Eddy Kim
Eddy Kim | |
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Kim in 2014 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Kim Jung-hwan |
| Born | November 23, 1990 Seoul, South Korea |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
| Labels | Mystic Story |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김정환 |
| Revised Romanization | Kim Jeong-hwan |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Chŏnghwan |
| Stage name | |
| Hangul | 에디 킴 |
| Revised Romanization | Edi Kim |
| McCune–Reischauer | Edi K'im |
Kim Jung-hwan (Korean: 김정환; born November 23, 1990), known professionally as Eddy Kim (Korean: 에디 킴), is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He rose to fame as a contestant on the television talent show Superstar K 4 in 2012. He released his first EP, The Manual, in 2014.
On April 5, 2019, Kim was booked by the police for circulating illegally taken pictures of women in the Jung Joon-young KakaoTalk chatrooms, a mobile chat with fellow celebrities in 2016; a police investigation is ongoing into the Burning Sun scandal. On April 11, 2019, he admitted to spreading hidden camera photos taken without consent which he had downloaded from the internet.