Jisoo Age 2026: How Old Is BLACKPINK’s Jisoo Today?

Last updated: November 10, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Jisoo is 31 years old in 2026. The BLACKPINK singer and actress was born Kim Ji-soo on January 3, 1995, in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, and she turned 31 on January 3, 2026. That birthday opened one of the busiest years of her life: a 33-show world tour with BLACKPINK, a group mini album, a Netflix lead role, a first Met Gala appearance, two solo singles, a national honour, and — on November 6 — a deal with Hollywood agency WME for worldwide representation.

The number trips people up because so many profile pages still say 30. Pages written before January 2026 list her as 30, and they stay near the top of search results for months after the birthday passes. This article settles the age with the birthday math, then covers the life behind it: a childhood in Gunpo, five years as a YG trainee, a debut at 21, a solo career launched at 28, her own label at 29, and everything she has done since turning 31.

The Answer, With The Math

Jisoo was born on January 3, 1995. Subtract that from November 10, 2026, and the answer is 31. She turned 31 on January 3, 2026, and she turns 32 on January 3, 2027. There is no range and no disagreement among current sources: BLACKPINK Wiki, Moviefone, TV Insider, KpopAngel, and Chukkae all list the same birth date and the same age, 31.

The confusion online has a simple cause. K-pop profile pages are written once and rarely revisited, so a page that said 30 in December 2025 keeps saying 30 through most of 2026. Readers who land on those pages get last year’s number. The fix is the birthday itself: any page that knows January 3, 1995, and still says 30 after January 2026 is out of date, whatever its ranking.

Her star sign, for the readers who ask, is Capricorn. Her birthplace, Gunpo, is a city in Gyeonggi Province, just south of Seoul — the same Seoul capital region where BLACKPINK would later be built.

A Childhood In Gunpo

Kim Ji-soo was born in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province, on January 3, 1995, the youngest of three children, with an older brother and an older sister. She grew up in Gunpo, a satellite city south of Seoul, and attended school there before the entertainment industry entered her life. Her family has stayed out of the public eye; Jisoo has kept them private through a decade of fame, and this article does the same.

At 16, in 2011, she joined YG Entertainment as a trainee. Five years of training followed — vocal, dance, and language work, with no guarantee of a debut at the end of it. Trainee life in Seoul in the early 2010s meant daily lessons and monthly evaluations, and YG tested its trainees in public before committing a group to them: Jisoo appeared in music videos and commercials for labelmates during those years, including a 2014 cameo in Epik High’s “Spoiler” and a 2015 appearance in Hi Suhyun’s “I’m Different.” She was 21 by the time the group finally arrived — older than most K-pop debutants, and more finished as a performer for it.

Debut At 21: BLACKPINK Arrives

BLACKPINK debuted on August 8, 2016, with the single album Square One, carrying “Whistle” and “Boombayah.” Jisoo was 21 years and about seven months old. She took the lead vocalist and visual roles, the two jobs that defined her place in the group: the warm vocal tone that anchored choruses, and the face that fronted the group’s fashion and endorsement work. The group was YG’s first girl group since 2NE1, and the debut landed in a market that had waited years for it.

The next two years built the scale. “As If It’s Your Last” in June 2017, the Square Up EP and “Ddu-du Ddu-du” in June 2018, and a first world tour announced that year turned a Korean debut into a global act before Jisoo turned 24. The age detail matters here because it explains her position in the group: she was never the youngest member finding her feet. She was the oldest, the trainee veteran with five years of YG training behind her, and the group’s visual identity was built around her from day one.

Solo Debut At 28: ME And Flower

On March 31, 2023, Jisoo released ME, her first solo single album, at 28. She was the last of the four BLACKPINK members to go solo, and the wait paid off: the album’s lead single “Flower” made her the first Korean female soloist to sell a million copies of a single album. For a 28-year-old who had spent her twenties inside a group, it was proof that the solo lane existed alongside the group one — and that her audience would follow her there.

The solo work then paused for the group’s next chapter while Jisoo built the structure for independence. The Born Pink world tour had closed in 2023, and the four members renewed with YG Entertainment for group activities only. Jisoo turned 29 during that transition, and the move she made at 29 defined the rest of her twenties.

BLISSOO At 29: Taking Ownership

In February 2024, at 29, Jisoo founded BLISSOO, her own label, to run her solo work. The structure mattered. She did not leave BLACKPINK; she took ownership of her solo career while keeping the group contract with YG. Warner Records came aboard as the label partner, giving the solo operation global distribution from the start.

