Jang Won-young

About

Jang Won-young (Korean: 장원영; born August 31, 2004) is a South Korean singer. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Ive under Starship Entertainment and former member of project girl group Iz*One, having finished first in Mnet’s girl group survival reality television show Produce 48 in 2018.

Jang Won-young was born in Ichon-dong of Seoul, South Korea, on August 31, 2004. She has an older sister, actress Jang Da-ah (birth name: Jang Jin-young), who is an artist under King Kong by Starship.
After debuting with Iz*One, the group’s label Off the Record announced Jang’s intentions to complete education via home-schooling in April 2019. She subsequently left Yonggang Middle School and took the qualification exam, passing with perfect scores in Korean, English, and mathematics, which attributes to her being bilingual, speaking Korean and English fluently. Jang graduated from the School of Performing Arts Seoul on February 9, 2023.

From June 15 to August 31, 2018, Jang represented Starship Entertainment alongside An Yu-jin and Cho Ka-hyeon on the girl group survival reality television show Produce 48…