Park Jung-woon, a popular singer in the 90s, dies on 'If It's A Night Like Tonight'

Preparing for a new album with Park Jun-ha while fighting liver cirrhosis and diabetes… It seems like it will come out as a tribute to the participation of juniors

Singer Park Jung-woon while he was alive

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Tae-soo = Singer Park Jung-woon, who became popular in the early 1990s with hit songs such as ‘If it’s tonight’, passed away on the afternoon of the 17th of a chronic disease at the age of 57.

According to fellow singer Park Jun-ha on the 18th, the deceased, who was born in 1965, was unable to recover and passed away at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, where he was hospitalized for liver surgery due to liver cirrhosis and diabetes.

Park Jung-woon debuted in 1989 with his first album ‘Who, Me?’

Then, as the song ‘If It’s A Night Like Tonight’, released in 1992, became a sensational hit, becoming a popular singer representing the early 1990s.

Since then, he has released hit songs such as ‘In the distant future’ (1992) and ‘Love only for you’ (1993).

Park Jung-woon was investigated for involvement in a cryptocurrency fraud case in 2017, and was sentenced to 8 months in prison and 2 years of probation the following year. The deceased was said to have suffered from stress at the time, expressing his injustice to his colleagues.

In 2020, Park Jung-woon released a new album and worked on music with Park Jun-ha, whom he had known for more than 30 years, but was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and diabetes in the process of visiting the hospital because his voice did not come out.

Park Jung-woon played an unreleased demo song he had recorded in the past to Park Jun-ha, and showed his enthusiasm for rehabilitation, saying, “I miss the clear voice I had when I was young.”

After receiving treatment at the hospital, the deceased worked hard day and night to practice to raise his voice, and even found a mountain where the air was good, and refined his sound, but it is said that he did not see much effect due to his illness.

Park Jun-ha was preparing a new album with Park Jung-woon in a collaboration method by recruiting junior singers.

In a phone call with Yonhap News, Park Jun-ha said, “Early this month, just before the Chuseok holiday, we talked about the new album. couldn’t

He added, “After the funeral, we will restore the voice of Park Jung-woon as much as possible and release a new song, and then we will finish the album in two ways, including recording songs by junior singers.”

Survivors include his wife and daughter.

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