Jun Kim

## Season History

**Young-jun "Jun" Kim** was a houseguest on *Big Brother 2*.

Jun is became quite popular with fans for his down-to-earth yet snarky sense of humor and quick wit, his comical bond and showmance with Ashleigh Lyons, and being the ringleader of the Backyard Crew alliance early on and was able to use his strategic mind, social charm, and his genuine and lovable personality to earn people's trust and form strong relationships to control several evictions. He garnered widespread attention and praise for his Diary Room commentary and his natural ability to make everyone laugh helped him become a fan favorite and one of the most beloved players of all time. He is also highly intelligent, well-spoken and considered one of the show's greatest social players.

Despite being nominated in week 2, he narrowly escaped eviction and sacrificed his ally Tanner Knox. He was nominated again in week 4 along with ally Vivian Pinhosa, but he convinced Faysal Ibrahim to use the Power of Veto on him and enabled to save Vivian after campaigning the house against Rowan Austin-Mossle. Since his Head of Household win, he continuously flipping targets until decided to backdoor Jordan McDonough, the social threat. On Day 65, Jun was nominated by HOH Faysal for being deemed a "schemer," and he was backdoored and blindsided by a unanimous vote of 6-0 during the second half of the first Double Eviction.

However, after he was evicted, Jun had successfully won the Battle Back Competition against the other three jurors and had also defeated House Challenger Bob, who the house sent to keep the Battleback winner from entering the house. Jun re-established his loyalty with Vivian after she confessed in taking responsibility of his emotional blindside/backdoor, thus mending the bridges to resurrect the Backyard Crew. Both he and Vivian stayed in control for the rest of the game and made it to the Final Five.

During Week 12, he soon realized how secretly dominant Vivian's game was and started making deals with Bob Pancakes in despite their rivalry, contemplated turning on Vivian. But he was soon caught up with his betrayal by Vivian and led him to an explosive house meeting. He attempted falsely framing Bob of targeting Vivian. But he unfortunately failed, which led to Vivian choosing to evict him over Greta, and HOH Heidi Conrad cast the tie breaker vote against Jun, so he was evicted. He finished 5th place and was the seventh member of the Jury. On finale night, he won the America's Favorite Houseguest award over Ashleigh and Layla, gaining a total 5.2 million votes, the highest in Sims Big Brother history.

## Biography

**Hometown:** Incheon, KOR
**Current city:** Sacramento, CA
**Occupation:** Professional Dancer / K-Pop Idol Trainee
**Three adjectives that describe you:** Entertaining, fearless and confident.
**Favorite activities:** Playing variety of games, eating mom (엄마)'s cooking, dancing to South Korean pop songs, going to the movies with my closest friends, eating Yangneyom Fried Chicken (양념치킨), playing my favorite acoustic guitar, and singing to Korean trot music
**What do you think will be the most difficult part about living inside the Big Brother house?**
Missing summer on the Jeju-do (제주도) Island with my family. We're usually there during the weekends. Our vacation house isn't huge but my family is so there's a lot of people in a little house, playing board games, drinking, cooking, making stupid videos. There's nothing better than the summer with them.
**Do you have a strategy for winning the game?**
My strategy involves three phases. First, attempt to find common interests with as many houseguests as I can, while developing a profile on them. Second, start using the facts I learned about the houseguests against them. Finally, if I’m able to win a few HOH's/POV's late in the game, I can make some moves that will determine the winner.
**My life's motto is...**
“No matter how difficult and hard something is, I will always smile like an idiot” - EXO's Park Chanyeol (박찬열)
**What would you take into the house and why?**
A picture of my family and relatives as they are everything to me, my memory foam pillow since I need a good night sleep and a deck of cards.
**Fun facts about yourself:**
* I'm brutally a light sleeper. I endured so much during my training process with strict diet meals, the lack of sleeping habits, and being regulated in multiple aspects of my personal life (dating, body proportions, visual appearances).
* I look photogenic in my pictures but it actually takes me a thousand pictures to find one good picture of myself. I bought myself a self-timer, so I wouldn't have to be embarrassed to ask someone to take a million selfies of me and I can get one with my eyes open for Instagram.

## Trivia

* Jun, Ashleigh, Layla and Vivian are the only people to always vote with the majority during their stay on *Big Brother 2*.
	+ Jun is the only male to do so.
* Jun was the first and only person in *Big Brother 2* to win the Temptation Competition and chosen not to claim the special power.
* Jun is the second minority in *Big Brother* history to win America's Favorite Houseguest. The first was Ramon Sanchez during *Big Brother 1*.
* Jun won the most competitions for a HouseGuest in *Big Brother 2*, having won nine competitions.
	+ He won 2 HoHs, 1 Temptation competition, 3 PoVs, and 3 Battle Back competitions.
* Jun is the only male HouseGuest to win a HOH, POV, and Temptation competition in *Big Brother 2*.
* Jun was the second HouseGuest in *Big Brother 2* to win Head of Household and the Power of Veto within the same week. Madison, Greta, Heidi, and Vivian accomplished this as well.
* Jun is the third HouseGuest to win the Power of Veto in all three situations (as HOH, as a nominee, and as a picked player), sometimes referred to as the Trifecta Veto. The first HouseGuests do accomplish were Kyle Franklin and Madison Randall.