Park Jin-young

Jinyoung is honestly one of the most quietly impressive figures to come out of the whole K-pop idol system — the guy didn't just ride the GOT7 wave, he clearly had ambitions that went well beyond the choreography. What gets me about him is how seriously he took the acting side of things; while plenty of idol-turned-actors coast on their fanbase, he kept picking projects that actually challenged him, building a real screen presence over time. And within GOT7 itself, as JJ Project with Jay B, he showed early on that he could hold his own in a duo format, which takes a different kind of confidence. Born in Changwon in 1994, schooled at Kyunggi and Howon University — there's something grounded and deliberate about his trajectory that I genuinely respect.

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Name (English)

Park Jin-young

Name (Japanese)

ジニョン

Reading

じにょん

Born

September 22, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

Changwon, South Korea

Occupation

singer / actor / television actor / dancer / songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

High school

Kyunggi High School

University

Howon University

• Official sitehttps://jinyoung0922.jp
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jinyoung_0922jy/
• Xhttps://x.com/JINYOUNG
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinyoung%20(entertainer%2C%20born%201994)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%20(GOT7)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q492313

Tags

• singer
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.