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Eric Mun ( born Mun Jung-hyuk on February 16, 1979 ) is a south korean knocker, songwriter and actor. He is a extremity and leader of the south korean son band Shinhwa. He is besides well known for respective dramas such as Phoenix ( 2004 ), Super Rookie ( 2005 ) and Another Oh Hae-young ( 2016 ). He was with top Class Entertainment from 2007 to December 2013. In 2014, Mun and his director of 10 years, Lee Jong-hyun, set up a new management representation, E & J Entertainment, for his individual activities. Mun is besides the chief executive officer of Shinhwa Company, the home agency of his group, with Lee Min-woo as co-CEO since 2011, and with the remaining members— Kim Dong-wan, Shin Hye-sung, Jun Jin and Andy Lee —as shareholders.

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early on biography [edit ]

Mun was born in Seoul. He is the youngest of the three siblings with two older sisters. He attended Daechi Elementary School located in Seoul. When his family moved to the U.S, he went to John Burroughs Middle School located in Los Angeles. Mun spent his years at Parks Junior High School and Sunny Hills High School, both of which are located in Fullerton, California. In 1996 he returned to Korea and joined SM Entertainment as a trainee and was featured as a rapper on label spouse daughter group S.E.S. ‘ unmarried “ I’m Your Girl “ along with Andy. [ 1 ] On March 24, 1998, with the stage diagnose Eric, he debuted as leader and main rapper of group Shinhwa with their single “ 해결사 ” ( The Solver ) on KM Music Tank. He stated that their debut album, Resolver, did not perform good and the band about disbanded. At the fourth dimension, he thought badly about giving up and returning to the U.S. [ 2 ] In 2005, Mun graduated from Dongguk University with a major in Theater and Film .

career [edit ]

2004 : Acting career beginnings [edit ]

In 2002, Mun and his Shinhwa bandmates had cameo appearance in the movie Emergency 19 Act. In 2003 director Park Sung-soo cast him in a subscribe role for MBC ’ south series Breathless ( I Run ). [ 3 ] In early 2004, he appeared in the drama Phoenix ( Bulsae ) .

2005-2006 : injury [edit ]

In 2005, Mun starred in star role in MBC ‘s Super Rookie with actress Han Ga-in. [ 4 ] It was besides broadcast on Fuji Television. It got firm military rank in Korea during the broadcast. Super Rookie was besides a big hit in Japan after Fuji TV paid ₩2 billion for the broadcast rights in Japan. [ 5 ] It was commercially successful in Japan when it was broadcast there. In December 2005, Mun went to promote Super Rookie in Japan, where he was greeted at the airport by a boastfully crowd. [ 6 ] In early 2006, Mun was injured on the set of MBC play Wolf, resulting in it being pulled off vent after four episodes. Mun was injured whilst shooting a scene, near Namdaemun in Seoul, where he was to save co-star Han Ji-min from being run over by a car. The stunt car driver, misunderstanding the instructions given to him, force at them at 40 km/h and did not stop in front of them as planned. [ 7 ] In August, after the successful scat of Super Rookie, particularly in Japan, [ 5 ] Mun collaborated again with its writers in Invincible Parachute Agent ( besides known as Korea Secret Agency ). [ 8 ]

2008-2010 : military enlistment [edit ]

Shinhwa ‘s tenth Anniversary concert in March 2008 marked the beginning of Shinhwa ‘s foramen as a group to fulfill mandatary military serve. Before his army enlistment, Mun appeared in a period drama for the inaugural time in his acting career with Strongest Chil Woo. [ 9 ] With 30 million wons per episode for Strongest Chil Woo, Mun was the highest pay up singer-turned-actor in the industry at the time. [ 10 ] Mun gave up his U.S. citizenship in 2003, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] to be able to serve his military avail. He was the first Shinhwa penis to enlist for mandatary military service in October 2008. Because of his back injury from the film of Wolf, Mun served non-active duty after undergoing four weeks of basic education. He was discharged on October 30, 2010. [ 13 ]

2011 : Shinhwa Company [edit ]

After being discharged, Mun ‘s first project was supposed to be KBS ‘ natural process drama Poseidon opposite Kim Ok-bin, place for air in July 2011. however they dropped out when production was halted after the Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidental in November 2010. [ 14 ] alternatively, he appeared in another KBS play, Spy Myung-wol with Han Ye-seul in July, playing a korean wave star who is at the center of a kidnap plot by north korean agents. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] On July 1, 2011, Mun became CEO ( with Lee Min-woo as co-CEO ) of Shinhwa Company, a joint venture agency for members Shinhwa to perform as a group. The company manages the group as a solid, whilst members ‘ individual activities are managed by their respective agencies. [ 17 ] As partially of Top Class Entertainment he produced girlfriend group Stellar, who debuted in August 2011 with the song “ Rocket Girl ”. [ 18 ]

