Park Si Yeon
Park Si Yeon (30) appeared as the cover story* in Joins magazine’s July 2009 issue. Recently, she starred in the drama A Man’s Story (aka The Slingshot) which aired on KBS. Currently she appears as a new member on the comedy show, Family Outing. The photoshoot took place after the filming of the last scene for A Man’s Story. The article portrays the actress as reserved and careful with her words. During the entire photoshoot she barely talked, posing calmly for the photographer. She’s not the talkative type but speaks with deliberation. Her close friends are from her school days and not from the entertainment industry. She says that co-stars tend to drift apart after filming. And as she doesn’t make friends easily, she is most comfortable with three friends from school. Because she doesn’t have an outgoing personality, some people think she is arrogant. Sometimes there are misunderstandings with staff or crew because she is reserved.
Many people were surprised when they heard that she was participating in a comedy program like Family Outing. She reveals that she tried some variety shows before but was always uncomfortable because she had to be witty and spontaneously entertaining. So when she was asked to join Family Outing she had to think about it for a while. She decided to join because she felt the program would allow her to show her natural true self instead of forcing her to be funny. She hopes that as viewers get to see this side of her instead of her sexy image they will like her more.
The interviewer noted she has a baby face with a glamourous body. And that Park Si Yeon was comfortable posing in the strapless outfits. The article referred to some controversy surrounding a low cut dress she wore to some awards show. But Park Si Yeon just thought the dress was beautiful and didn’t realize what a commotion it would create. I’ll post a picture of the dress if I find it.
I’ve also read some articles on various blogs about how she’s had a lot of plastic surgery. But I found a video of her as a young child when she won a singing competition that shows her to be a beautiful and tall 11 year old. (see the video below) So in my opinion, she was just born gorgeous.
*This is a loose translation of the article as my Korean is not very good so I asked my mother to help me translate. If you read Korean, you can go directly to the article.
I found this video of Park Si Yeon as an 11 year old. She had won the Creative Song competition the year before as a 10 year old and was invited to do an encore performance the following year.