Jisoo Age 2026: How Old Is BLACKPINK’s Oldest Member?

Last updated: November 8, 2026  ·  By Celebamerica Editorial Staff

Jisoo is 31 years old in 2026. She was born Kim Ji-soo on January 3, 1995, in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, which makes her the oldest member of BLACKPINK — and, at 31, she is having one of the busiest years of her life, with a new solo single, a Netflix lead role, a stadium world tour and a first Met Gala appearance all landing within months of each other.

Her age comes up so often because her career has moved in clear chapters, each one tied to a number fans remember: 16 when she joined YG Entertainment as a trainee, 21 when BLACKPINK debuted, 28 when she went solo with ME, and 31 as she builds toward her first full-length solo album with the singles “CLICK” and “ADDICTED.” This page answers the age question in full — her exact birthday, how old she was at every big moment, how her age compares with Jennie, Rosé and Lisa, and what her life and fortune look like at 31 — with every figure tied to a named source.

How Old Is Jisoo in 2026?

Jisoo turned 31 on January 3, 2026. Her birthday falls at the very start of the year, so for almost all of 2026 she is 31, and she will turn 32 on January 3, 2027. The date is not a matter of guesswork: YG Entertainment’s own member profile lists her birth date as January 3, 1995, and every major profile — from BLACKPINK fan databases to K-pop reference sites updated in November 2026 — agrees on it.

That puts her in a small club of K-pop stars who spent their whole twenties as global idols and are now building second acts in their thirties. When BLACKPINK debuted in August 2016, Jisoo was 21. She spent the next decade touring the world, and she entered her thirties with a solo company of her own, a growing acting résumé and a fashion profile that rivals full-time models. Fans marked the 31st birthday in January 2026 with tributes from her bandmates Rosé, Lisa and Jennie, who all posted for the group’s eldest member.

One point of confusion is worth clearing up early. South Korea used to count age differently — under the old Korean age system, a newborn was counted as one year old, and everyone added a year on New Year’s Day. Under that old count, Jisoo would have been described as 32 or 33 in 2026. But South Korea adopted the international age system for official purposes in June 2023, so the number used everywhere now — 31 — matches the way age is counted in most of the world. The FAQ section at the end of this page explains the old system in more detail.

Jisoo’s Birthday and Birthplace

Jisoo was born on January 3, 1995, in Sanbon-dong, a neighbourhood of Gunpo city in Gyeonggi Province, just south of Seoul. Gunpo is a satellite city of the capital, and Jisoo grew up there with an older brother and an older sister before her family life changed completely when she was scouted by YG Entertainment as a teenager.

Her birthday makes her a Capricorn, a detail her fans bring up every January, when birthday projects — billboards, charity donations in her name and streaming parties for “Flower” — appear in Seoul and in cities around the world. The January date also means her birthday often lands right in the middle of year-end award season and holiday schedules, so groupmates and fans have made a habit of celebrating it on stage or on social media rather than at home.

The birthplace matters to her story because it is ordinary. Unlike idols who grew up in Seoul’s entertainment districts, Jisoo came from a regular family in a commuter city, went to a performing-arts high school, and was picked out of an audition line. That path — small-city teenager to global star — is part of why her age milestones get so much attention: fans watched her grow up in public, from a 16-year-old trainee to a 31-year-old business owner.

Early Life and Family in Gunpo

Little about Jisoo’s childhood was public until BLACKPINK became famous, and she has kept her family out of the spotlight ever since. What is known is that she was born Kim Ji-soo, the youngest of three children, with an older brother and an older sister. She has spoken in interviews about being a playful, funny child — the family joker — and about a close bond with her siblings, who have stayed private while their sister became one of the most recognisable faces in the world.

She attended the School of Performing Arts Seoul, the arts high school that has trained a long list of K-pop idols, and it was during her school years that YG Entertainment spotted her. She auditioned in 2011, at 16, and was accepted as a trainee. The decision meant leaving ordinary school life behind for years of singing, dancing, language and media training inside one of Korea’s biggest entertainment companies.

