Eun Ji-won (은지원)

Celebs get their hands dirty down on the farm

Source | 2008/06/25 | Permalink |

I watched as a sought-after singer wearing no makeup at all caught live fish with her bare hands.

Meanwhile, a prim-and-proper actress got ready to slice up the catch for dinner.

This is the latest fad on Korea's weekend TV shows ? putting celebrities through pain to entertain viewers.

The singer Lee Hyo-lee and the actress Park Ye-jin were featured on a recently launched entertainment show called "Here Comes the Family".

It airs on SBS-TV at 5:20 p.m. on Sundays in the segment called "I Love Sundays".

The singer and actress were part of a group of eight celebrities.

They are sent on a trip to the countryside where they stay on a farm whose occupants have been sent on a fancy holiday.

The celebrities stay on the farm and take care of the farming while the family is away.

The eight celebrities are dubbed a family, although they have no blood ties.

The show's point is that this "family" from the city is thrown into the reality of farming.

On their first trip...| More

Two KBS Shows Popular This Winter Season

Source | 2008/01/28 | Permalink |

Two leading variety shows on KBS TV, 'Happy Together Season 3' and 'One Night and Two Days', a popular segment on 'Happy Sunday', are more popular than ever this cold winter season.

'One Night and Two Days' features various 'road trip adventures' that take place when the main cast members Kang Ho-dong, Kim C, Eun Ji-won, Lee Soo-keun, Lee Seung-gi and MC Mong leave for remote destinations, including small mountain villages and islands, for one night and two days.

The cast member that loses in a game--whose results depend purely on luck--must spend one night outdoors in a tent.

Meanwhile, the third season of ' Happy Together ' is filmed inside a public sauna. Cast members must endure the heat and sing an entire song without making a single mistake in order to escape from the unbearably hot sauna.

Cast members include popular comedians Yoo Jae-seok, Park Myeong-soo and Sin Bong-son. Dressed comfortably in sweats and baring their faces by forgoing makeup, the celebrity cast pr...| More

K-Pop Named among 20 Globe Sweeping Trends

Source | 2008/01/14 | Permalink |

Forbes magazine has picked K-POP as one of 20 globe-sweeping trends.

In its Jan. 9th issue, the economic magazine selected cultural icons expected to receive further public attention, including Korean pop music which led the 'hallyu' Korean pop culture phenomenon in Asia for years. Singers "Rain" and Eun Ji-won were mentioned in the report.

The report said that while Western style boy bands have been the mainstream so far, K-POP's emergence is triggering new change.

Forbes cited Eun as an example, calling his style a "combination of indie band, Latin and hiphop". It also introduced singer cum actor "Rain"'s Hollywood debut this year in the film 'Speed Racer' by the Wachowski brothers, famous for 'The Matrix'.

Other nominees on the Forbes' globe sweeping trend list were Bollywood aerobics, Louis Vuitton, Parkour and Tokyo's Harajyuku street....| More