Lee Jin

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Lee Jin
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Born (1980-03-21) March 21, 1980 (age 42)
Alma mater Kyonggi University
OccupationSinger, actress
Years active1998–present
Agent King Kong by Starship [1]
SpouseUnknown (m. 2016)
Musical career
Genres K-Pop
InstrumentsVocal
Years active1998–2002 • 2019–present
Labels DSP Media
Korean name
Hangul
이진
Hanja
Revised Romanization I Jin
McCune–Reischauer Yi Chin

Lee Jin (born March 21, 1980) is a South Korean singer and actress. She made her entertainment debut as a member of the K-pop girl group Fin.K.L, along with Lee Hyori, Ock Joo-hyun, and Sung Yu-ri. After Fin.K.L came to an unofficial end in 2002, Lee became an actress.

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Career

Lee Jin joined Fin.K.L after her friend Ock Joo-hyun —the first member to be selected for the group—introduced her to the casting director selecting the group's members[ citation needed ]. She sang Eco's "Heng Bok Han Na Reul" and was immediately selected to be in the group.

In 2002, the members from the girl group started solo activities. Lee had long expressed her interest in acting, before her debut she was in MBC's Police People. Subsequently, she starred in the popular sitcom Nonstop .

In 2005, Lee joined the variety program X-Man . On the show, Lee signalled that she had grown into a "lady" from her Fin.K.L teenage days via a change in her hairstyle and clothes. In X-Man, she became known for her stiff dance steps, so she had to create new stiff dance steps for the intro dance segment in each episode. She was also known for being the show's ulzzang ("best/pretty face"), having been chosen by many of the male guests to be their partner in the couple game.

In 2010, Lee also appeared in Heroes where 12 artists competed in games to garner the popular title or will fall into the unpopular group. In this program, she showed her nice and warm-hearted personality.

Filmography

Television dramas

Film

Variety shows

Video game appearances

Lee Jin is a playable character in the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (only in the South Korean PC version).

Personal life

Lee Jin got married in Hawaii on February 20, 2016. [2]

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References

  1. Jang Jin-ri (December 23, 2021). "이진, 배우 활동 임박했나…시크+청순+단아까지 담은 새 프로필 공개" [Jin, is an actor's activity imminent? A new profile featuring chic + innocence + sweet girl revealed] (in Korean). SPOTV News. Retrieved December 23, 2021 via Naver.
  2. "Lee Jin gets married at the same place as Lee Young-ae @ HanCinema :: The Korean Movie and Drama Database".