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Post by Nene on Oct 1, 2008 15:41:13 GMT -5
tinkerbell, I enjoyed your funny signs too. Some are simply hilarious, especially the one from Thailand, hahaha.
Did you see these signs? I think they're very funny too.
tinkerbell, I thought rabbits had fragile backs and spines because I took this info from one website.
Anyway, I believe some rabbits are strong and healthy, so they have no such problems. It depends on their owners too. If we know how to take care of them, rabbits can be healthy and easy to raise as pets. Wow, your brown rabbit was huge. Thank you so much for your valuable info. Did you see Kwon Sang Won's wedding pictures? I think they're very beautiful. I'm wondering if you know why most guests dressed in black. I'm curious. It's completely different from my country. If you wear black to a wedding, you'll offend the bride and the groom. It's like you are attending their funeral. If you see a woman dressed in black coming to a wedding, you should take cover under a table because she might be a wife or a jilted girl-friend and I guess she's ready to rumble, hahaha. Just kidding!
Pictures of Houses in Weird Places.
They're simply amazing. You'll be surprised to learn that some of these images are real but some are digitally manipulated. You can find the answer here:
I have to admit that I cannot tell the difference. They all looked real to me. What do you think?
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Post by jinju0 on Oct 1, 2008 17:46:13 GMT -5
nene,i noticed your comment in the post to tinkerbell about wearing black to a wedding. it isn't good in america also, and you are never to wear white too. but here is a comment from k-popped.com about it.Is it appropriate to wear black at Korean weddings?I just double-checked by asking my mom, "Is it okay to wear all black to a wedding?" She replied, "Absolutely not! Not to a Chinese wedding."
There was a time when wearing black to a Chinese wedding is a taboo. Nowadays, in the modern generation, especially if you are attending a wedding of your peers, it is quite all right. However, it is still best to check if your friend's parents might find it offensive. So to be on the safe side, when attending a Chinese wedding, wear other colours, but not black.
How about for Koreans? Is wearing black to a wedding a taboo?
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Post by Nene on Oct 1, 2008 23:28:57 GMT -5
jinju, Did you see Gong Yoo's pictures I posted for you on page 57? I really liked his latest pictures. He's still handsome and charming. Do you know how long he's gonna be in the military service? BTW, thank you so much for your info about Chinese wedding etiquette. It's great to learn about different cultures because we're the world. ;D
Update on Crystal & Huang Xiao Ming
Confirmed - Liu Yifei to be the guest singer in Jimmy Lin's concert Posted by YKT at 1:58 AM Wan Mei just confirmed the following an hour ago at Crystallized! I am pleased to say that the organizers of the Jimmy Lin concert has confirmed that Yifei will be the guest singer in Jimmy's concert. Yifei is in fact Jimmy's first choice. She will be singing her own songs in addition to a duet with Jimmy Lin "Three Kingdoms" Cast Begin Shooting The ancient Chinese epic "Three Kingdoms", a new TV series version, began shooting in Zhuozhou city, in north China's Hebei province on September 29th, Beijing Morning Post reports.
The play's protagonists starring Peter Ho and Lu Xiaohe and Ringo Yu attended a press conference on Sunday.
There was widespread rumor that stars Deng Chao and Huang Xiaoming may land important roles in the play. Director Gao Xixi said he had talked with the actors who said they would have liked to act for him, but were tied up with busy schedules.
The filming of this TV drama will take at least a year during which the cast is not allowed to shoot other films.
Moreover, actors need to shave their hair and go bald at the beginning of the play. This was difficult for many actors to do since many of them had advertising deals that demand a certain look, the director disclosed.
The TV series will be shot based on the history of the Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in ancient China, the paper reports.
Director Gao also spoke about the challenge of filming a fight scene involving 56,000 actors.
In 1990, TV director and producer Zhang Jizhong produced the Chinese classic "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV drama adapted from a classic Chinese novel with the same name by Luo Guanzhong at the end of Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
Source: Crienglish Credit: AsianFanatics
I was disappointed to hear that HXM couldn't join this famous series. If not, we'll be able to watch him more--at least another year. Anyway, I understand why he didn't accept the offer. He just shaved his head to play Wei Xiao Bao in Royal Tramp (Duke of Mount Deer) last year and his hair just started to grow back. I guess we'll have to wait for another project---maybe he and Crystal in one movie. WooHoo! I just found pictures of Crystal and Huang Xiao Ming together at a gala on September 25, 2008.(Wan Mei)
Wow, Crystal and HXM posed together. That's awesome. There might be more pictures out there. Right now, one is enough. I'm still hopeful that both of them will do another series. I got a hunch, hahaha.
More Pictures Crystal in Thailand filming Garnier Ad.
I'm so happy for her. She's been busy with her career. I'm confident, we'll hear a lot more from her in weeks and months to come.
