About Jang Ki Yong: 
Jang Ki Yong is a South Korean actor and model. He was born on August 7, 1992. 

Being an active individual, he enjoys walking daily, which helps him to clear his mind and stay fit. He likes this activity so much that he walks rain or shine, even during thunderstorms. Jang Ki Yong’s foray into the entertainment industry began when he got into modeling in 2012. His first modeling gig was for streetwear fashion brand General Idea during Seoul Fashion Week. This gig kickstarted his modeling career and he eventually won the 9th Model Asia Awards in 2014.

Jang Ki Yong also made his acting debut in 2014, making a cameo appearance in the poignant medical romance television drama, “It’s Okay, That’s Love”, without auditioning for the role. This cameo appearance clip became wildly famous and was dubbed by the Korean audience as the "One Second Cameo". In 2017, Jang Ki Yong was nominated for Best New Actor at the 31st KBS Drama Awards. In 2018, he took home several Best New Actor awards, including the MBC Drama Awards as well as the Excellence Award, Actor in a Wednesday-Thursday drama. Other than being talented in acting in dramas and walking on runways, Jang Ki Yong is talented in dancing, rapping, and singing as well.

Jang Ki Yong Movies and TV Shows: 
An accomplished actor, Jang Ki Yong has acted in many Korean dramas. After his famous cameo appearance in “It’s Okay, That’s Love” (2014), he went on to act in “Beautiful Mind” (2016) and “The Liar and His Lover” (2017).
The second turning point in Jang Ki Yong’s acting career came when he acted as a supporting character in “Confession Couple”, also known as “Go Back Couple” (2017). His popularity surged and won him many lead roles from 2019 to 2020, such as “Kill It” (2019), “Search: WWW” (2019), and “Born Again” (2020).
Jang Ki Yong also starred in numerous movies and other dramas, including “Come and Hug Me” (2018), “Touch Your Heart” (2019), “My Roommate is a Gumiho” (2021), and “Now, We Are Breaking Up” (2021).

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Beautiful, trendy, and intelligent, Ha Yeong Eun (Song Hye Kyo) is the epitome of a fashion industry icon. Content in both her work and her life, Yeong Eun is unfazed by others perceiving her pragmatic nature as cold. However, her life takes a turn when she meets Yoon Jae Gook (Jang Ki Young), a popular and charismatic freelance photographer who embodies perfection. Unable to ignore the feelings growing between them, Yeong Eun and Jae Gook fall quickly for each other. Yet, their romance faces challenges, showing that not all love stories have happy endings. A story that explores all the ups and downs of romantic love, this 2021 South Korean romantic series was directed by Lee Gil Bok.

Now, We Are Breaking Up

Are You The One Team

For the past 999 years, the fox-like gumiho has been collecting human energy in a precious bead in an attempt to become human while posing as a professor named Shin Woo Yeo (Jang Ki Yong). But his plans are thrown into jeopardy when student Lee Dam (Hyeri) accidentally swallows his bead – threatening to end his hopes of becoming human… and kill Dam! In desperation, Woo Yeo suggests they live together until they can find a way out of this mess. Will this unconventional arrangement lead them to a solution… or to romance? This 2021 South Korean drama series was based on a webtoon by Na and was directed by Park Joon Hwa and Nam Sung Woo.

My Roommate is a Gumiho

How To Tame A Fox Team

KBS02

Life, death, and second chances take center stage where three people whose intertwined destinies travel through space and time with haunting results. It's the 1980s, and Detective Cha Hyung Bin has devoted his life to criminal justice and his heart to Ha Eun, a bookshop owner suffering from heart disease who keeps her illness a secret. But Hyung Bin isn't the only one pining after Ha Eun: serial killer Ji Chul has also fallen in love with her. Their lives collide with tragic results, but 30 years later, they're reincarnated, and fate brings them together again. The more time passes, the more their new lives become tangled in the devastating web of history.

Born Again

Reborn Love

Bae Ta Mi (Im Soo Jung), a brilliant tech director at search engine platform Unicon, sees her career crash after being betrayed by her mentor, Song Ga Gyeong (Jeon Hye Jin). Desperate to repair her reputation, she joins rival company Baro, although their director Cha Hyeon (Lee Da Hee) often comes across as a contrarian. As she navigates corporate politics and romantic interest from Park Morgan (Jang Ki Yong), a talented video game music composer, Ta Mi must determine if she can balance the thrill of revenge with the complexities of love. This 2019 South Korean drama was directed by Jung Ji Hyun and Kwon Young Il.

Search: WWW

Team Connected

Kim Soo Hyun (Jang Ki Yong), a skilled veterinarian, leads a double life as one of the world's most precise and anonymous assassins. Do Hyun Jin (Nana), a dedicated detective with a hidden compassionate side, investigates a case that brings her into Kim Soo Hyun's dangerous world. As she delves deeper into his mysterious past, she discovers unexpected connections that challenge her initial perceptions. Bound by a shared history, the two must work together to unravel a complex mystery that threatens to expose dark secrets. This is a 2019 South Korean thriller directed by Ahn Ji Sook and Nam Sung Woo.

