TOPIC: Who is Squid Game's Jung Ho-Yeon?

According to the SocialBlade data analytics website, Ho-Yeon, who plays North Korean defector
turned-pocket Kang Sae-byeok, had over 400 000 followers on Instagram shortly prior to the
Netflix miniseries on September 17. Within a week, SocialBlade data showed that the 27-year-
old rose to 3 million followers. But come on, let’s discuss her majesty in detail in this video!
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WHO IS JUNG HO-YEON?

Jung Ho-Yeon is a model and actress from South Korea. Vogue called her "the next best model
in Korea" and she showed her name in the 4th season of the program (where she was placed
second). She was classified as one of Models.com's "Top 50" fashion models.

Jung is recognized for her early, "fiery" demeanor, flame-red hair. At the age of 16, she began
modelling. She modelled without an agent at Seoul Fashion Week and founded herself on
Korea's Next Top Model for public exposure before signing up to ESteem Models. She was
featured in magazines such as Vogue Girl Korea, Nylon Korea, and ELLE Wedding, following
Korea's Next Top Model. In addition, Shin Hyun-ji and Hwang Hyun-joo for First Look Korea
magazine and a campaign for Lucky Chouette included them.

SQUID GAME AND JUNG’s ROLE IN IT

In Squid Game, Jung plays North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok called 067 who is playing
games to get enough money to bring her family together. Audiences soon dropped into the tough
pickpocket with a grumpy, yet tender side hidden. The performer behind the Instagram persona
rose so much from approximately 400,000 million to 13,000 million per NME. "Squid Game"
depicts a group of people imprisoned in debt and luck who take part in a series of fatal games to
win the big cash prize. The hashtag #SquidGame at TikTok has taken more than 26 billion
views, as fans post memoranda linked to the show and honor cast members, including Ho-Yeon.
The show is on course to be the most observed original of all time in Netflix. "When I play that
character who puts her family first and sees her life have a lot of purpose, I would like to have a
greater sense of trust and support," Jung told The Times of her role in the show.

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HER AND HER VOGUE JOURNEY

Only a fun tidbit, Vogue once called it Next Top Model of Korea. The journal labelled the native
of Seoul as a blend of Hanne Gaby Odiele and Cara Delevingne models in 2015. "Take Hanne
Gaby Odiele for streetstyle, add Cara Delevingne's goofy antiques and you have a redheaded
stunner who – we call him now – is the next girl to make a splash in the states," writes Monica
for Vogue at the time. "You'll find that one of the top modelling girls of Seoul is a redheaded
stunner." This title is fitting only, given that she took part in the next model in Korea back in
2013. Since the age of 27 the Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Prabal Gurung have been walking the
runways for more.

ACTING ROLES AND SQUID GAME

The first acting role of Squid Game is her. She told W Korea, via NME: "I moved to my present
acting agency in January, and then I was thinking that they'd train me in some degree before
putting me to work. "A group chat, with our CEO, was nevertheless made by February and he
handed me the Squid Game screenplay, urged me to make a movie, and sent me a video audition.
At that moment, I was at the New York Fashion Week!"

She got the part, of course. "The first thing I asked when my CEO told me I was casted, was
'Why?'" Jung said that. Jung said. "When I heard the news, I was so glad, yet it was like a bigger
terror took hold of me. 'Thanks a lot, but I can do it?' " [I was like that.

Kang Sae-byeok is her connection. "I think I've been able, above all, to embrace Sae-byeok [the
character] without any major difficulty since I look like her," she remarked in the same
interview. "I left Korea in 2016 to advance my profession in modelling abroad and spent a lot of
time alone. The emotion I had at the time was 'solitude.’. It's not all that dissimilar than the sense
of alone in the attempt to live and live."

HER SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

She is presently South Korean actress Instagram's most successful female actor. As previously
said, Jung's next has surged millions since Instagram dropped Squid Game. Officially, with 13
million supporters and counters, the number of followers is 12 million and 12.9 million,
respectively, above Song Hye-kyo (Descendants of the Sun) and Lee Sung-kyung (Weightlifting
Fairy).

According to SocialBlade, Jung has been gaining over a million new supporters in most days
since September 17 and will surpass Lee Min-ho — 26 million supporters and touted by Vogue
to be the most popular male Korean actor on the site in June — in late October, if it keeps up.

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