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March 7

Age and birthday of Korean musician Jihae

In her article, Jihae (musician) is claimed to be born on February 7, 1974, but the cited source says her age was 27 in 2016. Consequently, most interwikis date her birth in 1989, while "February 7" is not mentioned at all in the source. Polish Wikipedia claims she was born in 1980/81. Does anybody know for sure? --KnightMove (talk) 01:59, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

She has posted about her birthday on 7 February multiple times on her Instagram, and this post in particular implies that she was born that day in 1974 or 1984. The confusion seems likely to have stemmed from the fact that another musician, a member of the kpop girl group Girl's Day, also uses the mononym "Jihae," and her birthday is 14 May 1989. The Variety article you referenced probably mistakenly used this date to calculate the other Jihae's age, and this article combined with the other Jihae caused the other date to be cited elsewhere. (East Asian age reckoning may also play a role in some of the variations.) I can't find any evidence, however, pointing to either '74 or '84 over the other, so I've updated the original article to list just the day and I'll add a topic to the talk page to this effect. (fugues) (talk) 04:17, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]