Kim Seong-eun (김성은)

2006/01/09 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Celebrities Find Weblogs to Be Both Help and Hindrance to Career

By Park Chung-a
Staff Reporter

Lee Joon-ki is currently one of the hottest stars in the nation. The actor plays a charming, androgynous jester from the late Choson Kingdom in "The King and the Clown," the hit film that attracted more than 2 million people within nine days of its release. His television drama "My Girl", in which he plays a happy-go-lucky playboy, boasts the highest viewer ratings in its timeslot.

But while his stock is definitely on the rise, Lee has also found unexpected trouble. It all started from a personal note that he posted on his friend's Cyworld Internet blog. The note, which was lightly written with many emoticons, read, "Japan is my country and I will go there when I am done with this movie. I like pro-Japanese people."

Lee meant the words in jest, but blog users who discovered them were not amused.

Users began spreading the private note around the Internet without providing any ...

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can somebody tell me the blogs of korean stars like lee joon ki or that kim sam soon person? i can't seem to find them ): Euphoria 2006-10-04 06:24:00

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by Ji-Won Jun


"I'm not sure if I'm that sweet and pretty. I just thank people for thinking of me like that", said actress Hong Eun-hee (24) Tuesday in her interview at the KBS Drama Center in Suwon. "All my friends make fun of me, saying that I'm not like myself at all on TV. I don't think I've changed a lot after marriage two years ago, but I've matured a bit more, I guess", she said.

Hong is now playing "Yeong Sil", the main character of "TV Novel-Wind Flower" (produced by Han Cheol-gyeong, airing at 8:05 a.m. Mondays through Fridays) and is most loved by housewives in their 40s and 50s.

The drama is a story about the crooked destiny of sisters who were separated during the Korean War and meet again 20 years later. Its setting is the 1970s. "Yeong Sil", the older sister, was brought up as an orphan and lives through many hardships, such as working as a housemaid and needle worker, but she winds up losing his lover to her younger sister, Jeong Nim, (played by Kim Seong-eun...

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