iii artist/member profile · RE:AL iii debut lineup · exact-video tracker
Taeri
Kim Yebin was born September 21, 2002. Current iii member and the oldest member of the 2025 debut lineup.
RaeRae take
Taeri brings adult scale to a project marketed through artificial faces and fairy-tale clocks; her voice and body keep dragging the concept back toward a person.
Oldest in the lineup
Born in 2002, Taeri is the oldest member of the official-debut roster. That age relationship may affect group dynamics, but iii has not turned it into a substitute for documented positions.
RaeRae note: Oldest is chronology. It is not automatic evidence of motherhood, management or emotional labor.
Training record
Public Korean profile material connects Taeri to dance and vocal academy training before her Big Ocean ENM audition. The useful fact is structured preparation, not an unverifiable count of trainee years.
RaeRae note: Training becomes visible in repeatable choices, not in suffering mythology.
Vocal covers
Official material has included Taeri covers, offering a clearer individual listening file than the heavily shared iii master. Covers help identify phrasing and tone without inventing a solo debut.
RaeRae note: A cover is evidence of interpretation, not a press release for an album that does not exist.
Tokyo excitement
In Japanese interview material, Taeri remembered researching places and food before the group’s Tokyo trip and described excitement around recording a Japanese version.
RaeRae note: Specific anticipation gives the international schedule a human size that “global expansion” usually deletes.
Current route
Taeri remains in the current five and appears in the 2025 Real-version era. Her profile image comes from her official individual reveal rather than the shared group thumbnail.
RaeRae note: One face, one sourced image, one honest era.
Profile file
Taeri, born September 21, 2002, is a South Korean singer whose full name is Kim Yebin. Current iii member and the oldest member of the 2025 debut lineup.
RaeRae note: The page begins with facts that can be sourced and leaves unknown fields unknown.
Why this page exists
iii’s complete roster replacement makes participant-level pages essential. Taeri belongs to the six-person official-debut lineup introduced in July 2025, not the five performers in the 2023 playlist video.
RaeRae note: A group logo cannot sing retroactively on somebody’s behalf.
The group before this lineup
Big Ocean ENM first released “Forbidden Midnight” in November 2023 with Vivi, Nicole, Ahra, Yan and Evie. All five later left before iii’s official debut.
RaeRae note: Knowing the earlier names protects the new women from receiving false credit and the original women from being erased.
The 2025 rebuild
Namkhing, Soobin, Taeri, Eungi, Hana and Huran were revealed as a completely new lineup in July 2025. The six debuted on August 29 with the single album “RE:AL iii.”
RaeRae note: Calling this a normal comeback hides the scale of the rebuild.
Guilty
“Guilty” gives the official-debut lineup a song without an earlier iii recording attached. It is the cleanest starting point for hearing the six as their own ensemble.
RaeRae note: A new roster needs music that is not forever introduced with “the previous version.”
Forbidden Midnight Real version
The 2025 Real version revisits the project’s signature composition with a new vocal cast and official video. Taeri participates in this version and not the 2023 original.
RaeRae note: Parentheses can carry an entire roster change when the database pays attention.
The composition
Ryan S. Jhun, Hannes Roovers, Isac Hördegård, Moa Pettersson Hammar and Sophie Alexandra Tweed-Simmons are credited across composition, with Korean lyricists and production staff documented in the album notes.
RaeRae note: Member profiles should not make the women appear to have materialized the track alone.
Grieg in the engine
The song draws recognizable escalation from “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” then layers electronic bass, clock imagery and a repeated closed-door hook around it.
RaeRae note: Classical reference becomes pop when the arrangement gives the old tension a new body.
The AI-to-real concept
The release frames iii as figures moving from an artificial or virtual world into reality. Taeri performs inside that fiction as a human worker with training, contracts and credits.
RaeRae note: A concept can be synthetic; labor cannot be treated that way.
The official reveal image
This profile uses Taeri’s own official July 2025 reveal video as its unique local portrait. It is not the group hub image, React image or another member’s thumbnail.
RaeRae note: A media library should recognize a person before the caption has to rescue it.
No invented position
Unless the company has published a stable role, this page describes audible or visible work without assigning “main,” “lead” or “visual” titles from fan repetition.
RaeRae note: Observation is stronger when it does not dress up as paperwork.
Vocal evaluation
The two-song debut offers limited evidence for individual vocal identity, especially where layering and short line distribution compress six voices. Future live and solo files should refine the analysis.
RaeRae note: “Not enough evidence yet” is a respectable critical conclusion.