Before her debut, Jisoo appeared in small ways that now look like clues. She featured in music videos for YG labelmates, appeared in commercials, and was photographed as a trainee alongside future stars. YG kept her under wraps longer than some trainees, and by the time BLACKPINK’s lineup was announced in 2016, fans already knew her face from those early cameos. She was 21 by then — older than most idols at debut, and the extra years of training showed in her poise from the group’s first stage.

The Road to BLACKPINK: Trainee Years

Jisoo trained for about five years before BLACKPINK debuted. She joined YG Entertainment in 2011, at 16, and spent those years in the company’s training system: vocal lessons, dance practice, Korean and foreign-language study, and the slow process of learning how to perform for cameras. Five years is a long training period even by K-pop standards, where three to four years is common, and it shaped the performer she became — steady, precise and hard to rattle on stage.

The trainee years also explain her role in the group. YG cast her as BLACKPINK’s lead vocalist and visual — the member whose face and voice set the group’s tone. Her warm, clear vocal colour became one of BLACKPINK’s signatures, and her look made her a natural fit for the fashion and beauty work that later became a second career. She was not the group’s main dancer or rapper; her job was to anchor the melody and the image, and she has done that since the first single.

During training she also picked up the habits that still mark her work now: she is known among the members for being the calm one in a crisis, the member who keeps the mood light during long rehearsals, and the one who studies scripts and lyrics line by line. Those traits paid off when she moved into acting, where long shooting days and heavy dialogue demand exactly that kind of patience.

BLACKPINK Debut at 21 and the Group’s Rise

BLACKPINK debuted on August 8, 2016, with the single album SQUARE ONE and its two songs, “Whistle” and “Boombayah.” Jisoo was 21 years old. The debut was an instant hit in Korea: “Whistle” topped the charts, and the group became the fastest K-pop girl group of its era to win a music-show trophy. Within two years, “Ddu-du Ddu-du” (2018) made them a global name, and the group never slowed down.

The years that followed read like a list of firsts. BLACKPINK played Coachella in 2019, returned to headline it in 2023 — the first K-pop act ever to top the festival bill — and released the albums The Album (2020) and Born Pink (2022). The Born Pink world tour of 2022–23 was credited in touring reports as the highest-grossing tour ever by a vocal group, playing stadiums across Asia, North America and Europe. Through all of it, Jisoo was the group’s eldest member and its steady centre: the one the other three looked to when schedules got brutal.

Her age mattered inside the group, too. BLACKPINK has no official leader, but in practice the eldest member often carries the weight of keeping a group together, and Jisoo’s bandmates have said she plays that role — settling nerves before big stages, speaking up in meetings, and looking after the younger members. By the time the group renewed its group contract with YG in late 2023, all four members were in their late twenties, and the conversation had shifted from “rookie group” to “veteran act planning its second decade.” The group returned in 2025–26 with new music and the Deadline world tour, a sold-out stadium run that took them across North America, Europe and Asia.

How Jisoo’s Age Compares With the Other BLACKPINK Members

Jisoo is the oldest of the four by a clear margin. Jennie, born January 16, 1996, is almost exactly a year younger — she turned 30 in January 2026, just 13 days after Jisoo’s birthday. Rosé, born February 11, 1997, is 29 in 2026. Lisa, born March 27, 1997, is also 29. The gap between the eldest and the youngest is about two years and three months, which is small in ordinary life but noticeable in a K-pop group, where a two-year gap can mean a different school year, a different trainee intake and a different stage of life.

At debut in August 2016, the ages told the same story: Jisoo was 21, Jennie was 20, and Rosé and Lisa were both 19. That spread has stayed with the group ever since. In interviews, the members have joked about it — Jisoo is the “unnie” (older sister) of the group, the one the others tease and the one they turn to — and fans use the age order as a shorthand for the group’s dynamic.

