This year, actor Park Jeong-min (b. 1987) not only won best supporting actor in the film department at the 57th Korea Baeksang Arts Awards for "Save Me from Evil", but also won best supporting actor at the 41st Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards. Being able to win Best Supporting Actor twice shows that Park Chung-min's performance in the film must be very outstanding, and it turns out that he has indeed made a major breakthrough.
Park Jong-min in the movie "Save Me from Evil" plays a Korean pseudo-transgender "Yu" living in Thailand, in order to earn surgery fees, he became a helper in the rescue of his daughter by Innam (Hwang Jeong-min), and is also a funny person in the whole movie, so this role is quite eye-catching, I believe that after watching the movie, you will also feel that Park Chung-min won the best supporting actor.
Park Jong-min, who rarely appears on variety shows, recently starred in "You Quiz On The Block", in which he recounted his dream of producing an actor from his student days, to his unsuccessful selection of Han Yi-so (short for Korea University of the Arts) to be admitted to Koryo University, and then to drop out of Korea University to be admitted to Han-yi-soo... So today we follow the content of the program to understand Park Jeong-min's acting experience.
Since his student days, Park Chung-min has always been known as a model student in school with excellent grades, when he went to play in the villa of a rich friend in the third year of junior high school, he accidentally met Park Won-sang, who was drunk at the party, and talked with him, and then Park Chung-min spent four days and three nights with many actors there, and unconsciously he was attracted by the charm of the profession of actor, when Park Chung-min first had the idea of "I want to make a movie".
But Park Jong-min, who aspires to be an actor, submitted a very outlier self-introduction in Han Yi-soo's entrance exam, so he was not only disciplined by the professor he interviewed, but also failed. In the end, Park Jeong-min, who was not admitted to Han Yi-so, took the college entrance examination and was admitted to Korea University, but he chose to automatically withdraw from school halfway through. After dropping out of school, Park Chung-min was very confused and even regretted his decision to withdraw from Korea University, and called the Admissions Office of Korea University to ask if he could re-enroll.
One day, Park Jeong-min suddenly thought of park won-sang actor he saw at a friend's house when he was a child, and accidentally saw a drama poster printed with Park Won-sang actor, so he sent an email to the troupe where Park Won-sang was located, and immediately got a reply. Fortunately, Park Won-sang remembers him and asks Park Jeong-min to go to the troupe to find himself. Subsequently, Park Jeong-min often went to the troupe to play, and also met many actor predecessors from it. During this period, he once again found his original intention, so he re-challenged the Han Yizong entrance examination and became a student of the 09th grade of the Film Department.
However, after entering Han Yi Zongzhong, which has countless outstanding talents, Park Jong-min gradually lost his self-confidence, and even thought that he "could not surpass those who have natural talents." And he was able to persevere in the end, in fact, thanks to what Park Won-sang said to him, "Always work hard, don't lose hope." I'll keep an eye on you, good cheers..! Until now he was deeply impressed by these words.
Park Jeong-min officially debuted on the silver screen in 2011 when he starred in the feature film "Watchmen" with Lee Tei-hoon. At that time, Lee Tei-hoon, an actor from the 08th grade of Han Yizong, won the Best Newcomer Actor Award at the 32nd Korea Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Best Newcomer Actor Award at the 48th Korean Film Grand Bell Awards, while Park Jeong-min was only known as "an unknown actor with good acting skills".
In addition, Bian Yaohan, who is also a Han Yizong 09 student with Park Jeong-min, became popular with "Six Dragons Flying", Kim Joon-won quit school to debut as a member of the boy band EXO, and Lin Ji-yeon became the best newcomer actress with "Poisoning in the World"... Park Jeong-min has been playing supporting roles in TV dramas from 2012 to 2015, and in 2015 he starred in tvN's "Please Answer 1988" and also played Paula's ex-boyfriend Park Jong-hoon, because this is a very warm TV series, so he is the only villain in the drama, so he is impressive.
At that time, Park Chung-min, who could only receive supporting roles, even thought of giving up acting to study abroad, and it happened that the agency called to tell him that the famous director Lee Joon-yeol offered to invite Park Jong-min to audition for the black-and-white biographical film "Dongzhu", so he once again made up his mind to try again. "Dongzhu" tells the story of the patriotic poet Yoon Dong-joo (Jiang Ha-na), who is both a brother and a lifelong friend, and the independent activist Song Mengkui (Park Jeong-min) from studying, writing, and resisting Japan to being persecuted to death by the Japanese army in an era full of hardships. At the end of 2016, Park Jeong-min won the 52nd Korea Baeksang Art Awards - Male Newcomer Acting Award in the Film Department with the film, and has since got rid of his nameless acting life.
For the life of the unknown period, he once said in the show: "If I were a pianist, I could still practice hard, but as an actor, I don't know what to work on, and I can't imitate other people's acting." So if you don't have a role in place, you don't know what to do." Because of this, after determining the work and roles, Park Jeong-min showed a passion and concentration that was different from ordinary people.
He played Wu Zhentai, a young piano genius with autism and "scholar syndrome" in the movie "That's My World", when the cast was determined, he went to the piano academy to sign up and practice piano for six months. In addition, in order to interpret autism, he also watched many autism-related books and documentaries. Lee Byung-hyun, an actor who was partnered with him at the time, even praised him: "Park Jeong-min has both talent and hard work. Although talent is innate, his efforts and honesty are very valuable, and he is an honest actor."
Since then, Park Jeong-min has been active on the screen, starring in films such as "Border Mountain", "Lao Qian 3", "Woo Po Ha", "Start Moving" and so on, and gradually became well known to everyone. Following the sweep of the awards ceremony Best Supporting Actor with "Save Me from Evil", Park Jeong-min currently has two new works that are about to come out.
One of them is his film Miracle, starring with Lim Yoon-er and Lee Sung-min, set in the 1980s and telling the story of Joon Kyung-kyung (Park Jeong-min), a mathematical genius high school student in the countryside of North Gyeongsang Province, who, with the help of his girlfriend Roh Hee (Lim Yoon-er), works with his sister and villagers to build a simple train station. The film was originally scheduled to be released in June, but after the film's related people publicly said that the release was postponed, the release date is being adjusted. Therefore, the publicity schedule of the main actors has also been postponed.
Another work is the new original series "Hell" jointly launched by Netflix and the director of the movie "Busan Trip", "Hell", which is composed of a super luxurious starring lineup composed of Yoo Ya-jin, Park Jeong-min, Kim Hyun-joo, Won Jin-na, Leung Yi-joon, Lee Jin and so on. Adapted from the comic of the same name, Hell is a horror genre that focuses on a series of supernatural stories experienced by people who meet the sudden appearance of the hell dead after receiving a sudden notice of the hell trip. The broadcast time has not yet been determined.
Debuting in 2011 and winning the Newcomer Acting Award in 2016, Park Jeong-min spent five years to let everyone know him! From 2017 to 2021, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award, and it took him five years to prove his acting skills to everyone! Although Park Chung-min did not make his debut like his classmates and attracted much attention, he has made himself a powerful actor who shines from the inside out with his decade of hard work. I believe that in the next decade he will be able to create a different self, actor Park Jeong-min is worth looking forward to!