Who Plays Ocean Park on ‘XO, Kitty’? It’s 2PM’s Taecyeon

By Nicole Gallucci @nicolemichele5
Published May 19, 2023, 11:59 a.m. ET

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From familiar faces like To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before star Anna Cathcart and LOST‘s Yunjin Kim to rising stars such as Sang Heon Lee, Netflix’s XO, Kitty delivers star power in spades. And a guest appearance towards the end of Season 1 will even have 2PM fans doing a double take.

In Episode 8 of Jenny Han’s To All The Boys spinoff series, Kitty (Cathcart), Dae (Choi Min-yeong), Q (Anthony Keyvan), Yuri (Gia Kim), Madison ( Jocelyn Shelfo), Min Ho (Sang Heon Lee), and fellow classmates embark on a two-day camping trip with a special celebrity guest, courtesy of Min Ho’s famous mom: Ocean Park.

After learning that Ocean Park’s grandmother’s village garden was destroyed by a flood, Madison gets Principal Lim to reroute the school ski trip. The kids go to help clean up the village’s garden instead, and when Ocean Park arrives on-scene to express his gratitude, he’s flocked by screaming KISS fans. Ocean Park thanks everyone for their help, snaps a few selfies, and insinuates that he hooked up with Min Ho’s mom (who he worked with on the Korean drama, A Song of an Enchanted Tiger Amulet). Yikes!

The appearance was brief but memorable, in large part because Ocean Park is played by 2PM rapper Taecyeon, aka Taec Ok!

Many fans know Taecyeon (who was born Ok Taek-Yeon) from his music with the South Korean boy band, but the 34-year-old is also an actor who’s starred in a number of television series and films, including Wonderful Days, Vincenzo, The Game: Towards Zero, and more.

Taecyeon’s cameo isn’t the only exciting celeb sighting in XO, Kitty. South Korean actor Han Chae-young also pops up throughout Season 1 as Dami, Min Ho’s mom. You know, the one Taecyeon may or may not have hooked up with at Sundance. Han Chae-young only appears briefly via FaceTime, but here’s hoping if XO, Kitty is renewed for Season 2 we’ll get a chance to see more of her and Taecyeon.

XO, Kitty is currently streaming on Netflix.