The comparison also shows up in career timing. Because Jisoo is the eldest, she was the last of the four to release a full-length solo album: Rosé, Jennie and Lisa all put out solo albums through their own labels before her debut full-length project was announced. Her solo rollout in 2026 — “CLICK” in September, “ADDICTED” in October — closes that gap, and it means all four members entered their late twenties and early thirties as solo artists in their own right, not just as members of a group.

Solo Career: ME, AMORTAGE and the Road to a Full Album

Jisoo waited longer than her bandmates to go solo, and when she did, the numbers were historic. Her solo debut single album ME arrived on March 31, 2023, when she was 28, led by the title track “Flower.” According to Hanteo Chart data reported by Yonhap on April 4, 2023, ME sold 876,249 copies on its first day — the highest first-day sales ever for an album by a K-pop female soloist — and 1,172,351 copies in its first week. That made Jisoo the first female K-pop soloist in history to sell more than a million copies of an album in a single week.

“Flower” itself became a signature song. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Global 200, and its dance challenge spread across social media in the spring of 2023, carried by the track’s swaying rhythm and Jisoo’s calm, clear vocal. The single album’s two-track format — “Flower” and “All Eyes on Me” — kept the focus tight, and the million-seller result proved that the group’s eldest member could move units on her own name.

Her next step came on February 14, 2025, when she released her first mini-album, AMORTAGE, at 30, led by the single “earthquake.” Hanteo figures put its first-day sales at 385,501 copies and its first-week sales at about 520,000 — the second-highest first-week total for a female K-pop soloist at the time, behind only her own ME. The album was her first solo release under BLISSOO, the agency she founded after leaving YG for her individual work, and it showed a harder, more electronic sound than the soft sway of “Flower.”

The BLISSOO move itself was a milestone of her late twenties. In early 2024, at 29, Jisoo launched her own label to manage her solo music and acting, while BLACKPINK’s group activities stayed with YG Entertainment. The name blends “bliss” with “Jisoo,” and the structure gives her control over her solo releases, her acting choices and her brand deals — the kind of ownership that turns a pop star’s thirties into a business, not just a career. She also signed a global solo deal with Warner Records, which now releases her music outside Korea alongside BLISSOO.

ADDICTED and CLICK: New Music at 31

Jisoo’s 31st year has been built around her first full-length solo album, and the rollout has come in careful steps. On September 4, 2026, she released “CLICK,” the first pre-release single from the album, through BLISSOO and Warner Records. BLISSOO described it as the first taste of the full album and said more singles in different moods would follow until the record was ready.

The second taste arrived on October 30, 2026, at 8 a.m. KST, when “ADDICTED” was released as a digital single with a music video. The dark dance-pop track, sung in English and running just under three minutes, showed a different side of her from “CLICK”: a heavier beat, an underwater performance in the video, and choreography staged with Lee Jung. BLISSOO announced the single on October 24, and the agency confirmed it was the second pre-release from her forthcoming debut full-length solo album. The album’s title and release date had not been announced as of early November 2026.

The rollout has not been only about the music. In October 2026 BLISSOO also introduced Jisoo’s official solo light stick — an illuminated ice-cream cone in purple and white — with sales through the JISOO app. The light stick is a rite of passage for a K-pop soloist: it turns a singer into a fandom of her own, separate from the group’s. And in November 2026, reports said she had signed with the talent agency WME for worldwide representation, a deal that points toward more acting and international work as she moves through her thirties.

Acting Career: Snowdrop, Newtopia and Boyfriend on Demand

Acting is the second half of Jisoo’s career, and it started later than the music. Her first leading role came in the JTBC series Snowdrop (2021–22), when she was 26, playing Eun Young-ro opposite Jung Hae-in in a romance set against the political turmoil of 1987 Seoul. The performance won her the Outstanding Korean Actress prize at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2022 — a rare acting award for an idol in her first lead role — and it proved she could carry a 16-episode drama.

