Words matter. These are the best HoYeon Jung Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Even though I was based in New York, I would travel all over the world, meeting so many different types of people, and that’s really when my understanding of diversity deepened.
Some say a model’s tenure is relatively short compared with other careers. But I disagree. Models of all age groups are needed, so I think modeling can be a lifelong career.
Working on ‘Squid Game’ was so fun and worth it.
The world doesn’t revolve around English.
Being surrounded by people who truly love and believe in me, that’s happiness.
In 2016, I left Korea to further my modelling career overseas, and I spent a lot of time alone. At the time, the emotion that I felt the most was loneliness.
In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn’t necessarily have to earn the cash prize.
Squid Game’ came at a moment where I was really thinking seriously about my acting career, so I wanted to put this into action finally.
I learned more English because I wanted to actually learn acting.
With time, I believe, a day would come when people have their own definitions of Jung Ho-yeon as an actor.
I relieved my loneliness with movies and books, and I had a strong desire to express what I felt through acting.
My life so far tells me the best way to prepare for the future is prioritizing my current work. If I work hard to complete the current work, it paves the way for my next job.
I don’t have any goals as an actress.
I am 176 centimeters tall, which is considered average for models. If I were taller, I would’ve been active in the high-end fashion industry and if I were shorter, I would be a popular commercial model appearing on magazine and TV shows.
The most powerful lesson I learnt was to have faith in humanity.
When my skin is irritated, I’ll use an aloe mask pack for its soothing effects.
Taking care of yourself inside and outside is what’s key.
When I was acting for the first time in ‘Squid Game,’ I listened to a lot of music. I listened to a lot of music by Sanulrim, Yoo Jae-Ha and Kwang-seok. In particular, I listened to the song ‘Reminiscence’ by Sanulrim a bunch. Listening to that song assisted me emotionally.
I always try to take it one step at a time and I’m not the kind of person that works toward a big goal.
I didn’t know that Americans don’t like to watch movies with subtitles.
Of course, I always hoped Squid Game would do well. But no one could have predicted it would be this big. In just one month, everything changed.
Had I been a contestant in ‘Squid Game,’ I would have died doing the dalgona.
I’ve done photo shoots for fashion brand catalogues and participated in graduation shows for fashion colleges.
As time went on, I felt that Sae-Byeok and I were becoming closer. I found joy in our synergy. The time I spent playing her was worth every second.
I had a hair colorist that I knew, so I went to her and had my hair colored, and fortunately, this helped me achieve a very successful modeling career. But, it’s very difficult to maintain red hair.
I always traveled by myself on the airplane, stayed at hotels by myself. Even though I got some big campaign, I couldn’t celebrate with someone else. I just stayed at the hotel, had a glass of wine and congratulated myself.
Whether good or bad things happen, music allows you to separate yourself from reality a bit.
All that I have and will experience, even in the most minuscule way, will influence my acting.
If I happily smile and play around and laugh ‘ha-ha, hoo-hoo, yay,’ laughing like that, I think the photo looks cooler. If I just stand there like this, like ‘Oh, I’m a model,’ well, I don’t think that’s what it means to be a model at all.
I used to hear people say that models have very short careers, which I don’t really agree with… I think that even when you grow old, you can still continue modeling if you have that willingness.
These days, it’s not enough for models to just do shows and photo shoots anyway, you have to be making videos and finding ways to create other content – that’s what I think.
I couldn’t follow the speed of the growth of the ‘Squid Game’ success because since COVID, I think everything is faster and even online, it happens just so quick. It was hard to follow.
Korea achieved economic development in a short span of time, which is why competition can be more intense here than in other countries.
