˚ ༘♡ hirose umeko.

˚ ༘♡ USERNAME : peachyooa

˚ ༘♡ NAME: hirose umeko [ 広瀬梅子 ]
˚ ༘♡ STAGE NAME: ume [ 우메 / 梅 ]
      ↳ meaning : plum in japanese.
˚ ༘♡ NICKNAMES:
· · ·  ume [ 우메 ]
↳ shortened ver. of her given name.
   others sometimes add “ –chan ” to
   to it considering she's japanese.
· · ·  koko [ 코코 ]
↳ her name’s last syllable duplicated,
   resulting in a lovely nickname.
· · ·  shortcake [ 숏케이크 ]
↳ given to her by fans due to her height, for light hearted, teasing purposes !

˚ ༘♡ FACE-CLAIM: kato kokoro of cherry bullet.
˚ ༘♡ BACK-UP FACE-CLAIM: yabuki nako of izone.
˚ ༘♡ COMPANY: jellyfish entertainment.
˚ ༘♡ BACK-UP COMPANY: loen entertainment.

˚ ༘♡ AGE: 23 (intl) + 22 (kor)
˚ ༘♡ BIRTHDAY: march 14, 1997

˚ ༘♡ BLOOD TYPE: AB+
˚ ༘♡ HEIGHT: 153 cm
˚ ༘♡ WEIGHT: 44 kg

˚ ༘♡ NATIONALITY: korean & japanese [ dual ]
˚ ༘♡ ETHNICITY: japanese.
˚ ༘♡ PERSONALITY:

      [ 1 ] PERFECTIONIST. umeko, despite he bright and lively nature, is very hard on herself and a stickler for details and perfectionism. she wants to get so great at what she does that there's nothing others can point out negatively about her. despite being like this, she does not enforce her perfectionism onto others.

     [ 2 ] LIVELY. she is a very outgoing person, always managing to lighten up the athmosphere and make everyone smile with her softness and quirkiness. she's easily liked by others due to this !

     [ 3 ] OVER SENSITIVE. she is very, very bad at handling criticism, even when it's positive. she just dislikes it and takes it too much to heart, ending up having those words linger in her head for hours, making her even more determinated to stay in the survival. note ; she's learnt how to hide and control her emotions when this happens.

      [ 4 ] SOCIALLY PERCEPTIVE. umeko is very flexible and looks towards everyone's feelings and emotions. she's very perceptive of others' feelings so she tries her best to adjust and present a good side of herself, carefully picking her words to make sure she doesn't hurt anyone. although she's reliable and understanding, she wouldn't entirely throw herself under the bus for just anyone. she most likely would if it was for someone she was close with though !

      [ 5 ] CARING. umeko would be the type to care for everyone more than for herself, getting everyone snacks during practice sessions' break times and she's someone who would offer to help anyone with anything she's great at and they're not. she also has a non competitive mindset, she's very thoughtful of the other girls and doesn't wish them any bad, actually wanting to befriend everyone as the sweet happy virus she is.

˚ ༘♡ BACKGROUND:
       ↳ umeko was born in hokkaido, japan, to two well off, ethnically japanese parents, working in the marketing industry. they later on immigrated to busan, south korea, when umeko was 9 years old, for career related purposes and also to start fresh in a new place.

umeko was always well liked and popular for her friendly nature at school ; not only in japan, but also in korea. she was quick to pick up the language, taking some extra korean classes. although being japanese, she was never looked at as the foreigner in school, she managed to win her new classmates' hearts, who were amused by her short height and cute way of speaking korean, every so often messing up sweetly.

she first started to dream of pursuing a career as an idol when she and her mother went to watch young people covering songs and busking on the streets of hongdae. from there, her curiosity was piqued and it was only a matter of time for her to start wanting to learn how to do all that. because of her request her mother enrolled her into a performing arts high school and also got her into a dance academy. umeko was never the greatest student at logical subjects but exceeded at those related to arts so the decision to send her to an arts of school was relatively easy.

she became one of her schoolʼs top students when it came to singing and her dancing wasn't so behind. she signed with jellyfish entertainment at only 16 years old and has now been training for 6 years. she's also fully mastered the korean language as time went by and can perfectly pass by as a native.

˚ ༘♡ TRIVIA:
       ↳ she can play the koto.
       ↳ she wears only high heels daily when she's in public due to her short height complex. when she really has to wear flats she opts for insoles. umeko is awesome at dancing in heels due this.
       ↳ she has the munchies therefore she has a really hard time with going on diets.
       ↳ umeko exceels at variety being a naturally very cute and outgoing person, having many relatively ridiculous talents she's not embarrassed by, like her ostrich impersonation, her ability to impersonate anime characters, her personal aegyo song, her busan satoori, speaking korean with a heavy japanese accent on purpose and other
cringe inducing yet funny and cute stuff that really piques the public's curiosity and attention.

˚ ༘♡ PREDEBUT ACTIVITIES/GROUPS:
       ↳ radio show host.
       ↳ background vocals for jellyfish artistsʼ songs, mostly for gugudanʼs. fun fact : umeko is very close to their member, kim nayoung.

˚ ༘♡ SELF EVALUATION:
➺✧ ┅ RAP: 00/75
➺✧ ┅ VOCAL: 75/75
➺✧ ┅ DANCE: 60/75
➺✧ ┅ VISUAL: 58/75
➺✧ ┅ CHARISMA: 70/75

˚ ༘♡ MESSAGE TO FANS:
hi sugar plums, [ a name she has come up for her fans which is based off her own name ‘umeko’ which means plum blossoms child ! ] i really hope to make you proud of me. i'm going to try my best to provide you with quality performances everytime and make your time and love worth it … ! please support me, jellyfish entertainmentʼs shortcake, hirose umeko. i won't let you down.

˚ ༘♡ MESSAGE TO CO-TRAINEES:
       ↳ everyone, let’s get along well and do our best ! as co-trainees, we should be there for each other and help with whatever we can. you can count on me ; i don't mind practicing some extra time to go over anything with you all, i really just want us to succeed and captivate the public. what's the point of stepping on others to get to the top? let’s help each other and contribute to each others' skills, that way we can all shine on stage and that way, the final lineup will be picked fairly by the national producers.

˚ ༘♡ INTRODUCTION: “rose up ! hello this is jellyfish entertainmentʼs local shortcake, hirose umeko.”