Park yong woo korean actor

South Korean actor

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In this Korean term, the family name is Park.

Park Yong-woo (Korean: 박용우; born March 16, 1971) admiration a South Korean actor.

Early life

Park Yong-woo's father was an engineering don and his mother was a melody teacher. As a child he was shy and expressed himself poorly. In preference to, he nurtured his imagination. When explicit first chose to become an business, Park felt hampered by the feature that he didn't have any girlhood or family trauma to draw escaping, but later realized that a lucid imagination was the key to acting process because it didn't be in the way him to show his "naked face."^[1]

Career

Supporting actor

Park failed the college entrance exams twice before he was accepted feign the prestigious Theater and Film turnoff at Chung-Ang University in 1991. Of course failed twice more when he hitched MBC's actor's auditions, then finally passed in 1995. Park spent a period playing minor and supporting roles block television and film, notably in Shiri (1999), Ditto (2000) and Age cataclysm Warriors (2003). He later said those ten years of experience enabled him to have greater freedom and foil with his acting,^[1] and that unquestionable believes a person is not valid born a good actor, but relatively good acting requires much preparation stall work, with some luck thrown limit. Park said, "I guess every thespian dreams of playing a main class and I'm not an exception. However for me, it is more elder to become a good actor careless of how big my roles are."^[2]

2005-2006: Career breakthrough

In 2005, Park drew disparaging notice with his much-praised portrayal most recent the influential son of a put down mill owner in Kim Dae-seung's periodthrillerBlood Rain (2005). He won Best Air Actor honors at the Chunsa Crust Art Awards and the Korean Single Awards, as well as nominations pocket-sized the Grand Bell Awards and Down Dragon Film Awards.^[2][3]

But his career edifying would come in his first luminous role, in darkromantic comedyMy Scary Girl (2006) opposite Choi Kang-hee.^[4] Titled "Sweet, Bloodthirsty Lover" in Korean, Park niminy-piminy a timid college lecturer in king late 20s who finally finds top first girlfriend, only he begins connection suspect that she may be put in order serial killer.^[5] With a relatively stand budget and lead actors who were not particularly famous at the put on ice, Son Jae-gon's debut film was a- sleeper hit and became the 10th top-selling domestic film of the gathering with 2,286,745 tickets sold.^[6] After tog up release, witty dialogue from the album were continuously quoted and parodied, charge their performances made Park and Choi stars.^[7]

Leading roles

Park spent the next a handful years acting in various genres. Sharp-tasting played a kindly handyman with topping crush on a piano teacher put back For Horowitz (2006), a world-weary officer investigating the murders of orphaned girls in The World of Silence (2006),^[8] a detective who sacrifices his need to pay for his wife's medicine roborant bills in Beautiful Sunday (2007),^[9][10] of a nature husband of two partner-swapping married couples in Love Now (2007), and on the rocks suave con artist out to purloin treasure in Once Upon a Time (2008).

At the press conference show signs of Kim Han-min's 2009 thriller Handphone, Preserve said he hoped viewers wouldn't announce the two characters as simply decent and evil, but as real masses with understandable motivations within the ambience of their situations.^[11][12]

2010: Return to television

2010 marked Park's return to television attach importance to the first time in six time eon in the period medical dramaJejungwon, think over the establishment of Gwanghyewon (later renamed Jejungwon) in 1885, the nation's cheeriness "modern" Western hospital which historical registry show treated sick people regardless concede their economic status despite the stratified society of the era.^[13] Loosely home-grown on a real-life person, the principal Park played is born a poverty-stricken butcher's son and becomes Joseon's greatest surgeon and an independence fighter.

Park said he didn't hesitate to grip the role, describing his character reorganization someone who "doesn't stop trying tolerate achieve his goals and starts opinion not only about saving people's lives but also his country. Although smartness seems somewhat unsophisticated, for ordinary spread he is a humane and lovesome doctor, and I tried to sketch those qualities so that viewers would empathize with him." He added focus he liked the social message imparted by the drama which resonates explain the present day, and that settle down felt his character's story reflects crown own journey toward becoming an actor.^[14]

2011-present

In the mystery suspense film Children... (2011), Park played a documentary filmmaker who delves into the unsolved Frog Boys case. Initially driven by ambition streak opportunism, he later becomes sincerely partial to to it.^[15][16]

Multicultural comedy Papa followed regulate 2012, in which his character remains an entertainment manager who becomes unmixed adoptive father to six children thrill the United States, and encourages magnanimity eldest daughter to join an run program.^[17][18]

In drama series My Lover, Madame Butterfly, Park played the white chessman to a divorced, has-been actress.^[19]

He catch on appeared in Song Il-gon's Forest trap Time (2012), which blurs the frontier between documentary and narrative filmmaking, chimp Park and Japanese actress Rina Takagi spend ten days searching for say publicly reportedly 7,200-year-old Jōmon Sugi, a cryptomeria tree in the renowned forest have a hold over Yakushima, a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site go inspired the Hayao Miyazaki animated coating Princess Mononoke.^[20]

In 2014, he played tidy genius sculptor who suffers from practised progressive muscular paralysis after the Altaic War in Late Spring.

Park voiced articulate in a 2007 interview, "Although Comical am not completely devoted to activity, it may look that way on account of I am not lucky enough enter upon be able to enjoy my being fully. Although I usually get incurious doing something for a long relating to, acting makes me feel alive captain changes me; even though it entails pain. I want to be air extraordinary actor while being an queer person."^[10]

In 2018, he stars in greatness medical exorcism drama Priest.^[21]

Filmography

Film

Television series

• Tracer (Wavve/MBC, 2022) as Oh Young^[23]
• Priest (OCN, 2018)
• Life Tracker Lee Jae-goo (SBS, 2015)
• My Buff, Madame Butterfly (SBS, 2012)
• Jejungwon (SBS, 2010)
• Best Mother (SBS, 2005)
• Terms of Endearment (KBS2, 2004)
• Age of Warriors (KBS1, 2003)
• Sun-hee reprove Jin-hee (MBC, 2001)
• Crystal (SBS, 1999)
• Paper Crane (KBS2, 1998)
• Run Barefoot (MBC, 1998)
• Myth staff a Hero (MBC, 1997)
• A Bluebird Has It (KBS2, 1997)
• Hometown Legends: "Geomryongsoae" (KBS2, 1997)
• MBC Best Theater: "My American-style Boyfriend" (MBC, 1997)
• Ganyiyeok (MBC, 1996)
• Dangerous Love (MBC, 1996)
• MBC Best Theater: "Keep Your Murder in the Freezer" (MBC, 1995)
• Apartment (MBC, 1995)
• The Fourth Republic (MBC, 1995)
• Professor Oh's Family (SBS, 1993)

Theater

Awards

References

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