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Profile | Who is Park Eun-bin, the charming, relatable K-drama actress and star of Castaway Diva and Extraordinary Attorney Woo?

  • K-drama actress Park Eun-bin shot to fame in Extraordinary Attorney Woo and is currently charming audiences with her vocal talents in Castaway Diva
  • She has been acting since she was five years old, and honed her talent in Korean drama series such as Do You Like Brahms? and Hot Stove League

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Park Eun-bin (above) hit the big time with her title role in Extraordinary Attorney Woo, but her stardom didn’t happen overnight. We look back at her acting career, which started when she was five years old.
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Currently singing and charming her way through the hit K-drama series Castaway Diva, Park Eun-bin has been one of South Korean entertainment’s brightest lights.

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Yet just 18 months ago, before the launch of the global smash hit series Extraordinary Attorney Woo, hers was a name with which few people were familiar.

That’s not to say that Park appeared suddenly out of the blue. On the contrary, she has been a jobbing actress since the tender age of five; she began her career as a child model a year earlier than that.

While many performers who start that young peak as child actors and struggle to make the transition to an adult acting career, Park’s trajectory has been the opposite.

Park Eun-bin as Seo Mok-ha in a still from “Castaway Diva”.
Park Eun-bin as Seo Mok-ha in a still from “Castaway Diva”.

She was a prolific child actress but was never a star in her youth. Instead, she honed her craft and absorbed her many experiences on set on her way to becoming a consummate adult acting professional.

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Her first lead role, alongside Yoo Seung-ho in the romantic comedy Operation Proposal (a remake of the Japanese drama of the same name), was also her first role as an adult.

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