1. Yeon Jung-hoon was born on November 6,1978 and is a South Korean actor.
21 Facts About Yeon Jung-hoon
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Yeon Jung-hoon is best known for generational epic East of Eden, crime procedural Vampire Prosecutor and the domestically popular weekend drama Pots of Gold.
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Yeon Jung-hoon is the only son and younger of two children of veteran actor Yeon Jung-hoon Kyu-jin.
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Yeon Jung-hoon was sent to the United States as a teenager and lived with his aunt while attending junior high and high school.
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Yeon Jung-hoon spent his freshman year of college at the ArtCenter College of Design but returned to South Korea due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis and continued his education at Myongji University, majoring in product design.
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Yeon Jung-hoon made his acting debut whilst a college student and eventually decided to pursue it as a career after graduating.
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Yeon Jung-hoon's father had misgivings over his new career path out of concern; Yeon later stated that his father was finally convinced after he was named Best New Actor at the 2003 KBS Drama Awards.
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Yeon Jung-hoon was cast in Sad Love Story as a last-minute replacement for Song Seung-heon, who was embroiled in a scandal involving his exemption from mandatory military service and forced to pull out.
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Yeon Jung-hoon then starred in his first sageuk Jejungwon.
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From 2011 to 2012, Yeon Jung-hoon, an avid car enthusiast and former Formula 4 driver, was a co-host of Top Gear Korea and hosted the first three seasons before leaving to concentrate on acting and other interests.
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Yeon Jung-hoon starred in the OCN legal drama Vampire Prosecutor, portraying the titular character, a prosecutor who becomes a vampire and hides his newfound powers while secretly using it to solve crimes.
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Yeon Jung-hoon reunited with his East of Eden co-star Han Ji-hye the following year in Pots of Gold, in which he portrayed the eldest son of a chaebol family embroiled in a saga involving his father's mistresses.
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Yeon Jung-hoon was nominated for the Excellence Award, Actor in a Mid-length Drama at the 2015 SBS Drama Awards, losing to his Mask co-star Ju Ji-hoon.
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Yeon Jung-hoon made a guest appearance in the 2016 JTBC drama My Horrible Boss before making his Hollywood debut in the Hong Kong-Chinese-American collaboration buddy cop film Skiptrace and played the right-hand man of a businessman-cum-mob boss.
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Yeon Jung-hoon returned to cable drama in the action-comedy-thriller Man to Man and played the main antagonist, an unscrupulous businessman with a painful past.
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Yeon Jung-hoon then co-headlined the weekend melodramas Bravo My Life and My Healing Love, the latter of which earned him the Top Excellence Award in a Soap Opera at the 2018 MBC Drama Awards.
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Yeon Jung-hoon returned to the supernatural genre in the cable comedy-thriller Possessed, which aired in early 2019.
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Yeon Jung-hoon married actress Han Ga-in on April 26,2005, after a two-year courtship.
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In November 2005, Yeon Jung-hoon enlisted for mandatory military service at the 306th Replacement Battalion in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province.
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Yeon Jung-hoon was assigned to the 52nd Infantry Division and discharged in October 2007.
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Yeon Jung-hoon was previously a United States permanent resident but gave up his green card when he entered the entertainment industry, thus making him eligible for conscription.