Park Gyu-ri

I. Introduction

Gyuri (규리) is a South Korean recording artist, actress and radio host under Big Boss Entertainment. She is a member of the Korean Pop girl group KARA.

II. Life and Career

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 friend 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.

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"). Kara underwent a number of lineup changes, but gained commercial success.

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. On September 26, 2011, Park announced that she would no longer DJ the show due to her busy schedule. Her last broadcast was on October 2, 2011. 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. She was the voice of Kate in the Korean dub of Alpha and Omega, released in February 2011. On May 7, Park gave a lecture on her career in the entertainment industry at Seo Woon High School in Incheon, 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. In November, Park was diagnosed with vocal fold nodules, but nevertheless continued to rehearse for the musical. 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. Following the musical's successful run, Park underwent vocal cord surgery on February 21, 2012. 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. In 2014, she was cast in the film Two Rooms, Two Nights.

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. She then joined Motion Media to pursue a career in acting. The same year, Park was cast in the historical drama Jang Yeong-sil. She and the other members of Kara (minus Goo Hara who had passed away in 2019), would return as a group for the first time since late 2015, with the album Move Again in 2022.

In 2024, 2 days prior to the summer KARA comeback release, Gyuri was announced to have suffered severe facial fractures and injuries, due to a "personal issue" (reportedly it was due to domestic violence) as an result the members cancelled their music show appearances. Gyuri would upload a photo of the foot of her hospital bed, shortly before undergoing invasive surgery on her various injuries. Gyuri had previously been romantically involved on and off from 2019 forward, with an man who turned out to be an federally charged cyber criminal. She would post an selfie from days before the injuries stating "It feels like a lifetime ago just a few days ago" on her social media, after the announcement of her injuries.

During recovery, she would share the statement "Surgery went well my people don't worry too much
From now on, I'm devoted to my recovery.
I wish you a healthy body and mind as soon as possible.
I'll be back again I miss you so much and love you
Thank you very much for your concern. I hope you all stay healthy." via her social medias.

According to her Instagram since the incident and surgeries, Gyuri has been residing with her bandmate Nicole in Japan, and has started cosplaying once again.

III. Discography

IIII. Digital Singles

[2010.12.16] Dae Mul OST Part.7 (with Ji Young)

[2011.06.23] City Hunter OST Part.5

[2011.07.22] Love Is Elsewhere OST Part.1 (with Hyunyoung (Rainbow))

[2012.06.08] Tasty Life OST Part.2

[2012.10.10] The Great Seer OST Part.1

[2013.05.10] Nail Shop Paris OST Part.1

[2014.04.16] Inspiring Generation OST Part. 8

[2014.06.13] Secret Love OST (시크릿 러브) (with Seung Yeon)

[2014.09.24] Blade Man OST (아이언맨) (with Seung Yeon)

[2014.10.17] Chrysanthemum Fragrance OST (with Hyung Gon)

[2015.06.15] Eolin Wangja (어린왕자) (with From The Airport)

[2016.04.14] Two Rooms, Two Nights OST

IIIII. Collaborations/Other

[2010.01.10] MBC Music Travel LaLaLa Live Vol. 7 - (#2 "Gil" ("Road") ) (Gyuri & KARA)

[2010.01.24] MBC Music Travel LaLaLa Live Vol. 11 - (#1 Bingeul Bingeul) (Gyuri, SeungYeon, Nicole (KARA) & No Brain)

[2010.02.04] Hong Kyung Min - Special Edition (#1 Day After Day) (feat. Gyuri from KARA)

[2010.10.15] Let's go!

[2013.06.20] Galileo 2 OST (#1 Kiss / #2 The Most Loved)

[2014.10.14] W Foundation Campaign (#1 Talk About Love) (Gyuri, Seung Yeon & Hara)

[2015.09.17] ONE DREAM ONE KOREA Project (#1 One Dream One Korea) (Gyuri, Baek Hyun, Ailee and More)

[2017.02.07] From The Airport - The Boy Who Jumped (#3 Night And Day) (feat. Gyuri)

IV. Filmography

IVI. Dramas

[1995] Today Is A Nice Day

[2002] Ladies of the Palace

[2008] The Person Is Coming

[2009] Hero (cameo)

[2011] URAKARA

[2012] Reckless Family

[2012] What's Mom (cameo)

[2013] Nail Shop Paris

[2014] Secret Love

[2015] Sweet

[2016] Jang Yeong-sil

[2017] Lovers in Bloom

IVII. Films

[2013] KARA The Animation

[2016] Two Rooms, Two Nights

[2016] How to Break Up with my Cat

IVIII. Voice Acting

[2011] Alpha and Omega - Kate (Korean Dub)

IVIV. Television

[2009] Star Golden Bell

[2009] Sunday Sunday Night’s “Parody Theater”

[2010] Good Time 230

[2011] 100 Points Out of 100 Points (Oh! My School)

[2011] Secret!

[2011] Lulu Lala

[2012] Running Man

[2012] Jewellery House

[2013] ''THE SHOW'' All About K-Pop

[2023] R U Next? (Coach)

IVV. Musicals

[2011] 200 Pounds Beauty: The Musical

V. Radio

[2009] Sukira Kiss the Radio

[2009] Donggo Dongrak Radio

[2010] Starry Night Radio

[2010] SS501 Music High

[2011] Shim Shim Tapa (with Shindong)