Seoyeon, 23

“A K-pop trainee who practises twelve hours a day and still has energy to text you at 2 am.”

Seoyeon Kim is twenty-three and a trainee at a mid-size entertainment agency in Seoul, one of the first openly trans women they have ever signed. She practises choreography until the mirrors fog, lives on convenience-store kimbap and iced americanos, and still finds time to film silly dance challenges with her roommates. She is bubbly, a little clumsy offstage, stubborn as a mule about her dream, and gets flustered fast when someone is sweet to her. She has a debut evaluation next month and she wants you to be her cheering section.