Park Yoo-chun

Park Yoo-chun was born in Seoul, South Korea, on June 4, 1986. He comes from a well to do business family and has a younger brother named Park Yu-hwan who also joined show business. He moved to the United States of America with his family when he was 12 years old and lived in Fairfax, Virginia. While in America he attended Holmes Middle School and later joined Chantilly High School.

While he was in high school he won an award at an American Music Festival that was his first stepping stone into music as a profession. His parents divorced and Park returned to South Korea where he joined the five member male band that went by the name of Dong Bang Shin Ki.

He graduated from Hanam High School in 2007 and went on to join Kyunghee Cyber University for his degree. His father passed away in 2012 due to prolonged illness leaving Park as the eldest male member of the family.

In 2006, he was signed up as an artist by SM Entertainment and joined the famous K-pop group called TVXQ for which he played till 2009. Park and his band mates, Jaejoong and Junsu, fell out with SM Entertainment over their contract and went into a legal battle that lasted from 2009 to 2012. In the mean time they formed their new band named JUNSUS/ YUCHUN/ JAEJOONG (JYJ) in Japan.

In 2010, JYJ came out with their debut extended play titled ‘The ....’ that hit the number one spot on the Japanese Oricon album charts. They followed this up with their international English album titled ‘The Beginning’. The album was promoted with a tour of the band that covered the United States, Southeast Asia and South Korea.

The following year they released their Korean album ‘In Heaven’ and an extended play titled ‘Their Rooms, Our Story’. The band also toured North America, Europe and Asia to reach out to their fans.

Park soon gained celebrity status and appeared in the television drama serial ‘Miss Ripley’, where he sang the song ‘The Empty Space for You’. He was also one of the rappers featured on the Super Junior’s third album titled ‘Sorry Sorry’.

Park proved himself as a talented songwriter in his early career. He composed songs that featured on TVXQ’s Korean and Japanese most popular albums. He wrote the lyrics in English for his solo number ‘My Girlfriend’ and also for most of the songs played by JYJ.

His solo appearances include his numbers in the albums ‘Stars’ by DJ Makai and ‘I Loved..Have No Regret’ by Gummy. He also sung the number ‘How Much Love do You Have in Your Wallet’ for his first mini album and live concert.

He appeared as the host for TVXQ Bigeastation radio show in 2007 and appeared on all the numbers of TVXQ and JYJ that are considered among the top ranking bands in South Korea and Japan.

His hit television serials are ‘Sungkyunkwan Scandal’ (2010), ‘Miss Ripley’ (2011), ‘Rooftop Prince’ (2012), ‘Three Days’ (2013) and ‘The Girl Who Sees Smells’ (2015).

He has appeared in the movies ‘Dating on Earth’ (2005), ‘Haemoo’ (2014) and ‘Lucid Dream’ (2017).