Born Ji-Eung Park, he studied voice first at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, then he moved to Europe in 2002 and continued
studying in Germany and above all at the Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome; his debut took place in 2008 as Calaf at the As.Li.Co.
theaters (Cremona, Como, Pavia, Brescia).
He made an international career at theaters of mostly secondary (or tertiary) importance: Genova (Calaf, Cavaradossi), Cagliari
(Cavaradossi), Bologna (Ernani), Sassari (Ernani), Rovigo (Manrico), Cremona/Como/Pavia/Brescia (Ernani), Sassari (Turiddu), Torre
del Lago (Cavaradossi, Calaf), Palermo (Turiddu), Athens (Turiddu, 2011; Manrico, 2012; Arrigo, 2012 and 2013; Cavaradossi, 2015),
Budapest (Pollione, Turiddu), Tokyo (Calaf), Beijing (Calaf), Liège (Radames), Skopje (Calaf, Radames), Nancy (Calaf, 2013),
Bogotá (Calaf, 2014), Detroit (Calaf, 2014 – his US debut), Tbilisi (Radames, 2014), Teatro Regio in Parma (Otello,
2015, as a last-minute substitute for an ailing colleague), Montpellier (Calaf, Luigi), Las Palmas (Turiddu), Sanxay (Calaf, 2015),
Warsaw (Radames, 2016), Macerata (Calaf, 2017), Taormina (Radames, 2018), Trieste (Calaf, 2019), Seoul (Calaf, 2021).
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reference 4 and picture source
