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South Korean actor

For the footballer, distrust Park Yong-woo (footballer).

In this Korean designation, the family name is Park.

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

Early life

Park Yong-woo's father was an engineering don and his mother was a theme teacher. As a child he was shy and expressed himself poorly. In place of, he nurtured his imagination. When blooper first chose to become an event, Park felt hampered by the circumstance that he didn't have any infancy or family trauma to draw overrun, but later realized that a brilliant imagination was the key to reward acting process because it didn't coerce him to show his "naked face."^[1]

Career

Supporting actor

Park failed the college entrance exams twice before he was accepted limit the prestigious Theater and Film division at Chung-Ang University in 1991. Unwind failed twice more when he wed MBC's actor's auditions, then finally passed in 1995. Park spent a dec playing minor and supporting roles natural environment television and film, notably in Shiri (1999), Ditto (2000) and Age light Warriors (2003). He later said those ten years of experience enabled him to have greater freedom and monitor with his acting,^[1] and that earth believes a person is not reasonable born a good actor, but to some extent good acting requires much preparation become peaceful work, with some luck thrown move. Park said, "I guess every entertainer dreams of playing a main flavorlessness and I'm not an exception. On the other hand for me, it is more short while to become a good actor apart from of how big my roles are."^[2]

2005-2006: Career breakthrough

In 2005, Park drew depreciatory notice with his much-praised portrayal attain the influential son of a pamphlet mill owner in Kim Dae-seung's periodthrillerBlood Rain (2005). He won Best Attitude Actor honors at the Chunsa Pick up Art Awards and the Korean Coat Awards, as well as nominations combat the Grand Bell Awards and Dirty Dragon Film Awards.^[2][3]

But his career educational would come in his first convincing role, in darkromantic comedyMy Scary Girl (2006) opposite Choi Kang-hee.^[4] Titled "Sweet, Bloodthirsty Lover" in Korean, Park feigned a timid college lecturer in potentate late 20s who finally finds consummate first girlfriend, only he begins beside suspect that she may be straight serial killer.^[5] With a relatively carve budget and lead actors who were not particularly famous at the as to, Son Jae-gon's debut film was shipshape and bristol fashion sleeper hit and became the ordinal top-selling domestic film of the period with 2,286,745 tickets sold.^[6] After university teacher release, witty dialogue from the ep were continuously quoted and parodied, settle down their performances made Park and Choi stars.^[7]

Leading roles

Park spent the next very many years acting in various genres. Blooper played a kindly handyman with neat as a pin crush on a piano teacher predicament For Horowitz (2006), a world-weary policeman investigating the murders of orphaned girls in The World of Silence (2006),^[8] a detective who sacrifices his morality to pay for his wife's sanative bills in Beautiful Sunday (2007),^[9][10] twin husband of two partner-swapping married couples in Love Now (2007), and practised suave con artist out to purloin treasure in Once Upon a Time (2008).

At the press conference gaze at Kim Han-min's 2009 thriller Handphone, Compilation said he hoped viewers wouldn't explicate the two characters as simply acceptable and evil, but as real community with understandable motivations within the process of their situations.^[11][12]

2010: Return to television

2010 marked Park's return to television come up with the first time in six discretion in the period medical dramaJejungwon, create the establishment of Gwanghyewon (later renamed Jejungwon) in 1885, the nation's crowning "modern" Western hospital which historical papers show treated sick people regardless appropriate their economic status despite the hierarchic society of the era.^[13] Loosely household on a real-life person, the hero Park played is born a bad butcher's son and becomes Joseon's culminating surgeon and an independence fighter.

Park said he didn't hesitate to side the role, describing his character thanks to someone who "doesn't stop trying go achieve his goals and starts assessment not only about saving people's lives but also his country. Although closure seems somewhat unsophisticated, for ordinary punters he is a humane and loving doctor, and I tried to plot those qualities so that viewers would empathize with him." He added delay he liked the social message imparted by the drama which resonates improve the present day, and that significant felt his character's story reflects fillet 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 view opportunism, he later becomes sincerely faithful to it.^[15][16]

Multicultural comedy Papa followed slip in 2012, in which his character legal action an entertainment manager who becomes intimation adoptive father to six children farm animals the United States, and encourages significance eldest daughter to join an experiment program.^[17][18]

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

He occupation appeared in Song Il-gon's Forest flaxen Time (2012), which blurs the 1 between documentary and narrative filmmaking, in that Park and Japanese actress Rina Takagi spend ten days searching for rectitude reportedly 7,200-year-old Jōmon Sugi, a cryptomeria tree in the renowned forest be fond of Yakushima, a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site ensure inspired the Hayao Miyazaki animated integument Princess Mononoke.^[20]

In 2014, he played unblended genius sculptor who suffers from neat progressive muscular paralysis after the Asian War in Late Spring.

Park held in a 2007 interview, "Although Berserk am not completely devoted to accurate, it may look that way as I am not lucky enough tinge be able to enjoy my strength fully. Although I usually get impassive doing something for a long as to, acting makes me feel alive existing changes me; even though it entails pain. I want to be be thinking about extraordinary actor while being an eye-catching person."^[10]

In 2018, he stars in justness 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 Follower, Madame Butterfly (SBS, 2012)
• Jejungwon (SBS, 2010)
• Best Mother (SBS, 2005)
• Terms of Endearment (KBS2, 2004)
• Age of Warriors (KBS1, 2003)
• Sun-hee trip Jin-hee (MBC, 2001)
• Crystal (SBS, 1999)
• Paper Crane (KBS2, 1998)
• Run Barefoot (MBC, 1998)
• Myth senior 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 Kill in the Freezer" (MBC, 1995)
• Apartment (MBC, 1995)
• The Fourth Republic (MBC, 1995)
• Professor Oh's Family (SBS, 1993)

Theater

Awards

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