Dance evaluation
Full-stage videos show formation timing, spacing and transitions more reliably than short edits. Individual fancams can reveal Taeri’s continuity when the broadcast camera cuts elsewhere.
RaeRae note: One viral expression is not a complete performance review.
Camera work
The Real-version MV uses close shots, concept styling and ensemble edits to establish the new faces quickly. Reveal videos provide a cleaner identity source because each is explicitly titled for one member.
RaeRae note: Identification should never depend on guessing who stood nearest the chandelier.
The Tokyo files
iii recorded Japanese material and official live content connected to Tokyo after debut. Those uploads are separate exact files with their own dates, casts and eventual React requirements.
RaeRae note: A language version is not a duplicate just because the melody recognizes it.
The fandom
iii announced iNNIT as its fandom name in December 2025. Member communication may use fandom language, but public affection does not turn private life into communal property.
RaeRae note: Fans can be in it without being inside every boundary.
Huran’s departure
Big Ocean ENM announced in April 2026 that Huran’s contract had ended. Historical six-member files keep all six credits, while later five-member files require their own participant check.
RaeRae note: Roster status and recording history belong in different columns.
The current five
Namkhing, Soobin, Taeri, Eungi and Hana are the current documented iii lineup as of August 2026. Huran remains a former official-debut member.
RaeRae note: The date is part of the fact because small-group rosters can change faster than old profile copy.
The playlist React boundary
CVM Sekai’s existing iii React covers exact 2023 YouTube ID kaXdCgtzEsk. Taeri does not receive that card because Taeri was not in the original lineup.
RaeRae note: Participant accuracy matters more than making a profile look full.
The pending React
The 2025 Real-version video, ID 5toNHtirpVM, still needs its own Iconic-by-Mistake React. Once built, its card belongs here for every credited debut-lineup participant.
RaeRae note: One song title cannot borrow another video’s criticism.
React date rule
The future Real-version React must be dated one to three days after August 29, 2025, not on the database repair date.
RaeRae note: Historical ordering should resemble listening history, not a batch import log.
Images and cards
Every profile, hub and React uses a different local canonical image with source, alt text, caption, parent record and FileBird placement. Landing cards must remain readable against their page colors.
RaeRae note: Correct routing is useless if the card vanishes into lavender-on-purple fog.
Metadata trail
The profile stores a canonical URL, focus keyword, description, social image IDs and source URL. The YouTube tracker distinguishes the profile-image source from music files.
RaeRae note: Boring metadata is where tomorrow’s editor discovers whether today’s page can be trusted.
Small-label evidence
English-language reporting about iii is limited, so Korean music-service credits, official videos and dated agency announcements receive priority. Fan databases are used only as leads or clearly secondary support.
RaeRae note: Scarcity is not permission to lower the truth standard.
Privacy boundary
Public clips can show working habits and performance choices. They cannot establish private motives, relationships or health details that Taeri has not disclosed.
RaeRae note: A short-form video is not a background check.
Growth file
iii’s debut catalogue is small enough that future music can change the assessment quickly. This profile is designed to add exact files rather than freeze Taeri inside one release.
RaeRae note: Rookie profiles should make room for evidence to arrive.
Solo and collaboration routing
Any future solo, feature, soundtrack or cover credited to Taeri belongs on this same artist/member profile. Group work remains linked to iii.
RaeRae note: One person does not need duplicate identities just because the credit line changes.
Credit before popularity
Chart results and view counts may explain reach, but they do not determine whether Taeri’s performance deserves documentation. The archive records work before asking whether an algorithm rewarded it.
RaeRae note: Small numbers still belong to real songs made by real crews.
What comes next
“WaiT” is the current five-member lineup’s first official release after Huran’s departure. Its bass-heavy agent concept shows how iii redistributed sound, formation and screen time without rewriting the six-person debut.
RaeRae note: The five-member comeback now has an exact file, exact date and exact participant route.
Archive verdict
Taeri brings adult scale to a project marketed through artificial faces and fairy-tale clocks; her voice and body keep dragging the concept back toward a person. The profile preserves the exact debut-era credit while leaving the earlier 2023 lineup untouched.
RaeRae note: Accuracy is the minimum form of respect available to an archive.
Listening for Taeri in a six-person mix
The Real-version master moves quickly between solo fragments, doubled phrases and ensemble hooks. To identify Taeri responsibly, compare the official video, live stages, individual fancams and any labeled line material rather than trusting one color-coded upload with no source.
