Park Gyu-ri

Park Gyu-ri

Gyuri in August 2014
Native name 박규리
Born Park Gyu-ri
(1988-05-21) May 21, 1988[1]
Seoul, South Korea
Occupation
  • Singer
  • actress
  • radio personality
Musical career
Genres K-pop
Instruments Vocals
Years active 1995–present
Labels Dain Entertainment (formerly Motion Media)[2]
Associated acts Kara
Korean name
Hangul 박규리
Hanja 朴奎利
Revised Romanization Bak Gyu-ri
McCune–Reischauer Pak Kyu-ri

Park Gyu-ri (born May 21, 1988), better known by the mononym Gyuri, is a South Korean singer, actress, and radio personality. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Kara.

Life and career

Park Gyu-ri was born on May 21, 1988, in Seoul, South Korea. She became a child actress with her first television appearance in the 1995 series Today is a Nice Day, in which she played the girlfriend of Kang Ho-dong's brother. In 2001, she appeared as the teenage version of Kim Jung-eun's character in Ladies of the Palace.

2007–2010: Debut with Kara and other appearances

Gyuri debuted as part of the four-member girl group Kara on March 29, 2007. As the leader of the group, she came up with its name, which comes from the Greek word chara (χαρά, lit. "joy").[3][4] The group underwent a number of lineup changes, but gained commercial success.

In 2009, Gyuri became a permanent guest on the reality television show Star Golden Bell.[5]

She featured in a duet with Hong Kyung-min titled "Day After" on his tenth album Special Edition, released on February 4, 2010. On April 21 that year, it was announced that Gyuri would become a radio DJ alongside Shindong on the MBC talk show ShimShimTapa after Kim Shin-young left. Their first broadcast aired on May 6, 2010. On September 26, 2011, Park announced that she would no longer DJ the show due to her busy schedule.[6] Her last broadcast was on October 2, 2011.[7]

2011–2016: Alpha and Omega, musical theater and contract expiration

On January 19, 2011, Gyuri was the only member of Kara to remain with their label DSP Media during a contract dispute in which the other members released a statement announcing they were terminating their contract with their label. The contract dispute was later resolved.[8][9]

Gyuri was the voice of Kate in the Korean dub of Alpha and Omega, released in February 2011.[10] On May 7, she gave a lecture on her career in the entertainment industry at Seo Woon High School in Incheon,[11] and on July 13, she hosted the "Music Bank in Tokyo K-Pop Festival". On July 15, she joined the cast of 200 Pounds Beauty Musical, which was shown in Japanese theaters.[12][13] In November, she was diagnosed with vocal fold nodules, but nevertheless continued to rehearse for the musical.[14] She also hosted the "Seoul-Tokyo Music Festival 2011" on November 9. The musical ran for six performances in Korea from December 6-17. According to the show's production company, Show Note, the musical brought in significantly higher numbers of male audience members than average.[15] Following the musical's successful run, Gyuri underwent vocal cord surgery on February 21, 2012.[16][17]

In 2012, she co-hosted the 26th Golden Disc Awards at the Osaka Dome in Japan. On February 23, 2013, she hosted the Yang Yang K-Pop Festival at Naksan Beach.[18] On June 2, she hosted SGC Super Live 2013 in Tokyo.[19]

On January 15, 2016, her contract with DSP Media expired. However, she stated that Kara had not disbanded even though its members were now under separate agencies, and that they hoped to collaborate on an album when the opportunity arose in the future.[20]

Discography

Year Album Single Artist Duration
2010 MBC Music Travel LaLaLa Live Vol. 7 "Gil (Road)" No Brain feat. Gyuri, SeungYeon & Nicole 04:00
MBC Music Travel LaLaLa Live Vol. 11 "Bingeul Bingeul" (빙글빙글) No Brain feat. Gyuri & KARA 03:55
Hong Kyung Min Vol. 10 – Special Edition "Day After" (일 후) Gyuri & Hong Kyung-min 03:21
N/A "If U Cannot" Park Jung-min feat. Gyuri 03:43
G20 Seoul Summit 2010 Project Album "Let's Go" Gyuri, Changmin, Jun. K, Bumkey, Gayoon, Kahi, ANNA, JunHyung, G.NA, Luna,

