Kim Jae Joong

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About Kim Jae Joong

Kim Jae Joong is a singer, songwriter, and actor who is enormously popular in Japan and his native South Korea. ∙ Joong got his big break at age 17, when the South Korean agency S.M. Entertainment added the aspiring singer to their new boy band TVXQ! ∙ TVXQ!’s MIROTIC – The 4th Album topped the South Korean charts in 2008 and won the country’s Golden Disc Award for Album of the Year. ∙ In 2009, Joong and two other members of TVXQ! formed the pop group JYJ, which had three consecutive No. 1 albums in South Korea, beginning with 2010’s The Beginning. ∙ He scored his first major acting job in the 2009 South Korean TV film Heaven’s Postman, which led to several award-winning roles in South Korean and Japanese productions. ∙ Joong’s first solo release, the rock-oriented 2013 EP Mine, topped the South Korean albums chart while reaching the Top 10 in Japan. ∙ Love Covers, released in 2019, was his third consecutive chart-topping album in Japan and was named one of the three best Asian albums of the year by the Japan Gold Disc Awards.

HOMETOWN
South Korea
BORN
January 26, 1986
GENRE
J-Pop
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