Im Chang-jung
Im Chang-jung (born November 30, 1973) is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He is often referred by Koreans as "the original multi-entertainer" for being active in all three fields: music, film and entertainment. He made his acting debut in 1990 and his singing debut in 1995.
Also recorded as Lim Chang Jung · Lim Chang-jung · Im Changjeong
Im Chang-jung
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- Name
- Im Chang-jung
- Born
- 30 November 1973
- Birthplace
- Icheon, South Korea
- Occupation
- * Singer-songwriter
- Education
- ChungAng University – Theater and Film
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Fields
- sentimental ballad
- Languages
- Korean
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Biography
Biography
Chang-jung worked across actor, singer, film actor, composer and songwriter and 1 further recorded occupations. The registers place that work in sentimental ballad. This article rests on 7 catalogued compositions and 27 issued recordings drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Im Chang-jung • Born — 30 November 1973 • Birthplace — Icheon, South Korea • Occupation — * Singer-songwriter • actor • Education — ChungAng University – Theater and Film • Agent — Yes Im Entertainment • Years Active — 1990–present • Children — 5
Personal life
Personal life
Im married professional golfer Kim Hyun-joo in 2006. The couple, who have three sons together, divorced in 2013. Im married a woman named Seo Ha-yan in 2017. The couple have 2 children together. On November 9, 2021 it was confirmed that Im had tested positive for COVID-19, and has since halted all promotions for his 17th album Nothing Special with the Day.
Studio albums
Studio albums
• Title — Album details — Peak chart positions — Sales • KOR • Already to Me — *Released: April 1, 1995 *Label: KingPin *Formats: CD, cassette — rowspan="3" No data — rowspan="3" No data • Because I'm Not with You — *Released: May 10, 1996 *Label: KingPin *Formats: CD, cassette • Again — *Released: May 16, 1997 *Label: Interpark *Formats: CD, cassette • Become a Star — *Released: April 13, 1998 *Label: Cheonil *Formats: CD, cassette — 5 — *KOR: 400,273+ • Story Of... — *Released: March 29, 1999 *Label: Cheonil *Formats: CD, cassette — 2 — * KOR: 472,979+ • White — *Released: February 10, 2000 *Label: Cheonil *Formats: CD, cassette — 2 — * KOR: 560,228+ • www.love.7th — *Released: November 1, 2000 *Label: Seoul Records *Formats: CD, cassette — 2 — * KOR: 463,373+ • Different Color — *Released: July 25, 2001 *Label: Laful Entertainment *Formats: CD, cassette — 2 — * KOR: 389,369+ • C.J.2002 — *Released: April 26, 2002 *Label: Laful Entertainment *Formats: CD, cassette — 3 — * KOR: 211,103+ • Bye — *Released: June 5, 2003 *Label: Warner Music Korea *Formats: CD, cassette — 2 — * KOR: 99,696+ • Return to My World — *Released: March 10, 2009 *Label: LOEN Entertainment *Format: CD — 3 — No data • Ordinary Song, Ordinary Melody (흔한 노래... 흔한 멜로디...) — *Released: March 20, 2014 *Label: NH Media *Formats: CD, digital download — 8 — *KOR: 6,187+ • I'm — *Released: September 6, 2016 *Label: NH Media *Formats: CD, digital download — 2 — *KOR: 7,665+ • There Has Never Been a Day I Haven't Loved You — *Released: September 19, 2018 *Label: NH Media *Formats: CD, digital download Track listing — 14 — *KOR: 2,343+ • Never Ending — *Released: September 6, 2019 *Label: NH Media *Formats: CD, digital download — 8 — *KOR: 4,894+ • Love Should Not Be Harsh on You — *Released: October 19, 2020 *Label: YES IM Entertainment *Formats: CD, digital download — 21 — *KOR: 2,556+ • Nothing Special with the Day — *Released: November 1, 2021 *Label: YES IM Entertainment *Formats: CD, digital download — 56 — No data
Extended plays
Extended plays
• Title — Album details — Peak chart positions — Sales • KOR • Best Man — *Released: November 24, 2014 *Label: NH Media *Formats: CD, digital download — 14 — *KOR: 1,649+ • Love Again — *Released: September 22, 2015 *Label: NH Media *Formats: CD, digital download — 8 — *KOR: 3,551+ • Do You Know That Person? — *Released: October 23, 2017 *Label: NH Media *Formats: CD, digital download — 18 — *KOR: 1,854+ • I'm a Fool — *Released: February 8, 2023 *Label: YES IM Entertainment *Formats: CD, digital download — 29 — *KOR: 5,107
Singles
Singles
