Joy

Joy (조이), born Park Soo-young (박수영), sits in the small tier of idol stars who can move cleanly between group pop, solo releases, television, and brand visibility without losing definition in any lane. Since debuting with Red Velvet under SM Entertainment in 2014, she has balanced the group's bright-to-velvet duality with a warmer, more direct public persona that translates easily to acting and solo work.

Her solo catalog is still compact, but it is sharply positioned. Hello introduced a retro-pop angle that played to her tone and screen presence, while From JOY, with Love pushed that lane forward with a fuller romantic-pop frame. The solo work never tries to separate her from Red Velvet's legacy. It expands what her voice and image can do once the group identity is stripped back.

That same flexibility shaped her acting career, from The Liar and His Lover and Tempted to The One and Only and Once Upon a Small Town. Joy reads as a mainstream celebrity in the Korean sense of the term: music star, camera-natural variety presence, and drama lead option all at once. Few idols hold that balance this steadily more than a decade after debut.