Cho Jung-seok has 22 years of acting behind him. The A-List to Playlist star hasn’t always had it easy though, because after his father died, his mother could only rely on Jung-seok’s income.
The Netflix star was left to fend for himself in the early days of acting. He was accepted into a theater school, but after 2000, Jung-seok’s widowed mother had no choice but to turn to her son.
Cho Jung-seok has 22 years experience in acting
Cho Jung-seok has been acting for 22 years. He became well-known in musical theater, acting in a total of 25 musicals during the first nine years of his career, including the show, Organ in My Heart.
It was then in 2011 when he secured his big break on TV. He landed his first television role on cable series What’s Up as an awkward but talented music student – and everything else was a domino effect.
2012 is considered his breakout year, starring in two high-profile projects. In his big screen debut, he played a supporting role in box office hit Architecture 101, and starred in drama series The King 2 Hearts.
He was left to look after mother when his father died
In 2000, Jung-seok’s life changed when his father died. He had just been admitted into the Theater department of Seoul Institute of the Arts on student loan, but his mother became dependent on him.
He was granted an exemption from military service due to family circumstances, and he quit school before graduating so he could start earning money for his family by doing musicals.
The Netflix star made his professional acting debut in The Nutcracker in 2004. From there, Jung-seok became an acting sensation for years, and is now a singer on A-List to Playlist!
Netflix star’s net worth is now millions
Jung-seok’s net worth is $5.5 million, as of January 2024, per Lifestyle Asia. In 2019, newlyweds Jo Jeong-seok and wife Gummy donated 30 million ($22K) won to the National Disaster Relief Association.
Alongside acting and singing, he’s also a model and was selected as the brand ambassador of an online English learning platform in 2016, which went viral on social media.
A viral video was his tuna CF with Son Na-eun, so it makes sense that in 2021, Jo ranked 4th in a CF revenue chart. A year earlier, he volunteered to reduce his acting fee of 100M won to 70M won.
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