40 Fun Facts About Miss A

The A in the name Miss A signalled the group's ambition to become the best in which part of the world?

Asia was the target from the start: the name stood for mastering every skill and then becoming the continent's best. Two of the four members came from China.

Which 2010 single made Miss A the first act whose debut song topped South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart?

Bad Girl Good Girl also finished as the best-performing single of 2010 on that chart, and its video appeared a day before the group's first live stage.

Before debuting, Miss A's future members performed on Chinese TV billed as the Chinese version of which girl group?

Wonder Girls then took a trainee from that early lineup, Hyerim, shortly before Miss A made its own debut.

Suzy of Miss A made her acting debut in which 2011 KBS teen drama, a ratings success at home and abroad?

Dream High ran on KBS for two months in early 2011 and won Suzy the Best New Actress prize at the KBS Drama Awards.

Suzy of Miss A made her film debut in which 2012 romance, playing the younger version of the female lead?

Architecture 101 drew more than 4.1 million admissions, at the time a box-office record for a Korean melodrama.

Which label founder wrote the lyrics for both Touch and Good-bye Baby by Miss A?

Park Jin-young also composed Touch and shared its arrangement with Hong Ji-sang. The song peaked at number 2 on the Gaon Digital Chart.

Miss A's first English-language song, Love Alone, was created for the ice show of which figure skating champion?

Kim Yuna and other skaters performed to Love Alone while Miss A sang it live as special guests at All That Skate Spring 2011.

In Miss A's 2010 music video for Breathe, member Jia is about to be fired from which object?

A cannon is the video's centrepiece, with the other members standing around it in a brightly striped room. Breathe reached number 2 on Gaon's weekly digital chart.

Miss A's Suzy released the 2016 chart-topping duet Dream with which member of the boy band Exo?

Baekhyun and Suzy's Dream debuted at number one on Gaon's weekly digital chart and later won a Best Collaboration award.

In 2017, which music publication ranked Miss A tenth among the top K-pop girl groups of the past decade?

Billboard published the list in 2017, the same year the group disbanded after seven years and two studio albums.

After the success of her 2012 film debut, South Korean media gave Miss A's Suzy which lasting nickname?

Nation's First Love stuck after she played the younger version of the heroine in a hit melodrama, a role that also won her a Baeksang Best New Actress award.

Miss A's pre-debut song Love Again was made as a commercial tie-in for which electronics company's Beat Festival?

Samsung signed the group in China while it was still a trio, and Min made a cameo in the video before joining for the Korean debut.

Which 2011 debut studio album by Miss A mixed previously released hits with four new tracks?

A Class holds thirteen songs, and its lead single Good-bye Baby topped the Gaon Digital Chart for two weeks.

Which 2015 EP, led by the chart-topping single Only You, was Miss A's final release before the group disbanded?

Colors ended a hiatus of more than a year and entered the Gaon Album Chart at number three, with an online reality series to accompany it.

Which 2013 Miss A title track has been covered many times by other girl groups and on survival reality shows?

Hush was composed by E-Tribe instead of JYP's founder, and it fronted the group's second and final studio album.

Which lead single of Miss A's EP Independent Women Part III was reused on their second studio album?

I Don't Need a Man is a Southern hip-hop track about confident, independent women, written and composed by JYP's founder.

The music video for Miss A's chart-topping 2010 debut single shows the members dancing in sync in what setting?

A school is the backdrop for the video, and the single it promoted stayed at number one for four straight weeks.

Before joining Miss A, Min spent years preparing for an American debut and studied theatre arts in which city?

New York was where the teenage Min trained after JYP sent her abroad, but the planned American debut stalled and she joined the group in April 2010.

In the 2023 Netflix series Doona!, former Miss A singer Suzy plays a woman who has retired from which career?

A K-pop idol turned recluse is the title role, in a series adapted from the Naver webtoon The Girl Downstairs, with Yang Se-jong as the student she falls for.

Miss A began promoting Touch on February 23, 2012, with a comeback stage on which weekly music show?

M Countdown hosted the comeback and, one week later on March 1, gave Touch a first-place trophy.

Which other track from Miss A's Touch EP did the group perform on music shows in the final week of promotions?

