Park Chanyeol; Biography

To get to know more about Park Chanyeol, I will divide the content into three main topics (three posts); (1)biography, (2)how to recognize Chanyeol among other members, and (3)talented Chanyeol.

(1) BIOGRAPHY

Among EXO members, Park Chanyeol is my favorite member. In this section, I will cover Chanyeol's biography.

Park Chanyeol (박찬열) was born on November 27, 1992 in Seoul, South Korea. He has one older sister, Park Yoora, an announcer at MBC Broadcasting Station. His father owns a live cafe and his mother owns Italian restaurant called "Viva Polo", which his fans love to stop by when they visit South Korea.

Chanyeol participated in the 2008 smart model contest; he won the second place and has been accepted to sign the contract to start training in SM entertainment. As a trainee, Chanyeol was practicing his skills in several branch of entertainment industry for 4 years. At first, Chanyeol thought that the company will put him in a band because he can play much kind of music instruments. Also he was not interested in dancing and preferred to stay still with his music instruments, so he avoided getting dance training for over two years. After that, he started to train how to rap because he got the compliment from the trainer, then he changed his mind and started dancing as well.

Before debuted as EXO's member, Chanyeol starred in several music videos which are; Hahaha song (TVXQ), Genie (Girls' Generation), and Twinkle (TaeTiSeo).

After officially debuted as EXO's member on April 8, 2012, Chanyeol also participated in another music video; You don't know love (K.Will). As well as being the lead actor in a web drama "EXO Next Door" with his EXO members and movie Jangsoo Shop.

Apart from showing off his acting skills, Chanyeol is very talented; he composes songs and posts them through his social networks. Also, he wrote the rap part in a song "Run" in EXO's album, OVERDOSE, and appeared as featuring rapper for artists from the same company.

In summary, Chanyeol is a very talented young boy who tried very hard to make his dream comes true and he made it.