Her next lead came in Newtopia (2025), a Coupang Play zombie-comedy series in which she played Kang Young-joo opposite Park Jeong-min. The show, adapted from Han Sang-hoon’s novel Influenza and written by Parasite co-writer Han Jin-won, asked her to carry comedy, horror and romance in the same role — a wider test than Snowdrop‘s melodrama. She also took a supporting role in the 2025 film Omniscient Reader: The Prophet, adding a big-screen credit to her résumé.

In 2026, at 31, she headlined the Netflix romantic comedy Boyfriend on Demand (also known in some markets as Monthly Boyfriend), which premiered on March 6, 2026. She plays Seo Mi-rae, a webtoon producer who signs up for a virtual dating simulator to find a risk-free romance, opposite Seo In-guk. The series — ten episodes directed by Kim Jung-sik — is her third leading role and her first for Netflix, and it arrived in the same year as her solo album rollout, making 2026 the first year in which her music and acting careers peaked at the same time.

Her acting has drawn mixed reviews from critics, and she has said nothing to hide from that — each role has been visibly harder than the last, and the choice of a romantic comedy for her third lead suggests a deliberate move toward lighter, more commercial material. The May 2026 Met Gala debut, in custom Dior Couture, rounded out the year: a fashion-world first that put her on a red carpet no K-pop idol takes lightly.

Jisoo’s Net Worth in 2026

Jisoo’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at between $20 million and $40 million. The range is wide because the sources disagree, and honest reporting means showing that disagreement rather than picking one number and hiding the rest. Celebrity Net Worth, the most cited tracker of celebrity fortunes, currently puts her at $40 million on its Jisoo Kim page. Parade, in its August 9, 2026 ranking of all four BLACKPINK members, puts her at $30 million. Other 2026 estimates land lower — around $20 million to $25 million — while a few round up toward $40 million to $50 million.

Our anchor is the middle of the credible range: $30 million, the figure Parade printed in its 2026 ranking, with Celebrity Net Worth’s $40 million as the top of the range. Both numbers describe the same fortune — a decade of BLACKPINK earnings, solo music sales, acting fees and luxury endorsements — and the gap between them comes down to how each outlet values private deals, property and future earnings, none of which are public. Jisoo has never disclosed her personal finances, so every figure here is an estimate built from visible income, not a confirmed balance sheet.

For scale, BLACKPINK’s four members sit close together. Parade’s 2026 ranking put Lisa and Rosé higher and Jisoo and Jennie at $30 million each, while Celebrity Net Worth has printed $40 million for Jisoo. The group as a whole has been valued at roughly $160 million combined by outlets citing Celebrity Net Worth. Jisoo’s share reflects a career that has leaned harder on acting and fashion than on solo touring — and a solo company, BLISSOO, that now lets her keep a bigger slice of what she earns.

Where the Money Comes From

Jisoo’s income comes from five streams, and their balance has shifted as she has aged. The first is BLACKPINK itself: album sales, streaming and, above all, touring. The Born Pink world tour (2022–23) and the Deadline world tour (2025–26) played stadiums, and stadium tours are where K-pop’s biggest money is made — a single stadium date can gross several million dollars before costs, and the split between the agency and the members is where a star’s fortune is built. Group royalties from a catalogue that includes “Ddu-du Ddu-du,” “Kill This Love,” “How You Like That” and “Pink Venom” keep paying through streaming as well.

The second stream is solo music. ME sold more than 1.17 million copies in its first week in 2023, and AMORTAGE added roughly 520,000 more in its first week in 2025. Physical album sales pay the artist through a royalty per copy, and Jisoo’s record-setting first-week numbers translate into real money — though the exact per-copy split between artist, agency and distributor is private. The 2026 singles “CLICK” and “ADDICTED” add streaming income ahead of the full album.

