1. Jang Jin was born on February 24,1971 and is a South Korean film director, theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, film producer, actor, and TV personality.
17 Facts About Jang Jin
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Jang Jin created his own portion Hollywood Message, which he wrote and edited by himself, where he would take famous scenes from some of the most popular Hollywood films showing in theaters, and make parodies, add silly popups, mix scenes from different films together to form a bizarre, unique collage of images.
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In January 1995, Jang Jin entered newspaper daily The Chosun Ilbo's annual literary contest with Cheonho-dong Crossroad, his first full-fledged script.
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Jang Jin wrote his first stage play Heotang at the age of 21 while serving his military duty, and his followup Clumsy People, not only granted him much praise, but was a big success, and allowed actress Song Chae-hwan to win the Best Actress Award at the Seoul Theater Festival.
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Jang Jin's 1997 play Taxi Driver was a huge success, displaying his wit and talent for snappy dialogue.
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Jang Jin decided to shop around his script, which led to his debut feature 1998 comedy The Happenings.
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In 1999 Jang Jin founded the theater troupe Suda, and among his regulars were Jung Gyu-soo, Shin Ha-kyun, Jung Jae-young and Jang Jin Young-nam.
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In 2000 Jang Jin established his own film production outfit Film It Suda, hiring his "family" of fellow writers, producers and directors.
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Jang Jin then focused on adapting his successful 2000 theater play Leave When They're Applauding into the big screen.
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Jang Jin directed his fellow Seoul Institute of the Arts alumni in a staging of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
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Jang Jin injected an enhanced comic effect into the screenplay of Public Enemy Returns, the third installment in Kang Woo-suk's series on tough detective Kang Cheol-jung.
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At the MBC Drama Awards that year, Jang Jin won a Special Award for his 2008 radio show segment Radio Book Club on MBC Standard FM.
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Jang Jin was a judge on the first and second seasons of Korea's Got Talent.
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Jang Jin wrote and directed the first three seasons of sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live Korea and anchored SNL Korea's version of Weekend Update.
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Jang Jin says he believes satirical comedies can change society for the better.
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Jang Jin has built up an informal "repertory company" of actors who have appeared in many roles in his films.
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Jang Jin was back from his military enlistment in Winter 1993.