Jung Yoon-seok (born April 30, 2003) is a South Korean actor. He won Best Young Actor award in

2009 SBS Drama Awards The 2009 SBS Drama Awards () is a ceremony honoring the best performances in television on the SBS network for the year 2009. It was held on December 31, 2009, at the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Seoul, and was hosted by actor Jang Keun-suk, ...

for his role in '' Temptation of Wife''.

Early life and education

Born to Korean-Chinese parents, Jung began his acting career in 2007 at age of four. Jung was born to parents of Korean-Chinese origin in Heilongjiang, China, his parents were naturalized as Korean citizens, and he was born and raised in

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. In 2008, the production crew of ' mentioned that Jung's parents acquired Korean citizenship. Unlike Jung, his older sister, whose name is unknown, was born and raised in China and has a Chinese citizenship. When she was 24 years old and living in China, she appeared in a ''Screening Humanity'' episode when Jung was 5 years old. From his family, Jung is the youngest son who is 19 years younger than her. Jung learned to speak a small amount of Chinese from his parents due to the fact that his mother, who had previously appeared in ''Screening Humanity'', where she mentioned that she was teaching him one word a day because she was worried that his older sister in China would not be able to communicate with Jung, who was living in Korea at the time. In 2019, Jung majored in acting in

School of Performing Arts Seoul School of Performing Arts Seoul ( ko, 서울공연예술고등학교), colloquially known as (SOPA) in South Korea, is an arts high school in Gung-dong, Guro District, Seoul. History SOPA was founded on March 6, 1966 as Jeonghui High School ...

and graduated in 2022.

Filmography

Television series

Web series

Film

Television shows

Theater

Musical

Play

Ambassadorship

In 2013, Jung was appointed as the ambassador for the 13th Korea Youth Creation Film Festival (). From 2016 to 2018, he and Kim Ji-young were appointed as the ambassadors for Seoul Guro Kids International Film Festival (now Seoul International Children's Film Festival (SICFF)) 3 years in a row.Source: * * *

Awards and nominations

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jung, Yoon-seok 2003 births Living people South Korean male television actors South Korean male film actors South Korean male child actors South Korean people of Chinese descent Male actors from Seoul 21st-century South Korean male actors School of Performing Arts Seoul alumni