed she can hold her own alongside veterans without flinching. Born in 2000, she's barely in her mid-twenties and already feels like a cornerstone of fourth-generation K-pop. The ceiling on this one is genuinely high.

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Name (English)

Karina

Name (Japanese)

カリナ

Reading

かりな

Born

April 11, 2000 (age 26)

Origin

Suwon, South Korea

Height

168 cm

Occupation

singer / dancer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/katarinabluu/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karina%20(South%20Korean%20singer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8A%20(%E6%AD%8C%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101161002

Tags

• singer
• dancer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.