LaLa Seohyun, IU, G.O, Min, Jaekyung, Jonghyun, Jieun, Seo In-guk, Son Dam-bi & Sungmin

 03:34
2014 W Foundation Campaign "Talk About Love" Various artists 04:56
2015 The Little Prince 6th Single "The Little Prince"[21] Gyuri & From the Airport 03:34
"Return" 03:24
One Dream One Korea Project "One Dream One Korea" Various artists 04:56
2017 The Boy Who Jumped "Night And Day" Gyuri & From the Airport 03:34

Soundtrack appearances

Year Soundtrack Track Duration Notes
2010 Daemul OST "My Love" (내 사랑) 04:23 Duet with Kang Ji-young[22]
2011 200 Pounds Beauty OST "Maria" 03:21
"Beautiful Girl" 01:55
City Hunter OST "Look Only At You" (그대만 봐요) 04:13
Love Is Elsewhere OST "Indecisive" (갈팡질팡) 03:36 Duet with Cho Hyun-young[23]
2012 Tasty Life OST Part 2 "I Love You More Than The Soul" (영혼보다 사랑해) 03:48 [24]
The Great Seer OST "Breaking Fate" (운명을 깨고) 03:59 [25]
2013 Nail Shop Paris OST "I Will Wait For You" (기다릴 거에요) 03:46 [26]
Galileo 2 OST "Kiss" 04:14
"The Most Loved" 05:46
N/A "Anata Ga Iru Kara" 04:22
2014 Inspiring Generation OST "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" (내 작은 꿈을 꿈) 02:55
N/A "Rolling In The Deep" 03:50
Secret Love OST "First Love" (첫사랑) 03:30 Duet with Han Seung-yeon
Blade Man OST "Hello"[27] 03:02
N/A "Goodbye Days" 04:32 Duet with Han Seung-yeon
N/A "Hush Hush; Hush Hush" 04:31
2015 "Sakura" 05:35
N/A "Endless Rain" 06:35
2016 Two Rooms, Two Nights OST "Spring Now" 03:36

Charted singles

Title Year Peak positions Sales Album
KOR
[28]
"그대만 봐요" (Look Only At You)[29] 2011 73 City Hunter OST Special
"Daydream" 2012 163 Kara Solo Collection
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Alpha and Omega Kate Voice-over for the Korean-dubbed version[10]
2013 Kara The Animation Herself Voice-over for the Japanese-dubbed version
2016 Two Rooms, Two Nights Mi-na Main role
How to Break Up with My Cat Lee-jung Main role

Television

Drama

Year Title Role Network Notes
1995 Today is a Nice Day Soo-mi MBC
2001–2002 Ladies of the Palace Teenage Kim Jung-eun SBS
2008 The Person Is Coming School Girl MBC with Goo Ha-ra, Nicole Jung and Kang Ji-young
2009 Hero Cameo
2011 URAKARA Gyu-ri TV Tokyo
2012 Reckless Family Herself MBC
What's Mom Herself
2013 Nail Shop Paris Hong Yuh-joo
2014 Secret Love Park Sun-woo DRAMAcube
2015 Sweet Jung Won MBC
2016 Jang Yeong-sil Joo Bu-ryeong KBS1
2017 The Rose of Sharon Has Bloomed Jang Eun Joo KBS1

Reality

Year Title Network Notes
2009–2010 Sunday Sunday Night’s “Parody Theater” MBC Go Eung-chan (The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince)
Star Golden Bell KBS Permanent guest
Strong Heart (TV series) SBS Episode 4, 5, 13, 14, 51, 52, 100, 101
2011 Lulu Lala MBC December 11, 2011 – February 19, 2012
2012 Jewellery House MBC MC
2013–2014 The Show SBS MTV MC with Han Seung-yeon
2014 SNS Expedition SBS With Jeong Jinwoon, Oh Sang-jin, Oh Man-seok, Seo Hyun-jin and Kim Min-joon

