The unknown truth about the members of “Seventeen”-Jun (Wen Junhui)
Who is Jun?
Wen Junhui, born on June 10, 1996 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, is a singer and actor. He was a member of the South Korean K-pop boy group Seventeen under Pledis Entertainment. . He is part of a sub-unit of the group called Performance Unit.
Jun’s net worth
As of the beginning of 2020, Jun’s net worth is estimated to exceed US$400,000, which was obtained through a successful career in the entertainment industry. In addition to working with the seventeen-year-old, he also earned a lot of income through acting work and personal projects.
Early life and career start
Jun grew up in Shenzhen and joined the entertainment industry at a young age. He started working with professional projects at the age of two, starting with advertising, and three years later, he produced his first TV series “The Flying Dragon Task Force” in China. He continued to act in the next few years. In 2006, his debut work “The Pye Dog” received certain recognition. His performance won him the Best New Actor Award from the Hong Kong Film Directors Association.
He was also nominated for the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 2010, he played the young version of the nominal role in the movie “The Birth of a Legend: Ip Man”, which is set in the martial arts master Ip Man. After that, he set his sights on different tracks, because Pledis Entertainment contacted him, hoping to become a K-pop idol. He accepted and moved to South Korea, where he received training for the next two years.
Jun Seventeen
Become famous at seventeen
As a trainee, Jun began to appear on the webcast of a program called “Seventeen TV”, which is composed of all future members of the boy group Seventeen. In the show, they are seen preparing for the performance, which is also an introduction to each group member. In the end, they aired a pre-debut reality show called “Seventeen Projects: Big Debut Project” on MBC. Their actual debut made history because this is the first professional debut of a male K-pop group on TV. One hour special on the net.
A few days after their debut, they released their first extended play (EP) called “17 Carat”, which quickly gained an international reputation. Then they released their second EP-“Boys Be”-the success of these two albums will lead to multiple awards at various award ceremonies. Then they held a few concerts and then produced their first studio album called “Love & Letter” in 2016. Their music also made waves in Japan, and then they conducted their first Asian tour, and then released their third EP called “Going Seventeen”.
Seventeen most recent projects
In 2017, Seventeen held a number of concerts in Japan. Although it has not made an official debut, it has attracted a large number of audiences. Their work there made them appear in the second season of “A Beautiful Day in Japan.” A few months later, they released their fourth EP “AI1”, which made it to the top of the Korean rankings. Then they went on a world tour to the United States for the first time. Their second studio album is called “Teen, Age” and they also released a special edition of the album “Director’s Cut”, which is a repackage for an international audience.
Around this time, they received a lot of publicity, and Time magazine named them one of the best K-pop groups in the world. After that, they made their official debut in Japan with the EP “We Make You”, and then produced the fifth Korean official EP release “You Make My Day”. In 2019, they produced a follow-up EP called “You Made My Dawn”, which included their most successful single “Home” to date. Their Japanese single “Happy Ending” also achieved platinum status.
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Later in the same year, they released their third studio album “An Ode”, which sold more than 700,000 copies in the first week alone, won the Album of the Year Award, and was recognized by Billboard.
personal life
Juin is single, and like many K-pop artists, he does not talk about his romantic careers, which are often strictly controlled by management for image purposes. He is still very young, focusing on developing his career at the age of seventeen.
One of the reasons why he switched from acting to music was curiosity and the feeling of falling into a trough while acting in China. He knows kung fu because he has practiced kung fu when he was young. In his free time, he likes to sing and play the piano. He was also the first to wake up among the seventeen people, so he was responsible for getting everyone up. He also likes to read books, and his goal is to have a good fan base extending from Korea to China.
