1. From his early days as a theater actor, Jung Jae-young has collaborated with director Jang Jin, who was a year ahead of him in the Department of Theater at Seoul Institute of the Arts.
12 Facts About Jung Jae-young
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Jung Jae-young started his career taking minor roles in films ranging from his debut The Adventures of Mrs Park to Green Fish, The Quiet Family, and Die Bad.
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In 2004, Jung Jae-young reunited with Jang in a romantic comedy Someone Special which provided him with his first lead role.
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Jung Jae-young then starred in a commercially and critically successful film Welcome to Dongmakgol.
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The film was based on one of Jang Jin's plays which Jung Jae-young had performed in.
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In 2010, Jung Jae-young starred as a sinister 70-year-old village elder in the film adaptation of the popular webcomic Moss.
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Jung Jae-young returned in 2014 as a detective facing off against a bestselling novelist who makes a Confession of Murder, an obsessive-compulsive who falls for a carefree musician in rom-com The Plan Man, a father tracking down his daughter's killers in Broken, and an undercover assassin who tries to protect King Jeongjo in a period drama The Fatal Encounter.
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In 2015, Jung Jae-young was cast in his first ever television series as a welder-turned-rookie lawmaker in political drama Assembly.
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Jung Jae-young next starred as a detective in science fiction thriller Duel, followed by Hong Sang-soo's film Right Now, Wrong Then.
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Jung Jae-young reunited with Hong Sang-soo in a 2017 film On the Beach at Night Alone.
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In 2019, Jung Jae-young played Joon-gul in a comedy film The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale.
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In 2021, Jung Jae-young will appear in the MBC drama On the Verge of Insanity aired on MBC, alongside Moon So-ri and Lee Sang-yeob.