Park Bo-gum

He 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.

Park also released his first soundtrack for Moonlight's OST entitled "My Person" which topped Melon, Mnet, Bugs, olleh, Soribada, Genie, Naver and Monkey3 charts upon its release and debuted at #3 on Gaon Music Chart.

He 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 (2015).

The show was a hit with audience ratings peaking at 18.8% making it the highest rated Korean drama in cable television history that year, and earned Park the nickname "Nation's Little Brother".

The role catapulted him to fame in Korea and made him known as an emerging Korean Wave star, with the Top Chinese Music Awards presenting him with Best International Artist Award, the American-based DramaFever Awards giving him the Best Rising Star Award and tvN10 awarding him Asia Star Award.

Park Bo-gum (born June 16, 1993) is a South Korean actor.

Born in Mok-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, South Korea on June 16, 1993, Park is the youngest of three siblings.

"Bo-gum" (寶劍) means 'precious sword'.

His mother died when he was in fourth grade.

He started learning to play the piano when he was in kindergarten and was a pianist and choir member at church.

He was also on the varsity swimming team of Seoul Mokdong Middle School.

During Park's sophomore year of high school he sent a video of himself singing and playing the piano to prominent talent management agencies which led to several offers.

Park, who initially wanted to be a singer-songwriter, later changed his career path after a suggestion that he would do well acting.

Park debuted as an actor under Sidus HQ, playing a supporting role in the thriller film Blind (2011).

The role earned him a nomination for Best New Actor in Film at the Baeksang Arts Awards and won him a Rising Star Award at the 11th MaxMovie Awards.

He graduated from Shinmok High School in 2012, and enrolled at Myongji University as a Musical Theater undergraduate in March 2014.

Despite his acting career, he maintained an active collegiate life and represented his university's cultural overseas exchange program in Europe.

Park has also directed a one-act play based on Anton Chekov's works, and served as music director in his graduating class's production of Hairspray.

He then joined Blossom Entertainment and featured in the action-comedy film Runway Cop (2012), one-off KBS drama special Still Picture (2012) and the period drama Bridal Mask (2012).

In 2013, he landed his first major role in the weekend drama Wonderful Mama playing the playboy son of Bae Jong-ok's character.

In 2014, Park 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.

The roles earned Park Best New Actor nominations in both the KBS Drama Awards and APAN Star Awards.

He next featured in box-office hits A Hard Day (2014) which also screened at Cannes Film Festival and The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) which became the highest grossing Korean film at the time.

He gained recognition for his diverse range of roles in film and television, notably, a psychopathic lawyer in Hello Monster (2015), a genius Go player in Reply 1988 (2015–2016), a Joseon crown prince in Love in the Moonlight (2016), a free-spirited man who falls for an older woman in Encounter (2018), and a model who overcomes various hardships to become a successful actor in Record of Youth (2020).

Park was the youngest artist to be named Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year.

He was also the first actor to ever top the Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list.

In May 2015, Park joined Music Bank as a co-host alongside Red Velvet's Irene.

They both gained attention for their chemistry as well as singing and hosting skills.

The press called them one of the best partnerships in the show's history, and Park was awarded the Best Newcomer Award at the KBS Entertainment Awards.

A departure from his previous roles and public image, Park gained rave reviews from audience and critics with his scene-stealing role in crime drama Hello Monster (2015).

The portrayal won him the Popularity and Best Supporting Actor awards at the year-end KBS Drama Awards.

The same year, he featured in Coin Locker Girl which screened at Cannes Film Festival.

In February 2016, Park featured in tvN's travel program Youth Over Flowers: Africa.

After more than a year as Music Bank host, he left the show in June 2016.

In August 2016, he starred in KBS2's historical drama Love in the Moonlight alongside Kim Yoo-jung.

A domestic and overseas hit, Moonlight achieved peak audience rating of 23.3%.

Its popularity was called "Moonlight Syndrome", and solidified Park's status as a versatile leading actor.

He 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.

He received his baccalaureate in February 2018.

After a two-year hiatus, he returned in the small screen with romantic-melodrama Encounter (2018) alongside Song Hye-kyo.