Hwang Jung-eum rose to stardom through the sitcom High Kick Through the Roof and received her first leading role with television series Listen to My Heart.
18 Facts About Hwang Jung-eum
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Hwang Jung-eum debuted with K-pop girl group Sugar in 2002 as a lead vocalist, but left the group in 2004 to pursue a solo career.
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Hwang Jung-eum officially made her acting debut in the television drama The Person I Love in 2007.
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Later that year, Hwang Jung-eum rose to mainstream stardom when she appeared in the daily sitcom High Kick Through the Roof.
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Hwang Jung-eum was later ranked 18th on Forbes Korea's Top 40 Celebrities in 2011, and among the Top 7 Female Commercial Stars in Korea as compiled by Ilgan Sports.
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In February 2010, Hwang Jung-eum hosted MBC's Star Dance Battle together with Kim Shin-young, Oh Sang-jin, and Shin Bong-sun.
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In 2013 Hwang Jung-eum was cast in crime comedy Incarnation of Money.
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In 2015, Hwang Jung-eum reunited with some of her former costars, namely Ji Sung from Secret Love for the romantic comedy series Kill Me, Heal Me; then with Park Seo-joon from Kill Me, Heal Me and Go Joon-hee from Listen to My Heart for another romantic comedy, She Was Pretty, which further solidifies her popularity in China.
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Ize magazine named her as one of the 10 Persons of the Year and Hwang Jung-eum was selected as Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year in 2015.
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Hwang Jung-eum was cast in her first big screen leading role in the 2015 romantic comedy film My Sister, the Pig Lady, which was screened at the 39th Montreal World Film Festival as part of their World Greats selection.
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Less than a month after her marriage, Hwang Jung-eum has been cast in the 2016 romantic comedy series, Lucky Romance.
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Hwang Jung-eum was then reunited with Namkoong Min, whom she had starred alongside seven years ago in Listen to My Heart, in 2018 rom-com The Undateables.
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In 2020, Hwang Jung-eum has been cast in two drama series, a fantasy mystery Mystic Pop-up Bar and romantic comedy Men Are Men.
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Hwang Jung-eum accepted the offer to star in the new work of well-known screenwriter Kim Soon-ok, 2023 SBS's mystery crime 7 Escape.
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Hwang Jung-eum later confirmed it in her interview with KBS2's Entertainment Relay.
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On January 7,2016, Hwang Jung-eum announced her planned marriage to Lee Young-don, with the ceremony to be held in February.
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Hwang Jung-eum was confirmed to be four months pregnant in February 2017 and gave birth to their first child, a son, on August 15,2017.
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On October 12,2021, Hwang Jung-eum's agency announced that is pregnant with her second child.