Hahm Eun-jung

In this Korean name, the family name is Ham.

Hahm Eun-jung
Hahm in 2019
Born (1988-12-12) December 12, 1988 (age 35)[1]
Seoul, South Korea[2]
Other namesElsie
Occupations
  • Singer
  • actress
Years active1995–present
AgentMask Studio
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active2009–present
Labels
Member of
Korean name
Hangul
함은정
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHam Eun-jeong
McCune–ReischauerHam Ŭnchŏng
Signature

Hahm Eun-jung (born December 12, 1988),[4][5][unreliable source?] known professionally as Eunjung and also Elsie,[5] is a South Korean singer and actress. She began her career at the age of seven as an entertainer in 1995, when she won the Little Miss Korea competition and debuted as a child actress in the same year in a television drama A New Generation of Adults (1995). Since then, she has taken on several roles in movies, television series and also being cast in various commercial films. After three years of training, she debuted as a member of South Korean girl group T-ara in July 2009 (and later its subgroup T-ara N4). She has won the Child Actor Award for her role in "Drama of The Year" multi-winner Land at the 2004 SBS Drama Awards. She was also nominated and won awards for comedies Coffee House (2010) and Dream High (2011), reality show We Got Married (2011–12), family drama Be My Dream Family (2021), and daily soap opera Love Twist (2021–22).[a][6][7][8]

She debuted as a solo artist by the name Elsie with her EP, I'm Good, on May 7, 2015, which went on to win her The Best Female Artist at V Chart Awards, China's largest video-sharing platform.[9] Hahm's career extends beyond music and cinema—she has forayed into modeling, hosting, and TV.[10][11] She has hosted over 15 events from the Dream Concert to the Grand Bell Awards and Jecheon International Music & Film Festival.[12][13] In 2012, she hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live Korea along with S.E.S.'s Bada and Horan, which drew a rating of 1.444%.[14]

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  3. ^ "Girl band T-ARA signs with Chinese magnate". The Korea Times. August 20, 2015. Archived from the original on May 31, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
  4. ^ "Ham Eun-jeong (함은정, Korean actress, singer)". HanCinema. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  5. ^ a b 함은정 :: 네이버 인물검색. people.search.naver.com (in Korean). Archived from the original on May 11, 2021. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  6. ^ "티아라 은정, 섹시함 벗고 연기를 입다 [T-ara's Eunjung takes off her sexiness and wears smoke]". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). May 30, 2010. Archived from the original on December 28, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  7. ^ tf.co.kr (June 30, 2011). "[상반기 아이돌어워즈] ①최고 연기돌 유천- 예능돌 광희". 더팩트 (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 28, 2022. Retrieved October 28, 2022.
  8. ^ "PREVIEW: KBS TV series "Dream High"". TenAsia. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  9. ^ "티아라, 中 시상식 2관왕 영예...대륙서도 대세 입증". 모바일 네이트 뉴스 (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
  10. ^ [STV]'드림하이' 김수현! '스프리스' 전속 모델 발탁! [[STV] 'Dream High' Kim Soo-hyun! Selected as 'Spris' exclusive model!]. www.stv.or.kr (in Korean). Archived from the original on September 2, 2022. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  11. ^ 배우 윤박,원더걸스 유빈,티아라 은정 '행복멘토' 됐다! [Actor Yoon Park, Wonder Girls' Yubin, and T-ara's Eunjung became 'happy mentors'!]. Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). May 11, 2016. Archived from the original on September 2, 2022. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  12. ^ "물 만난 영화, 바람난 음악, 로 오세요!". 문화웹진 인터미션 (in Korean). August 14, 2013. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  13. ^ "은정-구하라-다솜, '미녀들의 예쁜 미소 대결'". 모바일 네이트 뉴스 (in Korean). Archived from the original on July 11, 2022. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  14. ^ "'SNL코리아' 바다-호란-티아라 은정, 土夜 또 뒤집었다!" ['SNL Korea' Bada-Horan-T-ara Eunjeong, soil night turned over again!]. Nate News (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 18, 2023. Retrieved April 18, 2023.


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