Lee Jun-young

Who is Lee Jun-young?

Lee Jun-young (이준영) is an actor represented by Billions. The agency’s own record gives his birth date as 22 January 1997. Its drama list begins with tvN’s Avengers Social Club (2017), continues with MBC’s Goodbye to Goodbye (2018), OCN’s Class of Lies (2019) and SBS’s Good Casting (2020), and runs to twenty entries, among them KBS2’s Imitation, SBS’s Let Me Be Your Knight and Netflix’s D.P. (all 2021), MBC’s May I Help You (2022), Netflix’s Mask Girl (2023), Disney+’s The Impossible Heir (2024) and, in a 2025 that held five titles at once, When Life Gives You Tangerines, Melo Movie and Weak Hero Class 2 on Netflix, tvN’s The Queen Who Crowns and KBS2’s Pump Up the Healthy Love. Three films sit beside them: Love and Leashes (2022), Brave Citizen (2023) and Badland Hunters (2023).

Awards

The agency records the Excellence Award (miniseries) and the Best Couple Award at the 2025 KBS Drama Awards, for Pump Up the Healthy Love, and Best New Actor at the 2018 MBC Drama Awards.

2026

Two projects followed one another in 2026. He shared the title role of JTBC’s Reborn Rookie with Son Hyun-joo, and its finale on 5 July 2026 recorded a nationwide 13.6% (Nielsen Korea, paid households). He filmed tvN’s Four Hands, Two Sonatas in parallel with it and entered the army training centre on 21 July 2026 to begin active-duty service; Four Hands, Two Sonatas was finished before he enlisted.

Choi Jeong-yo, the part he plays there, is a transfer student who taught himself the piano, gave it up to look after his father, and sits down at the keyboard again after hearing Kang Bi-o play. The drama premiered on 29 August 2026 and its ratings climbed as it ran: 텐아시아 gave episodes one to six as 3.4%, 5.9%, 4.4%, 5.8%, 4.2% and 7.3%, and 스타뉴스 reported that episode eight, on 20 September, took a nationwide average of 7.9% with a peak of 9%, a new high for the series. Both figures are Nielsen Korea’s.

His name also led the buzz table. 텐아시아 reported that in Good Data Corporation’s Funddex index for the second week of September he was first among cast members with a 3.95% share.