[1] He was classmates with retired basketball legend Hur Jae at Yongsan High School and attended Chung-Ang University together.

[citation needed] Park started his career as an actor in television drama Sarang (1990).

His performance in My Love, My Bride (1991) was highly esteemed in the Asia Pacific Film Festival, and Park won the Best actor's award.

Park went to the United States in 1992 to enroll in the graduate school of New York University, majoring in acting education.

Near the end of decade, Park came back into the limelight with Haeundae (2009), Korea's first disaster film that situates itself in a tsunami coming to the popular beach of Busan.