Park Junyoung (; born 12 March 1982) is a South Korean singer from
Busan
Busan (), officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second list of cities in South Korea by population, most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million as of 2024. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economi ...
who debuted in Japan in March 2012 with the single .
Career
Park was a member of two different
K-pop
K-pop (; an abbreviation of "Korean popular music") is a form of popular music originating in South Korea. It emerged in the 1990s as a form of youth subculture, with Korean musicians taking influence from Western Electronic dance music, danc ...
bands in South Korea, but they both disbanded.
He was subsequently spotted by Japanese ''
enka
is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern ''enka'', however, is a relatively recent musical form which adopts a more traditional musical style in its vocalism than ''ryūkōka'' music, pop ...
'' singer while performing as an independent musician in western Japan.
His Japanese debut single, , was released on 7 March 2012 on the
King Records label, and reached number 109 on the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics
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music chart.
Park's second Japanese single, , was released on 13 March 2013, and reached number 44 on the Oricon music chart.
On the same day, Park embarked on a tour of all 47
prefectures of Japan
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (, , ), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and Administrative divisions of Japan, administrative division. They include 43 prefectures pro ...
to promote the single.
Discography
Singles
* , (7 March 2012)
* , (13 March 2013)
See also
*
List of K-pop artists
The following is a list of notable individual K-pop artists., backed bSeoul Metropolitan Government
Male A
*Yuto Adachi
*Danny Ahn
* Tony An
* Ajoo
* Aoora
* Aron
B
*B-Bomb
* B.I
*Babylon
* Bae Jin-young
* Bae Ki-sung
* Baekho
* Baekh ...
References
External links
*
Official blog
Oricon artist profile
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1982 births
Living people
King Records (Japan) artists
21st-century South Korean male singers