Top 71 Quotes & Sayings by HoYeon Jung
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a South Korean model HoYeon Jung.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I may waver a lot, but I'll work really hard and keep going.
Just the fact that so many people around the world are showing their interest puts me in a good mood.
I relieved my loneliness with movies and books, and I had a strong desire to express what I felt through acting.
I always try to take it one step at a time and I'm not the kind of person that works toward a big goal.
I love wide and long pieces, but my agency hates it when I wear wide pants because they drown me.
Squid Game' is a story about human nature that most people can already relate to, yet everything is communicated through easy-to-follow childhood games.
I'm very open to being defined.
On holidays, I spent time alone at home watching a movie, reading a book, and contemplating. Now that I think about it, if I hadn't had that time, I probably wouldn't have been able to do acting.
First of all, I find everything very astonishing. The astonishment that things can change so much over such a short span of time. And I also feel grateful that so many people worldwide love Sae-byeok as much as I love her.
Whenever I was alone while modeling overseas, I would always think about who I was and what it meant to be a human being and I personally think this is what eventually triggered my desire to act, and brought me to sign with my acting agency.
The last scene with Sae-byeok, I was nervous. But I had to do it.
In a way, Instagram is a space where I edit and show what I want to show. But at some point, I thought, 'Am I really this person?' People like my shiny look, but to me, I'm a much different person than her.
My life so far tells me the best way to prepare for the future is prioritizing my current work. If I work hard to complete the current work, it paves the way for my next job.
To tell you the truth, people might think going from a model to a North Korean defector would've been difficult in appearance. For me, the focus was not on the external but internal side of things, to fully understand Sae-byeok's life.
The time that I spent overseas working as a model, all of those experiences influenced my personality and personal taste.
I thought to myself, What should I do for a living so that I can keep feeding myself? And I thought, Oh, I'm tall, so why not give modeling a try?
What I do is I keep trying to focus on what I am doing now, instead of wasting time thinking about what went wrong in the past or will happen in the future.
Acting is something I had been thinking about all the time, though not seriously.
I try not to dwell too much on the success of 'Squid Game.'
Of course, I always hoped Squid Game would do well. But no one could have predicted it would be this big. In just one month, everything changed.
I don't have any goals as an actress.
I didn't know that Americans don't like to watch movies with subtitles.
Being surrounded by people who truly love and believe in me, that's happiness.
I was modeling overseas but, during the holiday seasons, summer and winter, I came back to Korea for some time and I took acting lessons for about a month at a time.
I had a hair colorist that I knew, so I went to her and had my hair colored, and fortunately, this helped me achieve a very successful modeling career. But, it's very difficult to maintain red hair.
When I'd travel by myself on airplanes and stay at hotels, I spent most of my days just watching movies.
I want to improve every day and maintain a steady pace without ever losing my resolve to work hard.
Had I been a contestant in 'Squid Game,' I would have died doing the dalgona.
Whether good or bad things happen, music allows you to separate yourself from reality a bit.
The world doesn't revolve around English.
If I happily smile and play around and laugh 'ha-ha, hoo-hoo, yay,' laughing like that, I think the photo looks cooler. If I just stand there like this, like 'Oh, I'm a model,' well, I don't think that's what it means to be a model at all.
Acting in a new movie or series will be challenging, especially after 'Squid Game,' so I intend not to limit myself to a specific genre.
Korea achieved economic development in a short span of time, which is why competition can be more intense here than in other countries.
In 2016, I left Korea to further my modelling career overseas, and I spent a lot of time alone. At the time, the emotion that I felt the most was loneliness.
I want to meet my fans for a long time, as a real actor.
I tried many ways to become the real Sae-byeok.
Now, I feel very comfortable with the 'Squid Game' team, so I can slowly get used to this success with people. But when I was at home by myself watching this growth, I was like, 'What?'
I couldn't follow the speed of the growth of the 'Squid Game' success because since COVID, I think everything is faster and even online, it happens just so quick. It was hard to follow.
Working just in Korea, I was more focused on being recognized and how others viewed me, but it was the years I spent overseas that led me to wonder, 'What things do I like?'
I had worked as a runway model for six years in Korea before I flew to New York.
In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn't necessarily have to earn the cash prize.
When I was acting for the first time in 'Squid Game,' I listened to a lot of music. I listened to a lot of music by Sanulrim, Yoo Jae-Ha and Kwang-seok. In particular, I listened to the song 'Reminiscence' by Sanulrim a bunch. Listening to that song assisted me emotionally.
All that I have and will experience, even in the most minuscule way, will influence my acting.
As time went on, I felt that Sae-Byeok and I were becoming closer. I found joy in our synergy. The time I spent playing her was worth every second.
I used to hear people say that models have very short careers, which I don't really agree with... I think that even when you grow old, you can still continue modeling if you have that willingness.
Squid Game' came at a moment where I was really thinking seriously about my acting career, so I wanted to put this into action finally.
I always traveled by myself on the airplane, stayed at hotels by myself. Even though I got some big campaign, I couldn't celebrate with someone else. I just stayed at the hotel, had a glass of wine and congratulated myself.
The most powerful lesson I learnt was to have faith in humanity.
In my modeling days, I never faced situations where I had to really think about others, or my family and friends. I didn't have a sense of responsibility; it was more about my well-being and goals.
To be honest, I think music is such an important part of life, not just for acting.
I learned more English because I wanted to actually learn acting.
Some say a model's tenure is relatively short compared with other careers. But I disagree. Models of all age groups are needed, so I think modeling can be a lifelong career.
With time, I believe, a day would come when people have their own definitions of Jung Ho-yeon as an actor.
I watched a lot of documentaries about North Korean defectors. I also practiced speaking in a North Korean accent with a teacher, and studied a lot.
Working on 'Squid Game' was so fun and worth it.
I'm not a huge fan of horror movies, but I like a few within the genre.
I'm honored to kickstart my acting career with Louis Vuitton, which I've worked with throughout my modeling career.
I didn't think I grafted the competitive and strong-willed versions of myself from 'Korea's Next Top Model' to Sae-byeok's character. But thinking of it now, maybe I still have those aspects within me, which helped me understand the role.
These days, it's not enough for models to just do shows and photo shoots anyway, you have to be making videos and finding ways to create other content - that's what I think.
Even though I was based in New York, I would travel all over the world, meeting so many different types of people, and that's really when my understanding of diversity deepened.
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