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Yoo Jae 

Born in Seoul of South Korea as the first child of his parents on August 14, 1972.His parents have 3 children of which two are sisters who are younger than Jae-Suk. Yoo Jae-Suk is a Korean name and Yoo is the name of his family. Nothing much is known about his early education. But from internet sources we can understand that he joined the Seoul Institute of Arts for pursuing his degree. But Yoo dropped it as he was a busy with his career. He was a growing comedian then. He was introduced to the field of television through the KBS Comedian Festival which was a show conducted for students at the college level.

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He was not very popular with his early shows. It was only when Choi Jin-sil advocated him in the show named Live and Enjoy Together, in 2002, that Yoo became noted. The program was a great hit. His talents were fully exhibited in ‘The Crash of MC’s’ , a program that was assisted by Jae-Suk. He got his first award for the show Happy Together Friend's.

He got this award from the transmission centre where he made his first appearance and this fact made the first award a memorable one apart from being the first. Yoo presented a number of shows in South Korea most of which were popular. He became the MC of the Nation for five years continuously from 2004 to 2008 which gained him the label ‘MC of the Nation’. He was also tagged a ‘Grasshopper’ due to his mien in his early programs. He is enlisted as one of Korea’s greatest comedians.

Jae - Suk was the presenter for the program X-Man which had numerous viewers in Korea. It was during this time he earned the label ‘MC of the Nation’. X-Man was a show which had its popularity in international level. The best and most loved program of Yoo was Infinite Challenge. It was the show where he met his life partner Na Gyung-eun, not only that but also the second part of the program gained him more popularity which led him to win Grand Prizes in the years 2006,2008, 2007,2014 and 2009.

His wedding was on 6th July 2008. He married Na Gyung-eun who was an anchor at the MBC. They met each other while working for the show named Infinite Challenge. His wife delivered a baby boy on 10th of May 2010. The name of their son is Yoo Ji-ho.It was in 2012, Yoo along with his co-workers of Infinite Challenge turned-up in a video song by Psy,

Gangnam style which became very famous. Again in 2013, he was present in Psy’s next video song named Gentleman. Yoo turned-up in Jinusean’s Tell Me One More Time video song in the year 2015.After five years gap of working without a company on July 15, 2015, Yoo came into terms of an agreement, which was signed to work for the firm named FNC Entertainment. He united with EXO for a song for the SM station which was the Dancing King in 2016.His net worth is known to be around $9 Million. His biography is available on the internet and social life can be followed through Facebook and Twitter.


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Net Worth 2021: 12 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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