Arpita Sarkar
Ju Ji-hoon is one of the most popular K-drama actors. Not many know that some of his K-dramas were rejected by several popular actors. Take a look!
Song Joong-ki turned down the role of Crown Prince Lee Chang in the Netflix series Kingdom. Ju Ji-hoon was cast in the role instead.
Lee Min-ho rejected the role of Ju Ji-hoon's character in the Netflix legal drama Hyena. The show also stars Kim Hye-soo.
Ju Ji-hoon's first drama was Handspan. He started his career as a model in 2003, appearing in several commercial brands.
Ju Ji-hoon plays a mysterious light shop owner in the 2024 South Korean series Light Shop. The series is based on a webtoon of the same name by Kang Full.
It tells the story of a group of strangers, each grappling with a traumatic past event, who are mysteriously drawn to a peculiar light shop located in a dark alleyway.
In the Netflix medical drama The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Ju Ji-hoon plays Baek Kang-hyuk, a genius battlefield surgeon who leads a struggling trauma team.
According to recent reports, The Trauma Code has indeed surpassed Squid Game in terms of viewership on Netflix.