| Jo Hyeon-jae to Hold Fan Meetings in Japan in June (Source) |
2008/05/21 |
Actor Jo Hyeon-jae, who has emerged as a Hallyu star through his appearances in TV dramas and films, will visit Japan to meet his fans before starting his military duty.
Jo will hold a series of fan meetings in Japan next month. The actor will meet his fans at the Osaka NHK Hall on June 22 and at the Tokyo Nagano Sun Plaza on June 23. He has also invited 400 fans to a dinner show themed " First Love " at the Westin Nagoya Castle Hotel in Nagoya on June 27.
Jo, who was cast alongside Bae Yong-joon and Jeon Do-yeon in the 2003 'Untold Scandal', rose to stardom with his roles in the TV drama series 'Love Letter' and 'Seodongyo'. His upcoming fan meeting will be his first visit to Japan in ten months since his last visit in August last year when he took part in the 'Hallyu Expo" event held at the Tokyo Dome.
Some 3,300 fans are expected to attend the fan meetings in Osaka and Tokyo.... |More
|
|
| Yoo Jin (Eugene) and Jo Hyeon-jae cast in KBS "Three Dads, One Mom" (Source) |
2008/02/27 |
Yoo Jin and Jo Hyeon-jae have been cast as the main leads in "Three Dads, One Mom" to be aired on Wednesdays and Thursdays on KBS 2TV. Jae Hee and Sin Seong-rok will join the two in the series.
"Three Dads, One Mom" is scheduled to start airing on April 2nd and will be the story of a widow's love and raising a child.
The series is a romantic comedy about three men who donate sperm to a friend who was suffering from aspermia, and the wife who becomes pregnant but loses her husband in an accident.
Producing director Lee Jae-sang of "Dalja's Spring" and writer Jo Myeong-oo of "The Man of the Vineyard" will be directing and writing the series.
Former S.E.S. member Yoo Jin (Eugene) will play single mom Na Young while Jo Hyeon-jae, Jae Hee, and Sin Seong-rok are the three men who donate.
Jo Hyeon-jae who is returning to the TV screen two years after "Seodongyo" will play a comic role as a successful fund manager. Sin Seong-rok plays the role of an innocent detective who cannot... |More
|
|
| Erhu (Source) |
2006/03/22 |
A song used in a cosmetics ad featuring actor Kwon Sang-woo has gained popularity recently. Many people have asked, "What musical instruments were used in the ad?" on internet sites. The song, which has an Asian melody, was played by Chinese erhu player Cao Xuejing and is called, "Put Your Hands Up".
There is a Korean musical instrument called the haegeum, which is a Korean-style fiddle with silk strings. Its Chinese counterpart is the erhu, a metal-stringed fiddle. The erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument, has always been likened to the haegeum because they are both string instruments and make similar sounds.
These days, it is easy to hear the sound of the erhu played not only in Korean pop songs, commercials and TV dramas, but also in Japanese pop music and even by musicians from other countries.
A familiar sound-
Among songs on the album of "Seodongyo", ("Seo Dong")a SBS soap opera, "Aesang" ("Sorrow") and "Kkotbit" ("Color of the Flower") sung by soprano Geum Seon-ae ... |More
|
|
| Couch potatoes get up and make own shows (Source) |
2005/12/21 |
Television: the boob-tube, the idiot box, scourge of civilization, addiction of couch potatoes across the world, a passive medium that renders its victims immobile physically and mentally. Or at least, it used to be.
Leave it to Korea's Internet pranksters to flip television on its head. Now that almost every T.V. drama is also available over the Internet to anyone with a broadband connection, tech-savvy youths are using special software to capture freeze-frame images, edit them, add their own dialogue bubbles and then post these "drama cartoons" or "dratoons" on the Web.
These do-it-yourself dramas are often parodies. One that circulated widely was of based on MBC network's epic series "Sindon". Internet users noticed the resemblance of a character in "Sindon", Wonhyeon Monk, to the star of an earlier television series "Sinipsawon". Naturally, enterprising graphic artists mixed the two characters and plots to produce a video clip called "The Dream of Wonhyeon Monk". Explaining the p... |More
|
| |
| "A Love To Kill" gains popularity from pilot episode (Source) |
2005/11/01 |
The pilot episode of the new Monday-Tuesday KBS TV2 miniseries "A Love To Kill" (written by Lee Kyeong-hee and produced by Kim Kyoo-tae) kept viewers riveted to their TV screens when it aired yesterday.
According to viewership research firm TNS Media Korea on Nov. 1, the pilot episode of "A Love To Kill" recorded viewer ratings of 16.4 percent on Oct. 31, beating out two other series that aired in the same time slot on two other major channels. The viewership of "A Love To Kill" was 1.2 percentage points higher than that of the SBS series "Seodongyo", which has topped the Monday-Tuesday viewer ratings so far.
The series drew the spotlight even before it premiered on national television for starring the popular singer/actor Rain, who portrays a delinquent K-1 fighter. The series' pilot episode seems to have lived up to viewers' high expectations.
The first several episodes of the series depict the backgrounds of its four main characters -- "Rain" ("Bok-ku"), Kim Sa-rang ("Da-ju... |More
|
|
|
