Yoo Jae-suk

Yoo Jae-suk is genuinely one of those rare entertainers where you can't quite explain why he's so magnetic — you just feel it. He's been the face of Korean variety television for what feels like forever, hosting juggernauts like Infinite Challenge and Running Man, yet he never comes across as the guy who's desperately grabbing for laughs. That's the thing about him: he's a comedian who earns it, reading the room, setting up his castmates, and letting the funny land naturally rather than forcing it. Trained at Seoul Institute of the Arts, he clearly has the craft to back the charisma. The fact that he's still the center of gravity in Korean entertainment well into his fifties says everything — audiences don't hand that kind of loyalty out twice.

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Name (English)

Yoo Jae-suk

Name (Japanese)

ユ・ジェソク

Reading

ゆ・じぇそく

Born

August 14, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

television presenter / actor / film actor / comedian / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

• Official sitehttps://www.antenna.co.kr/YuJaeSeok
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoo%20Jae-suk
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%BD%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485905

Tags

• television presenter
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 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.