Jungwoo

Jungwoo Profile

• Birth Name: 김정우 (Kim Zungwoo)
• Stage Name: Jungwoo
• Nationality: South Korean
• Date of Birth: 1998.02.19
• Zodiac Sign: Pisces
• Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
• Height: 180 cm (5’9”)
• Weight: 58 kg (127.8 lbs)
• Blood Type: AB
• Personal Social Media: N/A

Jungwoo Facts & TMI

• Jungwoo was born in Gunpo City, Gyeonggi-do.
• His family consists of mother, father, and an older sister (born 1995).
• He has a ten years old Yorkshire Terrier puppy named Oboki.
• He is a member of NCT, NCT U, and NCT 127.
• His position is lead vocal and lead dancer.
• He officially debuted on March 14, 2018, through his participation in NCT U’s single ‘Boss’.
• He became a new member of NCT 127 on September 17, 2018.
• He signed with SM Entertainment on June 6th, 2014.
• Before being introduced as SM Rookies, he has been active as a backup dancer since the ‘Rookies Show’ era in 2015.
• He was officially introduced as SM Rookies on April 18th, 2017 where he appeared in Yesung’s music video for ‘Spring Falling’.
• In less than a year after being introduced as SM Rookies, Jungwoo joined NCT on January 31st, 2018.
• He temporarily halted promotions with NCT for health reasons for 6 months (August 2019 ~ January 2020).
• He is NCT 127’s official mood maker and gag character.
• He has a lot of aegyo.
• He cries easily.
• He said that joining NCT was a miracle for him.
• He joined SM Entertainment for his dance.
• He has a lot of celebrity lookalikes from SHINee’s Taemin, Victon’s Choi Byungchan to actor Kim Seonho and Kim Donghee.
• Fans think that he resembles Kakaotalk emoticon character Apeach and animation Snoopy.
• He has six-pack abs.
• Although he is a year older than Mark, they treat each other as friends.
• He started dreaming to be a singer after watching a music show when he was still in elementary school, after that he started learning dance in a dance academy.
• When he was in junior high school, Jungwoo started learning hip-hop dance in M Dance Academy in Gimpo after watching the movie ‘Step Up’.
• He is the only member of NCT as well as SM Entertainment who was born in 1998.
• Jungwoo sang South Korea National Anthem ‘The Patriotic Song’ for his audition at SM Entertainment.
• Part of his body that he is most confident in is his nose.
• He passed the SM Weekly Public Audition which has a high competition rate.
• When he first came to the agency, the first trainee he talked to was Mark.
• He didn’t tell his friends at school that he became a trainee in SM Entertainment.
• In his trainee days, he always brought potato chips in his bag to be shared to other trainees.
• He is close to Kun and Lucas, they were nicknamed the ‘Lucky 3 People’, they also lived in the same dorm when they were still rookies.
• His first-ever flight was when he went to Ukraine to shoot a music video.
• His favorite nickname is ‘Pocari-like Refreshing Jungwoo’.
• He is a big fan of soccer, he even joined the school soccer club when he was in the sixth grade of elementary school.
• His favorite soccer club is Manchester City, while his favorite player was Kevin De Bruyne and Neymar.
• He joined the Film Review Club in his high school days.
• Since he was in the Department of Computer Applied Machinery in high school, he has a computer application milling technician certificate.
• He graduated from the same high school as Stray Kids Lee Know.
• He is always chosen as a member who loves to eat the most among NCT 127 members, he can eat up to 3 portions of meals when he is hungry.
• Among his favorite foods are sushi, kimchi dumpling, and jjampong.
• His favorite Gongcha menu is Milk Foam Oolong Tea and his favorite Baskin Robbins flavor is mint-choco and strawberry.
• He is good at cooking, he is especially good at cooking ramyun and kimchi jjigae.
• He has a low tolerance for alcohol, about one or two cups of soju.
• Recently he said that he likes exercising.
• He is neat and can’t bear seeing things get messy.
• A word that he uses often is ‘이제’ (‘ije’ means ‘now’).
• In his early debut days, he was roommates with Jeno. After moving to NCT 127 new dorm he used the same room as Yuta and Taeil. Now he is sharing a room with Jaehyun.
• He is bff with NCT DREAM’s Jaemin.
• His childhood dream was to be a soccer athlete, action movie, and chef.
• His favorite animal is horse.
• His favorite movie is The Incredibles.
• His favorite song to be sung on karaoke is Maroon 5 ‘Sunday Morning’.
• He thinks that the hair colors that suit him the most are blonde and orange.
• The mobile game that he likes to play and is good at is Kart Rider, Jungwoo even participated in an idol e-sport competition playing Kart Rider.
• His shoe size is 260 mm.
• He is an atheist.
• His MBTI personality type is INFJ.
• Among his nicknames are Spring Boy, Zeus, Pocari-like Refreshing Jungwoo, Kim Refreshing, JungPuppy, Little Apeach, Snoopy, Olah, Luffy, Kim-Obok, etc.