Theatre and radio

Musical theatre

Year Title Role
2011 200 Pounds Beauty Jenny

Radio shows

Date Name Note
September 23, 2009 – April 14, 2010 Super Junior's Kiss the Radio Fixed guest DJ with Kang Ji-young
May, 2009 – August, 2009 Donggo Dongrak Radio Collaboration
January, 2009 Starry Night Radio Collaboration
May 5, 2010 – October 3, 2011 MBC ShimShimTaPa with Shindong
January, 2010 – April, 2010 SS501 Music High with SS501's Park Jungmin

Endorsements

Year Commercial Notes
2006 Lotte Beauty Like Pomegranate CF (Pre-debut)
2010 Karaya with Goo Ha-ra and Kang Ji-young
2011 Nature Republic with Goo Ha-ra and Kang Ji-young
2012 Shu Uemura Until 2013
2013 Anna Sui

References

  1. ↑ Mark Russell (29 April 2014). K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution. Tuttle Publishing. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-4629-1411-1.
  2. ↑ Son, Ji-ah (April 17, 2017). "모션미디어→다인엔터테인먼트로 사명 변경…문화산업 다각화". Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean). Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ "카라, 데뷔앨범 'Blooming' 발표". 머니투데이 (in Korean). April 5, 2007.
  4. ↑ 카라 박규리, 김정은 아역출신 “바르게 자랐습니다”. Nate. December 27. 2009.
  5. ↑ 니콜, 스타골든벨 하차..."당분간 게스트로도 출연 계획 없어 [Nicole Leaves Star Golden Bell..."No Plans to Have Her as Guest]. The Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). October 21, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
  6. ↑ http://in2kpop.com/2011/09/26/karas-park-gyuri-quits-radio/
  7. ↑ http://english.kbs.co.kr/Entertain/KpopNews/view.html?No=16247
  8. ↑ Lee, Mi-yeong. 카라, 9월 전격 컴백…소녀시대와 정면승부? (Kara Plans "Lightning" Comeback in September...Face-off with Girls' Generation?). Naver News/JoyNews. July 15, 2011. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
  9. ↑ 카라 ‘너무 바빠’ 9월 국내 컴백 ‘3주만 활동’ Naver News. August 6, 2011. Retrieved August 8, 2011
  10. 1 2 "박규리 신동, 영화 '알파 앤 오메가' 목소리 출연". Nate. December 22, 2010.
  11. ↑ "카라 박규리, 연예인 지망 고교생 위해 강의". Naver. May 5, 2011.
  12. ↑ http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=106&oid=111&aid=0000239845
  13. ↑ http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=106&oid=109&aid=0002262287
  14. ↑ http://www.allkpop.com/2011/11/karas-gyuri-diagnosed-with-vocal-cord-nodules
  15. ↑ http://www.allkpop.com/2011/12/karas-gyuri-brings-in-the-male-fans-for-200-pounds-beauty
  16. ↑ http://news.nate.com/view/20120220n31233
  17. ↑ http://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201202201301411002&code=100200
  18. ↑ http://music.mtvasia.com/show/yang-yang-kpop-concert/yang-yang-k-pop-concert/?autoplay=1
  19. ↑ http://sgcsuperlive.com/
  20. ↑ "[팝인터뷰]박규리 "카라 해체 아냐, 기회 된다면 앨범 낼 계획"" (in Korean). Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  21. ↑ 박규리/프롬 디 에어포트 - 어린 왕자. Henteo (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  22. ↑ "· 대물(OST): SBS-TV 수목 드라마, Part 7". Hanteo (in Korean). Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  23. ↑ "애정만만세(OST): MBC-TV 주말 드라마, Pt.1". Hanteo (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  24. ↑ "맛있는 인생(OST): SBS-TV 주말 드라마, Pt.2". Hanteo (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  25. ↑ "The Great Seer OST Part 1". Mnet (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  26. ↑ "네일 샵 파리스(OST): Mbc Queen-tv 드라마, Pt.1". Hanteo (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  27. ↑ "아이언 맨(OST): Kbs-2tv 수목 드라마, Pt.1". Henteo (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  28. ↑ "Gaon Digital Chart". Gaon Chart (in Korean). KMCIA. Retrieved February 12, 2015.
  29. ↑ "시티 헌터(OST): SBS-TV 드라마, Pt.5". Hanteo (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  30. ↑ "2011년 27주차 Download Chart". Gaon (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
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