2012 : Shinhwa reunion [edit ]

In March 2012, Mun reunited with his Shinhwa bandmates for their rejoinder after four years, under the management of Shinhwa Company. The group released their tenth studio album The Return on March 23, 2012,[19][20] launched the concerts 2012 Shinhwa Grand Tour : The Return throughout Asia[21][22] and their first exclusive variety program Shinhwa Broadcast premiered on March 17, 2012, on cable channel JTBC.[23] Mun ‘s rap is featured on Brown Eyed Girls ‘ Ga-in ‘s digital single “ Nostalgia ”, released on November 30, 2012. [ 24 ]

2013 : Shinhwa tour and leaving top Class Management [edit ]

On February 8, 2013, Shinhwa ’ randomness agency announced the group ’ s 2013 Shinhwa Grand Tour: The Classic to commemorate the group ’ s 15 years since their debut was revealed. The album ‘s name called The Classic. Mun along with Shinhwa won Mwave Global Star Awards [ 25 ] ampere good as many music shows awards [ 26 ] [ 27 ] and a Triple Crown on M Countdown [ 28 ] for their music comeback. December 2013, Mun ‘s abridge with Top Class Entertainment came to an end. He did not re-sign another shrink with Top Class Entertainment and nobelium longer has any play of group Stellar whom he helped the management to produce and promote the master line improving. [ 29 ] [ 30 ]

2014 : restitution to acting [edit ]

In March 2014, Mun successfully concluded the 16th Anniversary Concerts with Shinhwa. After several casting offers from KBS, [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Mun returned to television in August 2014 with the play Discovery of Love, which reunites him with Jung Yu-mi, who was his co-star in MBC ‘s 2007 Que Sera, Sera. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] It was besides announced that he had formed his own management company, E & J Entertainment, with his director of 10 years, Lee Jong-hyun. [ 36 ] Despite its average 7 % Nielsen rate, Mun and the team of Discovery of Romance received praise for their act and Mun won a ‘Triple Crown at KBS 2014 Year End Award ( Excellent Actor, Best Couple, and Netizen Award ). With this win, Mun had won acting awards at all three major Broadcasting Networks. In 2015, Discovery of Love was nominated for the 2015 Rockie Award [ 37 ] in the Melodrama class aboard 30 Vies ( Canada ), EastEnders ( UK ), Grey’s Anatomy ( USA ), My Sunshine ( China ), and Mysterious Summer ( Japan ). In an 2015 Instiz discussion post about viewers ‘ favorite drama characters, Mun ‘s Kang Tae-ha Discovery of Romance stays in clear 10 at # 6. [ 38 ]

2016 : “ Another Oh Hae-young ” and “ Three Meals a Day ” [edit ]

After Shinhwa ‘s 18 Anniversary in March, Mun returned to acting and appeared in the confederacy korean television receiver cable ( tvN ) drama Another Oh Hae-young with Seo Hyun-jin. The play premiered on May 2 with better rate than its harbinger Pied Piper. It broke its project rat of 5 % of on its 6th sequence and becomes tvN ‘s all-time highest rated play for their Monday – Tuesday time-slot with the rat of 9.9 % for its final episode. Another Oh Hae-young team was rewarded a travel to Thailand after the play ended. At tvN10 Awards on October 9, Mun was awarded the title of “ Ro-co King ”. [ 39 ] Seo Hyun-jin was besides crowned “ Ro-co Queen ” for their roles in Another Oh Hae-Young. On September 16, in a preview for the new temper of tvN “ Three Meals a Day “, it showed Mun joined as a frame member for Season 3 of Three Meals A Day – Fishing Village 3 [ 40 ] with Lee Seo-jin and Yoon Kyun-sang. This season of Fishing Village was filmed at Deukryang Island. The season premier was on October 14. It was Mun ‘s first appearance as a mold member of a variety show without Shinhwa. Mun surprised everyone with his bang-up cook skills that earned him the E-Chef deed. The show had capital military rank of above 10 % on average with the highest rate of 11.536 % ( AGB ) 13 % ( TNmS ).

