Jongho
| Jongho | |
|---|---|
| Born | Choi Jong-ho October 12, 2000 Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea |
| ๐ผ Occupation |
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| ๐ Years active | 2017โpresent |
Choi Jong-ho (Hangul: ์ต์ข ํธ; born October 12, 2000), known by his stage name Jongho, is a South Korean singer and actor.[1] He is the main vocalist of the South Korean boy band Ateez.[2][3] As a solo singer, he is known for his original soundtrack singles for the Korean dramas Reborn Rich (2022), Our Blooming Youth (2023), and Lovely Runner (2024).[4]
He made his acting debut portraying Yoon Hyuk in the television series Imitation (2021).[5]
Career
2017 โ present: Pre-debut and debut with Ateez
In late 2017, Choi competed on the reality survival show Mix Nine alongside future Ateez bandmates Hongjoong, Wooyoung, and Mingi as representatives of their company, KQ Entertainment. Choi was eliminated in Episode 10, ranking 43rd.[6]
In 2018, Choi was revealed to be the main vocalist of Ateez.[7] He debuted with Ateez on October 18, 2018 with the lead singles "Pirate King" and "Treasure."[8][9]
2021 โ present: solo activities
Solo singer
In 2022, Choi released his first solo single for a Korean drama, "Gravity," as part of the original soundtrack for the series Reborn Rich. His second single, "Wind" was released in 2023 for the drama Our Blooming Youth.[4] Choi's third single, "A Day," recorded for Lovely Runner (2024), became his first charting single in South Korea, reaching a peak position of 133 on the Circle Chart in May 2024.[10]
Choi has competed on various Korean music programs, such as King of Mask Singer and Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend. He also appeared on LeeMujin Service as a musical guest in 2022.[11][12][13]
Acting career
In 2021, Choi made his acting debut as Yoon Hyuk in the KBS2 drama Imitation (2021), which also co-starred Ateez bandmates Yunho, Seonghwa, and San.[5] He participated on two singles for the series' OST, "Malo" and "Amen," as a member of his character's fictional band, Shax.[14]
Discography
Soundtrack appearances
| Title | Year | Peak position | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR[10] | ||||
| "A Fairy Tale of Youth" | 2022 | โ | Young Actors' Retreat OST | |
| "Gravity" | Reborn Rich OST | |||
| "Wind" | 2023 | Our Blooming Youth OST | ||
| "A Day" | 2024 | 133 | Lovely Runner OST | |
| "โ" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. | ||||
Filmography
Television series
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Imitation | Yoon Hyuk | Supporting role; 10 episodes | [5][15] |
Television shows
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mix Nine | Contestant | Eliminated in Ep. 10 | [16] |
| 2021 | Kingdom: Legendary War | Contestant | with Ateez | [17] |
| 2022 | King of Mask Singer | Contestant | Episode #367 | [11] |
| 2023-24 | Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend | Contestant | Episodes #606, #662 | [12][13] |
Web series
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | LeeMujin Service | Guest | Episode #24 | [11] |
Personal life
In August 2023, Choi took a hiatus from his activities to undergo surgery and rehabilitation therapy due to severe pain from a meniscus rupture.[18][19]
References
- โ "ATEEZ ์ข ํธ". ํ๋ฅํ์์ค (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). 2021-07-03. Archived from the original on 2024-11-29. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
- โ Morin, Natalie. "ATEEZ Are Finally Seeing Their Hard Work Pay Off". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ "5 Best Moments from ATEEZ's Crowd-Pleasing Toronto Concert on their TOWARDS THE LIGHT : WILL TO POWER Tour | Billboard Canada". ca.billboard.com. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ 4.0 4.1 "๋น๋ณด๋ 1์ ๊ฐ์ยทํ์ ์ฑ 1์ ๋๋ผ๋ง ๋ง๋จ...์์ดํฐ์ฆ ์ข ํธ '์ ์ ํ' OST ์ฐธ์ฌ". ํ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "'์ด๋ฏธํ ์ด์ ' ๋๋ผ๋ง ํ์ , ์ ์ง์ยท์ด์ค์...์ดํธํ ๋ผ์ธ์ ". ํ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ์ (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ "์๋ 2์ฐจ ํ๊ฐ ์์ | ๋ฏน์ค๋์ธ". JTBC (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ Warner, Solly (2021-03-26). "ATEEZ: The Machine Behind The Unstoppable K-Pop Force". Notion. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ Benjamin, Jeff. "Get To Know ATEEZ: The New K-Pop Band Thinking Equal Parts About America And Korea". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ Travis, Emlyn (2019-10-20). "ATEEZ are the future of k-pop". VICE. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ 10.0 10.1 "CIRCLE CHART - ์จํด์ฐจํธ". circlechart.kr. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Choi, Jeong-ah (2024-06-15). "'๋ช ์ฐฝ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ณด' ์์ดํฐ์ฆ ์ข ํธ, ๋ถํ ์ค์ข ์ ํธ ์ถ์ฐ...OST ์ ํฅ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ฆ". ์คํ์ธ ์๋ (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-08-18.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- โ 12.0 12.1 "์์ดํฐ์ฆ ์ข ํธ, ์ค๋(13์ผ) '๋ถํ์ ๋ช ๊ณก' ์ถ๊ฒฉ...๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ ๊ณ ์ ์๊ณ ". ์ฑ๊ธ๋ฆฌ์คํธ (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). 2023-05-13. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ 13.0 13.1 "[๋ถํ์ ๋ช ๊ณก] ์์ง, '๋ ๋ ํ ์ง์๊ตฐ' 26๋ช ์ ์ ์์ ์ค๋นํ ๋ฌด๋...'์ค๋ฅด๋ง๊ธธ'". KBS ์คํ์ฐ์ (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). 2024-06-15. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ ๊ธฐ์, ์กฐ์ฑ๋ฏธ (2021-06-07). "์ธ๊ณ๊ด์ ๋น ์ง ๋ฐฉ์ก...KBS '์ด๋ฏธํ ์ด์ '์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ '๋ํ'๊ณผ ๋ง๋ฌ๋". The PR ๋ํผ์ (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ Imiteisyeon (Comedy, Music, Romance), Jung Ji-so, Lee Jun Young, Park Ji-yeon, Hidden Sequence, KBS Drama Production, Kakao Entertainment, 2021-05-07, retrieved 2024-08-19
- โ "[๋ฏน์ค๋์ธ] ์ค์๊ฐ ํฌํ ์ฐธ์ฌ! ๋น์ ์ ๋น๋๋ ์๋ ์๋ ์๊ฒ ํฌํํด์ฃผ์ธ์!!". JTBC (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ Bell, Crystal (2021-04-02). "Sizing Up Kingdom's Legendary Lineup". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ Yeo, Gladys (2023-08-28). "ATEEZ's Jongho to undergo surgery and take hiatus from boyband". NME. Retrieved 2024-08-18.
- โ "Daum ์นดํ". cafe.daum.net (in ํ๊ตญ์ด). Retrieved 2024-08-18.
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