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).

Jang Ki Yong

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As the design department’s team leader of one of the nation’s top fashion companies, Ha Young Eun (Song Hye Kyo) has made quite a name for herself in the fashion industry. Beautiful, trendy, and intelligent, Young Eun loves her work and she’s good at what she does. But when it comes to relationships, things are a bit different. Pragmatic to a fault, Young Eun often comes across as cold-hearted, as she prioritizes stability over all else.

Content in both her work and her life, Young Eun has never really been bothered by the fact that others might see her as cold. But when she meets Yoon Jae Kook (Jang Ki Young), a popular freelance fashion photographer, things take an unexpected turn. The living definition of the perfect man, Jae Kook is wealthy, handsome, and intelligent, but that’s not what catches Young Eun’s attention. There’s something more to Jae Kook that Young Eun just can’t seem to ignore.
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As if in a dream, Young Eun and Jae Kook find themselves falling for each other. But not all fairy tales have a happy ending. Is theirs a story that will end in heartbreak or will they manage to find their own version of happily ever after, after all?
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A story that explores all the ups and downs of romantic love, “Now We Are Breaking Up” is a 2021 romantic drama directed by Lee Gil Bok.

Now, We Are Breaking Up

Are You The One Team

After wandering the earth for the past 999 years, Shin Woo Yeo (Jang Ki Yong) now stands on the brink of seeing his greatest dream come true. Having spent the last thousand years collecting human energy in his precious bead, this thousand year old gumiho is finally ready to shed his fox form and become fully human. Or at least he was until one unsuspecting student by the name of Lee Dam (Hyeri), ruined all his plans.

Working as a college professor, Woo Yeo never imagined that a single university student would be capable of waylaying all of his plans for becoming human. But when a late-night encounter with Lee Dam and one of her drunken friends causes him to drop his precious bead, that’s exactly what happens. While trying to help her inebriated friend home, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo Yeo’s fox bead. Knowing full well that swallowing a fox bead will ultimately kill a human, Woo Yeo has no choice but to confront Lee Dam with the truth. With no real idea how to solve their current predicament, Woo Yeo suggests they live together, until they can figure out a solution.&nbsp;

Unable to find a way out of this predicament on her own, Lee Dam agrees to Woo Yeo’s unusual request. But will living together really help them find the answer they seek, or will it just bring with it an entirely new set of problems?&nbsp;

Based on the webtoon of the same name by Na, “My Roommate is a Gumiho” is a 2021 romantic comedy drama 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

Thirtysomething tech whiz Bae Ta Mi (Im Soo Jung) is flying high as the director of a search engine platform named Unicon.
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Bae Ta Mi believes she is singularly focused on making Unicon the country’s biggest IT success story… but her world is turned upside down when after a court hearing, she unexpectedly finds herself without a job thanks largely to the scheming of her former mentor Song Ga Kyung (Jeon Hye Jin).

In her distraught state, she then meets Park Mo Geon (Jang Ki Yong), a maker of music for video games – a man who clearly has feelings for her.

Bae Ta Mi decides to take revenge on Song Ga Kyung by joining Unicon’s biggest rival, Baro, where she must collaborate with the ever-contrary director Cha Hyun (Lee Da Hee) – who also happens to be an expert in judo.

Will revenge be sweet for Bae Ta Mi? And can she successfully balance a budding romance with her busy working life?

“Search: WWW” is a 2019 South Korean drama directed by Jung Ji Hyun and Kwon Young Il.

Search: WWW

Team Connected

An ardent animal lover and skilled veterinarian, no one would suspect Kim Soo Hyun (Jang Ki Yong) is actually one of the world’s deadliest men. Using his cover as a champion of the small and furry to hide his true identity, Kim Soo Hyun has made a name for himself amongst the lowest of the low as the epitome of precision, skill, and above all else, anonymity. A mystery in and of himself, he is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow, a lethal whisper, hired by individuals and organizations the world over, to take care of problems only he is qualified to handle. 

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Do Hyun Jin (Nana) is the hard-working detective whose icy exterior hides a sympathetic soul. Using an effective combination of skill and instinct, Do Hyun Jin finds herself working a case that leads her straight to Kim Soo Hyun. Believing him to be the serial killer she’s after, Do Hyun Jin digs deeper into Kim Soo Hyun’s identity and his past but what she finds shakes her to her very core. Now tied by fate, Do Hyun Jin and Kim Soo Hyun set out to unravel the mystery that bound them years ago.

"Kill It" is a 2019 drama directed by Ahn Ji Sook and Nam Sung Woo.

Kill It

The Killer Team

Oh Yoon Seo (Yoo In Na), a famous actress, gets caught in a scandal with a son of a rich family. With her career declining quickly, she looks for one last hope to get back on the screen and lands a role playing a secretary in a drama written by a famous screenwriter. In order to get into character, Yoon Seo starts working as a secretary for 6 months under Kwon Jung Rok (Lee Dong Wook), a lawyer who is notorious for being a perfectionist.

"Touch Your Heart" is a 2019 drama directed by Park Joon Hwa.

Touch Your Heart

Sincerely, Yours Team

Yoon Na Moo's father is a serial killer who murdered his girlfriend's parents. Years later, Na Moo becomes a police officer to help make up for his father's crimes and is reunited with his first love. Can they find love again?

