Park Yoo-chun

Park Yoo-chun (born June 4, 1986), formerly known as Micky Yoochun and better known by the mononym Yoochun, is a Korean-American singer-songwriter and actor.

He is a former member of the South Korean boy bands JYJ and TVXQ.

Park was born on June 4, 1986, in Seoul, South Korea.

His family moved to the United States in 1998.

He lived in Fairfax, Virginia, where he attended Holmes Middle School, Rocky Run Middle School, and Chantilly High School.

In 2001, he won an award at the American Music Festival and then returned to Korea to prepare for his debut.

After a relatively short training period of one year and five months, he made his debut as a member of the five-member male group TVXQ through SBS BoA & Britney Spears Special Stage on December 26, 2003.

In 2003, Park returned to South Korea after he was scouted by Brothers Entertainment.

He was later signed as an artist by S.M. Entertainment.

From 2003 to 2009, Park performed as a member of the best-selling K-pop boy band TVXQ.

Park Yoo-chun graduated Hanam High School in 2007 along with fellow members Kim Junsu and Kim Jaejoong.

He attended Kyunghee Cyber University.

As a member of SM Town, he contributed to the 2007 winter album Only Love with his composition "Evergreen".

Park also wrote and composed "사랑 안녕 사랑 (Love Bye Love)", 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 Park was released on a Japanese single.

With TVXQ members U-Know Yunho and Xiah Junsu, Park wrote the rap lyrics to "Love After Love", which appeared on their second Korean studio album, Rising Sun.

For the group's Japanese releases, Park wrote and co-composed "Kiss Shita Mama, Sayonara" (Kissしたまま、さよなら) with Hero Jaejoong (Kim Jaejoong) for T, TVXQ's third Japanese album.

In July 2009, Park and two of his TVXQ bandmates, Jaejoong and Junsu, filed a lawsuit against their South Korean agency S.M. Entertainment.

Through their lawyers, the members stated that the 13-year contract was excessively long, schedules were held out without the confirmation or permission of the members, contract terms have been extended and changed without their knowledge or consent and that the group's earnings were not fairly distributed to the members.

In September 2009, he and Hero Jaejoong (Kim Jaejoong) released a self-written duet, "Colors (Melody and Harmony)/Shelter", which was used as the image song for Hello Kitty's 35th anniversary.

Park has also written songs for JYJ's albums.

He has starred in dramas Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010), Miss Ripley (2011), Rooftop Prince (2012), Missing You (2012), Three Days (2014) and A Girl Who Sees Smells (2015).

After TVXQ's Japanese label announced a group hiatus in early 2010, they formed a new three-member group initially known as JUNSU/JAEJOONG/YUCHUN in Japan.

In September 2010, JYJ released extended play The..., which debuted at number one on Japan's Oricon album charts.

However, Avex had announced the suspension and when in Japan, the same month that year.

JYJ proceeded to release The Beginning, a global album which was sung in English.

JYJ promoted the new album via a worldwide showcase tour throughout October and November with dates in South Korea, Southeast Asia and the United States.

On January 25, 2011, JYJ released Korean extended play Their Rooms "Our Story"." JYJ's second group album and first full-length Korean-language album In Heaven was released September 28, 2011.

Starting from April, Park toured Asia and North America for JYJ's first Worldwide Tour.

The tour was then extended to Europe and South America, adding another four stops in Spain, Germany, Chile and Peru.

Park is featured in "Tokyo Lovelight" from DJ Makai's mini-album, Stars.

He was also one of the featured rappers on the song "Heartquake", a track from Super Junior's third album, Sorry, Sorry.

For Miss Ripley, Park sang "너를 위한 빈자리 (The Empty Space for You)".

It appeared in the ninth episode of the drama and was released on the Miss Ripley OST (Part 3).

Park has written and composed several songs that have appeared on TVXQ's Korean and Japanese albums.

His father, died on March 14, 2012.

He has a younger brother, Park Yu-hwan, who is also an actor.

On November 28, 2012, the legal battle between JYJ and S.M. finally ended.

Both sides agreed to retiring every judicial accusation against each other and not interfering in each other's actions.