1. Cho Jae-hyun was born on June 30,1965 and is a South Korean film, stage, and TV actor.
16 Facts About Cho Jae-hyun
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Cho Jae-hyun is commonly dubbed "director Kim Ki-duk's persona" since Cho has starred as leading and supporting characters in a number of films directed by Kim.
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Cho Jae-hyun was born in Gyeongju on June 30,1965.
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Cho Jae-hyun aspired to be a painter, so tried to enter an art high school but failed.
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When he entered another high school, Cho Jae-hyun ran away from home to Busan.
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Cho Jae-hyun worked as a waiter there, and studied on his own to pass a qualification exam equivalent to obtaining a high school diploma.
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However, Cho Jae-hyun failed it, so returned to Seoul to finish his high school year.
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Cho Jae-hyun was admitted to study theater and film at Kyungsung University.
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Cho Jae-hyun recollected he indulged himself in Busan's culture as a freshman and sophomore, then focused on theater for the rest of his university years.
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In 1991, Cho Jae-hyun won Best New Actor in Theater at the Baeksang Arts Awards for his acting in Equus; he reinterpreted the leading role Alan Strang as an innocent person, though he is largely depicted as a cruel and rebellious character.
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In 2009, Cho Jae-hyun revisited Equus by directing the play and playing the other lead character Martin Dysart.
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Cho Jae-hyun was praised for reinvigorating the faltering local theater scene in Daehangno by coming up with the series and its star-studded casting, promotion and marketing.
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In 2018, Cho Jae-hyun starred as a doctor and head of an organ transplant centre in the medical TV series Cross opposite Go Kyung-pyo.
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Cho Jae-hyun is the chairman of the Gyeonggi Film Council since 2009, executive festival director of the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival since 2009, chairman of the Gyeonggi Arts Center since 2010, an associate professor at Sungshin Women's University's College of Convergence Culture and Arts since 2012, and an associate professor at Kyungsung University's Department of Theater and Film since 2014.
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When Cho Jae-hyun was 24 years old in 1989, he married his college sweetheart who was an anchor for the campus channel.
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Cho Jae-hyun's son Cho Soo-hoon is a short track speed skater who won a gold medal in the 500 meter competition for male university students at the 2008 Korean National Winter Sports Festival, while his daughter Cho Hye-jung, who attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, is an actress.