There is a moment that 2PM fans have played on a loop since December 2025. Ok Taecyeon, standing at the KBS Drama Awards podium after winning the Male Excellence Award, turned to the cameras and said it plainly: "I love you, Ji-hye." Not a vague gesture, not an anonymous thank-you — a name, spoken aloud, in front of everyone. Five months later, on April 24, 2026, he married her.

The ceremony took place at the Yeongbingwan hall of the Shilla Hotel in Seoul's Jung-gu district, a venue whose guest list over the decades reads like a short history of Korean stardom: Jang Dong-gun and Ko So-young, Yoo Jae-suk and Na Kyung-eun, Kwon Sang-woo and Son Tae-young, Jeon Ji-hyun. For Taecyeon and Ji-hye, a private affair with family and close friends, the setting was both understated and unmistakably significant.

Ten Years, One Name Spoken Aloud

Ji-hye is four years younger than Taecyeon and not a figure in the public eye. Her identity has been deliberately protected by both the couple and Taecyeon's agency, 51K, which confirmed the wedding with a single statement: "Out of consideration for the bride, who is a non-celebrity, all details regarding the wedding schedule and her personal information will be kept private."

The two had been together for roughly a decade before anyone outside their circle knew. When Taecyeon publicly acknowledged the relationship in June 2020, the couple had already built something substantial — years of shared experience that never made it into the tabloids. That kind of privacy in the Korean entertainment industry is genuinely rare, and it set the tone for how the entire engagement and wedding would be handled.

In February 2025, discretion briefly gave way to spectacle. Photos surfaced online of Taecyeon on one knee in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, presenting Ji-hye with a diamond ring from a luxury jewelry brand. The images were unauthorized, but the reaction was jubilant. The couple said nothing publicly, letting the gesture speak for itself — and it did. Nine months passed.

Then, in November 2025, Taecyeon wrote a letter. Not a press release, not a social media graphic — a handwritten note, photographed and posted to his own account. "I have promised to spend my life with someone who has understood and believed in me for a long time," it read. "We will be a steady presence for each other and walk through the rest of our lives together." He added that he would continue repaying the love of 2PM members and fans alike: "I will do my best as a 2PM member, as an actor, and as your Taecyeon."

The wedding invitation, shared privately with guests, carried one last signature touch. The message borrowed language from 2PM's landmark 2009 hit: "Two people who are 10 out of 10 to each other are finally getting married. Please join us for the beginning of this journey." For a man whose professional identity has been built inside that group for eighteen years, it was the only fitting way to announce a new beginning.

2PM Complete: Brotherhood on Display

The five members of 2PM who are not Taecyeon — Jun.K, Nichkhun, Hwang Chansung, Jang Wooyoung, and Lee Junho — all showed up at the Shilla Hotel on April 24. Together, they performed the wedding song. The group that debuted in 2008, navigated member changes and military service stints and a global fanbase across nearly two decades, stood as a complete unit to watch their bandmate get married.

Hwang Chansung, 36 and the youngest member of 2PM, took on the role of MC. The choice had a certain logic to it beyond seniority: Chansung became 2PM's first married member in 2022, when he wed a non-celebrity eight years his senior and welcomed a daughter that same year. He arrived at the ceremony already knowing something about the leap Taecyeon was taking — and about protecting a non-celebrity partner's privacy in the middle of public life.

Taecyeon is now the second member of 2PM to marry. The group's founding lineup, still intact after eighteen years, has rarely gone out of its way to perform togetherness for publicity. The fact that all five members were present — and singing — makes the gesture feel less like a celebrity event and more like what it actually was: friends being there for a friend.

The Career That Earned This Moment

Taecyeon's path through the entertainment industry has been notably straightforward by K-pop standards, and that straightforwardness seems inseparable from his personality. He debuted with 2PM in 2008, appeared on some of the group's biggest hits, and in 2010 began taking on acting roles alongside the music — starting with the KBS drama Cinderella's Sister. He did not stop either career to pursue the other.

The acting resume that followed over fifteen years includes Dream High, the military thriller Secret Royal Inspector & Joy, and the 2024 historical epic Hansan: Rising Dragon. His most recent drama, the 2025 romantic comedy Took the First Night of the Male Lead, was what earned him December's KBS Male Excellence Award — and what gave him the stage from which to say Ji-hye's name in front of the cameras. It was, in retrospect, a perfectly timed accident of scheduling.

In 2018, Taecyeon made a choice that drew widespread respect: he enlisted for active-duty military service, despite the availability of alternative service options often taken by entertainers. He returned in 2019. The decision didn't slow him down; it seemed, if anything, to clarify his sense of what mattered. The relationship with Ji-hye continued through all of it — the service, the return, the renewed career, the awards season, the proposal in Paris.

Tokyo Dome Is Next

The wedding is not the end of the story's current chapter — it may not even be the biggest event of Taecyeon's spring. On May 9 and 10, 2026, 2PM will take the stage at Tokyo Dome for a two-night sold-out concert marking the 15th anniversary of the group's Japanese debut. The tour is titled THE RETURN, and it will bring together the same six men who sang at the Shilla Hotel wedding venue just a few weeks earlier.

For the fans who have been with 2PM since the beginning, the symmetry is almost too neat: a private ceremony in Seoul, then a full stadium concert in Tokyo, the group together for both. Eighteen years into a career that was never supposed to last this long — by industry metrics, by the logic of idol group lifecycles — 2PM appears to be at one of its most coherent and purposeful points.

Taecyeon entered April 24 as a singer, an actor, and a man who had spent ten years being quietly certain about one person. By the end of the day, he was a husband — with Jun.K, Nichkhun, Chansung, Wooyoung, and Junho providing the soundtrack.

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