Choi Tae-joon

He was born on July 7, 1991, in Seoul, South Korea. Not much is known about early education and family of this young talent who forayed into acting as a child artist.

Later while co-hosting the variety show ‘Hello Counselor’ he recalled his personal struggles as a child actor in one of its episodes while sympathising with a 12 year old guest on the show who was pushed by her father for acting lessons. Choi said “I didn’t want to act, but my mom would give me rewards and make me act. But by the time I became a middle school student, I didn’t like it”.

In that episode he also shared that “If someone would strike up a conversation with me by asking ‘Aren’t you Magic Kid [role he played on a television show]?’ I would start to fight them.” He would get stressed by such incidents which started affecting his social and personal life and moving on his parents respected his wishes and let him quit acting as a child artist.

He attended the ‘Chung-Ang University’ from where he studied Theater.

He made his debut in acting as child artist at around ten years of age with the South Korean TV series ‘Piano’. The melodrama where he featured as young Lee Kyung-ho aired on SBS for 16 episodes from November 21, 2001 to January 10, 2002 and garnered high ratings during its run.

In 2002 he essayed the role of Min Ho-soo in the KBS2 network South Korean television series ‘Magic Kid Masuri’.

His last acting endeavour as child artist was in the 2003 film ‘Project X’.

After a gap of around seven years, Choi returned to the world of glamour and entertainment as a handsome and charming young man.

His second innings in the field also started with television when he landed up playing Im Jung in the South Korean romance fantasy TV series ‘Padam Padam... The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats’. It aired for 20 episodes in the newly launched cable channel jTBC from December 5, 2011 to February 7, 2012.