Today we have a special guest who is participating with the beautiful IU Drama titled "You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin", I'm talking about a great Korean actor, Jo Jung-suk.
Jo Jung-suk is born December 26, 1980 is a South Korean actor.
Jo Jung-suk had always wanted to be on stage. He was admitted into the Theater department of Seoul Institute of the Arts on student loan, but after his father died in 2000, Jo's widowed mother became fully dependent on him.
He was granted an exemption from military service due to family circumstances, and he quit school before graduating so he could start earning money by doing musicals. He debuted in The Nutcracker in 2004.
Jo has since become active and well known in musical theatre, acting in a total of 25 musicals during the first nine years of his career, including Organ in My Heart (musical adaptation of The Harmonium in My Memory), Janggeum the Great (musical adaptation of Jewel in the Palace), and Korean productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grease, The Island, and Spring Awakening.
In 2011 he landed his first television role on cable series What’s Up as awkward but talented music student Kim Byung-gun. But 2012 would be his breakout year, starring in two high-profile projects. In his big screen debut, he played a supporting role in box office hit Architecture 101. As the young hero's best friend Nab-ddeuk, Jo's performance brimmed with personality and comic timing, and he won Best New Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, as well as received nominations from the Grand Bell Awards and Buil Film Awards. He was once again a scene stealer in his third onscreen role as earnest soldier Eun Shi-kyung in the drama The King 2 Hearts.[ Jo's display of versatility and screen presence in those projects caused a recent surge in mainstream popularity for the actor, resulting in close to twenty offers for films and TV series, not to mention commercials.
He next starred in big-screen comedy Almost Che, loosely based on a real-life incident from 1985, in which student activists forcibly occupied the US Cultural Center in Seoul and had a standoff with the police. After filming the historical Song Kang-ho-starrer The Face Reader, Jo returned to television in his first leading role in the 2013 weekend drama You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin.
Now we know better the role of Jo Jung-suk in beautiful DRAMA entitled "You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin"
*Jo Jung-suk is Shin Joon-ho*
Once a rising singer-songwriter, Joon-ho quit making music and set up his own talent agency, the now-thriving Gabi Entertainment, of which he is CEO.
As the son of a famous dermatologist in Seoul, Joon-ho had a privileged childhood, but always felt pressured by the expectation of becoming a doctor like his father. In high school he formed a band in secret, but was soon caught by his father and sent to America.
There he majored in commercial music and upon graduation came back to Korea and released an album. His first album was a moderate success, even generating some hard-core fans, but his music career tore apart his relationship with his father even further, to the point of severing family ties. At the time his girlfriend was the actress Choi Yeon-ah.
The two had quickly fallen in love, but his failed second album plunged him into a deep slump and the couple soon split up. Joon-ho was lost and in despair for a while, but recovered enough to set up a management agency. He succeeded in debuting two hot idol bands in just a couple of years and started to emerge as a new bigwig in show business.
Joon-ho is a workaholic, suave, exacting and serious, though he unexpectedly has an awkward and uncool side.
At Yeon-ah's challenge, he will groom Soon-shin to become a star, but he begins to change over time as he understands the real meaning of success through Soon-shin.
