Yuri is officially a supporting vocalist and a main dancer in Girls’ Generation. She may not be one of the lead voices, but her singing is quite respectable, maybe even underrated. In fact, she has even recorded her own OST song, “Must!” for the drama “Working Mom”, with Sooyoung. But perhaps it is because her dancing is so good that she is more known for it. Yuri is often paired with Hyoyeon during dance remixes as the two girls show off why they are the top dancers in the group. The movements Yuri makes with her body give many fans nosebleeds as her curves are accentuated, or maybe her curves accentuate her movements. Either way, Yuri’s dancing is always a sight to behold.
But despite the seemingly perfect way Yuri takes care of herself, she is still quite prone to mistakes. In fact, Yuri’s fellow members have mentioned her as the member who messes up the most. There are times she cannot remember lyrics or when she is late in her choreography. However, like a true professional, she bites the bullet and continues on with the show, or she laughs off other people’s ribbing of her, especially when they make fun of her habit of sleeping with her tongue sticking out.
On stage, Yuri acts in a professional manner. Depending on the song and the theme, Yuri adopts the corresponding persona, smiling when she has to, and being tough and sexy when warranted. However, when Yuri is not in the spotlight, there is a very different side of her that can be seen. She is constantly smiling, playing jokes, and acting crazy or playful, which is where her well-deserved nickname “KkabYul” comes from. Her jokes can be downright silly, from tying the members’ shoelaces together to placing fake bugs in Tiffany’s bed to scare Tiffany. Yuri claims to get her sense of humor from her mom, and it’s easy to see how. In one story, Yuri asked her mom to include more “hehe”s or “keke”s in her texts, so in her next text to Yuri, Yuri’s mom used “he” or “ke” for every other word.
There is, however, no argument about how great Yuri is. Sure, she is known as a great dancer in terms of Girls’ Generation performances. But it takes much more skill to be an all-around entertainer and well-rounded person. In fact, Lee Hyori picked Yuri out of all the Girls’ Generation members, and members of other girl groups, as one of two girls who has the most staying power as a solo entertainer. While perhaps surprising at first because of the amount of talent present in Girls’ Generation, Hyori’s statement may be easy to see when thought about for a bit. Yuri can obviously dance, and she sings quite decently. On top of that, she is also a model, an actress, a spokeswoman, a reality show star, a songwriter, a television show emcee, and an awards show hostess, coming a long way from fearing for her career because she did not get as many outside gigs as some of her fellow members. Yuri obviously has the capability to reach this high potential, because no matter what she does, she is always entertaining, even as she turns 23 today.
Written by: residentbenchwarmer@soshified
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Happy 23rd My beautiful and Sexy Black Pearl, Kwon Yuri !!!
Stay healthy and
Stay kkab as you always do! xD
Wish u all the best!
We love you <3 <3 <3
Yuri fighting! SNSD fighting!
Jigeumeun… SNSD ! <3
Happy birthday to our Kwon Yuri!
May u always be kkabyul & sexy forever!
Saranghaeyo!!!
Happy birthday!!! Hope you have an amazing birthday and I wish you all the happiness ^^ also can’t wait to see koreas #1 girl group comeback next year!!!
Happy Birthday Yuri Unnie!!! saranghae!!! Fighting!!!
Happy Birthday, Yuri!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Happy Birthday Yuri Unnie!!! Stay healthy and be Kkab as always.. Love you unnie.. <333
SAENGIL CHUKHAE KkabbYul~!
She is so dorky and lovable, especially that radiant smile of hers. Stay healthy and continue your cute and dorky antics, keep drinking those Ma juice and do the lion pose. SONEs loves you!
Happy Birthday Kwon Yuri <3
"especially if her wife Jessica is messing up dinner like on 'Factory Girl"' I love you author-nim. YulSic <3
Known Yuri; I really have no wors to describe how much you mean to me and us SONEs and your eight other members.
