Jae-hyung Park

Jae Park was born on September 15, 1992, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has an older sister. When he was 5 years old his family moved to South Korea, and after 2 years shifted to Cerritos, California.

Park studied at the ‘Cerritos High School’ and formed a debate club in his school. After graduating, he joined the California State University, Long Beach, and chose to study political science. He left his studies and moved to South Korea when he got selected in the preliminary auditions of South Korean reality competition TV series, SBS’s ‘K-pop Star.’ In this world-wide audition, 3 major entertainment agencies of South Korea scouted for potential K-pop stars.

Park participated in the series and made it to the list of final 6 contestants before getting eliminated on April 1, 2012. However, he was signed on by ‘JYP Entertainment’ to an exclusive contract, along with another contestant Baek A-yeon and the winner, Park Ji-min.

Park is the lead vocalist and electric guitarist of ‘JYP’s’ first rock band, ‘Day6.’ The other band members of ‘Day6’ are – Yoon Do-woon, Kang Yeong-hyun (Young K.), Kim Won-pil and Park Sungjin. Jae Park trained for 3 years before joining the band. The band ‘Day6’ was earlier called ‘5LIVE’ and for the promotion of their song ‘Lovely Girl’ the team appeared on the ‘Mnet’s’ reality survival program, ‘Who is Next: Win,’ in 2014.

Jae Park made his debut in the band on September 7, 2015. The band’s debut EP, ‘The Day,’ came out on that same day, with the release of its lead single, ‘Congratulations.’ The EP features six original tracks. Six months after their initial debut, the group made their official stage debut on March 31, 2016, on the music program ‘M Countdown.’

The second EP by the band, ‘Daydream,’ was brought out on March 30, 2016, with the release of its title track, ‘Letting Go.’ This, too, featured 6 original tracks and Park was part of 2 of these songs, ‘Blood,’ and ‘First Time.’

On June 28, 2016, Park appeared as MC on South Korean English TV network ‘Arirang’s’ live music request talk show, ‘After School Club (ASC).’ His co-hosts on the program were Park Ji-min and Kevin Woo. From July 17, 2018, he was declared as the official MC of the show ‘ASC.’ He appeared as a guest DJ along with singer Bernard Park on ‘Arirang Radio’s Monday Music Access.’

On December 29, 2016, the band declared their new project, ‘Every Day6,’ through which they would release 2 songs every month for the entire year 2017. Under this project, the group released a number of singles, including ‘I Wait,’ ‘You Were Beautiful,’ ‘My Day,’ ‘How Can I Say,’ ‘Dance Dance,’ and many more. They also promoted these singles on the TV music program ‘M Countdown.’

Jae Park is nicknamed as ‘Chicken Little’ because of his resemblance to the character. He is also called ‘Hashtag King’ as he uses a lot of long hashtags.

He used to edit ‘Day6’ band’s own Wikipedia and played with the group members’ nicknames.

Jae Park has mentioned in his ‘YouTube’ vlog that he is allergic to pollen and several fruits and is lactose intolerant.

He is fluent in English, but not in Korean.

Jae Park is friends with ‘The Rose’ members Woo Sung and K.A.R.D.’s BM.