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Jung Hyung-don was born on March 15, 1978, in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province, and grew up in Busan, where he went to Busan Electronic Technical High School, according to Wikipedia. Before comedy he spent six years working for Samsung Electronics in Suwon.
He debuted in 2002 on the sketch show Gag Concert, where his "Do-Re-Mi Trio" sang snippets of pop songs with comic punch lines. In 2005 he joined a new variety show, Infinite Challenge. Its ratings started low, but it became a hit, and several songs he recorded for its "song festivals" reached the top ten of Korea's music charts. He also appeared on the first season of We Got Married in 2008.
In 2011 he and rapper Defconn launched the idol reality show Weekly Idol as co-hosts. The pair left in March 2018 and moved on to host Idol Room that May.
In November 2015 he stepped back from all his shows to focus on his health, after an anxiety disorder, and he officially left Infinite Challenge in July 2016. He returned to Weekly Idol in October 2016. He took another break in November 2020, and in November 2021 he co-founded the agency Matched Project with Kim Yong-man, Kim Sung-joo and Ahn Jung-hwan. He married comedy writer Han Yu-ra on September 13, 2009.
His family is back in Korea after five years in Hawaii, and he has opened a Doni Doni Donkatsu shop in Seongsu-dong, Seoul, where old Infinite Challenge friends Park Myung-soo and Jung Jun-ha came to cheer him on. Read the full story, and visit the Park Myung-soo hub.
Sources: Wikipedia
Our newest Jung Hyung-don story, from October 19, 2026, is "Jung Hyung-don's Family Is Back Together After 5 Years, and His New Shop Got an 'Infinite Challenge' Welcome": The comedian's wife and twin daughters are back in Korea after five years in Hawaii, he has reopened his famous tonkatsu brand as a real shop, and two old Infinite Challenge friends came by to cheer him on.
No. He joined in 2005 and officially left the cast in July 2016 (Wikipedia).
Comedy writer Han Yu-ra. They married on September 13, 2009 (Wikipedia).
He worked for Samsung Electronics in Suwon for six years (Wikipedia).
