Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Lee Jung-jae's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs
The Creative Communicator
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
Lee Jung-jae (Korean: 이정재; born December 15, 1972) is a South Korean actor, filmmaker, and businessman. The birth-card coordinate for December 15 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2022 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Squid Game) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 2022 Lead Actor in a Drama Series — Squid Game as Seong Gi-hun
The 3 of Clubs coordinate
Lee Jung-jae's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Lee Jung-jae. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.
Lee Jung-jae in the public record
Considered one of South Korea's most successful actors, he has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, an Actor Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, six Baeksang Arts Awards, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Gotham Award. Lee is also a businessman who has launched a restaurant chain in Seoul and founded several companies, including the development firm Seorim C&D, some of which he co-owns with Jung Woo-sung. Lee started his career as a fashion model, and gained popularity for his role in television drama Sandglass (1995). After his breakthrough in An Affair (1998), Lee's film career took off. He has starred in dramas such as City of the Rising Sun (1999), romantic films Il Mare (2000) and Last Present (2001), comedies such as Oh! Brothers (2003), action films Typhoon (2005) and Deliver Us from Evil (2020), thrillers The Housemaid (2010) and New World (2013), heist film The Thieves (2012), and espionage films Assassination (2015), Operation Chromite (2016) and Hunt (2022). He won Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Baeksang Arts Awards for his role in The Face Reader (2013). In 2021, Lee gained international fame for his role as Seong Gi-hun of Netflix's Squid Game.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Lee Jung-jae (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the King of Diamonds
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Cards in Lee Jung-jae's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Communicator
- K♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy King
- 5♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- J♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 9♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Master Leader
- J♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Financial Foundation Builder
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Natural authority and command over resources
Lee is also a businessman who has launched a restaurant chain in Seoul and founded several companies, including the development firm Seorim C&D, some of which he co-owns with Jung Woo-sung.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: businessman, founded.
Also on the record
- For his performance in the show's first season, he was nominated for numerous accolades, including the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, making him the first male actor from Asia to receive individual nominations in those categories across all four awards shows, with his win for the latter two also making history.
- His season 2 and 3 portrayals received mixed reviews.
- In December 2021, he was selected as Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year.
- In 2022, Lee was awarded the Geumgwan (1st Class) Order of Cultural Merit, the highest decoration awarded to those who have contributed to South Korean culture and arts.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Billy Porter — 2019 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Pose)
- John Lithgow — 1996 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (3rd Rock from the Sun); 1997 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (3rd Rock from the Sun); 1999 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (3rd Rock from the Sun)
- Shelley Long — 1983 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Cheers)
FAQ
- What is Lee Jung-jae's birth card?
- The 3 of Clubs. December 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Lee Jung-jae's dates come from?
- Birth date 1972-12-15 is the day-precision date on Lee Jung-jae's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Lee Jung-jae; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q491318). Birth date 1972-12-15 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).