Park Ji-hoon, Willow 8th Album Record

Park Ji-hoon, who became a "10 million actor" with "Love in the Moonlight," is releasing new music after three years. Unlike other idol-turned-actors, he has consistently pursued his music career, releasing eight albums.

As an actor, Park Ji-hoon has portrayed characters who are ordinary citizens or vulnerable to power, such as in "Weak Hero" and "Love in the Moonlight." The keyword that runs through his world in both music and acting is "toughness hidden within flexibility," or the "aesthetics of a willow tree."

The vulnerable characters he portrays show a fierce attitude of absorbing external violence without breaking internally. "Like a willow tree that bends its whole body in a strong wind but whose roots are not pulled out, the vulnerable characters Park Ji-hoon plays do not break easily." This tenacity becomes a weapon that fosters 'solidarity' with the public.

Park Ji-hoon's eight albums demonstrate his seriousness about music. While his early albums showed freshness and confidence, his later albums delved deeper into complex inner emotions. In particular, his seventh mini-album, "Blank or Black," contained cynical messages layered over dreamy sounds.

His medium-low vocal range aligns with his acting style of enduring emotions by suppressing them internally rather than bursting them outward. This is well-demonstrated in "Blank Effect," the title track of his seventh mini-album, which features a seemingly expressionless exterior but a swirling vortex of fierce survival instincts and precarious emotions within.