Jung Jin-woon

Biography

Jeong Jin-woon (Korean: 정진운), most often credited as Jinwoon, is a South Korean singer and actor. Debuting as a member of the group 2AM in July 2008, he began his acting career in 2012 with the KBS series Dream High 2, playing Jin Yoo-jin.

Biography

Jinwoon was born on May 2, 1991 in Seoul, South Korea.
He graduated high school from BaekAhm High School. He, along with Shinee's Onew and Girls' Generation's Seohyun, had the highest national score for their high school SATs exam. He studied at Daejin University, Dept. of Theatre and Visual Arts, the same class as fellow group member, Seulong. Jinwoon is known to be close to 91-liners, such as Nicole Jung of Kara, Son Dong-woon of Beast, Mir of MBLAQ, Key of Shinee, and Seohyun of Girls' Generation. On October 7, 2013, Jinwoon, along with his manager and staff, were involved in a car accident in which he fractured his right ankle.
His cousin, Park Mi-so, was a member of a South Korean Kpop girl group Tahiti.

2AM

He was originally eliminated from 2AM in the Hot Blood documentary, but Jinwoon eventually returned after one of the chosen members Daehun had to return to the States for personal reasons. Prior to debut, he was in a band called No Comment. He plays guitar, drums, bass guitar, bongo, and piano.

Solo promotions

Jinwoon debuted as a solo artist on July 31, 2011, at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival, where he performed his first solo single "You Walking Toward Me" written and composed by him. The limited single (1,000 copies) went on sale on August 4. Included on the single was an additional song, "Lalala," also composed by Jinwoon. On August 7, the music video for the song "You Walking Toward Me" was released by Big Hit Entertainment.
This was followed by another two-single mini-album, which includes the songs "Now or Never" and "Psycho", also written by Jinwoon. On November 8, Jinwoon enabled his song "Psycho" to be downloaded for free. The album and music video were released on November 17.
On November 25, he held his first solo concert at Hongdae V Hall in Seoul. To help establish his 'rocker roots', he received mentorship from veteran rock band YB, vocalist Yoon Do Hyun, and bassist Park Tae Hee. Big Hit Entertainment revealed on November 15, "Jinwoon successfully completed a joint production with Yoon Do Hyun's Band, who he's admired for a long time. Through his concert, Jinwoon will be deviating from his 2AM image to show a new "rocker" side to his personality."
On February 29, 2012, he released the OST song "We Are The B" for KBS's Dream High 2 together with Kang So-ra, Jinyoung and Kim Ji Soo.
He was then featured in his friend Nicole Jung's solo track "Lost" in Kara Collection, both in Korean and Japanese.

Acting

In 2009, he made an appearance on the television series Family Needed.
He was a rotating host for Mnet's M Countdown along with his bandmate Jo Kwon in 2010.
He was cast for KBS's drama Dream High Season 2 in 2012 as one of the main character Jin Yoojin, who dreams of becoming a rock star that attends Kirin Art School.
Jinwoon was paired with Go Joon-hee in the fourth season of We Got Married in 2013. Jinwoon became a co-host of Music Bank with Park Se-young on April 12, 2013. On October 6, Jinwoon was injured in a car accident. He promoted Park Seo-joon to replace him as co-host.
He was cast as Han Yeo Reum in TVN's drama Marriage Over Dating in 2014.
He played Choi Seung-chan, a former rookie rising baseball star, in the South Korean television series called Madame Antoine: The Love Therapist, which was released in January 2016.