Actor Lee Min-ho and singer Son Dam-bi were named the best male and female commercial film models in a Korean broadcast and advertising festival in June.
Hi-Mart CF, featuring Cha Tae-hyun, Park Bo-young and Wang Suk-hyun from movie “Speed Scandal”, won the netizen popularity award.
Lee Min-ho – Truegen
Roasted pigs in costumes were paraded on the feast of St. John the Baptist in the hundred year old practise in the Philippines. Festival goers also got to sample the roasted suckling pigs (lechón), a famous Filipino delicacy, for free…
Steven Purugganan is an 11-year-old Filipino-American who holds the world record for all five categories (three individuals, two teams) of sport stacking.
Below is a video of Purugganan breaking the then Cycle record during the 2008 World Championships in Denver, USA… [his latest world record is 5.93s]
[credits to raydavid1965@youtube for the upload]
Music videos from some of the winners at the 20th Golden Melody Awards…
Jay Chou – Fragrance of Rice [song of the year & best male singer]
English subbed music video of “Tell Me Your Wish” by Korean pop group Girls’ Generation, aka SNSD from their new mini-album, “Genie”…
I like the song, it’s not particularly catchy, but it’s likeable. The choreography is a bit awkward though; trying a bit too hard on flashing their nice legs, but couldn’t make it any more appealing… they would look sexier just by some simple posing.
Regardless, I can see the fanboys drooling for it; and the lyrics are obviously targeting the young male species. It’s going to hit a huge summer hit.
[video credits: crazykyootie@soompi and wondersmurf@youtube]
A life-sized 18m Gundam model was assembled at Odaiba Island in Tokyo to mark the 30th anniversary of “Mobile Suit Gundam”, the very first Gundam anime series which evolved into a highly successful franchise over the years…
The real scale Gundam can do a few simple tricks, no big deal… but the details of the model itself is still pretty impressive.
The Gundam is going to be displayed for only two months unfortunately, it could turn to be Tokyo’s new tourist attraction if it’s kept for a much longer period.
Video via Akibahobby; check out some of their pics [Jp] as well.
Trailer for Korean disaster movie “Haeundae”. Haeundae is a popular beach district in Busan; and the movie is about a giant tsunami that struck the coast.
Billed as Korea’s first major disaster film, the movie fields a strong cast of Sol Kyung-gu, Ha Ji-won, Park Jung-hoon and Uhm Jung-hwa etc…
Haeundae will hit the Korean cinemas in July 2009. The trailer doesn’t look half bad; and being a disaster movie freak, I’m definitely going to watch it when it’s released in local theatres [credits to nadiv1@youtube for the upload]
Remember the Japanese comedy skit of “getting to work in 5-minutes?” Here’s another similar piece from the same show, of “getting your kid ready to school in five minutes,” featuring comedian Tomoko Murakami.
Not as brilliant imo, but quite funny nonetheless… [again, via Japanprobe]
