Kang So-yeon from Netflix show Single’s Inferno on a K-pop return, her new song Loca Loca and her 15 years chasing an entertainment career
- Kang gained a fan base on the Netflix dating show, but has been trying for 15 years to make it in show business as an actress, model, MC and more
- Her new song is a thank you to her fans, the 34-year-old says, and is a mixture of happy Latin-style music and sad lyrics
Introduced to many on the Netflix reality series Single’s Inferno as the head of a boxing gym, multifaceted South Korean entertainer Kang So-yeon’s time has finally come.
Kang, 34, won viewers’ hearts as the oldest, and fittest, of the female contestants looking for love on the 2021 dating series, but has been working for 15 years to pursue her career in South Korea’s entertainment industry.
She’s tried her hand at just about everything over the years: modelling, acting, hosting, singing, YouTube, professional athletics. “Netflix introduced me as a CEO of a boxing gym, but that’s not my only job,” she tells the Post. “I’m a [South Korean television channel] JTBC golf announcer, actress, MC, and I’m still working as a model.
“They chose to emphasise one thing, [my] boxing gym because it has a big impact, and I’m grateful, but I’ve always been doing many things, and being a singer was one of them.”
She debuted under the stage name “Rosie” in 2011 as part of a co-ed group known as WE, which dabbled with hip-hop, R&B and dance music before breaking up shortly after its formation.