Jun

Jun’s story starts long before he ever stepped on a K-pop stage. Born on June 10, 1996, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, he began acting almost as soon as he could walk — literally. At just two years old, he was cast in his first commercial, and by age five he was already appearing in the television series Flying Dragon – The Special Unit. His breakout screen moment came in 2006 with the film The Pye Dog, co-starring alongside Eason Chan. That role earned him the Hong Kong Film Directors’ Guild’s Best New Performer Silver Award and a nomination at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards — a huge achievement for a child actor. A few years later, in 2010, he played the young version of the legendary martial artist in The Legend Is Born: Ip Man, a role that let him show off skills he’d been training since childhood: wushu, or Chinese martial arts.

Here’s where his story takes an unexpected turn. In his early teens, Jun sustained a waist injury during a martial arts competition. Because he didn’t want to worry his parents, he kept quiet about the pain — and by the time doctors found the real cause, it had turned into spinal tuberculosis. Treatment lasted around ten months, and even today, the residual stiffness around his waist and hips still affects the way he dances. It’s a tough chapter, but it also explains a lot about his discipline and resilience on stage.

In October 2012, Jun made a big leap: he moved from China to South Korea to train under Pledis Entertainment. For the next few years, he grinded through trainee life, appearing on Seventeen TV and MBC Seventeen Project: Debut Big Plan alongside the boys who would eventually become his groupmates. On May 26, 2015, Jun officially debuted as a member of SEVENTEEN, with the group’s first EP, 17 Carat, dropping just three days later on May 29.

As a member of SEVENTEEN’s self-producing Performance Team, Jun quickly became known for his technical precision, flexibility, and stage charisma — earning him the position of lead dancer. But he didn’t stop at group promotions. In 2018, Jun and fellow member The8 joined the Chinese reality competition Chao Yin Zhan Ji (潮音战纪), where Jun won the first solo stage round with a Mandarin cover of SEVENTEEN’s “Thanks,” titled “Wo Ming Bai” — and he wrote the Chinese lyrics himself. That same year, he released his first solo single, “Can You Sit By My Side?” (能不能坐在我身旁), marking the start of his solo music journey.

Since then, Jun has built out a genuinely impressive solo discography, moving from tender ballads like “Silent Boarding Gate” and “Crow” (2021) to bolder, more experimental sounds with “Limbo” (2022) and “Psycho” (2023) — the latter of which won him New Singer-Songwriter of the Year at the 2023 Tencent Music Entertainment Awards. He’s also stepped back into acting in a bigger way, landing the lead role in the 2023 Chinese drama Exclusive Fairytale and co-starring alongside Jackie Chan and Tony Leung Ka-fai in the 2025 action film The Shadow’s Edge.

In August 2024, Jun took a temporary step back from some of SEVENTEEN’s South Korea-based group activities to focus on his growing acting career in China, missing select stops on the Right Here World Tour. Even so, he’s remained active — releasing new Chinese-language singles like “Worthy It” (2025) and drama OSTs including “焚月” (2025) — while continuing to represent both SEVENTEEN and his home country as a cultural bridge between Chinese and Korean entertainment.

Off stage, Jun is famously the group’s “mother figure” (a title given by member Seungkwan), known for hoarding snacks, loving spicy and sour foods, and being one of the funniest — and most photogenic — members when it comes to selfies. With a career that spans acting, singing, dancing, and songwriting, Jun continues to prove he’s one of K-pop’s most versatile all-round entertainers.