Just a few months ago, SquidGame star HoYeon Jung was largely known for walking in Fashion Week's top shows. Now, she's VogueMagazine’s February cover star. Here, step inside the model-turned-actor's climb to stardom:
When Hoyeon Jung landed in America for the first time in nearly a year, she noticed that something in the air had changed. A kind of charge seemed to hover around the South Korean model turned actor, once known for her incandescent red hair, now famed for her role as a brooding North Korean defector in the Netflix hitShe stepped briskly through the LAX terminal to the immigration desk where a delighted officer promptly asked for her autograph.
It’s evening, about 7 p.m., and she’s wearing wide vintage jeans from Copenhagen and a long leather blazer, also secondhand from a flea market in Seoul, with black sneakers and a Louis Vuitton backpack. Her hair is tied in an unfussy half-knot, still tousled from the flight. Tomorrow she will present at the CFDA Fashion Awards; tonight we’re due uptown for dinner at Atoboy, the dernier cri of Korean American cooking, where we’ll be joined by her dear friend and stylist Aeri Yun.
As a girl, she “didn’t have any interest in modeling or fashion,” she confesses. “But I was tall”—she’s five foot nine—“and people on the street would tell me to be a model, so I thought, Why not try it? I’ve always been ambitious. I liked the challenge and kept wanting to go to the next level.” Still living at home, she took herself to castings before signing with a leading Seoul agency and landing onat age 19—a program that launched the country’s most-famous faces.
But the city suited her. It was here that she began to find peace with the imperfections that had been picked apart by the public. “Growing up, I thought I had so many shortcomings, and I always thought that I had to fix them,” she says. “New York was the first place that told me that they were okay. I remember being so moved.”
Atoboy is filled with a young crowd, half Korean and half not, who have made reservations weeks in advance, and their post-work chatter creates a pleasant din. The co-owner, Ellia Park, a 30-something entrepreneur who came from Korea and opened Atoboy in 2016 with her chef-husband, Junghyun Park, escorts us to the back and leaves three empty tables to form a barricade.
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