Park Bo-young
Also Known As: Park Bo Young, Park Bo-yeong, Park Boyoung, Park Boyeong, Bo-young Park, Bo-yeong Park, پارک بو-یونگ
Biography: Park Bo-young (박보영) is a South Korean actress. Born on February 12, 1990, she first debuted with a supporting role in the television series Secret Campus (2006) and continued playing minor roles in television until her breakout role in the comedy Scandal Makers (2008). In 2010, she took a short hiatus after being involved in legal disputes with her then-management agency and a film production company. The fantasy romance A Werewolf Boy (2012) marked Park's return to the spotlight, becoming one of the most successful Korean melodramas of all time. In 2015, she made her comeback to television, with dual roles in supernatural romance Oh My Ghost, making Park one of the highest paid actresses on television. Other notable works include one of the highest-rated Korean cable dramas of all time, Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (2017), and romantic film On Your Wedding Day (2018), which became the most watched romance film in South Korea the year it was released. Park had an eventful 2023, starring in the disaster thriller Concrete Utopia, South Korea's official international feature submission for the 96th Academy Awards, and the Netflix Original series Daily Dose of Sunshine— receiving a number of Best Actress nominations for both, the latter garnering her a win at the 3rd Blue Dragon Series Awards. She followed it by starring in the Disney+ Original series Light Shop (2024). In 2025, Park starred in the Netflix Original series Melo Movie, and played twin sisters who switch lives in the tvN drama series Our Unwritten Seoul.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jeungpyeong, North Chungcheong, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: February 12, 1990
Age: 35 years old
Gender: Female
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Scandal Makers

Overview: Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo is now in his thirties and working as a radio DJ. One day a young woman named Jeong-nam shows up and claims to be his own daughter. She also has a son whom she claims to be Hyeon-soo's grandson. Their relation is proven via DNA tests by Hyeon-soo's brother. This leads to Hyeon-soo attempting to avoid a scandal concerning him having children "unknown" to the media.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-12-03
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A Werewolf Boy

Overview: An unexpected phone call brings an elderly woman to her childhood country cottage, and memories of an orphan boy she knew 47 years ago come flooding back to her.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-10-31
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Don't Click

Overview: A horror movie about the mysterious happenings that happen to a pair of sisters after watching an unidentified video. Directed by Kim Tae-kyeong, Park Bo-yeong plays Se-hee who tries to save her sister Jeong-mi, her boyfriend Joo Won and Kang Byeol plays the sister.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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Hot Young Bloods

Overview: A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980s.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Our School's E.T.

Overview: Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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The Silenced

Overview: A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanitorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She suspects the school for what's happening and tries to discover what secret is hidden.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-06-18
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Collective Invention

Overview: Park Goo mutates into a man-fish due to side effects from an experimental drug. He receives heavy publicity and becomes a star. A conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company leads Park Goo to being possibly expelled from the world.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-09-14
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You Call It Passion

Overview: Ra-hee is ready for the real world. She has graduated from a respectable college and begins to apply for full-time jobs but is rejected by every company that she applies to. When all hope is lost, she gets a phone call from a newspaper company and is recruited as an intern in the entertainment section. Although reluctant at first, as she believes herself to be over-qualified for the job, she soon learns and understands the passion of the press. During her rollercoaster experience as an entertainment journalist/intern, she discovers the dirty and hidden aspects of the journalism industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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The ESP Couple

Overview: A college boy Su-min is looking around paintings in a gallery when he hears someone screaming for help. That’s where he first meets a high school girl, Hyun-jin. They soon meet again in a park, and she realizes he is gifted; he can read people’s mind.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-11-27
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On Your Wedding Day

Overview: Through the course of their lives, a man and his first love are repeatedly separated from each other because of circumstances out of their control.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-08-22
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Jungle Fish

Overview: Based on a true story that depicts the pressures placed on students to achieve and gain admission to prestigious colleges and universities.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-05-15
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Concrete Utopia

Overview: The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-09
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If You Were Me 4

Overview: Includes shorts: Girl on the Run, The Theory & Practice of Teenage Dream, Relay, U and Me and Blue Birds on the Desk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-07-11
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Our English Teacher

Overview: A lazy gym teacher Seong Geun is completely content with his easy gig teaching high school P.E, but times are getting tough and his job is in danger. When Seong Geun's school decides to sack a gym teacher in favor of an English teacher, he too makes an important decision. To survive, he must teach English! Seong Geun whole heartedly makes the switch from PE to ET (English Teacher), but there's only one problem: he doesn't speak English.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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