Park Si-yeon
Born	Park Mi-seon (1979-03-29)March 29, 1979 (age 46) Busan, South Korea
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Spouse	Park Sang-hun ​ ​ (m. 2011; div. 2016)​
Children	2
Korean name
Hangul	박미선
Hanja	朴美宣
RR	Bak Miseon
MR	Pak Misŏn
Stage name
Hangul	박시연
Hanja	朴是沿 [1]
RR	Bak Siyeon
MR	Pak Siyŏn

Park Si-yeon (Korean: 박시연; born March 29, 1979), birth namePark Mi-seon, is a South Korean actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She joined theMiss Korea 2000 and used that as a springboard to an acting career, she made her acting debut in China in 2004 appeared in minor roles in severalCCTVdramas. In 2005 Park was cast in her first starring role in theKorean dramaMy Girl, though at the time she was more known for dating actor-singerEric Mun. As she built her filmography in the following years, Park overcame early criticism of her acting skills and eventually gained respect as an actress in TV series such asBitter Sweet Life,Coffee House andThe Innocent Man, as well as the filmsThe Fox Family,A Love, andThe Scent.

Park Mi-seon was born inBusan, South Korea. As a child, Park displayed a talent for singing, saying, "When I was young, I used to be so shy that I cried when I was told to sing in front of my dad on theLunar New Year. My mom ended up sending me to a singing academy, hoping it would help me get over my shyness, but the strange thing is that I couldn't sing in front of my mom but I wasn't nervous at all on stage." In 1990, the fifth grader won the top prize in a children's music contest onKBS.^[2]

Park began attending college in theUnited States in 1998, majoring in journalism atLong Island University. In 2000, she took aleave of absence from school and entered in the regional MissSeoul beauty pageant, placing third, She then competed in theMiss Korea pageant and won the Hanju Travel Agency Award (6th place).^[3][4]

Though her parents initially opposed her pursuing acting, Park tookprofile pictures of herself and went to various talent agencies. Her profile photos were eventually handed over to a Chinese agency, and several auditions later, this led to Park making her acting debut in China. Using thestage name Park Si-yeon, she appeared in small roles in threeCCTVdramas, and also landed an advertising contract with cosmetics company Enprani.

In 2005, Park made her acting debut in her native country of South Korea with theSBSTV dramaMy Girl, for which she received unanimously bad reviews.^[4] But Park continued to work, appearing in more dramas and making her film debut in the 2006 quirky comedy-horror-musicalThe Fox Family; gradually her acting showed marked improvement. At first constantly struggling to memorize her lines, Park has admitted that she became more relaxed in her approach to acting, and is able to "feel" her characters better.^[5] She became known for playing women who drove men to their destruction and misfortune: In the gangster filmA Love, the lover of Park's character goes to prison after defending her,^[6] in theMBC dramaBitter Sweet Life, she was a gold-digging mistress with a lonely soul,^[7] in spy film parodyDachimawa Lee, she was a sexy agent, and in the KBS dramaThe Slingshot, she sacrifices herself and becomes the enemy's possession in exchange for her boyfriend's freedom. Park smilingly said, "I personally don't likefemme fatales. Men should be happy because of women, not unhappy."^[2]

For the revival ofDrama Special, Park played a bookstore employee who falls in love with a married man inRed Candy. Despite the difficulty of taking part in a one-act drama, Park took it on with her devoted trust in screenwriterNoh Hee-kyung, of whom she is a big fan. "I felt that I had to be in whatever she writes."^[2][8][9]

In 2009, she joined the variety/reality showFamily Outing, which features comedians and entertainers dealing with various aspects of rural life. But Park had to leave after six months due to a recurring injury she sustained while filming a previous project.^[10]

The seriesCoffee House was a welcome change for her; after having mainly taken on serious or dark characters, Park said she had been "dying to be in a romantic comedy."^[11][12] Describing Park as "extremely kind," director Pyo Min-soo said he incorporated her real-life personality in writing her character: a bright, cheerful, and caring career woman who at the same time is hardworking, frank and confident. Park said, "Honestly, this is the first time working has been this fun."^[13][14][15]

