Park Raon (박라온) is a South Korean jazz vocalist, singer-songwriter and teacher. She has released three albums under her own name, My Secret (2009), My Romance Car (2011) and Park Raon with Hori Hideaki (2013), has sung with the Seoul Soloist Jazz Orchestra, leads the trio O:neul, and is one of the four singers of the vocal group Carina Nebula. Korean press describes her as a vocalist who works back and forth between Korea and Japan. Her name is printed as PARK RAON on the covers of My Secret and the 2013 duo album and as Park Ra On on the cover of My Romance Car; Apple Music files her later releases under Raon Park, and Korean sources write 박라온.

Almost nothing is published about her life before the stage. No source found gives a birth date, a birthplace or a school before graduate study. What is documented is her recording and concert career from the mid-2000s on, and that is the subject of this profile.

The notes that her distributor, Pony Canyon Korea, published for My Romance Car in 2011 are the fullest account of her early years. They say she began appearing in jazz clubs and at festivals in 2002 and, from 2005, worked with the saxophonist Hong Soon Dal, which the notes credit with establishing her as a jazz vocalist. They list appearances on the Korean television concert program EBS Space Gonggam, at the Jeonju World Sori Festival and at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival, and say that from 2005 she was invited to Japan, beginning with a Korea-Japan friendship jazz concert and continuing with the Takatsuki Jazz Festival and the Ito Jazz Festival. The same notes describe her as a singer with a light, clear voice, unlike the deeper voices common in jazz singing, who had drawn attention in both countries.

Her first album, My Secret, came out in April 2009 in Korea and Japan. Ten tracks mix standards such as "Over the Rainbow," "My Favorite Things," "Don't Explain" and "Bye Bye Blackbird" with the Korean folk songs "Saeya Saeya" and "Jindo Arirang" recast as jazz, and two of her own compositions, "My Secret" and "이젠 놓아줘." Its release notes name the Japanese pianist Iwasaki Daisuke and the saxophonist Oyama Hideo as arrangers and players, and later notes add the drummer Hirose Junji and the bassist Takase Hiroshi. They say she also wrote, arranged and produced, and single out her scat singing. The notes announced an invited performance at the Takatsuki Jazz Festival in May 2009.

In 2010 she was the vocalist on three tracks of the Seoul Soloist Jazz Orchestra's first album, D.D.R. (Dance Dance Revolution), a big-band record led by Hong: "Jindo Arirang," "A Time for Us" and "Where Do I Begin." The album's notes say the band played the main stage of Takatsuki Jazz Street on May 3 and 4, 2010 to more than 2,000 listeners. Her own biographies also count the orchestra's second album, Paldo Yuram (2012), among her releases, although its notes name no vocalist. In June 2012 she was one of three guest singers on Hong's hymn album Jazz Hymn - It Is Well With My Soul, with Iwasaki Daisuke as arranger and pianist.

My Romance Car followed on April 20, 2011, from Pony Canyon Korea, in fourteen tracks. She wrote the title song herself, and wrote the lyrics for "창문 너머로 보이는 풍경" and "My Santa" to music by Iwasaki Daisuke and Hong. The rest mixes pop standards such as "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" and "The End of the World" with Korean songs from earlier decades, and ends with Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To." The notes announced a Kitakyushu concert on April 15, 2011, a Takatsuki main-stage appearance on May 3 and 4 with Hong, the pianist Nam Gyeong-yun, the bassist Sa Myeong-hun and the drummer Sean Pickler, and a first solo concert in Seoul on May 26. Later notes name Iwasaki Daisuke and Hong as the album's co-producers. The notes also describe her as the host of a monthly lecture concert in Daegu, Jazz & Story, and her 2017 biography lists her as host of the lecture concert Park Raon's Jazz & Story from 2011 to 2013, ambassador of a Daegu international festival in 2011 and 2012, and a performer at the Busan Sea & Jazz Festival and the Bukhansan Jazz Festival in 2012.

