Park Joon-hyung (singer)

Joon Park
On the cover of KoreAm, April 2009, with Jamie Chung
Background information
Birth name	Park Joon-hyung
Born	(1969-07-20) July 20, 1969 (age 47)
Origin	South Korea
Genres	K-pop
Years active	1999–present
Labels	JYP Entertainment, SidusHQ
Associated acts	g.o.d JYP Nation

Joon Park (born Park Joon-hyung, Hangul: 박준형) is a Korean-American singer, actor and leader of the Korean pop group g.o.d. He was born on July 20, 1969 and graduated from La Quinta High School in Westminster, California and attended California State University, Long Beach. During his days with g.o.d, he served as the group's leader-rapper. He made an appearance in Fated to Love You (Korean version) as himself in 2014

He was raised in Southern California. He had a lot of hobbies which consisted of surfing, skateboarding, water polo, drawing, martial arts, body building, dancing, rapping-singing, etc.

During and after his college years he was a graphic designer with his talented drawing background. In his college days he did some modeling but never really thought of himself as a model and one day was discovered in Hollywood by a casting agent for a Janet Jackson video in which he had his first 15 minutes of fame on TV.

In 1997 through his sister's contacts in Korea, he packed up and moved to Seoul, South Korea to pursue his goal in the K-pop industry. He wanted to mix Korean Music with a twist of western culture so in 1999 he gathered the members of his group g.o.d (Groove Over Dose) through numerous auditions. The first member he recruited was his cousin Danny Ahn, and then Danny's friend Son Hoyoung, and then Yoon Kye-sang.

Park was cast for a Beer commercial "OB Lager" which was a complete success in which he held the title of "Lagerman". He landed his first role as himself on a SBS sitcom called "Soon Poon San Boo In Kua" as Song Hye Gyo's Boyfriend. With his quirky humor and imperfect, childlike grasp of the Korean language, in contrast to his Eurasian masculine looks and tanned chiseled physique, he won the hearts of all the viewers And through this show he gained mass appeal/recognition and was wanted on numerous magazines to show off his physique with his platinum blonde hair which was unheard of at the time for an Asian. Park then teamed up with Korean Pop Star/Producer Park Jin Young (JYP) and then shortly thereafter the last member Kim Tae-woo joined the group through auditions.