The first release under the new setup arrived a year later. AMORTAGE, her first solo mini album, came out on February 14, 2025 — Valentine’s Day, a deliberate choice for a four-track record about the stages of love — seven weeks after she turned 30. The album’s title plays on “amour” and “montage,” and it was the first record she released as her own boss: her label, her tracklist, her schedule.

Acting: Snowdrop, Newtopia, And Boyfriend On Demand

Jisoo’s acting career started before the solo music did. In December 2021, at 26, she took her first leading role as Eun Yeong-ro in the JTBC drama Snowdrop. The series arrived wrapped in political controversy before viewers could separate the performance from the argument around the script, but her work still established that acting was not a temporary idol experiment. She followed it in February 2025, at 30, with Newtopia, a Coupang Play zombie romance in which she played Kang Young-joo, and in July 2025 she appeared on the big screen in Omniscient Reader: The Prophet.

The role that defined her acting year at 31 came in March 2026, when Netflix premiered Boyfriend on Demand, a romantic comedy series in which Jisoo plays Seo Mi-rae, a webtoon producer who rents a boyfriend. The part used everything she had built: the vocal training that steadied her delivery, the fashion profile that dressed the character, and a decade of camera work. It also put her in front of the global audience Netflix delivers — a different crowd from the one that buys concert tickets.

Back With BLACKPINK: The Deadline Tour At 30 And 31

Group duties resumed in July 2025, when BLACKPINK opened the Deadline World Tour at Goyang Stadium on July 5 and 6, 2025, with Jisoo still 30. The tour’s first new group song in more than two years, “JUMP,” premiered on that stage and was released on July 11, 2025. It entered the Billboard Global 200 at No. 1, the group’s third chart-topper there.

The tour grew to 33 shows in 16 cities and ran through Jisoo’s 31st birthday — the Tokyo Dome dates fell in January 2026, so she spent her birthday weekend on stage in Tokyo — before closing on January 26, 2026, at Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong. Along the way, the August 15 and 16, 2025, Wembley Stadium dates made BLACKPINK the first K-pop girl group to headline the venue. Jisoo performed her solo material inside the group show, the solo era folded back into the group machine without either side giving ground.

Thirty-One In 2026: CLICK, ADDICTED, WME, And The Met Gala

On February 27, 2026, BLACKPINK released its third mini album, DEADLINE, with the title track “GO” — the group’s first album in about four years, and Jisoo’s first group release as a 31-year-old. Her own releases followed. “CLICK” arrived on September 4, 2026, and “ADDICTED” on October 30, 2026, a dance-pop track about being unable to resist attraction. Variety reported that “ADDICTED” topped the iTunes Top Songs charts in 28 regions, and Billboard reported a third solo track, “Sun Showers,” is expected on The Angry Birds Movie 3 soundtrack in the coming weeks. Both singles are pre-releases for her first full-length solo album, whose title and release date have not been announced.

Away from music, she made her Met Gala debut in May 2026, and her endorsement roster kept growing: she remains a global ambassador for Dior and Cartier, with Tommy Hilfiger and Salomon also on the list, alongside 2026 collaborations with Off-White and Pokémon. On October 29, 2026, BLACKPINK received the Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit at the Korean Popular Culture and Arts Awards, the first time K-pop girl group members had been given the honour. Then, on November 6, 2026, Variety and Pollstar reported that Jisoo had signed with WME for worldwide representation, joining a roster that includes Billie Eilish, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, and The Weeknd. The deal landed four days before this article was written, and it is the clearest signal yet of where her thirties are headed: a solo career run from her own label, with Hollywood representation behind it.

How Old Are The Other BLACKPINK Members?

Jisoo is the oldest of the four, and the gap is easy to see in a table. The birthdays are all settled facts, and the ages below are the international ages in force in November 2026.

Jisoo is 13 days older than the group’s second-oldest member: she turned 31 on January 3, 2026, and Jennie’s age in 2026 is 30, after her birthday on January 16, 1996. The two youngest members are both 29 this year — Rosé’s age in 2026 is 29 from her February 11, 1997 birthday, and Lisa’s age in 2026 is 29 from her March 27, 1997 birthday. The spread across the group is just over two years, from Jisoo’s January 1995 to Lisa’s March 1997, which is why the “oldest member” label has followed Jisoo since debut: she was 21 when the group arrived, while Lisa was 19.

What Is Jisoo’s Korean Age?

