Park Gyu-ri

Park Gyu-ri (born May 21, 1988), better known by the mononym Gyuri, is a South Korean singer, actress, and radio personality. She was a member of South Korean girl group Kara.[2]

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Gyu-ri
박규리
Gyuri in October 2016
Born	Park Gyu-ri (1988-05-21) May 21, 1988[1] Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Singer actress radio personality
Years active	1995–present
Agent	Creative Kkot
Musical career
Genres	K-pop
Instruments	Vocals
Labels	DSP Universal Sigma EMI Music Japan
Associated acts	Kara
Korean name
Hangul	박규리
Hanja	朴奎利
Revised Romanization	Bak Gyu-ri
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Kyu-ri

Life and career

1988–2002: Early life and career beginnings

Park Gyu-ri was born on May 21, 1988, in Seoul, South Korea. She became a child actress with her first television appearance in the 1995 series Today is a Nice Day, in which she played the girlfriend of Kang Ho-dong's brother. In 2001, Park appeared as the teenage version of Kim Jung-eun's character in Ladies of the Palace.

2007–2010: Breakthrough with Kara

She debuted as part of the four-member girl group Kara on March 29, 2007. As the leader of the group, Park came up with its name, which comes from the Greek word chara (χαρά, lit. "joy").[3][4] Kara underwent a number of lineup changes, but gained commercial success.

In 2009, she became a permanent guest on the reality television show Star Golden Bell.[5]

Park featured in a duet with Hong Kyung-min titled "Day After" on his tenth album Special Edition, released on February 4, 2010. On April 21 that year, it was announced that she would become a radio DJ alongside Shindong on the MBC talk show ShimShimTapa after Kim Shin-young left. Their first broadcast aired on May 5, 2010[6]. On September 26, 2011, Park announced that she would no longer DJ the show due to her busy schedule.[7] Her last broadcast was on October 2, 2011.[8]

2011–present: Solo activities

On January 19, 2011, Park was the only member of Kara to remain with their label DSP Media during a contract dispute in which the other members released a statement announcing they were terminating their contract with their label. The contract dispute was later resolved.[9][10] She was the voice of Kate in the Korean dub of Alpha and Omega, released in February 2011.[11] On May 7, Park gave a lecture on her career in the entertainment industry at Seo Woon High School in Incheon,[12] and on July 13, she hosted the "Music Bank in Tokyo K-Pop Festival". On July 15, she joined the cast of 200 Pounds Beauty Musical, which was shown in Japanese theaters.[13][14] In November, Park was diagnosed with vocal fold nodules, but nevertheless continued to rehearse for the musical.[15] She also hosted the "Seoul-Tokyo Music Festival 2011" on November 9. The musical ran for six performances in Korea from December 6–17. According to the show's production company, Show Note, the musical brought in significantly higher numbers of male audience members than average.[16] Following the musical's successful run, Park underwent vocal cord surgery on February 21, 2012.[17][18] In 2012, she co-hosted the 26th Golden Disc Awards at the Osaka Dome in Japan.

On February 23, 2013, she hosted the Yang Yang K-Pop Festival at Naksan Beach.[19] On June 2, Park hosted SGC Super Live 2013 in Tokyo.[20][21]

In 2014, she was cast in the film Two Rooms, Two Nights.[22]

On January 15, 2016, Park's contract with DSP Media expired. However, she stated that Kara had not disbanded even though its members were now under separate agencies, and that they hoped to collaborate on an album when the opportunity arose in the future.[23] She then joined Motion Media to pursue a career in acting.[24] The same year, Park was cast in the historical drama Jang Yeong-sil.[25]

In 2018, she was cast in the film Miyak.[26]

Discography

See also: Kara discography

As a featured artist

Year	Album	Single	Artist	Duration	Ref
2010	MBC Music Travel LaLaLa Live Vol. 7	"Gil (Road)"	No Brain feat. Gyuri, SeungYeon & Nicole	04:00
	MBC Music Travel LaLaLa Live Vol. 11	"Bingeul Bingeul" (빙글빙글)	No Brain feat. Gyuri & KARA	03:55
	Hong Kyung Min Vol. 10 – Special Edition	"Day After" (일 후)	Gyuri & Hong Kyung-min	03:21
	N/A	"If U Cannot"	Park Jung-min feat. Gyuri	03:43
	G20 Seoul Summit 2010 Project Album	"Let's Go"	Gyuri, Changmin, Jun. K, Bumkey, Gayoon, Kahi, ANNA, JunHyung, G.NA, Luna, LaLa Seohyun, IU, G.O, Min, Jaekyung, Jonghyun, Jieun, Seo In-guk, Son Dam-bi & Sungmin	03:34
2014	W Foundation Campaign	"Talk About Love"	Various artists	04:56
2015	The Little Prince 6th Single	"The Little Prince"	Gyuri & From the Airport	03:34	[27]
		"Return"		03:24
	One Dream One Korea Project	"One Dream One Korea"	Various artists	04:56
2017	The Boy Who Jumped	"Night And Day"	Gyuri & From the Airport	03:34

