1. Joon Park is a South Korean-born American singer, rapper, actor and entertainer.
16 Facts About Joon Park
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Joon Park's father died when he was young, leaving him and his older siblings to be raised by their single mother.
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Joon Park graduated from La Quinta High School in Westminster, California, in 1987 and attended California State University, Long Beach.
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In 1997 Joon Park moved to Seoul, South Korea, where his older sister had been working, with the dream of creating a pop music group.
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Joon Park wanted to mix Korean music with a twist of western culture.
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Singer-songwriter Joon Park Jin-young was introduced to be their producer and the group was initially a six-piece mixed-gender group tentatively named "GOT6".
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Joon Park later stated that all his earnings from the commercial and sitcom was spent on daily living expenses during the period he and the other members did not receive financial funding from their agency for over a year.
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The group nearly broke up in 2001 after Joon Park was discovered to be dating, which was considered to be taboo for most pop stars in South Korea at that time.
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The other four members began their solo careers in the entertainment industry while Joon Park returned to the United States.
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Joon Park moved back to the Los Angeles area to pursue acting, having a cameo on Speed Racer as the Platinum blond-haired Yakuza Driver and the role of Yamcha in the live-action film version of Dragonball Evolution in which he starred with Chow Yun Fat, Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum and Jamie Chung.
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Joon Park injured his back while filming Dragonball Evolution and was forced to rehabilitate for over two years.
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Joon Park made a cameo as himself on MBC drama You Are My Destiny, which starred his long-time friend Jang Hyuk.
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Since returning to Korea, Joon Park has largely been cast in various variety and reality shows such as Infinite Challenge, Saturday Night Live Korea, Radio Star, Life Bar and others, having gained popularity with audiences due to his cheerful persona and candidness.
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Joon Park appeared in the music videos for "Shake That Brass", the title track of singer-rapper Amber Liu's debut EP Beautiful, and "Hot Sugar", the comeback single of Kim Jong-kook's group Turbo.
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In July 2018, Joon Park opened a YouTube channel called Wassup Man featuring himself video blogging his travels in Korea.
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On May 4,2015, Joon Park's agency announced that he was engaged to Kim Yoo-Jin, a flight attendant whom he had been dating for about a year.