Jung Hye-sung

In April 2017, MBN News reported that Jung Hye-sung had been dating B1A4 member Gongchan for several months. According to the report, an insider told them that “their relationship is a very hidden secret... No one other than their closet acquaintances are aware”. The stars’ labels have since come out and denied any romantic relationship between them. In the past, Sung had been linked with her ‘We Got Married’ co-star Gong Myung.

Jung Hye-sung was born on April 29, 1991, in Busan, South Korea. As a child, she used to take singing lessons and also participated in the Busan municipal choir.

She was educated at the Eunkwang Girls' High School in Seoul. Later she enrolled at the Sungkyunkwan University from where she graduated with a degree in Arts & Theatre.

Jung Hye-sung got her start in the glamour world as a model. With a modest beginning there, she ventured into the entertainment industry. She debuted in Kwak Kyung-taek's drama ‘Friend, Our Legend’. A remake of Kwak's own 2001 box-office hit film ‘Friend’, the series aired on MBC from June 27 to August 30, 2009, and depicted a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story of four friends. Jung portrayed the character Sae-ri.

In 2011, she modelled at the 13th Tokyo Girls Collection Autumn/Winter event. Two years later, she walked the ramp at the Tokyo Runway Autumn/Winter show.

She returned to television in 2012 in the romantic comedy ‘To The Beautiful You’. The series was based on the Japanese shōjo manga series, ‘Hanazakari no Kimitachi e’ (For You in Full Blossom) and also starred Sulli, Choi Min-ho, and Lee Hyun-woo. Jung played Hong Bo-hee, one of the fans of Kang Tae-joon, a high-jump athlete portrayed by Choi.

She next appeared in the season 2 of the hit crime procedural drama ‘Special Affairs Team TEN’. Cast as Bae Seo-yeon, Jung got the chance to work alongside veteran actor Joo Sang-wook. In this season, the team pursues a serial killer known as “Murder F”.

In ‘Potato Star 2013QR3’, which aired on tvN in 2013, she played Park Seung-hee, a neighbour of the Noh family, the central protagonists of the comedy series. In 2014, she appeared as Lee So-yi in SBS’ ‘Glorious Day’, a family drama about a single mother who is raising her three daughters on her own.

Jung Hye-sung’s first historical series ‘Love in the Moonlight’ (2016) was based on the novel ‘Moonlight Drawn by Clouds’ by Yoon Yi-soo. Set during 19th-century Joseon dynasty, the series depicts the complex relationship between Crown Prince Lee Yeong (Park Bo-gum) and one of his counsellors (Kim Yoo-jung), who is actually a woman in disguise. The show won Popularity Awards for Park and Kim at the 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards. Jung’s portrayal of Princess Myeong-eun earned her much recognition.