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30th Blue Dragon Film Awards (2009)

Yein Jee — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:09:07 +0000

Korea’s 30th Blue Dragon Film Awards were held at Seoul’s KBS Hall on Wednesday night. Mother claims the top excellence award, while Kim Myung-min and Ha Ji-won won the best actor and actress awards with their performance in Closer To Heaven. Full winners list after some red carpet pics…

Son Ye-jin

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Baek Ji-young – Don’t Forget MV – IRIS OST

Yein Jee — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:15:14 +0000

Korean drama IRIS’s OST, titled Don’t Forget, sung by Baek Ji-young. The MV only focused on the love triangle between the three main characters in the spy-action thriller, played by Lee Byung-hun, Kim Tae-hee and Jung Jun-ho…

Nice song; Baek Ji-young did well to bring out the sorrow and emotions. Would be great to have a clean (without conversation) version.

IRIS is one of the most anticipated Korean dramas of the year. The star-studded show opened strongly on October 14; its English subbed episodes are scheduled to start showing on KBS World channel (lucky me lol) on Nov 11.

Other co-stars include Kim Seung-woo, Kim So-yeon and Choi Seung-hyeon.

[video via calolwafu@Youtube]

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Pusan International Film Festival 2009 red carpet

Yein Jee — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:34:31 +0000

Red carpet show at the opening ceremony of the 14th Pusan International Film Festival, which kicked off last Thursday (Oct 8) in Korea’s City of Busan…

Ha Ji-won

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G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009) movie trailer & wallpapers

Yein Jee — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:19:39 +0000

Movie trailer of “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”, starring Channing Tatum, Rachel Nichols, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller, Ray Park and Lee Byung-hun etc.

I used to watch the cartoon series when I was a kid. I’m actually a bit confused with all those matrix-like and futuristic techno soldiers; can’t remember the cartoon being as technology advanced as what was shown in the video…

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Iris (2009) drama trailer

Yein Jee — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:55:35 +0000

English subbed trailer of “Iris”, one of the most anticipated Korean dramas of the year. The drama is said to base on 1998 blockbuster film “Swiri”, but I couldn’t see much resemblance beside the spy-action background.

Regardless, with a strong leading cast of Lee Byung-hun, Kim Tae-hee, Jung Jun-ho, Kim Seung-woo, Kim So-yeon and Big Bang’s T.O.P… the drama shows plenty of promises; and the teaser probably managed to reinforce the hype.

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Kim Tae-hee is Korea’s most beautiful woman

Yein Jee — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:45:59 +0000

Actress Kim Tae-hee (pic) is chosen as Korea’s most beautiful female celebrity in a recent KBS survey with 15,222 respondents.

The top 10 in sequence are… Kim Tae-hee, Lee Young-ae, Han Ga-in, Song Hye-kyo, Kim Hee-sun, Son Ye-jin, Han Ye-seul, Jun Ji-hyun, Kim Hye-soo and Shim Eun-ha.

Update – Found out from K-popped that there’s a poll for actors too, and the top 10 in sequence are Jang Dong-gun, Jo In-sung, Rain, Bae Yong-joon, Song Seung-hun, Won Bin, Jung Woo-sung, Hyun Bin, So Ji-sub and Lee Byung-hun.

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Blue Dragon Awards 2008 – red carpet (1)

Yein Jee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:08:19 +0000

The 29th Korean Blue Dragon Film Awards were presented on Thursday night (Nov 20) at KBS Hall in Seoul. Some red carpet pictures from Newsen…

Emcees Jung Joon-ho and Kim Hye-soo

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Hallyu stars dominate J-pop chart

Yein Jee — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:47:22 +0000

Hallyu stars are dominating the Japanese Oricon singles chart for the past two weeks. The Koreans claimed the top three spots at the singles’ sales chart last week, and keeping their momentum with three of the top four spots this week.

Pop group TVXQ (known as Tōhōshinki in Japan) tops the singles’ sales chart for two consecutive weeks with their 24th Japanese single “Jumon-Mirotic”. This is their 4th chart topping Japanese single in 2008.

Actor turn singer Lee Byung-hun claims the 2nd spot also for two weeks in a role with his debut single, “Itsuka”; while Ryu Si-won dropping from 3rd to 4th with his 8th single “Kimito Boku”.

To be frank, I’m quite puzzled how the songs managed to lead the charts. I can understand that Mirotic is appealing to some audiences (although not to my liking), but the other two are just so average. Anyhow, sharing all three music videos below…

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Korean hearttrobs at Kwon Sang-woo’s wedding

Yein Jee — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:39:25 +0000

Bunch of good looking Korean heartthrobs attending the wedding ceremony of Korean stars Kwon Sang-woo & Son Tae-young (image from Newsen)…

Jang Dong-gun

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