I want to wish you a happy birthday and I just know that your greatness will just keep increasing along with SNSD itself (:
Kwon Yuri* aigoo
happy happy birthday kwon yuri!! <3
Kwon seobang unnie. Though maybe you can’t read this. But i am a 21 year old nurse who is currently a fan of girls’ generation. I am a fan of your music and your personality. In this very special day for you, i would like to express my greeting to her, happy happy birthday to the member of my favorite kpop girl geoup of all time. KWON YURI… I wish you to be happy and blessed forever. I also wish you girls’ generation to be my forever inspiration. Saranghae!
Yuri ah~~~ happy birthday!!
We love you!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR BLACK PEARL YURI!!!! i hope its awesome just like u and that u continue to keep ur health up i dont want u to get sick:) today is ur special day and i will forever love u:) YURI FIGHITNG!!!
Happy happy day of birth our KkabYul. Someone get this woman another Mickey doll. XD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KWON YURI UNNIE!!!
I wish and want you to have your best birthday yet vy celebrating it with the other members. I hope that all your prayers and wishes are answers because you deserve it. Before i knew you, december 5 meant nothing to me. It was just anothr ordinary day. But now i have a reason to be extra cheerful and happy on this day and that is because of you. i hope that you guys dont have a hectic schedule so you can relax and celebrate your birthday. even though Girls Generation and i live in different time zones, i will be celebrating Yuri unnie’s birthday in my life on her Behalf. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Happy Birthday my Kwon Seobang ^^
take care of yourself. don’t catch a cold.
all my love is for you~!
Happy birthday yuri!!!!!!!
I hope you the best now and always. Also I hope your personality never changes, you are such a great person.
Black Pearl Saranghae!!!
love you forever
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLACK PEARL :) From day one since i got into SNSD she has always been my bias, I am so proud of her and her accomplishments and I know that this is just the beginning I hope next year she receives even more love and more projects to work on. :)
Happy birthday Yuri!
Happy Birthday Yuri!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Honestly, Yuri is the best singer in Girls’ Generation. She just needs a chance to show it!
my Sagg buddy so beautiful and cute. love her pic with Mickey, that darn lucky plush. why plushies are always so lucky to be hugged by angels >_<? anyway i hope Yuri having a wonderful birthday with her family and friends. partying like there's no tomorrow and be thankful for another yr old. i agree about her having staying power for solo career when the time comes. she's definitely an all-around entertainer and have nothing to fear. i also hope that when their 1st English album drops, i hope it become a huge success world wide. if it does, guess what, their record label will give them the opportunity to write, compose and produce their own songs for their next English album. so Sones we know what we have to do when 2013 finally come. HAPPY BIRTHDAY YURI! Saranghaeyo
thank you SSF ♥♥♥
Great article. Love, love, love Kwon Yuri. She opened the door for me to become a SONE. It was her part in GEE that on my first listen to the song captured me. Soulful and beautiful, that is the way I describe her part and Yuri in general. Today Is Yuri Day!
Happy Birthday Yuri!!! xoxo <3 I hope you have a great day and enjoy yourself girl! I can't wait until I see you (along with the other girls) live sometime next year once the English album and promotions start! Also good luck with the Korean comeback in Janurary! I look forward to seeing what's next from GG! :D
Happy YuriDay!
Have another kkab year! Keke~
I will pray for more blessings for the priceless black pearl to shine more and more.
My very, very, very, very best birthday wishes go out to the prettiest girl ever, Kwon Yuri. I know that she will continue on showing off her amazing personalities and also continue on putting smiles on her fans’ faces. Plus, I know that Girls’ Generation will be sticking around for a long, long time until they feel old and ready to retire. That really means that we will be seeing a whole lotta Yuri for many, many, many more years to come. I absolutely am looking forward to Girls’ Generation’s Korean comeback, their Japanese tour and especially their highly anticipated American debut. And to end this message, I wanna say that I hope that I can see Yuri and the rest of Girls’ Generation in person one day