[2][3] In late 2001, Park scored his biggest hit with the comedy My Wife Is a Gangster, which attracted over 5 million viewers nationwide.
As the "straight man," he played a mild-mannered government clerk who doesn't realize that his wife is a fearsome gang boss.
Dharma!, released a couple months later, also became a runaway hit with audiences for its comic showdown between gangsters and Buddhist monks.
The year 2002 was less kind, however, with comedies Can't Live Without Robbery and Baby Alone both bombing at the box-office, effectively ending Park's career as a leading actor.
about a soldier and a nun who meet during the Korean War (in Kim Sang-jin's debut as a theatre director),[6] and Really Really Like You, a 1970s-set nostalgic romance between an English teacher and a high school baseball coach (adapted from the same-titled 1977 film).