WINTER: TMI

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PREFERENCES & TASTES

Food

• Winter has mentioned that she likes the following food items and drinks:
  • Chocolate, Cookies, Jelly, Tteok (Korean sticky rice cakes), Bean Noodles, Lasagna, Cakes, Bread, LA Galbi (grilled short ribs), Guobarou, Honey Butter Chips
  • Seafood including salmon, Japanese halibut, Korean rockfish, Northern snakehead,
  • Taro Smoothie, Milk
• Winter does not like to eat mustard, cilantro, grapefruits, wasabi, yuzu, fish roe soup, and pig blood soup.
• Winter always takes her drinks with ice, even in really cold weather.
• Winter likes Hawaiian pizza and mint-chocolate flavor.
• Winter likes to cook French Toast for herself with honey drizzle on top. Members have complimented her cooking skills.
• Winter takes sundae (Korean blood sausage) with a ssamjang dip.
• Winter loves snacking more than eating a proper meal, so she often swaps a meal with some cookies or chips.

Hobbies

• Winter likes to go bowling. She was in the bowling club of her middle school.
• Winter has also practiced Gumdo (Korean fencing) and Fencing.
  • Winter has said that this has made her wrists very flexible. She has shown her ability to rotate her wrists by 360 degrees on Knowing Brothers.
  • Winter’s experiences with fencing have led to her SMCU lore character ability to become “Armamenter,” or a master of arms.
• Winter played Maple Story, Crazy Arcade, and Tales Runner, all online multi-player games when she was young.
  • After her debut, she started playing Maple Story again with the character of Lara.
• Winter is a baseball fan and a fan of the South Korean team Doosan Bears. She is also a fan of the Lotte Giants.
  • Winter is also an avid viewer of the JTBC baseball variety called A Clean Sweep (최강야구).

Likes & Dislikes

• Winter prefers to use scented body lotion rather than perfume.
• Winter’s favorite Pokémon are Pikachu and Jigglypuff.
• Winter’s favorite Christmas song is "First Snow" by EXO.
• Winter loves to watch action movies and war movies.
  • She has watched the 2015 Korean film, Northern Limit Line, 7 times in total.
  • She prefers to watch movies that she has to watch multiple times to completely understand.
• Winter has said that the following movies and dramas were her favorites:
  • Movies: Northern Limit Line, Once Upon A Time In A Battlefield (Hwangsanbul), Pearl Harbor, and Cruella
  • Drama: I Am Sorry, I Love You, Orange Is the New Black
  • She also watched the K-Drama, Extraordinary Attorney Woo.
• Even though Winter is a homebody, she likes to take long walks without a particular destination.
• Winter is scared of snakes, more than she is scared of cockroaches.
• Winter is ironically the member that cannot handle the cold weather, and likes the season of winter the least among the aespa members.
  • Alternatively, Winter handles hot weather quite well and is the least likely member to break a sweat after a performance.

OTHER TRIVIA

• Winter was born on the first day of the 21st century. (January 1st, 2000.)
• The first celebrity that she ever saw in real life was Lee Hongki from FT Island. She said she used to be a Primadonna (fandom of FT Island) when she was younger.
• She was also an EXO-L when she was younger, and she has said that she wants to collaborate with Baekhyun of EXO in the future.
• Winter has said that her role model as an idol is Hyoyeon from Girls’ Generation, especially from her stages and performance videos.
  • Her other role models include Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Harry Styles, and Tori Kelly.
• Winter has graduated from the same school as Bae of NMIXX. Bae is 4 years younger than Winter.
• Winter is allergic to dust.
• Winter is talented at tongue twisters.
• Winter is from Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, and can fluently speak in the dialect of Gyeongsang Province.
• Winter believes in aliens - she has said that as the universe is such a big place and as humans are such small creatures, somewhere in an unexplored part of the world she believes there would be aliens.
• Winter has cut her hair short with blunt bangs, and dyed it back to black for the Savage promotion. Fans have pointed out that she resembled Haku from Studio Ghibli’s popular film, Spirited Away.
• Winter’s father and older brother are both military officials, and Winter had also wanted to become an army official when she was younger, before she started dreaming about becoming a K-Pop idol.

WINTER’S NICKNAMES

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