The boy behind the Baby Shark phenomenon: I used to hum it without even realising

After 10 years and more than 17bn YouTube views, Geonroung Park, aka Baby Shark Boy, speaks about his life as a child star and his new K-Pop career “I just remember having fun dancing and playing on what felt like a huge set,” Geonroung Park says, recalling the day 10 years ago when he was filmed, aged seven, doing the hand movements to a children’s song about a family of sharks. That footage became Baby Shark Dance, now the most-watched video in YouTube’s history. It has racked up more than ...

By Raphael Rashid in Seoul