Park Si-yeon

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.
Park Si-yeon
Born Park Mi-seon
March 29, 1979
Busan, South Korea
Occupation Actress
Years active 2000–present
Agent Didim531
Spouse(s) Park Sang-hun (m. 2011)
Korean name
Hangul 박시연
Hanja 朴時姸
Revised Romanization Bak Si-yeon
McCune–Reischauer Pak Si-yŏn
Birth name
Hangul 박미선
Hanja 朴美宣
Revised Romanization Bak Mi-seon
McCune–Reischauer Pak Mi-sŏn

Park Si-yeon (born Park Mi-seon on March 29, 1979) is a South Korean actress. She joined the Miss Korea pageant in 2000, and using that as a springboard to an acting career, she made her acting debut in China in 2004, appearing in minor roles in several CCTV dramas. In 2005 Park was cast in her first starring role in the Korean drama My Girl, though at the time she was more known for dating actor-singer Eric Mun. As she built her filmography in the following years, Park overcame early criticism of her acting skills and eventually gained respect as an actress in TV series such as La Dolce Vita, Coffee House and The Innocent Man, as well as the films The Fox Family, A Love, and The Scent.

Early life

Park Mi-seon was born in Busan, South Korea. As a child, Park displayed a talent for singing, saying, "When I was young, I used to be so shy that I cried when I was told to sing in front of my dad on the Lunar New Year. My mom ended up sending me to a singing academy, hoping it would help me get over my shyness, but the strange thing is that I couldn't sing in front of my mom but I wasn't nervous at all on stage." In 1990, the fifth grader won the top prize in a children's music contest on KBS.[1]

Park began attending college in the United States in 1998, majoring in journalism at Long Island University. In 2000, she took a leave of absence from school and entered in the regional Miss Seoul beauty pageant, placing third, followed by the Miss Korea pageant.[2][3]

Career

Though her parents initially opposed her pursuing acting, Park took profile pictures of herself and went to various talent agencies. Her profile photos were eventually handed over to a Chinese agency, and several auditions later, this led to Park making her acting debut in China. Using the stage name Park Si-yeon, she appeared in small roles in three CCTV dramas, and also landed an advertising contract with cosmetics company Enprani.

In 2005, Park made her acting debut in her native country of South Korea with the SBS TV drama My Girl, for which she received unanimously bad reviews.[3] But Park continued to work, appearing in more dramas and making her film debut in the 2006 quirky comedy-horror-musical The Fox Family; gradually her acting showed marked improvement. At first constantly struggling to memorize her lines, Park has admitted that she became more relaxed in her approach to acting, and is able to "feel" her characters better.[4] She became known for playing women who drove men to their destruction and misfortune: In the gangster film A Love, the lover of Park's character goes to prison after defending her,[5] in the MBC drama La Dolce Vita, she was a gold-digging mistress with a lonely soul,[6] in spy film parody Dachimawa Lee, she was a sexy agent, and in the KBS drama The Slingshot, she sacrifices herself and becomes the enemy's possession in exchange for her boyfriend's freedom. Park smilingly said, "I personally don't like femme fatales. Men should be happy because of women, not unhappy."[1]

For the revival of Drama Special, Park played a bookstore employee who falls in love with a married man in Red Candy. Despite the difficulty of taking part in a one-act drama, Park took it on with her devoted trust in screenwriter Noh Hee-kyung, of whom she is a big fan. "I felt that I had to be in whatever she writes."[1][7][8]

In 2009, she joined the variety/reality show Family Outing, which features comedians and entertainers dealing with various aspects of rural life. But Park had to leave after six months due to a recurring injury she sustained while filming a previous project.[9]

The series Coffee House was a welcome change for her; after having mainly taken on serious or dark characters, Park said she had been "dying to be in a romantic comedy."[10][11] Describing Park as "extremely kind," director Pyo Min-soo said he incorporated her real-life personality in writing her character: a bright, cheerful, and caring career woman who at the same time is hardworking, frank and confident. Park said, "Honestly, this is the first time working has been this fun."[12][13][14]

In 2010, U.S.-based Korean fashion company Moeim Style announced that Park would be the creative director for U.S. fashion brand TOUCH. As creative director, she oversaw the entire planning process, from design to distribution to production, of the brand's celebrity fashion line. The "celeb line" that she handled included the brands Tulle, Line & Dot, 213 and MK2K.[15]