Kill It

The Killer Team

Oh Yoon Seo (Yoo In Na), a glamorous actress with a tarnished career, is given a chance at redemption with a new lead part. To prepare for it, she must work as a secretary for icy lawyer Kwon Jung Rok (Lee Dong Wook) for several months. As she struggles to adapt to her new role and prove her acting skills, tensions rise between the two – his cold demeanor constantly clashes with her determination. Amidst professional challenges and personal conflicts, Yoon Seo must navigate this tumultuous journey to restore her reputation and find her true self. Will this unexpected opportunity be her path to success or lead to more setbacks? This 2019 Korean drama series was directed by Park Joon Hwa.

Touch Your Heart

Sincerely, Yours Team

Such is life. Sometimes, you are grateful and happy that you are alive, but then you lose the reason to live when you gradually lose things or people that are dear to you. When you face hardship, you start to wonder if living just means you are walking down a path of misery. However, while you are walking down that path alone, there comes a time when you become desperate for someone's hand. That hand may save you from lingering in your own misery and may also spark the desire to live although life is full of hardship. This drama shows that exact moment when two hands reach out to each other and bloom, keeping one another warm and safe. Come and Hug Me wishes to tell the viewers that although life may not be full of miracles, there is still that small hope of its getting better.

Come and Hug Me

Chae Do jin

Park Dong Hoon (Lee Sun Gyun), a middle-aged engineer, struggles with a deeply unhappy life, working under his college junior Do Joon Yeon (Kim Young Min) while supporting his unemployed brothers and mother. His wife's secret affair with Joon Yeon further complicates his miserable existence. When Lee Ji An (IU), a desperate co-worker drowning in debt and caring for her invalid grandmother, discovers Dong Hoon accepting an unexpected bribe, she attempts to exploit his vulnerability to improve her own circumstances. Despite her initial manipulative intentions, an unexpected connection forms between them as they both seek to escape their respective hardships. Caught in a web of personal struggles and corporate tensions, Dong Hoon and Ji An gradually develop a profound understanding that might help them heal their deep emotional wounds. This is a 2018 South Korean drama directed by Kim Won Seok that explores the complexities of human resilience and connection.

My Mister

The Lonely Team

Lee Kwang Il

Would you like to go back in 18 years of time if you could? People have desires to turn back time and fix the most regrettable moments in their lives. This couple is the same. They met in college and got married. Getting married at a young age of 24 made them almost bite each other's heads off. After 18 years of marriage, they realized that their love for one another diminished, and all that was left was disappointment. They wished to return to the age where they first met, so they can avoid making the same mistakes. However, in the midst of all the disappointment and regret, they had forgotten one thing. That is, the choice they regretted so much may have been the best choice they had made in their lives. Will they be able to forget everything that had happen in the past 18 years and live a new life?

Go Back Couple

Macarena Team

'Beautiful Mind' is a medical mystery drama about a genius neurosurgeon, Young Oh, who suffers from the inability to feel emotions and a rookie traffic policewoman, Jin Sung, who tries to find the justice. As soon as Young Oh comes back to Korea after finishing his studies abroad, he starts working at Hyunsung Medical Center and on the very first day at the hospital, he gets to meet Jin Sung who came to save a car accident patient. Soon, a series of bizarre deaths occur at the hospital and Young Oh tries to find the secret of it with the help of Jin Sung and along the way, he learns to love and care for people. Will he be able to find the answer of mysterious accidents? Also, will he learn to love and care for people with humanity? Stay tuned to join their journey.

A Beautiful Mind

The Doctor Frankenstein Team

jTBC

Park Hyun Soo (Jinyoung), a seventeen-year-old boy, meets thirteen-year-old orphan Ji Eun Dong in 1995, awakening his heart before she mysteriously disappears. Ten years later, now a struggling actor named Ji Eun Ho (Baek Sung Hyun), he reunites with Eun Dong (Yoon So Hee), and they fall in love, only for her to vanish again. By 2015, Eun Ho (Joo Jin Mo) is a successful top actor who hires ghostwriter Seo Jung Eun (Kim Sa Rang) to help him write an autobiography about his lifelong search for Eun Dong. As Jung Eun transcribes his stories, she finds them strangely familiar, hinting at a deeper connection. This is a 2015 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Tae Gon.

My Love Eun Dong

Unforgettable Love

A doctor bumps into an award-winning writer in a talk show, which leads them to a heated debate on an upcoming book about goodness. A man who comes from a family with a murder case, Jae Yeol, but doesn't know his guilt from what happened to his childhood. A woman from a debt family faces her anxieties even as a psychiatrist who slowly falls in love with him. Through thick and thin, the couple faces the problems of psychological disorders, with the hopes of having their love prevail amidst their considerable differences in lifestyles and beliefs. They are accompanied by senior psychologist Dong Min, a problematic Soo Gwang, high school student So Nyeo, and his friend Gang Woo.

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