Park Joong-Hoon Movies and Career Information

Park Joong-hoon (born March 22, 1966) is a South Korean actor. Park was born and raised in Seoul. After graduating from the department of drama and film of Chung-Ang University, he started his career as an actor in the film Cambo (1985). In 1987, for his performance as a college student in Youth sketch of Mimi and Cheolsu, he won the best fresh actor's award of PaekSang Arts Awards. In Chilsu and Mansu (1988), Park gave a brilliant performance in acting as Chil-soo, who leads his life in agony in the society of that time; it created a shock to Korean society. His performance in My Love, My Bride (1991) was highly esteemed in the Asia Pacific Film Festival, and Park won the Best actor's award. Park went to the United States in 1992 to enroll in the graduate school of New York University, majoring in acting education. After getting his master's degree, he returned to Korea and appeared in Two Cops (1993), a box office hit, which brought him and Ahn Sung-ki the best actor's award of Grand Bell Awards. His performance as a tough police officer in Nowhere to Hide (1999) gave Park the opportunity to be the first Korean actor to appear in a Hollywood film; the film director Jonathan Demme