Jang Keun-suk

Jang Keun-suk is one of the clearest examples I know of how a single role can rewrite a career's geography. Born in Seoul on 4 August 1987, he had already been working steadily when "You're Beautiful" landed in 2009, and after that he was not simply a Korean actor with overseas fans, he was a fixture of the Japanese market in a way few of his peers managed. He toured there, released music there, and filled arenas there. What interests me is that he never treated acting and music as separate careers with separate audiences; he ran them as one continuous performance, complete with a self-applied title, "Asia Prince," that should be insufferable and somehow is not. He commits to it hard enough that it reads as showmanship rather than vanity. The filmography backs the persona up: "Beethoven Virus," "Marry Me, Mary!", "Love Rain," "Bel Ami," "The Royal Gambler," "Switch." That is a working actor's list, not a heartthrob's highlight reel, and the difference is why he is still here.

Name (English)

Jang Keun-suk

Name (Japanese)

チャン・グンソク

Reading

ちゃん・ぐんそく

Born

August 4, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

182 cm

Occupation

actor / singer / model / film actor / film director

University

Nelson College

• Official sitehttps://www.princejks.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_asia_prince_jks/
• Xhttps://x.com/asiaprince_jks
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang%20Keun-suk
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32049

Tags

• actor
• singer
• model

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.