• Title — Single details • Brave Brothers 10th Anniversary Project, Part 01 (용감한형제 10주년 앨범 Part.1) — * Released: December 30, 2013 * Format: CD, digital download • A Guy Like Me — * Released: September 24, 2013 * Format: CD, digital download • Open the Door — * Released: October 30, 2013 * Format: CD, digital download • We Were...(with Xia) — * Released: December 15, 2017 * Format: CD, digital download
Album appearances
Album appearances
• Title — Year — Album • Gone with the Wind — 2013 — Hot Summer Cool Music
Soundtrack appearances
Soundtrack appearances
• Title — Year — Album • 슬픈연가 — 1997 — Beat OST • 언제나 같은 생각 — 2012 — Ji Woon-soo's Stroke of Luck OST • Way Back Home • Goodbye — 2014 — Three Days OST • Wait — Gunman in Joseon OST • It will be Alright — 2015 — Sweet, Savage Family OST • You Tell Me — 2017 — Man to Man OST • Repeatedly — 2021 — Penthouse 2 OST • This Is What I Am
Television series
Television series
• Year — Title — Role • 1991 — Eyes of Dawn — Gil-soo • 1992 — Days of Sunshine • 1994 — Ladybug • 1996 — Three Guys and Three Girls • 1997 — New York Story • 2010 — The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry — Jerry Oh (cameo) • 2012 — Ji Woon-soo's Stroke of Luck — Ji Woon-soo • 2017 — Witch at Court — Investigated man (special appearance) • 2019 — The Light in Your Eyes — a swindler (cameo, Ep. 5)
Television show
Television show
• Year — Title — Role • 2009 — Invincible Baseball Team — Infielder, pitcher • Superstar K — Season 1 host • 2014–15 — Law of the Jungle in Costa Rica — Cast member • 2021 — Star Golf Big League — Cast Member • 2022 — Same Bed, Different Dreams 2: You Are My Destiny — Cast • Golf Battle: Birdie Buddies 4 — Contestant
Web shows
Web shows
• Year — Title — Role — Notes — Ref. Reference(s) • 2022 — SNL Korea — Host — Season 2 – episode 17
Musical theatre
Musical theatre
• Illustration — Im in Le Passe-Muraille in 2012 • Year — Title — Role — Ref. Reference(s) • 2009 — Bbalae (Laundry) — Solongo • 2010–2011 — Radio Star — Park Min-soo • 2012 — Le Passe-Muraille — Dusoleil • 2022 — Mrs. Doubt Fire — Daniel / Doutfire
As a singer
As a singer
• Year — Award — Category — Nominated work — Result — Ref. • 1997 — Golden Disc Awards — Bonsang (Main Award) — "Again" • Seoul Music Awards — Bonsang (Main Award) • KBS Music Festival — Daesang (Grand Prize) — "Again" • 1999 — Seoul Music Awards — Bonsang (Main Award) • 2000 — Seoul Music Awards — Bonsang (Main Award) • Mnet Music Video Festival — Best Ballad Performance — "My Love" • 2001 — Golden Disc Awards — Bonsang (Main Award) — "Reason to Wait" • KBS Music Festival — Top 10 Singers • Seoul Music Awards — Bonsang (Main Award) • 2002 — Mnet Music Video Festival — Best Ballad Performance — "Sad Monologue" • 2014 — Mnet Asian Music Awards — Best Male Artist • 2015 — Mnet Asian Music Awards — Best Vocal Performance — "Love Again" • Seoul Music Awards — Performance Award • 2016 — Melon Music Awards — Best Ballad Award — "The Love I Committed" • 2017 — Golden Disc Awards — Digital Bonsang (Main Award) • 2018 — Golden Disc Awards — Ballad of the Year Award — Himself
As an actor
As an actor
• Year — Award — Category — Nominated work — Result — Ref • 1997 — Grand Bell Awards — Best Supporting Actor — Beat • Blue Dragon Film Awards — Best Supporting Actor • 1998 — Baeksang Arts Awards — Best New Actor (Film) • 2002 — Blue Dragon Film Awards — Best Supporting Actor — Bet on My Disco • 2003 — Grand Bell Awards — Best Supporting Actor • Baeksang Arts Awards — Most Popular Actor (Film) — Sex Is Zero • 2008 — Baeksang Arts Awards — Best Actor (Film) — Scout • Grand Bell Awards — Best Actor • 2012 — Korean Culture and Entertainment Awards — Best Actor (Film) — The Traffickers • 2022 — 2022 SBS Entertainment Awards — Social Star Award – Talk and Reality Category — Same Bed, Different Dreams 2: You Are My Destiny
Life and work
Life and work
Im Chang-jung was born on 30 November 1973 in Icheon. Chang-jung held the nationality of South Korea. Chang-jung was educated at Chung-Ang University. Married to: Kim Hyun-joo. Chang-jung worked as actor, singer, film actor and composer, and the authority record catalogues a further 2 occupations under the same name, among them songwriter and television actor. Chang-jung was active from 1990. The fields Chang-jung worked in include sentimental ballad. Chang-jung played the voice. Chang-jung worked in Korean.
