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Profile | Who is Park Ju-hyun, feisty actress known for K-dramas Perfect Family and Extracurricular?
- Athletic and a poly-instrumentalist, Park nearly became a singer before taking up acting. Her career took off with a role in Extracurricular
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Having already appeared in three films this year, Park Ju-hyun continues a busy 2024 as a part of the main cast of the new KBS drama Perfect Family, alongside Kim Young-dae, Yoon Se-ah and Kim Byung-chul, which began airing this week.
Park became a fixture on big and small screens in Korea relatively quickly.
She made her acting debut in a small role five years ago in the body-swap comedy film The Dude in Me, and a year later secured a role in the acclaimed Netflix original drama series Extracurricular. The rest, as they say, is history.
From Busan on Korea’s south coast, Park showed an interest in the arts from a young age.
Initially, she thought her calling was music. In high school, she was a vocalist in a band; she was convinced to take up acting classes in order to improve the emotional range of her singing.
Although we now know her as an actress, Park almost did become a professional singer.
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