Former SM Rookie Lami is confirmed to make her debut as an actress

Former SM Rookie Lami is finally confirmed to make her debut as an actress. SM Entertainment on December 9, officially announced that she has now finally turned 19 years old and will be debuting as an actress under the agency. The agency stated:

Over a decade ago, in 2013 she was revealed as a trainee in her agency’s pre-debut group SM Rookies alongside Irene and Jaehyun, who didn’t make their debut at the time. Irene and Jaehyun are now members of the K-pop group Red Velvet and NCT respectively.

Lami was only 10 years old at the time of her debut. She hasn’t been active since 2016 and netizens have wondered about her whereabouts. After hearing the news, fans are over the moon and the topic has become a major discussion on social media.

“Congratulations everyone we made it”: Fans rejoice at Lami’s debut as an actress

Fans are rejoicing at the former SM Rookie's comeback as an actress. They are ecstatic that she is finally coming back to the small screen. She previously appeared in dramas as a child actress and they are happy that they will be able to portray roles on screen again. Fans finally believe that she is back at SM.

As soon as the news broke, Twitter flooded with the trainee's graduation photos as fans congratulated her on the great news.

Some fans were even occupied reminiscing about the time when the former trainee used to be a child actress.

Fans also commemorated the 9th anniversary of the star and wished her prosperity and abundance for her future projects.

Know more about Lami

Lami, aka Kim Sung-kyung is a multitalented individual who started her career as a singer but later transformed herself into a model and actress whenever required. She was part of a project girl group called SR16G under SM Entertainment.

As a trainee at SM Entertainment, she appeared in a number of music videos, including Red Velvet’s debut music video Happiness. She was also seen in The Mickey Mouse Club with fellow SM rookies including Jeno, Mark, Haechan, Jaemin, and Jisung. All of them eventually debuted in the NCT Dream K-pop group.

Interestingly, the former trainee appeared in a number of dramas as a child actress before joining SM Rookies in 2013. She played the younger counterparts of actresses such as Lee Ji-ah and Jin Se-yeon.

She has appeared in dramas including Me Too, Flower!, Five Fingers, A Wife Credentials, and Twinkle Twinkle. She also appeared in a few movies, namely AM 11:00 and Montage.

It will be exciting to see Lami making her debut as an actress and not an idol. Fans are eagerly waiting for more information on her upcoming projects as an actress.

About the author

Kirti holds a Bachelor's degree in Journalism & Mass Communication and has been a Kpop writer at SK POP since 2022. She has been following Kpop and Kdramas since the last 6 years and but has worked in the genre only in the last 3-4 years donning several several caps - social media intern, copywriter, article writer and academic writer.

Kirti likes to pen down insightful features based on Korean dramas, especially the 'Ending Explained' categories. It gives her the satisfaction of creating the most authentic content rather than simply replicating what media outlets generally do.

Her process of creating content is time-consuming, yet methodical; she prefers to use original sources of information, which in her case are Korean outlets. She watches entire episodes, writes them down, cross-checks/fact-checks the details/event timelines off the web and eventually creates her copy.

Kirti likes Lee Je-hoon, IU, and Kim Seon-ho since she feels that their dramas are inspiring and have good plotlines. When she is not writing about K-dramas, she can be found watching them.

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