i just learned that park eun tae have a substantial international fandom. how did he do that? afaik he wasn't an idol and it also wasn't because of western performances like hong kwang ho.
Uhhhhh I have no clue anon, he doesn’t have n wiki page (except in french that hasn’t been updated since 2018 and has like two paragraphs) and I tried to check if he had any drama credits and nope he’s sung for some OSTs but that’s it. I think he’s just very visible in Korean musicals. Like if we had to have a list of “the face of kmusicals” then he’d be on it, yknow.
I think maybe through osmosis? that’s why he’s so well known? I know that he’s played against a lot of people who bring in lots of international fans so maybe they kinda were like oh he’s pretty good too. TBH I’m not very well connected with the international fandom so I’m not sure what a substantial amount would be. He’s also got a lot of videos on youtube of licensed musicals! I know that his Gethsemane for Jesus Christ Superstar is like over 1mil views so maybe people just happened upon his performances and were like oh yeah I stan.
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If I can add to this, Park Eun Tae is one of the few Korean musical performers I knew before I really started getting into Korean musicals, and that’s because I would watch compilation videos of international performances of, for example, all the different Jesuses from different countries singing Gethsemane. A /lot/ of those type of international compilation videos feature Park Eun Tae in his roles.













