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Info
Name: Kim Jaejoong(Hangul- 재준)
Stage Name(s): Hero, Youngwoong Jaejoong (in South Korea), and Jejung (in Japan)
Birthday: January 26, 1986
Age: 24(Korean age 25)
Hero was born as Han Jaejoon in Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. At a young age, Hero was given up for adoption by his birth mother to the Kims and his name was changed to Kim Jaejoong. When he was fifteen, he moved to Seoul by himself in order to take part in the auditions held by SM Entertainment. Life in Seoul proved to be hard for Hero and he had to take various odd jobs to come up with the ₩150,000 needed for the rent. He once took on a role as a soldier in the movie Taegeukgi Hwinallimyeo; he then used the money acquired from the job to buy gum, which he sold to a female employee at a supermarket.
Musical Career
Apart from the group, Hero has worked on solo activities. He sang, "Insa" (Greeting), for the soundtrack of A Millionaire's First Love. Hero collaborated with label-mates The Grace for the Japanese version of song "Just for One Day", which was featured on their fifth Japanese single and their debut album, Graceful 4. Hero also sang the solo track "Maze" which was for the fifth and final single in the Trick project, "Keyword/Maze". Hero wrote and composed "Wasurenaide" (Don't Forget?) which included on TVXQ's twenty-fifth single "Bolero/Kiss the Baby Sky/Wasurenaide", as the last two A-sides. The song later appeared on their fourth Japanese album The Secret Code, along with another song which he composed, "9095". For TVXQ's fourth studio album, Mirotic, Hero wrote and composed Saranga Uljima (Don't Cry My Lover). In 30 September 2009, he and Micky released a self-written duet, "Colors (Melody and Harmony) Shelter," which was used as the image song for Hello Kitty's thirty-fifth year anniversary.
Controversy
In September 2005, while rehearsing the dance steps for "Rising Sun", Jaejoong ruptured his cartilage in his knee and was admitted to a hospital in Seoul. He underwent surgery on the same day to repair the tissue.
On April 7, 2006 at 1:20 AM, Hero was pulled over in his father's friend's BMW by a police officer on his way home from the Renaissance Hotels. He was ordered to take a breath test and his level of alcohol was revealed to be 0.071%. After spending 20 minutes at the police station, he was released. Due to violating traffic laws, Hero was temporarily suspended from all TVXQ activities and had his license taken away for 100 days.
On November 21, 2006, a man with the surname Han filed a lawsuit against Hero's guardians. Han claimed he was Hero's biological father, and thus wanted parental rights. In reaction to the matter, Hero uploaded a journal entry on his official fan club website, and said that he was informed of the existence of separate biological parents by his mother two or three years ago, and it had been quite a shock to him. With his current mother's support, his biological mother has been able to keep in touch with him, and to meet occasionally, but whereabouts of his father had been unknown.
He vigorously expressed his will to live by the name of "Kim Jaejoong," not by his birth name Han Jaejoon, and promised to be loyal to all four of his parents. He also said he did not want his family history exposed to the public due to this incident.
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