Come and Hug Me

Chae Do jin

It’s not easy, admitting to yourself that your life is not a happy one, but that’s exactly what Park Dong Hoon (Lee Sun Gyun) has been forced to do. A middle-aged engineer working at a company where his college junior, Do Joon Yeon (Kim Young Min), is his boss, Dong Hoon is anything but happy. But that’s the least of his problems. With his two unemployed brothers living at him with his mother, he has to do what he can to help his struggling family, while trying to hold his own life together. Meanwhile, his wife and Joon Yeon are secretly having an affair.

As if life couldn’t get any more complicated or miserable, Dong Hoon soon finds himself entangled in a messy situation when one of his co-workers, Lee Ji An (IU) sees him accepting an unexpected bribe at work. Living with an invalid grandmother and drowning in debt, Ji An is drowning in her own miserable life so when the opportunity presents itself, she does what she can to try to make things better. Exploiting Dong Hoon in his moment of weakness, Ji An does what she can to make her life better but things don’t go the way she planned.

Caught up in a tangled web of personal struggles and internal corporate rivalry, Dong Hoon and Ji An find themselves fighting for the chance to make life better as they struggle to free themselves from their current misery and find a way to heal the wounds they each carry.

An emotional tale full of hurt, hope, and healing, “My Mister” is a 2018 drama directed by Kim Won Seok.

My Mister

The Lonely Team

Lee Kwang Il

Two people in an unhappy marriage wake up in the past as their 20-year-old college selves. Will they choose to fall in love again, or will they choose to go their separate ways? Enjoy this fun college K-Drama about first loves and second chances.

Go Back Couple

Macarena Team

A songwriting prodigy, Kang Han Gyeol (Lee Hyun Woo) has known nothing but success since he first entered the music business. The genius responsible for the success of the hit band, Crude Play, Han Gyeol has the world at his feet. But like all things, success comes at a price. Eventually overwhelmed by the pressures of his life, Han Gyeol steps out of the spotlight and into a simpler life. Living under a hidden identity, Han Gyeol tries to leave his old life behind but the haunting voice of a talented high school student draws him draws him back.

Young and unassuming, Yoon So Rim (Joy) would be just another average high school girl, if not for the incredible voice she possesses. Enchanted by this voice, Han Gyeol finds he can’t get So Rim out of his head. Against his better judgement, Han Gyeol finds himself coming back to So Rim, time and time again.

What starts out as an innocent acquaintance eventually turns to love but the two have a difficult road ahead as the path to happiness is riddled with obstacles. Will the two lovers be able to overcome the trials ahead or will Han Gyeol’s endless lies ultimately be their undoing?

A story of music, love, and youthful innocence, “The Liar and His Lover” is a 2017 romance drama directed by Kim Jin Min.

The Liar and His Lover

The Sing With Me Team

A medical mystery where a brilliant but antisocial neurosurgeon who cannot feel empathy gets involved in a series of mysterious deaths at his prestigious hospital and meets a policewoman who tries to find justice.

A Beautiful Mind

The Doctor Frankenstein Team

jTBC

A major star has achieved the success he has always wanted and wants to fill the emptiness he has had in his heart for the past 20 years. 

In 1995, Park Hyun Soo (Jinyoung [GOT7]) is an energetic 17-year-old boy when he meets 13-year-old Ji Eun Dong (Lee Ja In), an orphan who still has a positive outlook on life. Hyun Soo’s heart is awakened by Eun Dong but she suddenly disappears before he could really get to know her. 

In 2005, Hyun Soo now goes by the stage name Ji Eun Ho (Baek Sung Hyun) and aspires to become an actor. When he bumps into Eun Dong (Yoon So Hee) again after 10 years, the two fall deeply in love. But again without warning, Eun Dong disappears without a trace. 

In 2015, Eun Ho (Joo Jin Mo) is now a top actor who has the fame and wealth he has always wanted. But what he doesn’t have is the love of his life to share his success with. So Eun Ho decides to write an autobiography that details his love for Eun Dong over the past 20 years in the hopes of locating her. 

He hires a ghostwriter, Seo Jung Eun (Kim Sa Rang), to help him write the book. After he dictates his stories of Eun Dong, he sends them to Jung Eun to transcribe and incorporate into his book. But why do these stories sound vaguely familiar to Jung Eun? 

“My Love Eun Dong” is a 2015 South Korean drama series directed by Lee Tae Gon.

My Love Eun Dong

Unforgettable Love

JTBC

Bullying, abortion, suicide and the pressures of private education. The Private Investigators Club at the prestigious Seonam Girls’ High School tackle all of these tough challenges of their fellow classmates and try to solve the problems. The five members of the club – An Chae Yool (Jin Ji Hee), Lee Ye Hee (Hyeri), Yoon Mi Do (Kang Min Ah), Kim Ha Jae (Lee Min Ji) and Choi Sung Yoon (Stephanie Lee) – are tough, fearless and shrewd. But will some cases go beyond their capabilities? What will their teacher Ha Yeon Joon (Kim Min Jun) and principal (Hwang Seok Yeon) think of the girls’ amateur sleuthing activities? “Seonam Girls’ High School Investigators” is a 2014 South Korean drama series directed by Yeo Woon Hyeok. It is based on the 2013 novel “Seonamyeogo Tamjungdan: Banggwa Hooui Miseuteori” by Park Ha Ik.

Seonam Girls' High School Investigators

The Sherlock Team

EXO's D.O. co-stars in this touching K-Drama with an obsessively compelling story. When a cynical writer and a compassionate psychiatrist fall in love despite their differences, they soon discover that they both have hidden scars that threaten their happiness. Can they heal each other and overcome their fears?

It's Okay, That's Love

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