Park Ji-won박지원박지원
Park Ji-won is a member of fromis_9, the five-member girl group under ASND. She came through the survival shows SIXTEEN and Idol School and debuted on 24 January 2018, and on 28 July 2026 she took the stage as Ali in the musical Hell's Kitchen, her first musical role.
Two survival shows stand between Park Ji-won and her debut. At the debut showcase on 24 January 2018, BizEnter reported, she said she had gone from SIXTEEN to Idol School and reached her debut that way. Star News wrote the same day that she had been a trainee at JYP Entertainment, and quoted her saying that the long trainee years had held hard times but that she was glad to have met these members. The second of those shows, Mnet’s Idol School, settled its nine-member debut line-up on the final broadcast of 29 September 2017, and Kyeongin Ilbo named Park Ji-won among them the next day.
She writes songs. On Midnight Guest, in January 2022, she wrote the words and music of the unit track ‘Hush Hush’ with Lee Seo-yeon, and at the showcase she said that directing the other members’ recording herself had made it more fun and more memorable, News1 reported. She is credited for words and music on ‘Wishlist’ on the first full-length album Unlock My World (Xports News) and on ‘Strawberry Mimosa’ on From Our 20’s in 2025 (Dispatch). On the second full-length album Glow ME, released on 21 July 2026, it is ‘Teacher’. In a written interview published by Star News the day before release she named it the track she is fondest of: it is her first go at afrobeats, she said, and a style she had wanted to try, which makes it mean more. The same album’s ‘Why do I cry?’ she sings as a duo with Song Ha-young.
She hosts as well. She was the sole host of 고나리돌 (Gonaridol), a TVING original current-affairs variety show first released on 18 November 2025 (OSEN), and on 3 March 2026 the YouTube channel Workman announced her as the new host of Workdol (MyDaily).
Star News reported on 28 April 2026 that she had been cast as Ali in the musical Hell’s Kitchen, drawn from the music and life of Alicia Keys and set in the Manhattan neighbourhood of the title, where a girl grows up and finds her own voice. Bridge Economy wrote the same day that the show had taken 13 Tony nominations after its Broadway opening in 2024 and won the 2025 Grammy for best musical theater album, and that Ali is played in turn by Park Ji-won, Son Seung-yeon and Kim Su-ha.
Her first performance was at the GS Art Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on 28 July 2026. The Korean premiere had opened four days earlier, on 24 July, and the run goes to 8 November. TenAsia reported that she became a musical actor with that performance, and carried what she said through ASND: standing on a musical stage for the first time since her debut left her nervous, but more excited than nervous. The road to that night is told in the story of her Hell’s Kitchen debut.
She had talked about the preparation shortly before. MyDaily reported on 23 July 2026, from a Cosmopolitan interview, that on senior actors’ advice she kept a diary in the character’s voice until she could see what her own childhood and Ali’s had in common — a thirst for music, a longing for freedom. The number she is most attached to is ‘No One’, which she said she used to practise alone at the piano during her trainee years.
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Explainer · Read the storyFirst performance as Ali in Hell's Kitchen
She appeared at the GS Art Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. The Korean premiere had opened four days earlier, on 24 July.
Explainer · Read the storyCast as Ali in the musical Hell's Kitchen
Her first musical stage since her debut. Son Seung-yeon, Kim Su-ha and Park Ji-won share the role of Ali.
Explainer · Read the storyConfirmed as a debut member in the final episode of Mnet's Idol School
The final broadcast, live that evening, settled the nine-member debut line-up, and Park Ji-won was one of them. Those nine debuted as fromis_9 four months later.
Kyeongin Ilbo · Source 1ASND
fromis_9 are a five-member girl group under ASND: Song Ha-young, Park Ji-won, Lee Chae-young, Lee Na-gyung and Baek Ji-heon. Nine members debuted on 24 January 2018, and five resumed under the same name in 2025. The second full-length album Glow ME followed in July 2026.
fromis_9 played three nights at Korea University's Hwajung Gymnasium in Seoul from 4 to 6 September 2026, opening their Asia tour TOMORROW GLOW. Sports Khan reported that the show ran from 'Rewind' to 'Vitamin ME', with two unit stages, fan songs and an encore. More cities are to be announced.
fromis_9's Park Ji-won played Ali in the musical Hell's Kitchen at the GS Art Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on 28 July 2026 — three months after her casting was announced. Three performers share the role. Here is what the production is and what she prepared.
fromis_9's Song Ha-young presented SBS Power FM's Wendy's Young Street as its special DJ from 29 June to 1 July 2026, and the broadcaster published the full studio video of the first show on its own channel. Here are the other seats she took that summer.
'Cold Blood', the seventh track on Glow ME, the second full-length album fromis_9 released on 21 July 2026, is the first song Lee Chae-young wrote lyrics for. Here is what she said about it, the day before release and a month later.
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