Jo In-sung would like to get married. Soon. And yet, despite being one of the most handsome men in Korea, love seems hard to come by for this 43-year-old A-lister. He worries that his status may be too burdensome for the women he dates.
OF COURSE, we volunteer as tributes.
Photo from PARKLAND/HanCinema
Birthday: July 28, 1981
Instagram: @zoinsung_official
Tall, lean, impossibly handsome, and with a smile that can knock your socks off, Jo In-sung has been one of Hallyu’s most in-demand leading men for nearly 20 years. He has starred in some of the most popular dramas and movies of the 2000s: The Classic (2003), Memories of Bali (2004), Spring Day (2005), and A Frozen Flower (2008) — a film that showcased the amount of risk he’s willing to take in his craft.
His second decade as an actor only solidified his star status further, with the dramas That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013) and It’s Okay, That’s Love (2014) becoming huge, enduring hits across Asia. His heartbreaking performance as a novelist with undiagnosed schizophrenia in the latter earned him the Daesang (Grand Prize) at the APAN Star Awards.
Jo In-sung has spent the past few years building his film portfolio. He starred alongside Korean movie star Jung Woo-sung, who inspired him to become an actor when he was in middle school, in the political crime movie The King (2017) and played a Goryeo-era general in the historical action epic The Great Battle (2018). Both were critical and box office hits. His 2021 film, Escape from Mogadishu, based on the true story of Korean embassy officials caught in the Somalian Civil War in 1990, was South Korea’s second highest-grossing film of that year. He starred in the 1970’s-set action movie Smugglers with Kim Hye-soo and Yum Jung-ah.
Drama fans were over the moon when this Premium Oppa™ returned to the small screen via the fantasy drama Moving with Han Hyo-joo on Disney+ last year.
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