Park Soo-jin

Park Soo-jin is one of those performers who quietly reinvented herself and came out the other side looking better for it. She started out in the early 2000s K-pop girl group Sugar — that era of idol pop that was all synchronized choreo and candy-sweet image — and then, rather than clinging to that lane past its expiry date, she pivoted to acting and actually made it stick. What I appreciate is how grounded her post-idol career feels: TV dramas, hosting the long-running food show Tasty Road for six years, building a reputation that has nothing to do with nostalgia for her group days. She studied at Kyung Hee University, which says something about treating the craft seriously. Not a household name globally, but exactly the kind of versatile, hardworking talent that Korean entertainment runs on behind the marquee lights.

Name (English)

Park Soo-jin

Name (Japanese)

パク・スジン

Reading

ぱく・すじん

Born

November 27, 1985 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

Origin

Seongnam, South Korea

Occupation

actor / singer

University

Kyung Hee University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20Soo-jin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13580246

Tags

• actor
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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