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 7 further compositions are catalogued under Chang-jung's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it.
The entries follow MusicBrainz
Smile Again (하늘에서)
I Still Believe
Film
• Year — Title — Role • 1990 — North Korean Partisan in South Korea — Jeon Sae-young • Rose Motel • 1992 — From Seom River to the Sky — Goo Dae-hoon • Walking All the Way to Heaven • 1994 — The Rules of the Game — Client 1 • 1997 — Beat — Hwan-gyu • 1998 — Extra — Park Bong-soo • If the Sun Rises in the West — Kim Beom-soo • 2000 — The Happy Funeral Director — Jae-hyun • Jakarta — Blue • 2001 — My Boss, My Hero — Hyeok-sam (cameo) • 2002 — Bet on My Disco — Bong-pal • Sex Is Zero — Jang Eun-shik • 2003 — Reversal of Fortune — Police officer (cameo) • The Greatest Expectation — Chang-shik • Romantic Assassin — Ghost in armor (cameo) • 2004 — To Catch a Virgin Ghost — Yang-yi • 2005 — Cracked Eggs and Noodles — Dae-gyu • All for Love — Kim Chang-hoo • 2006 — Aachi & Ssipak — Ssipak (voice) • 2007 — Miracle on 1st Street — Pil-je • Underground Rendezvous — Young-tae • Scout — Ho-chang • Sex Is Zero 2 — Eun-shik • 2009 — Fortune Salon — Seung-won • 2010 — Twilight Gangsters — Bang Joon-seok • Romantic Debtors — Detective Bang Geuk-hyun • 2011 — Shotgun Love — Sang-yeol • 2012 — Rain and Rain — Soo-hyun • The Traffickers — Young-gyu • 2013 — Tumbleweed — Chang-soo • 2014 — The Con Artists — Chef (cameo) • 2015 — Untouchable Lawmen — Lee Jung-jin • 2017 — Roman Holiday — In-han • 2018 — Gate — Gyu-cheol
Issued recordings
Primary material
Issued recordings
These are published sound issues catalogued under the name. Most postdate the works they carry, and an issue is never counted here as a work of composition. 9 issues carry dates between 1995 and 2016. The run opens with Rock & Razor Techno Music and closes with I'M. The 1990s are the densest part of the run, with 4 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. Lim Chang Jung 4th.
Recordings and discography
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Chang-jung's work has been published in sound, not what Chang-jung made. 18 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1995 to 2024. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 2000s are the densest decade of publication, with 8 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
I'M
2016
Return To My World
2009
If it happens, it happens
2024
Never Ending
2019
Show Time Project - Jed 1st Single
2007
Again
1997
Remind
2010
A To Z (His 1st Best Album)
2001
Bye
2003
C.J.2002
2002
Rock & Razor Techno Music
1995
Because I'm Not With You
1996
White
2000
Story of, dated 1999. Www.Love.7th
2000
Different Color
2001
Primary material
Documents and archives
institutional register
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q625944: Im Chang-jung
General reference · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Im Chang-jung”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Authority records
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Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Lim Chang-Jung (임창정). Korea Tourism Organization.
- 2.Yes Im Entertainment.
- 3.Daum Encyclopedia.
- 4.Kim, Yeong-jin. Asia Today. September 27, 2018.