Under South Korea’s old traditional age system, Jisoo would have been counted as 32 in 2026. That system counted a newborn as one year old and added a year on New Year’s Day, so a person born on January 3, 1995, was 32 for almost all of 2026. South Korea replaced the traditional count with international age for official purposes in June 2023, and the entertainment industry followed. Her correct age is 31 — the same figure used everywhere else. Any page that still lists 32 is using the retired system, and any page that lists 30 is using last year’s number.

Jisoo’s Height, Family, And Personal Life

Jisoo is 162 cm tall, about 5 feet 4 inches, a figure that appears consistently across her profiles. She is the youngest of three children, with an older brother and an older sister, and she has kept her family out of the public eye through a decade of fame.

Her personal life has stayed private by the same choice. Her one confirmed public relationship was with actor Ahn Bo-hyun: the relationship was confirmed in August 2023 and the split was confirmed in October 2023, both through YG Entertainment. Since then, no relationship has been confirmed, and Jisoo has said nothing public about her dating life. This article reports only what was confirmed and leaves the rest alone — a private life is not a gap in the reporting, it is the subject’s own decision.

Jisoo’s Net Worth At 31

An age article still has to answer the question readers ask next, and the honest answer is a range. Jisoo’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at between $20 million and $40 million. Celebrity Net Worth puts her at $40 million, while Parade’s August 9, 2026, ranking of all four BLACKPINK members puts her at $30 million. A Forbes Korea report from November 2026, cited by K-Pop It, estimated her at about $30 million as well, with Lisa the highest of the four at $40 million and the four members’ combined fortune at roughly $120 million to $140 million.

The anchor used here is $30 million, the middle of the credible range and the figure two separate 2026 sources printed. She has never disclosed her personal finances, so every figure here is an estimate built from visible income, not a confirmed balance sheet. The income behind it is easy to trace: BLACKPINK’s stadium tours, solo music sales, acting fees, and a luxury endorsement roster led by Dior and Cartier. For comparison, BTS star Jimin’s net worth in 2026 sits in a similar range, which is what a decade at the top of K-pop looks like from the outside: steady, diversified, and impossible to pin to a single number.

Why So Many Pages Still Say 30

The stale-30 problem has three causes, and all three are visible in this research. First, the birthday falls on January 3, so any page written in 2025 says 30 and stays wrong for the whole of 2026 unless someone updates it. Second, K-pop profile sites copy each other, so one out-of-date number spreads across dozens of pages. Third, the old Korean age system still shows up in older sources, which can make a page say 32 — the opposite error, from the same cause.

The check that settles it takes ten seconds: look for the birth date, January 3, 1995, and count forward. If the page knows the date and still says 30 after January 2026, it has not been updated. If it says 32, it is using the retired Korean count. The current number, in November 2026, is 31, and it stays 31 until January 3, 2027.

Sources & Reporting

Birth date and age: YG Entertainment’s member profile (January 3, 1995); BLACKPINK Wiki (born January 3, 1995, age 31); Moviefone (January 3, 1995, 31 years old); TV Insider (birth date January 3, 1995, age 31); KpopAngel (birthday January 3, 1995, 31 years old; height 162 cm); Chukkae (age 31, January 3, 1995, height 162 cm; ME the first by a Korean female soloist to sell a million copies). Career: BLACKPINK Wiki and KpopAngel (debut August 8, 2016; solo debut ME March 31, 2023; BLISSOO; AMORTAGE February 2025); CVM Sekai (DEADLINE mini album February 27, 2026; Deadline World Tour 33 shows, 16 cities, July 2025–January 2026). 2026 reporting: Pollstar, November 6, 2026 (WME signing for worldwide representation; Deadline World Tour completed; Boyfriend on Demand premiered March; Met Gala debut May); Variety via Dork and RadarKPop, November 2026 (“ADDICTED” No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs in 28 regions; “Sun Showers” expected on The Angry Birds Movie 3 soundtrack; first full-length solo album in preparation); Asia Daily, November 8, 2026 (WME announcement; “Addicted” released October 30; “CLICK” September 4, 2026). Net worth: Parade, August 9, 2026 (Jisoo $30 million in the four-member ranking); Celebrity Net Worth ($40 million); Forbes Korea, November 2026, via K-Pop It (Jisoo about $30 million; Lisa $40 million; combined $120M–$140M). Group ages: Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa birth dates from their Guide Net Worth profiles, each verified against their own sources. Where outlets disagreed — mainly stale profile pages still showing 30, and the retired Korean age count showing 32 — this article prints the birthday math and the reason for the gap rather than the older number. If new reporting emerges, this article will be updated and the change noted here.

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