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Mino & Jennie

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Jennie

About Mino & Jennie

The Mino and Jennie ship celebrates a genuine, well-documented friendship between WINNER's Song Mino and BLACKPINK's Jennie: two YG Entertainment artists whose bond stretches back to their trainee days. Jennie has confirmed that she and WINNER's Seunghoon (Jinu) 'joined in the same year' (2010), and Mino joined shortly after, making their friendship one of the longest-running labelmate bonds in K-pop. Multiple public moments have endeared this pairing to fans. When Jennie was promoting her 2018 solo 'SOLO,' Mino was simultaneously promoting 'Fiancé,' and their parallel promotions generated fan-captured interactions that shippers loved. Jennie attended Mino's first-ever solo art exhibition and posted photos of herself imitating his artwork. Fans found the gesture genuinely sweet. In return, Mino's enthusiastic reaction to hearing 'SOLO' for the first time was shared widely as evidence of his genuine support for his labelmate and friend. This ship is framed by fans and even by the broader fandom as a warm labelmate friendship: an 'insider' relationship built on years of shared training hallways, mutual support, and genuine affection between two creative, artistically expressive idols.

The Mino and Jennie ship is one of K-pop's rare cross-group ships grounded in a real, documented, years-long friendship. Fans have been clear that it is a labelmate friendship ship: celebrated for its genuineness rather than romantic speculation. The BLINKs and Inner Circle (WINNER fandom) communities have largely been respectful of this framing.

Fun facts

✦ Jennie and Mino (and WINNER's Jinu) are among the few idol friendships that can be traced back to pre-debut trainee days at YG Entertainment, making their bond unusually long-standing.
✦ Jennie attended Mino's first solo art exhibition in 2019 and posted photos imitating his paintings. The moment was widely shared as one of K-pop's sweetest labelmate gestures.
✦ Both Mino and Jennie are known for their artistic pursuits beyond music: Mino is a visual artist and his painting exhibition was a significant personal milestone; Jennie has been involved in fashion and creative direction.

Moments

2019-12

Mino's art exhibition

Jennie attended Mino's first solo art exhibition and posted photos of herself imitating his paintings on social media. The gesture was celebrated by BLINKs and Inner Circle alike as one of the sweetest K-pop friendship moments of the year.
2018-11

Parallel solo promotions

Jennie's 'SOLO' and Mino's 'Fiancé' promoted simultaneously in late 2018. Mino's enthusiastic public reaction to hearing 'SOLO' was captured and shared widely, with fans celebrating his genuine support for his labelmate.