website associated_acts religion years_active birth_place label name background birth_date instrument genre article_title birth_name partner occupation
-lsb- http://www.1tym.com/ 1tym official website -rsb- 1tym , yg family roman catholicism 1998 -- present seoul , south korea yg entertainment teddy park solo_singer 14 september 1978 vocals , bass , electric guitar , piano hip hop , k-pop , r & b teddy park
 park hong-jun han ye-seul -lrb- 2013-present -rrb- rapper , record producer , songwriter
teddy park

park hong-jun -lrb- born september 14 , 1978 -rrb- , better known by his stage name teddy park or teddy , is a south korean-born american rapper , songwriter , and record producer .
born in south korea , park moved to the united states as a young child .
there , he learned english .
after moving back to south korea , he majored in english at myongji university .
teddy park dropped out of university to join hip hop group 1tym .
together , the group recorded five total studio albums .
park involved himself with the production process on the group 's later albums , and started his producing career .
the group 's last album , `` one way '' , was released in 2005 .
after activities with 1tym , teddy park became an in-house producer for yg entertainment .
he has worked on substantial amounts of big bang 's material , the entirety of 2ne1 's first extended play , the majority of 2ne1 's studio album `` to anyone '' , and uhm jung-hwa 's `` d.i.s.c.o. ''
