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| Birth Name: | Park Ji-sung | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 5 February 2002 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||
| Other Names: | Andy Park[1] | ||||||||||
| Years Active: | –present | ||||||||||
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Park Ji-sung (; born February 5, 2002), also known mononymously as Jisung is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer and actor. He began his career as a child actor, model and dancer, as part of the Nam Hyun-Joon and Kids dance crew. He became a trainee under SM Entertainment in 2013 and was part of its pre-debut trainee team SM Rookies. Jisung made his idol debut in August 2016 as a member of South Korean boy group NCT through the sub-unit NCT Dream.[2] [3]
Park Ji-sung was born on February 5, 2002, in Seoul, South Korea.[4] He graduated from Mia Elementary School and attended Gireum Middle School.
In 2009, Jisung started learning popping from Nam Hyun-joon and continued to be active in his dance crew, until he was 11 years old. He also worked as a child actor and appeared in various television dramas, films, and commercials.
In addition to performing with dance crews and as a backup dancer for artists, Jisung also appeared as a child actor in several TV dramas, films, and commercials, including the 2010 KBS2 children's program TV Kindergarten Funny Funny,[5] the drama Tree with Deep Roots, and films Crossbow War[6] and Go, Stop, Murder (2014).[7] In 2013, Jisung represented South Korea in the CCTV International Children's Concert held in China.[8]
In 2013, Jisung participated in the Mnet dance program Dancing 9 and was subsequently scouted by an SM Entertainment talent agent.[9] As his mother was a fan of TVXQ and SHINee, he agreed to audition and successfully became a trainee under SM Entertainment. On December 17, 2013, he was publicly revealed as part of SM Entertainment's pre-debut trainee team SM Rookies.[10] [11]
From 2013 to 2015, Jisung participated in the "SMTown Week" and "SMTown Live World Tour IV" world concert tours together with his future NCT Dream teammates.[12] In July 2015, he appeared in TVXQ's U-Know's music video for "Champagne".[13] [14] In 2015, he was a cast member of Disney Channel Korea's The Mickey Mouse Club[15] during his time as an SM Rookies member.[16] In 2016, he appeared in the reality show NCT Life in Bangkok, which partly documented the 2016 SMRookies pre-debut showcase "SMRookies Show in Bangkok".[17]
On August 25, 2016, Jisung officially debuted as a member of NCT Dream with the single "Chewing Gum".[18] [19] [20]
In May 2018, Jisung participated in JTBC's Why Not? The Dancer, filming took place in Los Angeles, America, with his seniors, Eunhyuk and Taemin from SM Entertainment and Lee Gi-kwang.[21] In September 2018, Park participated as a contestant on the KBS2 dance survival show Dancing High.[22] [23]
In 2020, due to a knee injury, Jisung was not present for NCT 2020 Resonance promotions.[24] With the release of 2021's Hot Sauce album, he became the youngest K-pop idol double-million album seller.[25]
| Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR | ||||
| "Best Day Ever" (with Haechan and Chenle) | 2018 | — | DreamWorks Trolls X SM STATION | |
| "Snow Dream 2021" (with Yeri, Haechan, Chenle and Ningning) | 2021 | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. | ||||
All credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association, unless cited otherwise.[26]
| Year | Song | Artist(s) | Album | Lyricist | Composer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | "Dear Dream" | NCT Dream | We Go Up | ||
| 2019 | "Bye My First..." | We Boom | |||
| "Best Friend" | |||||
| 2021 | "Rainbow" | Hot Sauce | |||
| 2022 | "It's Yours..." | Glitch Mode | |||
| "Replay" | |||||
| "Never Goodbye" | |||||
| 2023 | "Like We Just Met" | ISTJ | |||
| 2024 | "Breathing" | Dreamscape |
See also: NCT videography.
| Year | Title | Role | Note | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Turn the Earth | Seong-won | Short film | ||
| 2013 | Go, Stop, Murder | Jeong-won |
| Year | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Kindergarten Funny Funny | Ji-sung | |
| 2014 | Himself | ||
| 2015 | Mickey Mouse Club | ||
| 2018 | Why Not? The Dancer | ||
| Dancing High | [27] |