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Park Jin-young (Korean: 박진영, born January 13, 1972) also known as J.Y. Park (or simply JYP) is a singer, songwriter, record producer and the current CEO/founder of JYP Entertainment, a major artist management/record label of Asian pop music. Over the past 11 years. Park has become a prominent producer, composer, and artist, becoming the only Asian producer to cross over into the US market.[unreliable source?] He has since also started his own management company, JYP Entertainment.

Park decided to further expand JYP Entertainment by opening the JYP Manhattan Center in 2007 and the JYP Beijing Center in 2008. At the JYP Manhattan Center he is producing three Asian singers: Min, J Lim, and G-soul. They will debut in the U.S. in 2009. Every artist that has been managed by JYP has gone through the JYP Academy, a training system that includes intensive training in vocal, dance, acting, and language. JYP is currently in the development stages of producing a U.S. TV show with Lawrence Bender that will be based around the Wonder Girls.

Due to his success in helping to create Asian singers, he was invited to be keynote speaker at Midem 2009, a music conference that brings together over 9,000 professionals from over 90 different countries. In June 2009, JYP Entertainment and the Jonas group has signed the management deal for the Wonder Girls. Wonder Girls, a girl group that J.Y. Park produced, will be releasing an album and joining the tour with the band group Jonas Brothers.