PARK YOOCHUN

Stage name : Micky Yoochun (Hangul: 믹키유천; Hanja: 秘奇有天) / Yuchun (ユチョン, Yuchon?)
Birth name: Park Yoochun (Hangul: 박유천; Hanja: 朴有天)
Date of birth: June 4, 1986 (1986-06-04)
Place of birth: Seoul

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Park Yoochun (born June 4, 1986), better known by his stage names, Micky, Micky Yoochun (in South Korea) and Yuchun (ユチョン, Yuchon?) (in Japan). He is a Korean singer-songwriter, composer, and occasional actor. He is a member of South Korean boy band TVXQ, known as Dong Bang Shin Ki in South Korea and Tohoshinki in Japan. After TVXQ was placed on hiatus, he became a member of JYJ, who made their global debut in October 2010.

Early life

Yuchun was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, until his family immigrated to the United States when he was in the sixth grade. He lived in Fairfax, Virginia, where he attended Holmes Middle School and Chantilly High School. He was scouted by Brothers Entertainment and went back to South Korea, where he joined SM Entertainment. He has a younger brother named Park Yoohwan, who is also known as Ricky Park.

Acting career

Yuchun has appeared on two televised shows with his band-mates, Banjun Theater and Vacation.

He also made his successful debut in Japan with the mobile drama by BeeTV Drama <Beautiful Love ～君がいれば～ (Beautiful Love ~ If you were here ~)>. He played the main male figure – Young Soo – who is the heir of the rich company.

He stars in the KBS drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (성균관스캔들). He portrays Lee Seon Joon: a rich, smart student who falls in love with a woman who is disguised as a man. He has received the “Rookie of the Year award”, “Netizens award” and “Best Couple award” at the 2010 KBS Drama Awards ceremony.

In 2011, he will star in the MBC drama Ripley with Lee Da-hae.

Solo singing career

Micky is featured in “Tokyo Lovelight” from DJ Makai’s Stars (mini-album). He and band-mate U-know are also featured rappers in “Heartquake” from Super Junior‘s Third Album, Sorry, Sorry

Song writer

Micky has written and composed several songs that have appeared on TVXQ’s Korean and Japanese albums. As a member of SM Town, he contributed to the 2007 winter album Only Love with his composition “Evergreen”. Micky also wrote and composed “Sarang Annyeong Sarang (Love Bye Love)” (사랑 안녕 사랑), featured on the group’s fourth Korean studio album Mirotic. For the Trick project, he wrote the lyrics to his solo “My Girlfriend“, entirely in English. “Kiss the Baby Sky”, one of the A-side‘s for TVXQ’s twenty-fifth Japanese single, marked the first time that one of the songs both written and composed by Micky was released on a Japanese single.

With band-mates U-Know and Xiah, Micky wrote the rap lyrics to “Love After Love”, which appeared on their second Korean studio album, Rising Sun. For the group’s Japanese releases, Micky wrote and co-composed “Kiss Shita Mama, Sayonara” (Kissしたまま、さよなら, lit. As We Kiss, Goodbye?) with Hero for T, TVXQ’s third Japanese album. In September 2009, he and Hero released a self-written duet, “Colors (Melody and Harmony/Shelter)“, which was used as the image song for Hello Kitty‘s 35th anniversary.

His musical career continually expressed even after the separate of TVXQ. Micky was able to compose in the new albums of JYJ. In the JYJ’s first international album, “The Beginning”, which was released in 2010, Micky contributed by composer in one of the tracks – “I Love You”. Even in their new musical book called “The Music Essay – Their Room”, Micky played role as composer & lyrists in the song called “E rum up nun no rae, Part 1. (이름없는 노래 Part. 1, Nameless Song Part.1)”. In addition, he also did rap making in the Xiah Junsu’s song – “Mission”.

Other activities

In 2009, he opened “Timeout Gelato shop” for his mum.

Awards

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