Park Eun-bin

Park Eun-bin debuted as a child model in 1996, and since starting acting at the age of five, has starred in numerous television series, playing the younger version of various characters.^[9][10] She received the Best Young Actress award in 2009 for her role in the drama The Iron Empress.^[11]

She landed her first leading role in the time-traveling romance Operation Proposal (2012).^[12]After Operation Proposal, Park continued playing supporting roles until she gained recognition for her role in the youth ensemble cast series about a group of young women in their early 20s, Hello, My Twenties! in 2016 and its sequel in 2017.^[13]In 2017, she was cast in the legal drama Judge vs. Judge,^[14] followed by horror thriller The Ghost Detective in 2018.^[15]

Park then starred in the hit sports drama Hot Stove League (2019–2020) alongside Namkoong Min, in which she played the operations manager of a floundering baseball team. The series, which premiered to a 3% viewership rating, went on to achieve a peak rating of 19.1%. and won Best Drama at the 56th Baeksang Arts Awards.^[16]After Hot Stove League, Park was cast as an aspiring violinist in the musical romance drama Do You Like Brahms?.^[17] Despite having some experience playing the violin, Park spent 3 months practising the instrument to prepare for the role.^[18] Her performance garnered her the Top Excellence Actress Award at the 2020 SBS Drama Awards.^[19]

In 2021, Park played the role of Crown Prince Yi Hwi in the historical series The King's Affection.^[20] For her portrayal of the cross-dressing heroine, Park received the Top Excellence Actress Award at the 2021 KBS Drama Awards and a Best Actress nomination at the 58th Baeksang Arts Awards.^[21] Park also won the Best Actor Award at the 49th Korean Broadcasting Awards for her role.^[22] The drama was also awarded Best Telenovela at the 50th International Emmy Awards.^[23][24]

In 2022, Park starred in Park Hoon-jung's action-horror film The Witch: Part 2. The Other One, the sequel to the 2018 film The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion.

In the same year, she starred in Extraordinary Attorney Woo, playing the titular role of Woo Young-woo, a lawyer who is an autistic savant.^[25] It was later revealed that the production team waited over a year for Park to take part in the drama, after she reportedly declined the role because she "felt like the series wasn't something that [she] should approach lightly".^[9][26] Nonetheless, this performance earned her acclaim from both critics and audiences.^[27] The drama, which aired on the new channel ENA, started with an audience rating of 0.9% and finished with 17.5% in Korea.^[28] The drama was a global success, ranking in the top 10 most watched non-English TV series on Netflix for 21 weeks.^[29] Park's compelling performance earned her international recognition, winning the Best Actor Award at the Asia Contents Awards ^[30] and the Rising Star Award for TV at the Critics' Choice Awards' Asian Pacific Cinema & Television division.^[31] At the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards, Park was awarded the Grand Prize in Television.^[3]

On January 4, 2024, Park released a digital single album Present ahead of her fan concert Eunbin Note: Diva, which would be held on January 6 and 7.^[32] On March 28, she released a new single "Kung Ddari Sha Bah Rah", which is a remake of music duo Clon's debut song.^[33]

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