Go Hyun-jung
| Go Hyun-jung | |
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| Born |
March 2, 1971 Hwasun, South Jeolla Province, South Korea |
| Other names | Ko Hyun-jung |
| Education | Dongguk University - Performing Arts |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Agent | IOK Company |
| Spouse(s) | Chung Yong-jin (1995–2003; divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 고현정 |
| Hanja | 高賢廷 |
| Revised Romanization | Go Hyeon-jeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ko Hyŏn-jŏng |
Go Hyun-jung (Hangul: 고현정; born March 2, 1971) is a South Korean actress. She debuted in the entertainment scene as a Miss Korea runner-up in 1989 and went on to star in Sandglass, one of the highest-rated and critically acclaimed dramas in Korean television history. She retired after marrying chaebol Chung Yong-jin in 1995, then returned to acting after their divorce in 2003. Go has since regained her top star status in Korea, becoming the highest paid actress on TV after the success of her series Queen Seondeok and Daemul.
Go Hyun-jung graduated from Dongguk University with a degree in Performing Arts. She was a runner-up in the Miss Korea pageant in 1989, which launched her acting career. Her big break came in the 1995 SBS drama Sandglass. The drama dealt with modern Korean history from 1970 to the 1990s and was one of the highest rated dramas in Korean television history, with average ratings of 50.8% and a peak of 64.5%. People would rush home just to see a new episode, saying “it’s time to go home,” which meant they had to go home to watch Sandglass.
In May 1995, at the peak of her career, Go married Chung Yong-jin, vice chairman and CEO of Shinsegae Group and grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull. The two first met in New York purely by coincidence when Chung had offered to help Go find her seat at the Winter Garden Theatre because her English was so bad. After the most talked-about wedding in Korea at the time, Go announced her retirement from acting to focus on her new role as a chaebol's wife. They had two children together, a boy (born in 1998) and a girl (born in 2000).
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