Park Sungwoo

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Park Sungwoo
Birth Name	Park Sungwoo (박성우)
Birth Date	April 19th, 2003
Birth Place	Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Height	174cm
Blood Type	O
Idol Information
Group(s)	RUBY
Years Active	2021 - present
Agency Information
Associated Agencies	StarLight Entertainment

Sungwoo (성우) is a South Korean singer under StarLight Entertainment. He is a member of the group RUBY and is a former member of ix-cite.

Sungwoo 2021

History

Early Life

Park Sungwoo was born on April 19th, 2003, in Ansan, South Korea. Throughout his childhood, Sungwoo was very involved with art. His parents signed him up for youth painting and sketching classes and Sungwoo took to them well. At age 5, Sungwoo had a piece of art he made put in a local art museum’s gallery because he won a youth art contest. He was noted for having a good grasp of colour and space despite his young age.
In elementary school, Sungwoo flourished in his art classes. His art teacher helped him develop his style and encouraged him to pursue other artistic interests. In his fourth year of elementary school, Sungwoo became interested in K-pop, and in turn, dance. Sungwoo, along with sketching classes he took, began taking dance lessons outside of school. In his first year of middle school, Sungwoo won a large art contest in Ansan. He received offers from various art schools in Seoul, but Sungwoo declined the offers because he was not interested in leaving his friends.
For high school, Sungwoo decided that attending an art school would be beneficial for his development as an artist. His family moved to Seoul and Sungwoo accepted an offer from a prestigious art high school. Sungwoo realized he wanted to become an idol through the dance classes at the school. He enjoyed dance, and his love for K-pop was growing, so he wanted to pursue being an idol. Sungwoo auditioned for StarLight Entertainment.

Pre-debut

In 2019, Sungwoo joined StarLight Entertainment. He focused mostly on growing as a dancer, as he was inexperienced in rapping and singing. Sungwoo adjusted the classes he took at the art school to match more with his idol training. Sungwoo was introduced as a part of the Star Trainees in February 2020.

Idolix

In October 2020, Sungwoo was revealed as a contestant on the survival show Idolix. For the audition, Sungwoo performed Shining Love by Attune. He received rank B for his performance. In the reevaluations, Sungwoo was promoted to rank A. In the VS round, Sungwoo performed VERY NICE by SEVENTEEN as the center of his group. He ranked 2nd overall in the round. In the first round of voting, Sungwoo ranked 7th.
In the talent round, Sungwoo performed on the dance team for Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars as the center of his team. He ranked 1st overall in the round. In the second round of voting, Sungwoo ranked 2nd. In the concept round, Sungwoo performed the cute and colourful concept song, Shining Lovers as the center of the group. Sungwoo ranked 1st overall in the round. In the third round of voting, Sungwoo placed 2nd. In the finale, Sungwoo performed as sub vocal 3 with the Dance With Me group. Sungwoo ranked 1st in the finale, making him the center and a member of ix-cite. A clip of him and fellow trainee Luno, the two 1st place candidates, walking to the stage together and hugging, went viral.

Career

Idolix

On February 24th, 2021, Sungwoo debuted as the center, lead dancer, and vocalist of ix-cite with the mini-album ix-citement. He was also the cover for ESSENCE Magazine for their February release. During promotions, Sungwoo received backlash from netizens who had felt like his votes were rigged in the finale of Idolix. As Sungwoo had been the center several times throughout Idolix, netizens were worried that the producers had manipulated his votes to make him the center of ix-cite. Although Sungwoo received more support than the backlash, an investigation was ordered. When it was revealed in March that there had been no manipulation of voting, the negative attention on Sungwoo subsided. Due to ix-cite’s growing popularity throughout 2021, Sungwoo was nicknamed Spotlight Boy by fans because he had a large amount of fansites who would show up at the group’s schedules.
During the 2021 awards season, ix-cite received multiple rookie awards. Sungwoo received attention online for how he almost cried every time ix-cite received an award. Sungwoo explained that he had been very emotional, as he was concerned that they would be overlooked and ignored due to being a survival show group with a shorter contract. He knew that the group had a lot of support, but he did not realize how many fans the group had at that time.
During promotions for ix-traordinary in January 2022, Sungwoo received a lot of praise for his improvement since ix-cite’s debut. He was listed as an idol to watch in 2022 by HallyuMix Magazine. At Highlight Fiesta in June, Sungwoo was announced to be one of the next MCs for Hallyumak.
Sungwoo, along with Choi Dahyun, became the MCs for Hallyumak. The duo was named MC Dabi, which was a combination of Dahyun’s name and the Korean word for butterfly as Sungwoo is a social butterfly. The two 2021 rookies captured the hearts of the South Korean MC scene and became beloved by the general public. Sungwoo earned respect for his charisma and how he was always full of good questions for other idols. In November 2022, at the 2022 Asia Rising Artist Awards, Sungwoo and Dahyun won the Best Favourite MC on Music Shows award. Sungwoo stepped down from being an MC for Hallyumak in June 2023.
In February 2024, ix-cite released their disbandment album. The group disbanded in March.

RUBY

Sungwoo was officially announced as a member of RUBY in March 2024.

Personality

Sungwoo is regarded as the group's charismatic social butterfly. Always talking with idols in the backstage of shows, Sungwoo is very friendly. He loves conversing with others, and can keep up a converstaion with almost anyone. Sungwoo thinks this is why he got his MC job on Hallyumak. He loves being in front of the camera, and will take any opportunity he can to smile at a camera. Sungwoo is known for talking to the camera staff a lot while being filmed, and is loved by producers. His talkative nature is often captured on camera due to this, and fan find it adorable how excited he gets when he talks. Sungwoo is a bit embarassed that the fans noticed how much he talks, but he's glad they don't find it weird. Sungwoo is very talkative in the dorms as well.
Sungwoo is very hard-working. As the center, Sungwoo finds that people expect a lot from him. To be the best center he can, he works hard. Sungwoo stays up late to practice, and is always finding ways to improve himself. He has a strong work ethic, which is very evident on Idolix. His strong sense of how to practice helped his team every round. Sungwoo was surprised every time he received first, but it's due to his strong will. Sungwoo encourages everyone around him to work harder also.

Trivia

• Sungwoo's MBTI type is ENFJ.
• His special talent is drawing.
• Sungwoo has trouble with learning other languages, as he has trouble with new pronunciations.
• His closest friend in ix-cite is Luno.
• Sungwoo keeps in contact with fellow StarLight Entertainment trainees and Idolix competitors Lee Daehyung and Yoon Baekmin.
• He likes Dua Lipa's songs.
• Sungwoo's favourite hobbies are anything art-related, dancing, and looking at social media.
• His favourite food is Bibim Guksu.
• Sungwoo's favourite genre of music is pop dance music.
• His favourite artists are ATEEZ, Sequoia, and ITZY.
• The idol Sungwoo looks up the most to is Yeochan of Attune.
• He would describe himself as someone who is very friendly, hard-working, and charismatic, and who sees the beauty in everything around him.
• Sungwoo thinks others see him as someone who is very determined to do his best and is very upbeat.
• His favourite round of Idolix was the talent round.