Park Jin Young: From a Geology graduate to the owner of JYP Entertainment

Park Jin Young is known as a singer, songwriter, dancer and Korea's top talented music producer. He is also the founder of the entertainment company JYP Entertainment.

Park Jin Young, also known by his stage name JY Park or JYP, was born on December 13, 1972. Growing up in Seoul, he attended Baemyung High School, then continued to study at Yonsei University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Geology.

Park's father is a news reporter in the United States. At the age of 9, the male artist and his mother moved to New York after his re-election. The whole family lived there for 3 years, before he returned to Seoul to attend high school, and he also has an older sister.

JYP is one of the artists with many talents such as singing, dancing, composing music and even producing music. He started his career in 1992 when he created the group "Park Jin Young and the New Generation", but the group quickly went downhill.

By 1994, on the show World Music, the talented artist debuted to the public through the album "Blue City". With the successful performance of the main song "Please Don't Leave Me", along with special choreography, he made his own mark on the audience.

A year later, Park Jin Young released his second album and this time he proved that he is not simply a singer but also a lyricist, composer, and more specifically a producer. Real music production.

In 1997, Park continued to release her third album titled "Summer Jingle Bell" with the main song "She Was Pretty" and was considered the biggest hit of the year.

From his 4th album, the male artist introduced listeners to the mainstream beats of dance music, which is the repetition of rhythms without rotation or ending.

Through vibrant melodies and the rhythmic coordination of emotional melodies, Park Jin Young has truly developed a music that is unique to himself.

Along with his role as a singer, Jin Young is also very active in training and producing albums for young singers. With the establishment and development of the entertainment company JYP Ent, which he owns, he has trained and launched top stars with big names such as: GOD, Park Ji Yoon, Wonder Girls, 2PM, 2AM, Miss A and especially the one-eyelid prince Bi Rain.

In 2004, Park successfully invested in the US music industry and became the first Asian producer to produce music for the United States.

In May 2008, Park collaborated with Jackie Chan to establish the "I Love Asia" Project, spurred by the catastrophic earthquake event in China. He produced the song "Smile Again", along with Chan and director Kang Je-gyu to raise funds for relief efforts in Sichuan.

The song features a host of Korean stars, including various actors and singers, as well as figure skater Kim Yuna. The music video was released on the JYP Entertainment YouTube channel on June 30 of the same year.

In October 2009, he became the first Korean musician to enter the Billboard H.ot 100 Chart with the group Wonder Girls releasing the hit single "Nobody".

On December 3, Park released the single "No Love No More". On April 22, 2011, in collaboration with Ga-In of Brown Eyed Girls, released a duet titled "Someone Else". The song charted at number two on the Gaon Digital Chart and sold over 1 million copies.

This is the first song JYP has released in about two years. He followed up the success of "Someone Else" with a single titled "You're the One" on April 28, 2012. The song charted at number 3 and sold more than 1.5 million copies.

In 2015, Park released "Who's Your Mama?", a collaboration with Lucky J's Jessi. The song became a hit, and ranked at number one on the Korean charts. Later that year, he participated in the Infinite Challenge Yeongdong Expressway Music Festival, created a duo called Dancing Genome with comedian Yoo Jae-suk, and released the song "I'm So Sexy".

In 2016, JYP released a single titled "Still Alive". During the same p.eriod, the male artist appeared in the Conan O'Brien special "Conan in Korea", recording a song with Conan O'Brien, Steven Yeun & Park Ji-min titled "Fire", with the appearance of Wonder Girls and TWICE in the music video.

The song was released on Conan O'Brien's YouTube channel on April 9. Park Jin Young also appeared in the Korean variety show "Sister's Slam Dunk" in 2016 and produced a single called "Shut Up".

Regarding acting, in early 2011, JYP made his debut as an actor in "Dream High" and excellently received a nomination for New Actor of the Year at the Baeksang Arts Awards. In January 2012, he played a supporting role in the sequel to "Dream High" called Dream High 2.

In 2011, Park made her film debut as Choi Young In - a man on a mission to deliver 5 million dollars, in "Five Million Dollar Man" alongside Jo Sung-ha and Min Hyo- rin. The film was released on July 19, 2012.

Regarding personal life, in 1999, Park Jin Young married Seo Yoon-jeong. However, this marriage only lasted for 10 years. In March 2009, the two officially divorced. Then, on October 10, 2013, he married an ordinary woman 9 years younger.

Park Jin Young is also known as a tycoon, producer, and the richest artist on the Korean stock market as well as possessing huge assets. Park is not only instrumental in discovering and training promising young faces for the entertainment industry, but he himself is also a famous star in Korea.

Jin Young has a knack for dance music and a very fiery performance style. Chabul online network awarded him the title of Artist with the most shares in Korea after estimating that this famous male singer and manager has more than 28 million USD in shares.

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