Her third album, Park Raon with Hori Hideaki Piano Duo Album, was released on September 12, 2013 by Pony Canyon Korea. Its notes present it as a duo album that links the Korean and Japanese jazz scenes, made with the Japanese pianist Hori Hideaki, and her biography says it came out in both countries. The eleven tracks include "Blame It on My Youth," "Greensleeves," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Love Came on Stealthy Fingers" and "Arirang." On March 20, 2014 she was the Korean vocalist on the bill of Jazz Jamboree in Yokohama at Osanbashi Hall, an opening event for the East Asia Culture City 2014 program, announced by the City of Yokohama with Eric Miyashiro on trumpet, Nakagawa Eijiro on trombone, Honda Masato on saxophone, Eugene Pao on guitar from China, Shiina Yutaka on piano, Inoue Yosuke on bass and Hirose Junji on drums. Her own biography says she has been invited every year to the Takatsuki Jazz Festival since 2008 and to the Sumida Jazz Festival since 2011.

From 2015 she fronted a trio, O:neul (오늘, "today"), with the bassist Song Mi-ho and the guitarist Ahn Kang-ho. Three singles came out under the name: "너와 나의 사랑 이야기" in October 2015, "Fly Again" in May 2016 and "Monday Island" in July 2016, and her 2023 biography says the trio released a full album in 2018, listed on Apple Music as Star. On May 27, 2017 the trio played the Cafe Tongin in Seoul's Seochon neighborhood, a concert reviewed by the civic group People's Solidarity, whose write-up lists "Blackbird," "Undecided," "Jindo Arirang" and originals among the songs. A ticket listing shows a concert titled "Jazz and Wine - Park Raon Trio" at the Haeundae Cultural Center in Busan on September 18, 2015. Melon files O:neul as a Korean jazz group, and a JazzPeople page lists a Park Raon Quartet with Ahn Kang-ho on guitar.

She is also a teacher. Her 2017 biography says she studied for a master's degree in performing arts at Kyung Hee University and lectures at Kyung Hee University and Pai Chai University, and her own YouTube channel carries lessons on scat syllables and on 2-5 patterns for vocal improvisation.

Since 2022 she has appeared in group projects with other Korean jazz singers. In November 2022 she was one of eleven singers on "Be the Light" (빛이 되어주오), the opening single of the Green Jazz Movement, an environmental project produced by Woongsan and the composer Jami Soul; Maria Kim and Nam Yeji and Sarang You are among the others. Her own entry in the series, "Dear Polar Bears" (북극곰에게 냉장고를 보내야겠어), was released on January 30, 2023, with her music and lyrics by Kim I-yul. She is one of the four voices of Carina Nebula, the vocal group built around Malo, with Kim Min-hee and, in 2023 and 2024, Kang Yun-mi. The group's first album, Good Match, appeared on April 27, 2023 and was one of five nominees for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 21st Korean Music Awards, which went to Kim Yu-jin; the group was also among six nominees for Musician of the Year. Carina Nebula closed the first day of the Asan Jazz Festival with Jarasum on October 7, 2023, and was announced for the Jazz in Jeju concert at the Jeju Arts Center on October 22, 2024. A November 2025 announcement for a Goyang concert names Cho Hae-in (조해인) in the line-up instead of Kang Yun-mi, and press in 2026 names Lim Chae-hee as the fourth voice: the four sang as Jazz Divas at the Seo-gu Cultural Center in Daegu on April 11, 2026, and Carina Nebula was announced for the club Janus in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, on September 22, 2026.

No interview in which she discusses her influences or her training before graduate school was found, and her albums are listed on Korean and Japanese streaming and store pages rather than in international databases such as Discogs and MusicBrainz.

Her own account of her sound is not on record; the descriptions come from her label and press. The Pony Canyon Korea notes call her voice light and clear rather than low and rich, and the notes for My Secret say her scat singing is her own manner. Her repertoire runs in three directions. One is the American songbook and jazz standards ("Over the Rainbow," "Don't Explain," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Undecided," "I've Never Been in Love Before," "Just in Time"). Another is pop and film songs sung in a jazz setting ("Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," "The Windmills of Your Mind," "The End of the World," a Beatles song in concert). The third is Korean material, from the folk songs "Saeya Saeya," "Jindo Arirang" and "Arirang" to older Korean popular songs, with some lyrics and tunes of her own.

Her setting changes from record to record: a Japanese rhythm section and saxophone on My Secret, a quartet with flute, clarinet and cello touches on My Romance Car, a piano duo with Hori Hideaki in 2013, a big band with Hong Soon Dal, and a guitar-and-bass trio in O:neul. Bugs files her albums under vocal jazz and Melon files her trio under jazz, and her audience is divided between Korea and Japan.