Asian Culture, Lifestyle and Entertainment
Teaser photos for Korean drama Dream High, co-produced by showbiz mogul Bae Yong-joon and Park Jin-young; and starring popular idols Kim Soo-hyun, 2PM’s Taecyeon & Wooyoung, Miss A’s Suzy, T-ara’s Eunjung and singer IU.
The drama is about a group of art school students who overcome personal obstacles to achieve their dream of becoming singers and dancers. Its first episode aired earlier this month; the rating is average but it’s picking up momentum among young viewers.
Actress Kim Tae-hee is chosen as Korea’s most beautiful woman 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] Apparently there’s a poll for the guys too too, the top 10 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.
Korean commercial for Viliv portable media player, featuring popular actor Bae Yong-joon.
First trailer for anime version of “Winter Sonata”, based on the (same title) Korean drama which was a big hit across Asia a few years ago.
The animation project was revealed in 2007, but only started gaining some serious notice in March 2008 after the announcement that Korean star Bae Yong-joon is going to voice his own character from the original drama… he shares a few words at the end of the trailer.
Update May 29 – Choi Ji-woo has agreed to join the project.