One Christmas day, famous theatre and film composer-duo Park Chin-Hwa and Lee Eun-jeong welcomed a baby prematurely into the world. For the first few months of his life, things were touch and go for tiny Jaejung and his parents constantly worried about his survival. However, within the year, Jaejung would grow to be much healthier and stronger and prove himself to be a major fighter.

As he grew up, Jaejung was always exposed to instrumental music because of his parents' profession. He was a sickly child and unable to do most strenuous activities so he would often sit in on his parent's work sessions, rehearsals, and just about anything that he was allowed to. This sparked a love for the art in the young boy. With parents like Park Chin-Hwa and Lee Eun-jeong, it was widely expected of Jaejung to join the industry as well and from an early age, he took to learning violin, clarinet, piano, guitar, and various jungmal.

By the time that he was 12, he started getting vocal lessons as well. Even though his parents wanted what was best for their son and for him to do exactly and everything he wanted, the pressure was always on Jaejung to become a composer or a classical musician from both outside parties and himself. But composition is harder than one may think and he never enjoyed the lessons he took for classical piano.

When his family moved to Florida so that he could go through middle and high school abroad, Jaejung found his calling through very different genres of music: jazz, soul, and folk. He found them much more enjoyable to play and sing and liked how every song told a story, no matter how simple. Now playing the music he loved, Jaejung proved to be quite talented, prodigial even.

Upon graduating, Jaejung had the option to go to any music school he wanted, but he chose to take a gap year. He wanted to return to South Korea and just enjoy everything his native country had to offer. In that time, a friend of his brought a new show to his attention: StarmaKer. The brand new competition show was recruiting singers and, deciding that a gap year was meant for trying new and potentially crazy things, Jaejung auditioned for it.

He got into the show and would even make his way through to the final episode where he placed second. Even though he didn't win the competition, Jaejung was scouted by numerous entertainment companies and he eventually chose Onyx Entertainment because one of his dad's younger sisters, Yeeun, became a CEO there. His end game is to be a well-known soloist but he knows that with the saturated market, it might not happen right away. He knows that certainly, but he was raised believing he could do anything and that mindset hasn't left him.

cartoons (especially Over the Garden Wall and Amphibia), art museums, ice cream, pizza, comic books, animals, Christmas, and Halloween

spicy foods, hot weather, bugs, and messiness

reading, songwriting and composing, playing arcade games, doing karaoke, bowling, urban exploring, and swimming

vocals, piano, vocal impressions, songwriting, violin, guitar, clarinet, janggu, buk, composition

his parents are Park Chin-Hwa and Lee Eun-jeong, a famous composition duo; his aunt is Park Yeeun, former idol and co-CEO of Onyx; he also has a younger brother, Jaekwang, who is still in high school