In 2007, she competed at the
Prix de Lausanne and received a scholarship to
American Ballet Theatre's second company,
ABT II. In May 2009, she returned to her home country and joined the
Korea National Ballet, where she became a soloist and performed main roles. In 2011, Park joined the
Paris Opera Ballet with a fixed-term contract as a corps de ballet dancer. A year later, she became a permanent member, after ranking first among 130 applicants in an audition, making her the first Korean woman to dance with the company full-time. In 2013, she was promoted to
coryphée. She also received the Prix Du Cercle Carpeaux, and was the first Korean recipient of the award. The following year, she became a
sujet. In December 2014, she danced as Naila in Jean-Guillaume Bart's
La Source, thus becoming the first Asian dancer to perform a lead role in Paris Opera Ballet's history. In 2015, she performed at
Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. In 2018, she was awarded the
Prix Benois de la Danse for her performance in "Diamonds" from Balanchine's
Jewels. She is the fourth Korean to win the award, after
Kang Sue-jin,
Kim Joo-won and Kim Kimin. ==References==