1. Park Bo-gum is a South Korean actor, singer, and musician.
38 Facts About Park Bo-gum
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Park Bo-gum is the recipient of several accolades including two Baeksang Arts Awards.
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Park Bo-gum first gained wide recognition for starring in the television series Reply 1988 before coming to international prominence for the series Love in the Moonlight, Encounter, Record of Youth, When Life Gives You Tangerines, and the film Seo Bok.
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Park Bo-gum debuted on stage in 2023 with the musical Let Me Fly.
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Park Bo-gum's mother died when he was in fourth grade.
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Park Bo-gum started learning to play the piano when he was in kindergarten and was a pianist and choir member at church.
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Park Bo-gum was on the varsity swimming team of Seoul Mokdong Middle School.
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Park Bo-gum graduated from Shinmok High School in 2012, and enrolled at Myongji University as a Musical Theater undergraduate in March 2014.
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Park Bo-gum has directed a one-act play based on Anton Chekov's works, and served as music director in his graduating class's production of Hairspray.
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Park Bo-gum earned a master's degree in New Media Music at the Graduate School of Sangmyung University.
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Park Bo-gum debuted as an actor under Sidus HQ, playing a supporting role in the thriller film Blind.
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Park Bo-gum then joined Blossom Entertainment and featured in the action-comedy film Runway Cop, one-off KBS drama special Still Picture and the period drama Bridal Mask.
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In 2014, Park Bo-gum played the teenage version of Lee Seo-jin's character in the melodrama Wonderful Days and played a prodigy cellist in the KBS2'S Naeil's Cantabile, an adaptation of the Japanese manga Nodame Cantabile.
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Park Bo-gum next featured in box-office hits A Hard Day which screened at Cannes Film Festival and The Admiral: Roaring Currents which became the highest grossing Korean film at the time.
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In May 2015, Park Bo-gum joined Music Bank as a co-host alongside Red Velvet's Irene.
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The press called them one of the best partnerships in the show's history, and Park Bo-gum was awarded the Best Newcomer Award at the KBS Entertainment Awards.
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Park Bo-gum then starred as one of the leads in the third installment of the Reply series where he played the genius Go-player Choi Taek in Reply 1988.
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In February 2016, Park Bo-gum featured in tvN's travel program Youth Over Flowers: Africa.
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Park Bo-gum received several accolades for the role including a Best Actor nomination and Popularity Award at the 53rd Baeksang Arts Awards, as well as the Top Excellence Award at the 30th KBS Drama Awards.
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Park Bo-gum embarked on his first Asia-wide fan meeting tour in the tail-end of 2016, visiting eight cities and meeting more than 30,000 fans in the continent's East and Southeast regions until March 2017.
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Park Bo-gum plays a freewheeling, ordinary young man who finds joy in the simplest things.
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On March 14,2020, Park Bo-gum released official MV for the title track "Dear My Friend", from his first Japanese album, Blue Bird.
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On March 18,2020, Park Bo-gum released his first Japanese album, Blue Bird, with 11 tracks including the single "Bloomin" from 2019.
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Park Bo-gum prepared the song "All My Love" as a gift filled with his feelings for his fans.
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In 2021, Park Bo-gum starred in the science fiction thriller film Seo Bok in the title role, his return to the big screen in six years.
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In 2022, after his discharge from mandatory military service, Park Bo-gum became the first ever actor to be the global ambassador of the French luxury brand Celine.
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Park Bo-gum appeared in JTBC and Disney+'s reality show My Name is Gabriel which saw him living the life of an Irishman for 72 hours.
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In December 2022, Park Bo-gum ended his contract with Blossom Entertainment after being with the company for a decade.
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Park Bo-gum starred in the Netflix television series When Life Gives You Tangerines written by Lim Sang-choon and directed by Kim Won-seok.
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In 2016, at the age of 23, Park Bo-gum became the youngest artist to be named Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year.
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Park Bo-gum is an endorser of a wide range of brands inside and outside South Korea.
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The "Park Bo-gum Effect", coined by the Korean Business Research Institute, refers to his consistent high brand reputation ranking indicating his effectiveness as an endorser across different demographics.
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Park Bo-gum was voted by marketing executives as Top Celebrity Endorser of 2017.
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Park Bo-gum was torchbearer of the 2018 Winter Olympics as "Korea's Representative Actor" and endorser of Coca-Cola.
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In 2020, it was revealed that Park Bo-gum had been privately volunteering at Myeongjin Flower Love Village's orphanage since 2013 after the institution thanked and wished him well on his military enlistment through their social media account.
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Park Bo-gum was promoted to a sergeant in November 2021.
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Park Bo-gum was scheduled to be discharged from military service on April 30,2022.
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Park Bo-gum has acted in several productions including the television series Naeil's Cantabile, Hello Monster, Reply 1988, Love in the Moonlight, Encounter, Record of Youth, When Life Gives You Tangerines, the upcoming Good Boy, and the films Coin Locker Girl, Seo Bok, and Wonderland.