KARINA: TMI

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PREFERENCES & TASTES

Food

• Karina likes pineapples on pizza and mint-chocolate flavor.
• Some of Karina’s favorite foods are Tonkatsu (pork cutlet), fizzy drinks, and jelly.
• Karina prefers watery cold noodles to spicy cold noodles.
• Karina likes to drink “Grapefruit Honey Black Tea” from Starbucks.
• Karina loves most foods but hates the following - raw eggplant, radishes in fish soup, coconut water, and ginger.
• Karina has said that she’s a big eater and could finish a whole pizza on her own. She has clarified that after eating so much, she also works out a lot afterward.
• Karina prefers shu cream-filled carp bread to red bean paste-filled carp bread.
• Her go-to bubble tea order is a mango yogurt flavor with aloe or white pearls.
• Like Ningning, Karina likes to have a proper meal rather than snacking.

Hobbies

• In 2022, Karina has completed all levels of the mobile game Gardenscapes.
• Karina loves to exercise, and her favorite sports are swimming and taekwondo. She also learned ballet and basketball when she was younger.
• Karina is a huge fan of the Crayon Sin-Chan franchise, often doing Sin-chan’s voice on variety shows. Her favorite character is Boo.
  • Aside from Crayon Sin-Chan, Karina has also watched many Japanese anime, including Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, Spy Family, Chainsaw Man, Oshi no Ko, Haikyu!! and many more.

Likes & Dislikes

• Karina chose cats when asked to pick between cats and dogs.
  • Karina has said that if she ever owns a cat in the future, she wants to name it “Goongdaengi” (meaning “butt” in Korean).
• Karina likes dinosaurs, crocodiles, and sharks.
• Karina’s favorite Christmas song is "White Christmas" by Michael Buble.
• Karina’s favorite colors are blue and black.
• Karina’s favorite Pokémon are Chikorita and Snorlax.
• Karina loves flowers and has said she wants to open a flower shop. Her favorite flowers are roses and Jacob’s ladder, her birth flower.
• Karina is not scared of insects or snakes, but she is scared of birds.
• When visiting other countries, Karina prefers an activity-filled tour of the landmarks, rather than staying and resting in a hotel.
• Karina doesn’t like to watch scary movies.
• Karina has mentioned two K-Dramas that left an impression on her in an interview - Our Beloved Summer and ANNA.

OTHER TRIVIA

• Karina has been a fan of many female K-Pop artists before debut, including Girls’ Generation, IU, f(x), and more.
  • She has cited Taeyeon, IU, and Kehlani as her musical role models, Taemin as her performance role model, and Kendall Jenner as her visual role model.
• Karina is the only member of the team who goes to bed early at night, between 9-10 pm.
  • Karina has said that she used to suffer from sleeplessness, but breathing exercises have helped.
  • She has also said that putting vaseline on her lips every night before she goes to bed has become a habit.
• When she was in the third grade, she has met Shindong from Super Junior and has taken a photo with him, later uploading it on her social media saying how it feels surreal to take a photo with a celebrity for the first time.
• Karina is the only member with an MBTI “E” type among aespa members.
• Karina is very close with her older sister and says that her sister is the nicest person she knows.
• Karina’s episode on No Prepare (차린건 쥐뿔도 없지만) was the number 1 most popular video on YouTube in Korea in 2023.
• Karina is close to Chaehyun from Kep1er, who used to be a trainee at SM Entertainment.

KARINA'S NICKNAMES

Most of the nicknames on this page have originated from Korean media or conversations held in Korean among members.