Lee Ji-hoon

Lee Ji-hoon is one of those quietly consistent South Korean entertainers who's been doing his thing since the late 1990s without ever chasing the headline-grabbing spotlight. Born in Seoul in 1979 and trained at Dongguk University, he carved out a career that straddles singing and acting — a combination that was pretty common in the Korean entertainment scene of his generation but that he's managed to sustain across decades. He doesn't dominate the conversation the way the idol groups do, but there's something genuinely respectable about an artist who keeps working across both music and drama without a major agency machine propping him up. For fans who like their Korean stars with a bit more understated grit, he's worth a closer look.

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Name (English)

Lee Ji-hoon

Name (Japanese)

イ・ジフン

Reading

い・じふん

Born

March 27, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

singer / film actor / actor / television actor

University

Dongguk University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Ji-hoon%20(entertainer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%95%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486084

Tags

• singer
• film actor
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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