Park Jungsu

Leeteuk (이특)

*Birth name: Park Jungsu

*Nickname: Peter Pan

*Birth date: July 1, 1983

*Birth place: Seoul, South Korea

*Height: 178cm

*Weight: 59kg

*Position: Lead vocal

*Subgroups: Super Junior Happy and Super Junior T

Facts:

-He likes to play the piano.
-He likes composing songs.
-LeeTeuk means ′special′.. He is a special guy.
-He is the Angel without wings, therefore, his favorite color is white.
-HeeChul gave him the nickname ′Peter Pan′, because he doesn′t want to grow up.
-According to the ELFs, he is the hottest and cutest Angel on Earth.

He is the leader of the super boy band Super Junior. His stage name (Leeteuk) literally means "special".

When Leeteuk and his older sister, Park In-young, traveled to Myeongdong for a holiday in early 2000, he was recommended by a talent scout to audition for SM Entertainment's Starlight Casting System, an audition that selects artists to sign under their label. After several test recordings and performances, he signed into SM Entertainment and became the company's trainee.

That same year, he had his first quick television appearance as an extra actor in the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation MBC Korean dramaAll About Eve (TV series)|All About Eve and appeared as a brief model for Pepsi in 2002. In 2003, Leeteuk was put into a five-member boyband with future bandmate Donghae, but the project was quickly dropped. They were then put into the large rotational group Super Junior along with ten other boys. Older than the other trainees, Leeteuk became the leader of the group, Super Junior Leeteuk: "I'm the leader because I'm old"] April 10. 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2009. Before Leeteuk was in SM Entertainment, he had to leave a very special someone behind because of the contract he was signing to become part of the company. Leaving her, named Cara, behind, he made his own stage name.

That's why his name now is "Leeteuk" meaning "special" because in one of the interviews, he said "She was my very special someone". Leeteuk and Cara were rumored to have dated since junior high because of their very close relationship since childhood and separated when he joined SME. He is also saying that he chose "Leeteuk" because he wants to be the special member of the Super Junior group.

Around March 2006, SM Entertainment began to recruit new members for the next generation of Super Junior, and Leeteuk would still remain as the leader of Super Junior 06. However, plans changed when the company added a thirteenth member to the group, Kyuhyun, and declared a halt in forming future Super Junior generations. The group dropped the suffix "05" and became officially credited as Super Junior. The re-polished group hit big after they released their first CD single "U" the following summer, which became Super Junior's most successful single in the music charts until the release of "Sorry, Sorry" in March 2009.

Leeteuk became seriously injured in a car accident when returning home after a recording of the radio show Super Junior Kiss the Radio. Along with Shindong, Eunhyuk, Kyuhyun, and two managers were also victims. While Shindong and Eunhyuk suffered minor injuries, Leeteuk andKyuhyun sustained more serious injuries, which required for both to be hospitalised for several more weeks. Leeteuk had glass shards embedded into his back and above his eyes, requiring over 170 stitches in removing most of them. Leeteuk was discharged from the hospital on April 30, 2007. Due to this injury, Leeteuk's role in Super Junior's first big-screen production, Attack on the Pin-Up Boys(2007) was cancelled. However, it was revealed at the end of the film that he'd taken on the role as the panda mascot, which was later confirmed that it had actually been Ryeowook who'd portrayed the panda in most of the film.

Leeteuk has been co-hosting Super Junior's Kiss the Radio (SUKIRA) with Eunhyuk since 2006. Leeteuk is also praised for his hosting skills. With that, he has become active in SBS Star King (hosted by Kang Ho Dong) & Strong Heart (hosted by Kang Ho Dong & Lee Seung Ki). In Strong Heart, Leeteuk along with bandmates Eunhyuk & Shindong make up "Teukigayo" (Teuk Academy), a hilarious segment in which have gained lots of support from audiences.

Leeteuk recently confessed in an interview that he would like to join the army either at the start of 2012 or the end of 2011.