Stellar Rise Has Not Turned Jung Ga-eun's Head
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The small face and long limbs make the actress Jung Ga-eun instantly recognizable. She shot to popularity with a leading role in "Fun TV: Roller Coaster", which takes a candid look at the differences between men and women. But Jeong seems to have her feet firmly on the ground. "It hasn't sunk in yet", she admits. "I feel like I'm dreaming. I was lucky to be part of the program and so my name became known to many people, and now I even get to do this interview".
If Jeong is modest, the reason may be that she was not the first choice for the part. The director gave her a chance, saying she was not perfect but had "good basics". But Jeong is a hard worker, and her efforts started to get noticed. She now appears in six programs regularly and a week just passes by in the blink of an eye for her because of her busy schedule.
Her dream was always to become an actress, but due to opposition from her parents, she majored in commerce at university. But from her freshman year, she also modeled part-time, and that gave her the first taste of the entertainment business. "I loved singing and dancing in front of other people from an early age. But being an actress... that was just a dream", she recalls. "Then I came second in the regional contest for Miss Korea in South Gyeongsang Province, and I went to Seoul".
She started modeling for a home shopping channel, and the dream of becoming an actress began to fade. But then opportunity knocked and she got minor roles in a number of shows, experiencing both hope and failure. Yet with every day, she gets a step closer to achieving her dream, she says.
She concludes that it is often just as we are about to give up a dream that it suddenly comes true. And now she is striving even more to take her dream to the next level.
If Jeong is modest, the reason may be that she was not the first choice for the part. The director gave her a chance, saying she was not perfect but had "good basics". But Jeong is a hard worker, and her efforts started to get noticed. She now appears in six programs regularly and a week just passes by in the blink of an eye for her because of her busy schedule.
Her dream was always to become an actress, but due to opposition from her parents, she majored in commerce at university. But from her freshman year, she also modeled part-time, and that gave her the first taste of the entertainment business. "I loved singing and dancing in front of other people from an early age. But being an actress... that was just a dream", she recalls. "Then I came second in the regional contest for Miss Korea in South Gyeongsang Province, and I went to Seoul".
She started modeling for a home shopping channel, and the dream of becoming an actress began to fade. But then opportunity knocked and she got minor roles in a number of shows, experiencing both hope and failure. Yet with every day, she gets a step closer to achieving her dream, she says.
She concludes that it is often just as we are about to give up a dream that it suddenly comes true. And now she is striving even more to take her dream to the next level.
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