RaeRae note: The ear gets better evidence when the eyes stop pretending one unofficial caption settled the matter.
The opening minute
The song’s early verse has to introduce vocal color while the arrangement begins its controlled climb. Taeri contributes inside a structure that withholds its largest impact, so placement and tone matter more than immediate volume.
RaeRae note: An opening line can establish tension without auditioning for the last chorus.
The chorus as ensemble work
The repeated “Forbidden Midnight” refrain depends on stacked voices, production layers and synchronized visual punctuation. A member’s contribution may be partly structural even when the final master does not isolate every singer cleanly.
RaeRae note: Group singing is allowed to sound like a group; analysis should not punish harmony for failing to become six solo tracks.
The bridge and escalation
Late in the song, repeated “make a change” phrases turn the classical escalation into a pop pressure chamber. Performance control matters because the choreography and edit both intensify while the singers still have to preserve rhythmic clarity.
RaeRae note: The climax works when nobody mistakes urgency for rushing.
Guilty as necessary evidence
Because “Guilty” was created for the official-debut lineup, it offers a less historically tangled place to assess Taeri. Its exact official files should be added to the tracker when verified, with participant cards for the six women who recorded and promoted it.
RaeRae note: The second track is not filler when it is the only one without an inherited ghost in the title.
Japanese versions and language work
Preparing Japanese lyrics requires pronunciation coaching, phrase adjustment and attention to how consonants land on an existing melody. Taeri’s participation should be credited through the exact Japanese file rather than assumed from the Korean master.
RaeRae note: A translation changes the work even when the instrumental recognizes its own reflection.
Broadcast stages
Music-show appearances add live movement, broadcast audio choices, close-up assignments and full formation records. They are especially valuable for iii because the debut MV’s concept editing can obscure how the six actually occupy continuous choreography.
RaeRae note: A stage camera may be less magical and far more useful.
Individual fancams
A labeled Taeri fancam can show preparation between featured moments, recovery after turns, spacing corrections and expression continuity. It should not be used to diagnose health or attitude from a few neutral seconds.
RaeRae note: The fancam gives more time, not permission to invent more mind.
Working inside a small company
A smaller agency can offer a debut opportunity while operating with fewer publicity translations, shorter promotional windows and less archival redundancy. Taeri’s credits therefore need careful local preservation because a deleted post may remove the only easy English-language record.
RaeRae note: Popularity creates backups. Small artists need archivists to create theirs deliberately.
The cost of a rebuilt brand
The six debut members entered a name already associated with another five women and an AI-face controversy. They had to establish themselves while answering questions produced by decisions made before their reveal.
RaeRae note: New employees should not inherit moral responsibility for an old marketing meeting.
The AI-face controversy
The original 2023 MV drew criticism for deepfake-like facial processing and unnatural motion. The 2025 “real” concept implicitly answers that reaction by foregrounding identifiable performers, but the company still owns the earlier production choice.
RaeRae note: Do not make the replacement members apologize with their faces for software they did not commission.
Age and safeguarding
Several debut-lineup members were minors or very young adults during recruitment and launch. Scheduling, styling, online moderation, medical support and contract clarity remain adult institutional responsibilities around them.
RaeRae note: Talent does not cancel the duty of care.
Nationality without tokenism
A multinational lineup can support language work and international schedules, but Taeri is not a flag assigned to one sixth of the formation. National background is context for a career, not the full concept of a person.
RaeRae note: The passport may explain a route; it does not write the performance.
Interviews as authored evidence
Direct interviews can document what Taeri says about training, travel and music. Even then, promotional settings shape the questions and edit. Quotes should be dated and attributed rather than converted into timeless personality facts.
RaeRae note: Let artists speak without pretending a press junket is an unguarded diary.
No popularity hierarchy
View counts, fancam totals and fan-vote rankings measure specific audiences under specific conditions. They do not determine who deserves a complete profile or whose labor mattered on the master.
RaeRae note: The archive is not a survival show with prettier metadata.
What a future update must do
When iii releases another official video, the update must verify exact YouTube ID, release timestamp, credited lineup, player, local image, React date and every destination card. Taeri receives the route only when evidence confirms participation.
RaeRae note: One disciplined checklist prevents a dozen confident future mistakes.
iii “WaiT” ReactYouTube tracker
- WaiT official MVDaily+336Total views2.9M · React
- Forbidden Midnight (Real ver.) official MVDaily+241Total views995.1K · exact React pending
- Taeri official reveal videoDaily+2Total views12.6K · profile image source
Official routes
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