Park Ji-hoon Wins Best New Actor Award at Baeksang Arts Awards

Park Ji-hoon: From Wanna One heartthrob to box office king

When Park Ji-hoon walked up to collect the best new actor for film award at last week's Baeksang Arts Awards — the closest thing Korea has to the Emmys and Oscars combined — nobody in the room seemed surprised. He'd spent the first half of the year slaying at the box office as the tragic boy-king Danjong, a 15th-century Joseon ruler deposed and killed at 17, in "The King's Warden." The historical drama became the highest-grossing Korean film of all time, selling more than 16 million tickets in a

By The Korea Herald