Sung Mi Kim (Volume 1-4)

"This article is about the character in Volume 1-4, for the character in Volume 5-present, see Sung Mi Kim (Volume 5-present)."Sung Mi Kim is one of the Zodiac Heroes and one of the secondary school students. She is the tritagonist of the series.

Official Description
Sung Mi Kim is a 15-year-old Korean/Australian secondary school student. With the help of her amulet, she has powers based on the Korean goddess, Mago and can transform into a spirit.

Appearance
She is shown to have long brown hair tied in a low ponytail, brown eyes and light skin. She wears a purple shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers. When she activates her powers, her pupils and irises disappear and glow blue-green. Her sleepwear consists of a purple shirt and blue sweatpants. Her student uniform consists of a navy blue blazer over a white dress shirt with a red and blue ribbon, a blue skirt, white socks and white sneakers. She stands on 5 ft. 1 and is of average weight. Sung Mi turns blue-green in her spirit form.

Personality
She shows immaturity and playfulness like her peers. But gets serious while fighting Chase or helping her friends study or research. Sung Mi is enthusiastic when she first got her actual amulet. Compared to her sister, Audrey who is always optimistic and energetic, Sung Mi is more shy but she deeply cares for her sister and her friends.

Etymology
(First name) Sung-mi, also spelled Seong-mi or Song-mi, is a Korean feminine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading "sung" and 33 hanja with the reading "mi" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are displayed in the table at right.

(Last name) Kim or Gim (Hangul: 김) is the most common surname in Korea. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 10,689,959 people by this name in South Korea or 21.5% of the population.[2] Kim is written as 김 (gim) in both North and South Korea. The hanja for Kim, 金 can also be transliterated as 금 (geum) which means "metal, iron, gold". The academic community is divided as to why 金 is not read as 금 in the case of surname and why it is read as 김 instead.

Chinese Name
Traditional: 金成美

Simplified: 金成美

Pinyin/Romanisation: Jīn chéngměi

Powers and Abilities

 * Earth- Her energy powers are first used in Season 20. She can form mountains and put them together.
 * Healing- Like many of her teammates, she also has healing powers.

Trivia

 * Sung Mi was born on 4 September 2005 which makes her Zodiac sign Virgo however, she has earth-themed powers
 * Sung Mi is Australian of Korean descent and is Audrey's adoptive older sister