Over U closed out the Touch era and, like the title track, was later carried over to the group's second studio album.

Suzy of Miss A shared a Best Couple prize at the KBS Drama Awards with which co-star from her first acting role?

Kim Soo-hyun played opposite her in a teen drama that aired in early 2011, and the same ceremony named Suzy Best New Actress.

Which Got7 member featured on both Jia's 2017 single Mood and Fei's 2018 single Hello after their Miss A years?

Jackson Wang guested on Mood in December 2017 and added a rap to Hello a year later, shortly before Fei's contract with JYP ran out.

Jia of Miss A began her acting career in the 2014 Chinese series One and a Half Summer alongside which 2PM member?

Nichkhun co-starred in the series, and Jia followed it with the 2015 film The Third Way of Love, opposite Song Seung-heon and Liu Yifei.

At 13, future Miss A member Min formed the dance duo Little Winners with which later Girls' Generation star?

Hyoyeon reunited with Min in 2016, when the childhood friends joined the co-ed project trio Triple T for SM's Station series.

Which production team composed Only You, the 2015 chart-topper that became Miss A's final single?

Black Eyed Pilseung went on to produce a run of early Twice hits, including Like Ooh-Ahh, Cheer Up and TT.

Fei of Miss A won first place in 2013 on the third Korean season of which celebrity competition show?

Dancing with the Stars gave Fei the win in the same year she finished runner-up on a celebrity edition of MasterChef Korea.

Former Miss A members Fei and Jia both competed in 2020 on which Chinese reality show for women over 30?

Sisters Who Make Waves had 30 established female stars compete for seven places in a new group, and Jia finished third to claim one.

For the 2015 film The Sound of a Flower, Miss A's Suzy trained for a year in which traditional Korean art?

Pansori was off limits to women in the Joseon era the film depicts; Suzy played Jin Chae-seon, remembered as Korea's first female singer of the form.

The father of Miss A's Suzy, Bae Wan-young, once coached South Korea's national youth team in which sport?

Taekwondo ran in the family, yet Suzy joined a street dance crew before her debut to show her parents she was serious about becoming an idol.

For Miss A's Touch stages in 2012, the members wore see-through outfits and makeup drawn to resemble what?

Tears suited a song about new love blooming out of heartbreak, and the look marked the group's first openly mature concept.

Before Miss A, Suzy was noticed by a JYP scout in 2009 while auditioning for which TV singing competition?

Superstar K eliminated her after the preliminary round, but the scout's interest led to a JYP traineeship and a place in the group by March 2010.

Suzy of Miss A was the first Korean female celebrity given a Madame Tussauds wax figure, unveiled in which city?

Hong Kong unveiled the figure in September 2016, and a second Suzy later went on display at Madame Tussauds Singapore.

In 2010, Miss A's Min joined a chorus of idols to record Let's Go, the theme song for which summit in Seoul?

G20 leaders met in Seoul that November, and the song brought together idols from 2PM, 2AM, Girls' Generation and other groups.

Miss A's Min made her musical theatre debut in 2017 as heroine Tsukushi Makino in which stage adaptation?

Boys Over Flowers ran in Seoul from February to May 2017, and five years later Min reached Broadway in the musical KPOP.

Fei of Miss A was born Wang Feifei in 1987 in which southern Chinese province?

Hainan's capital, Haikou, was home until she left to study dance in Guangzhou, where JYP Entertainment spotted her.

For the planned American solo debut of future Miss A member Min, JYP's founder teamed up with which producer?

Lil Jon worked on the album for a debut that kept being delayed; Min released three solo singles in 2007 and 2008 before finally debuting in Korea with the group.

Miss A was formed in 2010 under which subsidiary company of the K-pop agency JYP?

AQ Entertainment was set up by JYP to introduce the Chinese-Korean group, which debuted as a quartet that July.

Which track on Miss A's final EP, released in 2015, has lyrics written by member Suzy?

I Caught Ya tells of a girl who sees her boyfriend cheating, and Fei translated the lyrics for the EP's Chinese edition.

Suzy of Miss A starred opposite which leading man in the 2013 historical fantasy drama Gu Family Book?

Lee Seung-gi was her co-star in the role that won Suzy a Top Excellence award at the MBC Drama Awards.