Soundtrack appearances

Year	Soundtrack	Track	Duration	Notes	Ref
2010	Daemul OST	"My Love" (내 사랑)	04:23	Duet with Kang Ji-young	[28]
2011	200 Pounds Beauty OST	"Maria"	03:21
		"Beautiful Girl"	01:55
	City Hunter OST	"Look Only At You" (그대만 봐요)	04:13
	Hooray for Love OST	"Indecisive" (갈팡질팡)	03:36	Duet with Cho Hyun-young	[29]
2012	Tasty Life OST Part 2	"I Love You More Than The Soul" (영혼보다 사랑해)	03:48		[30]
	The Great Seer OST	"Breaking Fate" (운명을 깨고)	03:59		[31]
2013	Nail Shop Paris OST	"I Will Wait For You" (기다릴 거에요)	03:46		[32]
	Galileo 2 OST	"Kiss"	04:14
		"The Most Loved"	05:46
	N/A	"Anata Ga Iru Kara"	04:22
2014	Inspiring Generation OST	"Dream A Little Dream Of Me" (내 작은 꿈을 꿈)	02:55
	N/A	"Rolling In The Deep"	03:50
	Secret Love OST	"First Love" (첫사랑)	03:30	Duet with Han Seung-yeon
	Blade Man OST	"Hello"	03:02		[33]
	N/A	"Goodbye Days"	04:32	Duet with Han Seung-yeon
	N/A	"Hush Hush; Hush Hush"	04:31
2015		"Sakura"	05:35
	N/A	"Endless Rain"	06:35
2016	Two Rooms, Two Nights OST	"Spring Now"	03:36

Charted singles

Title	Year	Peak positions	Sales	Album
		KOR [34]
"그대만 봐요" (Look Only At You)[35]	2011	73	KOR: 208,717 (DL)[36]	City Hunter OST Special
"Daydream"	2012	163		Kara Solo Collection
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
2011	Alpha and Omega	Kate	Voice-over for the Korean-dubbed version	[11]
2013	Kara The Animation	Herself	Voice-over for the Japanese-dubbed version
2016	Two Rooms, Two Nights	Mi-na	Main role	[22]
	How to Break Up with My Cat	Lee-jung
	Poinie's Poin (movie)	Rad, Lilin, Panoramian, Poinie's Mam	Voice-over for the Korean-dubbed version

Television

Drama

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref
1995	Today is a Nice Day	Soo-mi	MBC
2001–2002	Ladies of the Palace	Teenage Kim Jung-eun	SBS
2008	The Person Is Coming	School Girl	MBC	with Goo Ha-ra, Nicole Jung and Kang Ji-young
2009	Hero	Cameo
2011	URAKARA	Gyu-ri	TV Tokyo
2012	Reckless Family	Herself	MBC
	What's Mom
2013	Nail Shop Paris	Hong Yuh-joo
2014	Secret Love	Park Sun-woo	DRAMAcube
2015	Sweet	Jung Won	MBC
2016	Jang Yeong-sil	Joo Bu-ryeong	KBS1		[25]
2017	Lovers in Bloom	Jang Eun Joo		Daily Drama

Reality

Year	Title	Network	Notes	Ref
2009–2010	Sunday Sunday Night’s “Parody Theater”	MBC	Go Eung-chan (The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince)
	Star Golden Bell	KBS	Permanent guest	[5]
	Strong Heart (TV series)	SBS	Episode 4, 5, 13, 14, 51, 52, 100, 101
2011	Lulu Lala	MBC	December 11, 2011 – February 19, 2012
2012	Jewellery House		MC
2013–2014	The Show	SBS MTV	MC with Han Seung-yeon
2014	SNS Expedition	SBS	With Jeong Jinwoon, Oh Sang-jin, Oh Man-seok, Seo Hyun-jin and Kim Min-joon

Theatre and radio

Musical theatre

Year	Title	Role	Ref
2011	200 Pounds Beauty	Jenny	[13][14]

Radio shows

Date	Name	Note	Ref
September 23, 2009 – April 14, 2010	Super Junior's Kiss the Radio	Fixed guest DJ with Kang Ji-young
May, 2009 – August, 2009	Donggo Dongrak Radio	Collaboration
January, 2009	Starry Night Radio
May 5, 2010 – October 3, 2011	MBC ShimShimTaPa	with Shindong
January, 2010 – April, 2010	SS501 Music High	with SS501's Park Jungmin

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref
2017	2017 Korea Drama Awards	Hallyu Star Award:	Lovers in Bloom	Won	[37]

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External links

• Park Gyu-ri at Creative Kkot
• Park Gyu-ri at HanCinema
• Park Gyuri on IMDb