Park Junyoung (born 12 March 1982) is a South Korean singer from
Busan
Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, w ...
who debuted in Japan in March 2012 with the single .
Career
Park was a member of two different
K-pop
K-pop (), short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, experimental, rock, jazz, gos ...
bands in South Korea, but they both disbanded.
He was subsequently spotted by Japanese ''
enka'' singer while performing as an independent musician in western Japan.
His Japanese debut single, , was released on 7 March 2012 on the
King Records label, and reached number 109 on the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
music chart.
Park's second Japanese single, , was released on 13 March 2013, and reached number 44 on the Oricon music chart.
On the same day, Park embarked on a tour of all 47
prefectures of Japan
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (, ''todōfuken'', ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division. They include 43 prefectures proper (, ''ken''), two ...
to promote the single.
Discography
Singles
* , (7 March 2012)
* , (13 March 2013)
See also
*
List of K-pop artists
References
External links
*
Official blog
Oricon artist profile
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1982 births
Living people
King Records (Japan) artists
21st-century South Korean male singers