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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1992-08-07

Place of Birth

Ulsan, South Korea

Jang Ki-yong

Biography

Jang Ki-yong (born August 7, 1992) is a South Korean actor and model. He began his career in the modelling industry and debuted as an actor through a guest appearance on It's Okay, That's Love (2014). He gained popularity with Confession Couple (2017) and was cast in Come and Hug Me (2018), his first-ever lead role. Jang rose to prominence with Search: WWW (2019) and My Roommate Is a Gumiho (2021), and is also known for his roles in My Mister (2018), Born Again (2020) and The Atypical Family (2024). As a model, Jang earned several awards including the "Fashion Model Award" at the 2014 Asia Model Awards and "Best Dressed Model" at the 2015 Korea's Best Dresser Swan Awards. His transition to acting earned him the accolades "Best New Actor (TV)" at the 2019 Baeksang Arts Awards, the "Excellence Award" at the 2018 MBC Drama Awards and more. Jang is also known for his endorsements with brands Estée Lauder, Lancôme, and Nivea Men.

Known for

You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook

You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook

You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook is a Korean pop music program that is both a talk show and live music show. The host of this program is You Hee-yeol, also known as Toy, a one-man project band. This program has aired since April 24, 2009.

Amazing Saturday

Amazing Saturday

A group of hungry celebrities listen to poppin’ tunes, from recent hits to all-time-favorites, to correctly dictate a part of the lyrics. The songs may sound familiar, but the part they must dictate are unclear to the naked ear, as the lyrics are slurred, muffled by strong beats, etc. If they get the lyrics right, they get to share exquisite regional dishes. But if they get them wrong, a professional eater gobbles it up instead.

Salon Drip

Salon Drip

Tea time talk show with Salon owner Jang Do Yeon. A comfortable world of endless aristocratic-like conversations in the realm of wit!

My Mister

My Mister

In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.

Dynamite Kiss

Dynamite Kiss

A passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.

Baeksang Arts Awards

Baeksang Arts Awards

Touch Your Heart

Touch Your Heart

Hoping to make a comeback after a bad scandal, an actress agrees to research a new role by taking a job as a secretary for a prickly attorney.

My Roommate Is a Gumiho

My Roommate Is a Gumiho

To become a human, a 999-year-old Gumiho, Shin Woo-yeo needs to fill his fox bead with human energy before he turns 1,000 years old. One day, a college girl, Lee Dam accidentally swallows Woo-yeo's fox bead.

Search: WWW

Search: WWW

The stories of ambitious career women working at the top of the best portal sites in the IT industry. Paved with wins and losses, their road to success takes a new turn when love comes along the way.

Come and Hug Me

Come and Hug Me

A police detective and a young actress are forever linked by their first love and a devastating tragedy from their past.

The Atypical Family

The Atypical Family

Once blessed with unique superpowers, a family loses their abilities due to modern day problems — until a mysterious woman changes everything.

My Secretary

My Secretary

A new level of celebrity care is about to begin! Going far beyond the duties of an ordinary manager, the Secretary Squad becomes the ultimate personal support system for some of the biggest stars. From managing their official schedules to handling the private matters they may hesitate to share with anyone else, these dedicated secretaries stay close by their side. As they step into the stars’ most personal worlds, they uncover their unfiltered charms, unexpected sides, and deepest thoughts like never before.

Now, We Are Breaking Up

Now, We Are Breaking Up

Will tell stories of emotional love and breakups. Ha Young-eun, a manager of the design team at a fashion label who is a trendy and intelligent realist. Yoon Jae-guk, a wealthy and popular freelancer photographer who also has the brains and looks. Hwang Chi-sook is a director of the fashion label’s design team who attended high school with Ha Young-eun and Seok Do-hoon is a skilled PR company CEO.

Born Again

Born Again

Life, death and second chances take center stage in this story about 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 Cha Hyung Bin isn’t the only one pining after Ha Eun: serial killer Gong 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. Will they manage to escape the past, or be forced to come face to face with it?

Beautiful Mind

Beautiful Mind

A skilled but unempathetic neurosurgeon and a rookie police officer investigate mysterious patient deaths.