He was born on March 29, 1995, in Seoul. After sometime his parents moved to Jeju Island when he was five years old.[2] When turned 11 his parents moved to Russia in Moscow, he attended school there and learned to speak Russian and English.[3] There he went to British International School, he studied art.[4] After sometime he decided to learn acting.[5] He made his acting debut in 2017 in stage play Twenty.[6] The same year he appeared in drama You Are Too Much. In 2018 he appeared in Love Alert. The next year he appeared in drama I Started Following Romance.[7] The following year he appeared in several dramas Big Picture House, Kingmaker: The Change of Destiny, XX and Cheat on Me If You Can.[8] He also appeared in movie Trace.
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