Ahn Sol-bin

Ahn Sol-bin is a South Korean singer and actress born on 19 August 1997 in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. She is best known as Solbin, a member of the girl group LABOUM, and as Jung Eun-byeol, the heroine's younger sister in Backstreet Rookie (2020).

Ahn Sol-bin is about 5 feet 7 inches (169 cm) tall and weighs about 49 kg.

Early life

Solbin grew up in Seongnam and attended Hallym Entertainment Arts High School, where she studied applied music. She later studied acting at Seoul Institute of the Arts, which helped her move between singing and acting. In August 2014 she debuted with LABOUM. In the group she was the centre and a sub-vocalist, and she also handled rap parts. Her bright personality made her the group's best-known member.

Career and breakthrough

From 2016 to 2018 Solbin was an MC on Music Bank, one of Korea's biggest music shows, for almost two years. At the same time she started acting. She played Lee Yoo-jin in Solomon's Perjury (2016), Nam Soon-ji in Reunited Worlds (2017), and Bong Cheon-ji in The Good Witch (2018). These roles helped her learn on set and showed she could do more than sing and host.

Popular roles

In 2020 Solbin had two roles that many fans remember. In Itaewon Class (2020), she appeared as a classmate of Park Sae Ro-yi. In Backstreet Rookie (2020), she played Jung Eun-byeol, the younger sister of heroine Jung Saet-byeol, across the full series. Eun-byeol is lively and sometimes troublesome, and Solbin gave her real charm and heart. She later played Hyun-ji, a member of a struggling idol group, in IDOL: The Coup (2021), a role that drew on her own idol life.

Recent work

Solbin has continued to act alongside her music work. She played the lead role of Min Jung in the comic horror film I Can Only See (2021) and took the role of R in It's Up to You (2022). LABOUM's group activities ran until 2022, and Solbin remains loved for her cheerful energy and her honest move from idol stage to drama set.