- 5.Hong, Dam-young. Veteran balladeer Im Chang-jung returns with heart-wrenching EP. The Korea Herald. October 24, 2017.
- 6.Yoon, So-yeon. Thirty years in, Im Chang-jung is still smiling: The veteran singer's latest album 'Never Ending' has a song for every month. Korea JoongAng Daily. September 5, 2019.
- 7.Park, Ye-seul. The Dong-A Ilbo. December 20, 2012.
- 8.Ryu, Jeong-hyun. Celebrities say age-gap makes no difference in planning marriage. The Korea Herald. December 10, 2010.
- 9.Singer Im Chang-jung Files for Divorce. The Chosun Ilbo. April 4, 2013.
- 10.JoongAng Ilbo. December 28, 2017.
- 11.임창정, 코로나19 확진 판정…컴백 8일만에 활동 중단. Hankook Kyungje. November 9, 2021.
- 12.Recording Industry Association of Korea. Return to My World charting.
- 13.Gaon Music Chart. I'm a Fool charting.
- 14.March to August 1998 Total Record Sales. Recording Industry Association of Korea.
- 15.July 1999 K-pop Album Sales Volume. Recording Industry Association of Korea.
- 16.2000 K-pop Album Sales Volume. Recording Industry Association of Korea.
- 17.February 2001 K-pop Album Sales Volume. Recording Industry Association of Korea.
- 18.2001 K-pop Album Sales Volume. Recording Industry Association of Korea.
- 19.July 2002 K-pop Album Sales Volume. Recording Industry Association of Korea.
- 20.First Half of 2003 K-pop Album Sales Volume. Recording Industry Association of Korea.
- 21.Gaon Music Chart. May 2014 Album Chart.
- 22.Gaon Music Chart. October 2016 Album Chart.
- 23.Gaon Music Chart. September 2018 Album Chart.
- 24.Gaon Music Chart. September 2019 Album Chart.
- 25.Gaon Music Chart. October 2020 Album Chart.
- 26.Gaon Music Chart. November 2014 Album Chart.
- 27.Gaon Music Chart. October 2015 Album Chart.
- 28.Gaon Music Chart. October 2017 Album Chart.
- 29.Circle Album Chart – Week 6, 2023. Circle Chart.
- 30.Actress Uhm Ji Won apologizes to Im Chang Jung for slapping him. Allkpop. November 6, 2010.
- 31.Lee, Ji-hye. Actor Lim Chang-jung's Movie Picks. 10Asia. April 1, 2011.
- 32.Cho, Jae-eun. Thriller with brains: Traffickers tackles human organ market. Korea JoongAng Daily. August 24, 2012.
- 33.Won, Ho-jung. Herald Interview: Im Chang-jung shows no signs of slowing down. The Korea Herald. August 27, 2015.
- 34.Im Chang-jung To Star in First Drama in 21 Years. KBS World. November 8, 2011.
- 35.Kim, Jessica. Lim Chang-jung to play 1st-ever drama leading role. 10Asia. November 8, 2011.
- 36.Lee Jung-hyun. tvN D '스타골프빅리그'에 정준호·임창정 등 참가. Yonhap News Agency. June 15, 2021.
- 37.Kim Hyun-sik. March 6, 2022.
- 38.Park Ah-reum. Newsen. August 17, 2022.
- 39.Ha Su-jeong. April 27, 2022.
- 40.All That Star: Lim Chang-jung, all-around entertainer met his 2nd heyday with a new album and the musical Laundry. Arirang News.
- 41.Events Calendar. The Korea Herald. June 6, 2009.
- 42.Im Chang Jung signs with Wellmade StarM. Allkpop. February 1, 2011.
- 43.Ahn Yoon-ji. MT Star News. July 19, 2022.
- 44.Kang Min-kyung. Ten Asia. June 16, 2022.
- 45.Golden Disc Awards.
- 46.Gwon, Gi-tae. The Dong-A Ilbo. October 4, 1997.
- 47.<로드무비> 등 대종상 9개부문 진출. Cine21. June 9, 2003.
- 48.The Korea Economic Daily. June 27, 2008.
- 49.Lee Seung-gil. December 18, 2022.
References
Citations
References
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institutional register
Wikidata, structured authority record Q625944: Im Chang-jungWikimedia Foundation
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Studied at
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