Park Bo-young

At 34 years old, Park Bo-young has this physical status:

Park Bo-young (born February 12, 1990) is a South Korean actress.

She is best known for her appearances in the hit films Scandal Makers (2008), A Werewolf Boy (2012), On Your Wedding Day (2018), and the television series Oh My Ghost (2015) and Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017).

Personal life

Park was born in Jeungpyeong, North Chungcheong Province. She is the second of three children in the family. Her father served in the Special Forces for 34 years. She graduated from Jeungpyeong Primary School, Jeungpyeong Girls' Middle School, Daeseong Girls' Commercial High School, and Dankook University's Department of Performing Arts with a major in Theatre and Film.

She opened her first SNS account in 15 years since her debut on April 26, 2021. Within 17 hours of its debut, her first Instagram post received 165,000 likes in less than 17 hours.

During a workout before beginning with the TV show Strong Girl Bong Soon, the park's ankle ligaments were torn. In April 2017, the hospital advised her to wear a cast, but she had to use ankle tape and begin with physical therapy instead. She underwent a twenty-minute minor surgery two months after wrapping up the series. The actress' agency announced on September 6 that she was in the final stages of recovery and that On Your Wedding Day later this month, she would begin filming.

Park declared a short hiatus in November 2019 in order to recover from an arm injury. A scar on her arm was also removed by surgery.

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Career

Park appeared in a short film called Equal in 2005 when she was in middle school, just before her official acting debut in 2006. At the 7th Seoul International Youth Film Festival (SIYFF 2005), the short film received the Challenging Reality Award (). When she was in high school, she first appeared in television with a public advertisement for Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.

Park made her official debut in the 2006 high school television series Secret Campus alongside fellow newcomer Lee Min-ho. Among the notable projects during her career were the historical epic The King and I and Peabody Award-winning teen drama Jungle Fish, based on a true tale that depicts the pressures placed on students to enroll and obtain admission to prestigious colleges and universities.

Park rose to fame after starring Cha Tae-hyun in comedy Scandal Makers, which attracted 8.3 million viewers to become the country's highest grosser of 2008 and one of Korean cinema's biggest hits. Park's well-praised performance swept Best New Actress awards in 2009, describing her as "excellent" in her role as a spunky teenage mom. Because of its popularity, she was also dubbed "Nation's Little Sister." If You Were Me 4 was a short film directed by Lee Hyun-seung, a human rights-themed omnibus.

However, she became embroiled in a string of court disputes with her then-management company and a film production company in 2010, causing the actress to be embroiled in litigation and unable to work for the next few years.

Park finally brought an end to her four-year absence from the limelight by narrating the 2012 horror film "Don't Click" after she was designated as the promotional ambassador (called "PiFan Lady" for the 2011 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. She appeared in A Werewolf Boy, a fantasy romance film that attracted over 7 million viewers and became one of the most popular Korean melodramas of all time. The song, "My Prince," was released as a digital single and included in the movie soundtrack, and her character appears in the film.

Park appeared on Law of the Jungle, a reality-documentary series starring comedian Kim Byung-man and several celebrities as they explore and survive the New Zealand wilderness in 2013.

In Hot Young Bloods (2014), a teen romantic comedy set in the 1980s, Park played the tough, potty-mouthed leader of her high school gang in a departure from her previous sweet, innocent characters. Park, a born in North Chungcheong Province, had fun swearing in southern dialect, but she had trouble learning it because it was a mashup of Jeolla and Chungcheong dialects.

She introduced The Silenced, a mystery thriller set in a girls' boarding school during the Japanese occupation in 2015. This was followed by two roles in Park's first television series in seven years, Oh My Ghost. Her salary of 30 million (US$27,000) per episode made her the highest-paid actress to appear on cable channel tvN. At the 4th APAN Star Awards, the series was a commercial and critical hit, and it received the Best Actress award for Park. By the Korean media, she had also been dubbed the "romantic comedy queen" and had been dubbed "romantic comedy queen."

Park next was the selfish love affair of a mutant in the black comedy Collective Invention's black comedy and an entertainment news cub reporter in the workplace comedy You Call It Passion.

Park was cast as the title in JTBC's series Strong Girl Bong-Soon, which premiered in February 2017 where she played a character with superhuman strength. The series became one of the best-rated Korean dramas in cable television history. Due to its fame, it gained her Korea Reputation Center's highest brand value among Korean TV actors and the highest customer engagement rate in February and March 2017.

Park began filming On Your Wedding Day, a romantic film that premiered in August 2018. She was reunited with Kim Young-kwang, with whom she appeared in the 2014 film Hot Young Bloods. The film was a hit in the box office and received raves.

Park appeared in tvN's series Abyss premiered in May 2019, where she played a beautiful prosecutor who transforms into a plain-looking teenager after being revived by a mysterious orb.

In December 2019, she left her ten-year company Fides Spatium. She had signed a definite deal with BH Entertainment two months later.

Park appeared in fantasy romance series Doom at Your Service with Seo In-guk on television, which premiered on May 10, 2021. Lee Byung-hun and Park Seo-joon co-started film Concrete Utopia in April 2021.

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