2017 – 2018 : marriage and Shinhwa ‘s twentieth anniversary [edit ]

Shinhwa followed up with a comeback in January 2017 with Unchanging: Touch as the moment contribution of their 13th album. On March 24, Shinhwa released Shinhwa 18th, their first self-generated variety show show through Naver ‘s paid subscription platform for Vapp+. Continue to be Jean Michael Basquiat and ULOS post representative, Eric was besides chosen to be the representative for Bibigo [ 41 ] by CJ E & M, a global korean food mark CJ Cheil Jedang. Later this year, together with Kim Sang-joong and Kim Myung-min Eric was chosen by Netmarble Games for their newly CF, Lineage 2 Revolution, [ 42 ] [ 43 ] an on-line & mobile plot. Netmmarble Game besides released a web drama series featuring Kim Sang-joong, Kim Myung-min, and Eric for their big-scale mobile MMORPG Lineage2 Revolution. In the web drama, Eric played a cub employee who was trying to survive the hierarchy in a corporate environment, meanwhile he was reigning as the King in Lineage2 Revolution game. however, it was revealed that Eric is an actual high ranking musician of “ Lineage2 Revolution ” in actual life. [ 44 ] In February 2017 Eric and actress Na Hye-mi confirmed their relationship after it was reported in the newsworthiness. [ 45 ] The couple got married on July 1, 2017 at Youngnak Church in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea after five years of dating. [ 46 ] In 2018 Eric and Shinhwa had the unharmed class to celebrate the group ‘s twentieth anniversary since debut with diverse activities starting with a remake music television “ All Your dream ”, [ 47 ] followed by a special fan party on March 24 & 25. [ 48 ] The group made a music comeback with a free of a new music video “ Kiss Me Like That “ in August, [ 49 ] followed with a modern miniskirt album “ Heart “. [ 50 ] They besides met their fans through versatile sports fan events vitamin a well as appearances on variety show shows. Shinhwa wrapped up their year-long anniversary celebration with a 2-day concert at Olympic Gymnastics Arena ( KSPO Dome ) on October 6 and 7, [ 51 ] followed by a concert at Taipei Arena on October 13 [ 52 ] and Hong Kong Asia World Expo Hall on November 24. [ 53 ]

2019 – 2020 : New management, solo activities and return key to acting [edit ]

On January 1, 2019, it was announced that Eric has joined his bandmate Andy at TOP Media. [ 54 ] To everyone ‘s surprise, Eric creates his own Youtube channel aguTV to share a versatile contents, from cooking, outings to how he failed to get a ticket for his own sports fan meet. [ 55 ] The following calendar month, on February 16, he held a birthday fan meet “ 2019 ERIC’s Moonday “ at Kwanglim Art Center, BBCH Hall. [ 56 ] His first broadcast activity for 2019 was a hurl member for temper 3 of tvN ‘s variety show read “ Will The Locals Eat It? “ in America [ 57 ] ( besides known as 4 Wheeled Restaurant ). The testify premiered on April 18. Eric and Shinhwa held their twenty-first anniversary concert, ‘Chapter 4 ‘ at KSPO Dome on April 20 and 21, 2019. On May 22, Mun was cast for MBC ‘s modern variety picture, “ The Barber of Seville “. [ 58 ] The filming took home in Seville, Spain and circulate every Thursday from July 11 – Sep.12th. Eric was besides expected to make a semen back to drama this year. It was reported that Eric and Go Joon-hee are in spill the beans to join KBS ‘s fantasy rom-com drama “ Perfume “ [ 59 ] but he declined the offer. On Nov.05th, Eric was confirmed as lead actor for Channel A ‘s play, “ Yoobyeolna! Chef Moon “ [ 60 ] with Go Won-hee as spark advance actress. The play is expected to be broadcast in March 2020. On April 1, 2020, it was reported that Eric and Yoo In-na are reviewing offers to star in MBC ‘s rom-com drama ‘The Spy Who Loved Me ‘. [ 61 ] About 2 months late, on June 22, Eric was confirmed as lead actor for MBC ‘s rom-com play ‘The Spy Who Loved Me ‘ together with Yoo In-na and Lim Ju-hwan. The play is scheduled to premiere erstwhile in October 2020 .

personal biography [edit ]

In 2014, it was beginning reported that Eric had been dating actress and model Na Hye-mi [ 62 ] but did not confirm their relationship. It was not until February 2017 when they publicly confirmed it through their respective agencies. [ 63 ] After five years of date, Mun and Na got married on July 1, 2017 in a individual church service ceremony with family and friends at Youngnak Presbyterian Church in Jung-gu, Seoul. [ 64 ] [ 46 ]