For Christmas 2011, eight actors and actresses from Park's agency Didim531 (then known as Eyagi Entertainment) - including herself, Park Si-hoo, Jo Yeo-jeong and Nam Gyu-ri - recorded a song with no help from professional singers. The track, titled "Winter Story," is a cheerful tune based on the emotions that arise before a love confession, which is made against a winter backdrop. The song was released for sale online on December 5, 2011, and all profits from the song's sales went to charity.[16]

Park made her comeback to the big screen after a two-year hiatus (her last film had been Marine Boy[17]) in 2012's The Scent. She played a seductive woman who is the sole witness to the deaths of her husband and his mistress, whom the detective suspects is the killer yet is drawn to her mystique. Mesmerized while reading the script for the movie, Park said, "I am really excited that I get to play a character that is cool on the outside but is hurt and sad on the inside."[18][19][20][21]

She then starred in the melodrama The Innocent Man, playing a woman who betrays her lover to serve her own ambition and puts him on the path to destructive revenge.[22][23][24] Critics have credited Park's mature performance, saying she mastered the character's complicated nature in a way that heightened the tension of the story, and was not overshadowed by leading actors Song Joong-ki and Moon Chae-won.[25]

After giving birth and being indicted for propofol use in 2013, Park returned to television with the 2014 cable drama The Greatest Marriage, in which her character struggles to balance single motherhood and a successful career as an anchorwoman.[26][27][28]

In 2015, she made her Hollywood debut in Last Knights, an action film set in medieval times about a band of warriors who seek revenge on a corrupt emperor. She starred alongside Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, and Korean veteran actor Ahn Sung-ki. With Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya at the helm, filming took place in the Czech Republic.[29][30][31][32]

Personal life

Park first became known to the Korean public not through her acting roles, but as the girlfriend of popular singer-actor Eric Mun (from K-pop boy band Shinhwa), whom she began dating in 2004.[33] Her relationship with Mun overshadowed her acting career during her early years, with the public commonly identifying her as "Eric's girlfriend".[3] In an interview with The Korea Herald, Park said it took about 10 different roles before the tag of "Eric's girlfriend" vanished from the public's perception of her, adding that the only positive of the tag was that she loved him. The couple broke up in 2007.[34]

In an August 2010 interview with Cosmopolitan, Park said, "These days the thing I most think about is, ‘Have I lived well?’ I’m happy when I film dramas or movies, but in this kind of life you should turn back and take stock of your life at least once, and I think that time has come. I want to love. I want to marry soon and live boisterously."[35]

On November 19, 2011 at the Seoul Hyatt Hotel, Park married Park Sang-hun, an office worker at a small company.[36][37][38][39][40] She gave birth to their first child, a daughter, on September 24, 2013.[41][42][43][44]

In early 2013, Park was among the celebrities investigated then indicted for illegal use of propofol; Park's agency denied the allegations, saying she took the drug for medical reasons after she injured her back doing action scenes for the films Marine Boy and Dachimawa Lee.[45][46][47][48][49][50] During the trial, her doctor testified that she had been taking the drug to treat avascular necrosis at the head of her femur.[51][52] In October 2013, the Seoul Central District Court found Park guilty of taking propofol 400-500 times over four-and-a-half years (or 8.2 times a month), and she was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years.[53][54][55]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Network
2004 凤求凰 Feng Qiu Huang CCTV
2005 汗血宝马 Han Xue Bao Ma Gui Shou CCTV
宝莲灯 Lotus Lantern San Sheng Mu CCTV
My Girl Kim Se-hyun SBS
2006 Please Come Back, Soon-ae flight attendant on last airplane SBS
Yeon Gaesomun Cheon Gwan-nyeo SBS
Hyena Soo-mi tvN
2007 When Spring Comes Oh Yeong-joo KBS2
2008 On Air Herself (cameo, episode 3) SBS
La Dolce Vita Hong Da-ae MBC
2009 The Slingshot Seo Kyung-ah KBS2
2009 Family Outing Herself SBS
2010 Drama Special "Red Candy" Yoo-hee KBS2
Coffee House Seo Eun-young SBS
2011 The Greatest Love Kim Hee-jin (cameo, episodes 3-4) MBC
2012 The Innocent Man Han Jae-hee KBS2
2014 The Greatest Marriage Cha Gi-young TV Chosun

