Young-jae Jung
Young-jae Jung (born 1984) is a South Korean ballet dancer. He is currently a member of the Korea National Ballet where he is a soloist. Jung graduated from Ulan Ude State Ballet School, Russia in 2001 and also attended the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. After graduating from Korea National University of Arts, he danced at Universal Ballet. In 2008, he was a member of corps de ballet at the English National Ballet (ENB) for two years. At ENB, he was taught by Anthony Dowson (a former principal dancer at the Royal Ballet) and played leading roles in  the ENB director Wayne Eagling's numerous works such as "The Snow Queen", "Coppélia", "Manon", "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker". In July 2009 he joined the Korea National Ballet. At the 11th “Arabesque” International Ballet Competition in 2010, he received a perfect score from all the judges for the first time in the history of the competition to win the Grand Prix and the Best Couple Prize.