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Jung Ga-ram

South Korean actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ20444603 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jung Ga-ram (Korean: 정가람; born February 23, 1993) is a South Korean actor. He rose to prominence for his roles in the films 4th Place (2016) and The Poet and the Boy (2017). He is also known for his roles in television series such as Standby (2012), Mistress (2018), When the Camellia Blooms (2019), and Love Alarm (2019).

Career

In 2025, Jung starred in Netflix's mystery historical television series Dear Hongrang alongside Jo Bo-ah and Lee Jae-wook. It is based on Tangeum: Swallowing Gold by Jang Da-hye and was produced by Studio Dragon.

Personal life

Jung enlisted mandatory military service on October 12, 2020. He was discharged from military service on April 11, 2022.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jung Ga-ram” is south Korean actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jung, Ga-ram and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2016, 2017, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-02-23. For this dossier, Jung, Ga-ram and South is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “south Korean actor” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20444603. VIAF identifies the subject as 1976156565717823500006. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2016, 2017 and 2012.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jung Ga-ram”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Jung Ga-ram” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.