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Park Si-yeon (born Park Mi-seon on March 29, 1979) is a South Korean actress. She joined the
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pageant in 2000, and using that as a springboard to an acting career, she made her acting debut in China in 2004, appearing in minor roles in several
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. In 2005 Park was cast in her first starring role in the
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'' My Girl'', though at the time she was more known for dating actor-singer
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. As she built her filmography in the following years, Park overcame early criticism of her acting skills and eventually gained respect as an actress in TV series such as ''
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'', ''
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'' and '' The Innocent Man'', as well as the films ''
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'', '' A Love'', and '' The Scent''.


Early life

Park Mi-seon was born in
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,
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. As a child, Park displayed a talent for singing, saying, "When I was young, I used to be so shy that I cried when I was told to sing in front of my dad on the
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. My mom ended up sending me to a singing academy, hoping it would help me get over my shyness, but the strange thing is that I couldn't sing in front of my mom but I wasn't nervous at all on stage." In 1990, the fifth grader won the top prize in a children's music contest on KBS. Park began attending college in the
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in 1998, majoring in journalism at
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. In 2000, she took a
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from school and entered in the regional Miss
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beauty pageant, placing third, followed by the
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pageant.


Career

Though her parents initially opposed her pursuing acting, Park took
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s of herself and went to various talent agencies. Her profile photos were eventually handed over to a Chinese agency, and several auditions later, this led to Park making her acting debut in China. Using the
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Park Si-yeon, she appeared in small roles in three
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s, and also landed an advertising contract with cosmetics company Enprani. In 2005, Park made her acting debut in her native country of South Korea with the SBS
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'' My Girl'', for which she received unanimously bad reviews. But Park continued to work, appearing in more dramas and making her film debut in the 2006 quirky comedy-horror-musical ''
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''; gradually her acting showed marked improvement. At first constantly struggling to memorize her lines, Park has admitted that she became more relaxed in her approach to acting, and is able to "feel" her characters better. She became known for playing women who drove men to their destruction and misfortune: In the gangster film '' A Love'', the lover of Park's character goes to prison after defending her, in the MBC drama ''
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'', she was a gold-digging mistress with a lonely soul, in spy film parody ''
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'', she was a sexy agent, and in the KBS drama ''
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'', she sacrifices herself and becomes the enemy's possession in exchange for her boyfriend's freedom. Park smilingly said, "I personally don't like
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s. Men should be happy because of women, not unhappy." For the revival of ''
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'', Park played a bookstore employee who falls in love with a married man in ''Red Candy''. Despite the difficulty of taking part in a one-act drama, Park took it on with her devoted trust in screenwriter
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, of whom she is a big fan. "I felt that I had to be in whatever she writes." In 2009, she joined the variety/reality show ''
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'', which features comedians and entertainers dealing with various aspects of rural life. But Park had to leave after six months due to a recurring injury she sustained while filming a previous project. The series ''
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'' was a welcome change for her; after having mainly taken on serious or dark characters, Park said she had been "dying to be in a romantic comedy." Describing Park as "extremely kind," director Pyo Min-soo said he incorporated her real-life personality in writing her character: a bright, cheerful, and caring career woman who at the same time is hardworking, frank and confident. Park said, "Honestly, this is the first time working has been this fun." In 2010, U.S.-based Korean fashion company Moeim Style announced that Park would be the creative director for U.S. fashion brand TOUCH. As creative director, she oversaw the entire planning process, from design to distribution to production, of the brand's celebrity fashion line. The "celeb line" that she handled included the brands Tulle, Line & Dot, 213 and MK2K. For Christmas 2011, eight actors and actresses from Park's agency Didim531 (then known as Eyagi Entertainment) - including herself,
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,
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and
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- recorded a song with no help from professional singers. The track, titled "Winter Story," is a cheerful tune based on the emotions that arise before a love confession, which is made against a winter backdrop. The song was released for sale online on December 5, 2011, and all profits from the song's sales went to charity. Park made her comeback to the big screen after a two-year hiatus (her last film had been ''
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'') in 2012's '' The Scent''. She played a seductive woman who is the sole witness to the deaths of her husband and his mistress, whom the detective suspects is the killer yet is drawn to her mystique. Mesmerized while reading the script for the movie, Park said, "I am really excited that I get to play a character that is cool on the outside but is hurt and sad on the inside." She then starred in the melodrama '' The Innocent Man'', playing a woman who betrays her lover to serve her own ambition and puts him on the path to destructive revenge. Critics have credited Park's mature performance, saying she mastered the character's complicated nature in a way that heightened the tension of the story, and was not overshadowed by leading actors
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and
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. After giving birth and being indicted for
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use in 2013, Park returned to television with the 2014 cable drama ''
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'', in which her character struggles to balance
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hood and a successful career as an anchorwoman. In 2015, she made her Hollywood debut in ''
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'', an action film set in medieval times about a band of warriors who seek revenge on a corrupt emperor. She starred alongside
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,
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, and Korean veteran actor
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. With Japanese director
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at the helm, filming took place in the
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. In January 2022, it was reported that Park's contract with agency
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had ended.


Personal life

Park first became known to the Korean public not through her acting roles, but as the girlfriend of popular singer-actor
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(from
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), whom she began dating in 2004. Her relationship with Mun overshadowed her acting career during her early years, with the public commonly identifying her as "Eric's girlfriend". In an interview with ''
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'', Park said it took about 10 different roles before the tag of "Eric's girlfriend" vanished from the public's perception of her, adding that the only positive of the tag was that she loved him. The couple broke up in 2007. In an August 2010 interview with ''
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'', Park said, "These days the thing I most think about is, 'Have I lived well?' I'm happy when I film dramas or movies, but in this kind of life you should turn back and take stock of your life at least once, and I think that time has come. I want to love. I want to marry soon and live boisterously." On November 19, 2011, at the Seoul Hyatt Hotel, Park married Park Sang-hun, an office worker at a small company. She gave birth to their first child, a daughter, on September 24, 2013. Their second child, also a daughter, was born on November 14, 2015. In May 2016, it was announced that the couple filed for divorce. In early 2013, Park was among the celebrities investigated then indicted for illegal use of
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; Park's agency denied the allegations, saying she took the drug for medical reasons after she injured her back doing action scenes for the films ''
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'' and ''
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''. During the trial, her doctor testified that she had been taking the drug to treat
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at the head of her
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. In October 2013, the Seoul Central District Court found Park guilty of taking propofol 400-500 times over four-and-a-half years (or 8.2 times a month), and she was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years. On January 19, 2021, Park was booked by the police for
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when the car she was driving hit the back bumper of another vehicle.


Filmography


Television


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Variety show


Music video


Awards and nominations


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