The third stream is acting. Lead roles in Korean dramas pay established stars tens of thousands of dollars per episode, and reports in 2026 put top K-drama per-episode fees in the range of $50,000 to $100,000 or more for stars of Jisoo’s standing. Snowdrop, Newtopia and Boyfriend on Demand together run to more than 30 episodes of leading work, plus a film role — a serious second income that most idols never build.

The fourth stream is endorsements, covered in the next section. The fifth is her company: BLISSOO, founded in 2024, means her solo music, acting and brand income now flow through a business she owns, rather than entirely through an agency taking a traditional cut. That ownership is the quiet change in her finances at 31 — less visible than a tour, but worth more over time.

Endorsements and Fashion Influence

If there is one area where Jisoo earns more than her bandmates, it is fashion. She is a global ambassador for Dior, covering both fashion and beauty, and a global ambassador for Cartier — two of the most valuable luxury contracts in the K-pop world. The Dior relationship goes back to 2021, when she became the house’s global ambassador for fashion and beauty, and it has only deepened: her appearance at the Dior Spring/Summer 2022 show drew some of the largest crowds in Paris Fashion Week history, and Dior has said some of its Fall/Winter 2021 looks were inspired by seeing her in the clothes.

The numbers behind the influence are striking. Vogue Korea reported that Jisoo drove 45% of Cartier’s total earned media value in 2022 through 12 Instagram posts and 24 Instagram Stories. For Dior’s Fall/Winter 2024 season, three of her Instagram posts about the Miss Dior show generated about $11.8 million in earned media value — roughly 26% of the brand’s total for the season. Launchmetrics, the data firm that tracks fashion-week impact, once calculated that a single photo of her in a Dior outfit carried $1.74 million in media value. Luxury brands pay for that kind of reach, and multi-year global ambassador deals are among the highest-paid contracts in Korean entertainment.

The portfolio kept growing in 2026. Celebrity Net Worth notes that Salomon, the outdoor and footwear company, named her a global ambassador in 2026, and her Met Gala debut in May 2026 — in custom Dior Couture — put her on fashion’s biggest stage. She is also the most-followed Korean actress on Instagram, with more than 70 million followers, which is why a single post from her can move a brand’s numbers for a week.

Assets, Lifestyle and Real Estate

Jisoo’s private assets are, by design, hard to pin down — and this section says plainly what is known and what is not. Celebrity Net Worth notes reports linking her to a luxury Seoul residence, with units in the project marketed at 20 billion to 45 billion won (roughly $14 million to $31 million at the exchange rates reported at the time), while stressing that her exact unit and purchase price were never disclosed. That is the honest limit of the public record: a high-value property is plausibly part of her portfolio, but no confirmed price can be printed.

What is visible is a lifestyle built around work rather than display. She is known for a quiet private life in Seoul, for spending time with her family and her dog, and for a public image that leans elegant rather than flashy — the “Human Dior” nickname her fans gave her says more about her fashion work than about her spending. Her Instagram, followed by more than 70 million people, mixes campaign work, behind-the-scenes shots and travel, but she has never turned it into a showcase of cars or houses.

Her real long-term asset is BLISSOO. A solo agency is worth more than any single property: it owns her solo catalogue, negotiates her deals and keeps the business value of her name under her control. At 31, with a full-length album on the way and a WME deal for worldwide representation, the company is the asset that will decide how much her fortune grows in her thirties.

Personal Life, Height and Quick Answers

Jisoo is 162 cm tall — about 5 feet 4 inches — which makes her one of the shorter members of BLACKPINK and, by idol standards, of average height. Her MBTI type is INFJ, a detail she has shared with fans and which K-pop profile sites list alongside her birthday and height. She is known for a calm, witty manner in interviews, and for being the member most likely to make the others laugh during long promotions.

