My Take
Ju Ji-hoon is one of those rare actors who just keeps leveling up — and I mean that sincerely, not as a cliché. He burst onto the scene with Princess Hours back in 2006 as the cold-but-secretly-sweet Crown Prince, and honestly half of East Asia was in love with him by episode three. Then came the drug scandal in 2009, which would have ended a lot of careers, but he did his military service, came back humbled, and slowly rebuilt with smarter project choices. Kingdom on Netflix is where international audiences really caught on — his brooding intensity as Crown Prince Lee Chang in a Joseon-era zombie thriller was something nobody expected to work that well. At 187 cm with that bone structure, he makes everything look effortless, but his range has steadily deepened over the years, and I think his best performances are still ahead of him.
Overview
Ju Ji-hoon (Korean: 주지훈; born May 16, 1982) is a South Korean actor and model. He first gained international recognition with his leading role in the television series Princess Hours (2006) and has achieved further prominence with the series Mask (2015), Kingdom (2019–2020), Hyena (2020), Light Shop (2024), and The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call (2025), for which he won Best Actor at the 61st Baeksang Arts Awards.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ju Ji-hoon
- Name (Japanese)
- チュ・ジフン
- Reading
- ちゅ・じふん
- Born
- May 16, 1982 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Dog
- Origin
- Seoul, South Korea
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 187 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / actor / model / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Kyonggi University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.ju-jihoon.com
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_jujihoon/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%95%E3%83%B3
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.