Film

Year Title Role
2006 The Fox Family Fox daughter #1
2007 Zigzag Love Ra-young
A Love Mi-ju
2008 Dachimawa Lee Ma-ri
Marine Boy Choi Yu-ri
2012 The Scent Kim Soo-jin
2015 Last Knights Hannah

Music video

Year Song title Artist
2005 "Habit" Woo Soo
2006 "Untouchable" [Part 1] Big 4 (SG Wannabe, Kim Jong-kook, M to M)
"Gone With the Wind" [Part 2]
2007 "My Heart Cannot Go On Like This Any Longer" MC the Max
2009 "After Love" Park Hyo-shin
2011 "Amazed" K.Will feat. Supreme Team's Simon D
and SiSTAR's Hyorin
"Rainy Season" Jung-in
"No More Perfume on You" Teen Top

Commercials

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2000 Miss Seoul Pageant Third place N/A Won
2006 27th Blue Dragon Film Awards Best New Actress The Fox Family Nominated
SBS Drama Awards New Star Award My Girl Won
2007 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards Best New Actress The Fox Family Won
28th Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Supporting Actress A Love Nominated
27th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards Best New Actress Won
2008 29th Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Supporting Actress Dachimawa Lee Nominated
2009 KBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress in a Mid-length Drama The Slingshot Nominated
2010 SBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress in a Special Planning Drama Coffee House Nominated
KBS Drama Awards Best Actress in a One-Act Drama/Special Red Candy Nominated
2012 KBS Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress in a Mid-length Drama The Innocent Man Nominated

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  2. ↑ "2000 Miss Korea profile - Park Mi-seon". Hankook Ilbo (in Korean). Retrieved 2013-06-03.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Shin, Hae-in (2005-12-13). ""Eric's girl" Park Si-yeon makes a leap to acting". The Korea Herald.
  4. ↑ "Star Focus: Park Si-yeon". Arirang. 2008-07-16.
  5. ↑ Lee, Hoo-nam (2007-07-19). "Gangsters in love and actors who diet create a comeback". Korea JoongAng Daily.
  6. ↑ "K-DRAMA REVIEWS: 달콤한 인생 (La Dolce Vita)". Twitch Film. 2008-07-23.
  7. ↑ Choi, Ji-eun (2010-05-17). "PREVIEW: KBS' Drama Special Lollipops". 10Asia.
  8. ↑ Jin, Young-ju (2010-05-19). "Rebirth of One-Act Play with KBS Drama Special Red Candy". KBS Global.
  9. ↑ "Park Si-yeon to Quit Family Outing". The Korea Times. 2009-11-27.
  10. ↑ Hong, Lucia (2010-05-11). "Kang Ji-hwan wants "to break Mon-Tues TV ratings record"". 10Asia.
  11. ↑ Wee, Geun-woo (2010-06-01). "Kang Ji-hwan says Coffee House is adventure". 10Asia.
  12. ↑ Kim, Lynn (2010-05-11). "Pyo says Coffee House is "in between sitcom and drama"". 10Asia.
  13. ↑ Han, Sang-hee (2010-05-16). "New drama to bring more than coffee". The Korea Times.
  14. ↑ 행복을 전하는 커피하우스의 박시연, 표민수 [Elle's Interview with Coffee House team] (in Korean). Elle Korea. 2010-06-03.
  15. ↑ Kim, Lynn (2010-08-06). "Park Si-yeon turns creative director for U.S. fashion brand". 10Asia.
  16. ↑ Sunwoo, Carla (2011-12-05). "Actors team up to make song that will help the needy". Korea JoongAng Daily.
  17. ↑ "Marine Boy hooked on diving for drugs". Korea JoongAng Daily. 2009-01-28.
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  19. ↑ Suk, Monica (2012-02-23). "Park Si-yeon, Park Hee-soon's film to premiere in April". 10Asia.
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  28. ↑ "Stars Wrestle with Tough Parental Choices in New Soap". The Chosun Ilbo. 2014-09-27.
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  32. ↑ "Park Si-yeon Excited to Work with Morgan Freeman on The Last Knights". The Chosun Ilbo. 2012-12-01.
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