Galaco

김아영 "Kim Ah-Young", better known by her professional alias, Galaco, is a South Korean entertainer and humanitarian of Korean ethnicity currently based out of Seoul, South Korea.

She was born September 4th, 1992, in Siam-ri, Haseong-myeon, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea to 사의혜 "Sa Eui-Hye", a North Korean defector, and 김환영 "Kim Hwan-Young"; both poor rural rice farmers. Her father passed away of Leukemia before she was born, so she never met him. She was raised alone by her mother in Gimpo.

Ahyoung's mother moved the both of them from rural Gimpo to the main city in 1999 with the goal of giving Ahyoung a better chance at life than what she would get being raised as the child of a North Korean and grandchild of poor rice farmers in a small farming community largely disconnected from the rest of the country. Her mother worked multiple jobs at this time in order to be able to afford living in the city and send money back to Ahyoung's paternal grandparents who still lived out in the middle of nowhere.