In 2010, U.S.-based Korean fashion company Moeim Style announced that Park would be the creative director for U.S. fashion brand TOUCH. As creative director, she oversaw the entire planning process, from design to distribution to production, of the brand's celebrity fashion line. The "celeb line" that she handled included the brands Tulle, Line & Dot, 213 and MK2K.^[16]

For Christmas 2011, eight actors and actresses from Park's agency Didim531 (then known as Eyagi Entertainment) - including herself,Park Si-hoo,Cho Yeo-jeong andNam Gyu-ri - recorded a song with no help from professional singers. The track, titled "Winter Story," is a cheerful tune based on the emotions that arise before a love confession, which is made against a winter backdrop. The song was released for sale online on December 5, 2011, and all profits from the song's sales went to charity.^[17]

Park made her comeback to the big screen after a two-year hiatus (her last film had beenMarine Boy^[18]) in 2012'sThe Scent. She played a seductive woman who is the sole witness to the deaths of her husband and his mistress, whom the detective suspects is the killer yet is drawn to her mystique. Mesmerized while reading the script for the movie, Park said, "I am really excited that I get to play a character that is cool on the outside but is hurt and sad on the inside."^{[19][20][21][22]}

She then starred in the melodramaThe Innocent Man, playing a woman who betrays her lover to serve her own ambition and puts him on the path to destructive revenge.^[23][24][25] Critics have credited Park's mature performance, saying she mastered the character's complicated nature in a way that heightened the tension of the story, and was not overshadowed by leading actorsSong Joong-ki andMoon Chae-won.^[26]

After giving birth and being indicted forpropofol use in 2013, Park returned to television with the 2014 cable dramaThe Greatest Marriage, in which her character struggles to balancesingle motherhood and a successful career as an anchorwoman.^[27][28][29]

In 2015, she made her Hollywood debut inLast Knights, an action film set in medieval times about a band of warriors who seek revenge on a corrupt emperor. She starred alongsideClive Owen,Morgan Freeman, and Korean veteran actorAhn Sung-ki. With Japanese directorKazuaki Kiriya at the helm, filming took place in theCzech Republic.^{[30][31][32][33]}

In January 2022, it was reported that Park's contract with agencyMystic Story had ended.^[34]

Park first became known to the Korean public not through her acting roles, but as the girlfriend of popular singer-actorEric Mun (fromK-popboy bandShinhwa), whom she began dating in 2004.^[35] Her relationship with Mun overshadowed her acting career during her early years, with the public commonly identifying her as "Eric's girlfriend".^[4] In an interview withThe Korea Herald, Park said it took about 10 different roles before the tag of "Eric's girlfriend" vanished from the public's perception of her, adding that the only positive of the tag was that she loved him. The couple broke up in 2007.^[36]

In an August 2010 interview withCosmopolitan, Park said, "These days the thing I most think about is, 'Have I lived well?' I'm happy when I film dramas or movies, but in this kind of life you should turn back and take stock of your life at least once, and I think that time has come. I want to love. I want to marry soon and live boisterously."^[37]

On November 19, 2011, at theSeoul Hyatt Hotel, Park married Park Sang-hun, an office worker at a small company.^{[38][39][40][41][42]} She gave birth to their first child, a daughter, on September 24, 2013.^{[43][44][45][46]} Their second child, also a daughter, was born on November 14, 2015.^[47][48] In May 2016, it was announced that the couple filed for divorce.^[49]

In early 2013, Park was among the celebrities investigated then indicted for illegal use ofpropofol; Park's agency denied the allegations, saying she took the drug for medical reasons after she injured her back doing action scenes for the filmsMarine Boy andDachimawa Lee.^{[50][51][52][53][54][55]} During the trial, her doctor testified that she had been taking the drug to treatavascular necrosis at the head of herfemur.^[56][57] In October 2013, the Seoul Central District Court found Park guilty of taking propofol 400-500 times over four-and-a-half years (or 8.2 times a month), and she was sentenced to eight months in prison,suspended for two years.^[58][59][60]

On January 19, 2021, Park was booked by the police fordriving under influence when the car she was driving hit the back bumper of another vehicle.^[61][62]

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