Her personal life has stayed mostly private. She was reported to be dating actor Ahn Bo-hyun in 2023; the relationship was confirmed by both agencies in August 2023 and reported to have ended later that year. Since then she has kept her dating life out of public view, and no confirmed relationship has been reported in 2025 or 2026. She lives in Seoul, stays close to her family, and is a known dog lover — her pet dog Dalgom, a Maltese, has appeared in her social media for years and has his own fan following.

She has also kept her friendships in the industry close but quiet. She is close with actress Kim Hye-yoon, her Snowdrop co-star, and with the other BLACKPINK members, with whom she has spent more than half her life. What she does not do is trade on her private life: there are no reality shows, no tell-all interviews and no public family appearances. The privacy is deliberate, and it is part of why the age question keeps coming up — when a star shares little, fans count the numbers they do know.

The Snowdrop Controversy and How She Answered It

No honest account of Jisoo’s acting career can skip Snowdrop, and no honest account can skip the row around it. Before the series aired, it faced accusations from parts of the Korean public that its story — a romance set during the 1987 pro-democracy movement — distorted history. Petitions calling for the show’s cancellation gathered hundreds of thousands of signatures, and sponsors came under pressure. JTBC, the broadcaster, denied that the drama distorted history and said the story was fiction built around its characters, not a retelling of real events.

The show aired in full, from December 2021 to January 2022, and Jisoo’s performance was widely praised even by viewers who had doubts about the script. She won the Outstanding Korean Actress award at the Seoul International Drama Awards for the role, and the series found a large international audience on Disney+ after its Korean run. The episode taught her something visible in her later choices: her next roles — a zombie comedy and a Netflix romantic comedy — were lighter, safer and further from political subject matter. She has never spoken at length about the controversy itself, and her answer, in effect, has been the work that followed.

What Turning 31 Means for Jisoo’s Next Chapter

Thirty-one is a turning age for a K-pop star. The idol years are behind her, the solo business is built, and the question now is what the next decade looks like. For Jisoo, the signs point in three directions at once. The first is music: a debut full-length solo album, led by “CLICK” and “ADDICTED,” would make her the last BLACKPINK member to release a full solo record — and the one with the most to prove, since her solo sales records set a bar her own album now has to clear.

The second is acting. Three leading roles in five years, a film credit, a Netflix lead and a WME deal for worldwide representation add up to a serious second career, not a side project. If Boyfriend on Demand performs well for Netflix, English-language roles and international productions are the natural next step — the kind of move WME exists to arrange.

The third is ownership. BLISSOO gives her control of her solo work in a way few idols her age have, and the fashion contracts with Dior and Cartier give her income that does not depend on touring schedules or chart positions. At 31, Jisoo is no longer just the eldest member of BLACKPINK. She is a label owner, a lead actress and a global fashion figure with a fortune estimated between $20 million and $40 million — and the next chapter, by every sign, will be written on her own terms.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and Reporting

How we estimated: Jisoo’s age comes from her birth date, January 3, 1995, listed on YG Entertainment’s member profile and confirmed across K-pop reference sources updated in November 2026. Her net worth is an estimate, not a disclosed figure: Celebrity Net Worth currently prints $40 million and Parade’s August 9, 2026 ranking prints $30 million, so this article reports a $20 million–$40 million range anchored at $30 million. Album sales come from Hanteo Chart data as reported by Yonhap and Soompi. Private finances, contract values and property prices are not public, and estimates may differ from the private reality.

Sources consulted: Wikipedia — Jisoo; Celebrity Net Worth — Jisoo Kim Net Worth; Parade — All Four Blackpink Members, Ranked by Net Worth (2026); Yonhap via Korean Vibe — ME first-week sales; Soompi — ME first-week sales; Kpop Newswire — AMORTAGE sales; KpopStarz — ADDICTED; allkpop — ADDICTED; Kpop Answers — How Old Are the Blackpink Members?; KpopAngel — Jisoo profile. All links point to the named outlets’ homepages or the cited articles; no figure in this article was invented.