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Profile | Who is Ju Ji-hoon, busy star of K-dramas Light Shop, Love Your Enemy and The Trauma Code?

Ju Ji-hoon was a successful model, then actor, before a scandal brought him down. He fought his way back, and today his talent is in demand

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Ju Ji-hoon in a still from Disney+ series Love Your Enemy (2024). Now one of the leading actors in South Korea, he has barely been off our screens in recent months and appears in a Netflix series that drops in late January 2025. Photo: Disney+

Established Korean actor Ju Ji-hoon has had a few ups and downs in his career but at the moment he is very much up and as busy as he has ever been, having appeared in five productions in under a year, including three dramas in the last three months.

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In 2024, he appeared alongside Han Hyo-joo in the Disney sci-fi series Blood Free, before entering the multiplexes with the summer horror-thriller Project Silence.
He capped off the year with the tvN romcom Love Your Enemy opposite Jung Yu-mi and the supernatural drama Light Shop, also for Disney.
Ju is set to kick off 2025 with the medical drama The Trauma Code: Heroes on Duty, which will drop on Netflix next week.

Before debuting as an actor, Ju was a very successful model who garnered attention for his work on campaigns by brands such as Calvin Klein, Reebok and Levi’s.

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He entered the modelling business in 2000 when he was just 18, but it would take a few years for him to find his feet.

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