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Post by tinkerbell on Oct 2, 2008 12:09:48 GMT -5
NENEI'm glad you liked the signs. I was wondering if you would recognize that one picture. It was taken at the entrance to Wat Arun Temple in Bangkok, Thailand. I enjoyed your signs too. Some of those road signs are really confusing aren't they? Very funny.Thanks for the article about rabbits. That was interesting, I never heard that before about their skeletons. I think you would have to be rough with them otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.Things have changed in recent years. Women didn't wear all black or white at weddings. Last summer my niece got married on a Friday evening and I was one of two women who didn't wear black! That was a funny story about weddings in Thailand. I've seen some of those houses before. They certainly are unusual and fun to look at, even the computer enhanced ones. Sometimes it's hard to tell what's real and what's not. Which are real and which are fake? Hmmm
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Post by jinju0 on Oct 2, 2008 13:36:30 GMT -5
nene,oh yes nene, i did see the photos. gong yoo looks like he is doing well. Three Kingdoms sounds like a great drama. i can't wait for it. it is too bad that HXM and Crystal are not in a project together again. they look so good together.Crystal is so beautiful. she is going to have a very strong career. she just has "it" as they say. i love this photo.i have some sad news, do you know who Choi Jin-shil is? she was a very excellent actress. the drama i saw her in was called Rosey Life. well she commited suicide yesterday. here is the link to the post on the board that i posted.
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Post by Nene on Oct 2, 2008 18:26:05 GMT -5
jinju, After reading your post I searched around the internet and found more info related to her suicide. I don't know Choi Jin Shil but kdrama fans loved her. Like you mentioned she's an outstanding actress. She's very pretty too. When I looked at these pictures, I couldn't help but cry.
What a great loss! Her kids are so young and adorable. Her best friend, who just lost her husband, is a wreck. I'm speechless. What a tragedy! My deepest condolences and sympathy go out to her family and friends. Rest In Peace, Choi Jin Shil.
More on Choi Jin-shil’s suicide
The police have ruled her case a suicide — while there has been no explicit suicide note found, her last words to friends seem to have hinted at her intention (although this is all seen in hindsight, of course). The medical examiner determined no external wounds, no sign of murder or foul play. A memo was found, which didn’t contain any concrete details indicating suicide, but showed that she was greatly affected by Ahn Jae-hwan’s death and the subsequent turmoil.
She was said to have expressed prior to her death: “I’m saddened at the people of this world. I don’t understand why they’d torment someone with accusations of moneylending or whatnot.”
Choi Su-jong, Jung Jun-ho Friends and former co-stars are in shock; her co-star from the 1992 drama Jealousy, Choi Su-jong, “conveys his utmost condolences and grief.” Seeing some hateful replies online that were posted in response to the news of her death, he deplored, “How can anyone act like this?”
Apparently the day before her death, Choi had spoken to her Last Scandal co-star Jung Jun-ho over the phone and told him, “What’s wrong with this world?” When it was falsely circulated that she’d lent Ahn Jae-hwan money (she’s a good friend of his widow), leading to his suicide, some people even called her a ruthless loan shark and implied she had a role in his murder. (The murder rumors are spurious and unfounded.) Read more below:
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Post by Nene on Oct 4, 2008 2:09:35 GMT -5
tinkerbell, Thank you so much for those pictures. It's hard to tell which one is photoshopped and which one is real.
;D It's fun to look at them. They're simply amazing. ;D
The sign you posted is very popular. It's been circulated around the web and they loved it. Here are some more funny signs found in Thailand.
Hahaha, now you know where I picked up my English. BTW, don't laugh too hard.
More Funny Signs
Photo News Japanese Creative Barcodes Barcodes, or UPC symbols, these ubiquitous emblems of our consumer civilisation, have received a radical makeover by a Japanese firm D-Barcode - and this time their ideas ended up on grocery products all over Japan. They aslo have Barcode Kitties--Hello Kitty spin-off for those in need of a truly geeky cuteness:They're amazing.(source: Dark Roasted Blend) Flying Pig
Melbourne, Australia, September 18, 2008-- 10.0? A pig lands in a pool of water during the rip-snorting good time Pig Racing and Diving Show at the 2008 Royal Melbourne Show, an agricultural fair.
The flying pigs are a top draw at the annual spectacle, which attracts about 500,000 visitors over 11 days.
Other popular events include snake handling lessons, a horse show, and the opportunity to get up close and personal with cows, sheep, and goats in the livestock pavilion.
--John Roach —Photograph by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images
Giant Fish Manaus, Brazil, September 17, 2008-- A port worker carries a piracuru, the largest freshwater fish in South America, which was confiscated from smugglers who were attempting to transport 66 of the giants to a market, according to Reuters.
Fishing for piracuru, which can reach more than ten-feet (three-meters) long and top the scales at 330 pounds (150 kilograms), is prohibited in the wild in Brazil. Farmed fish, however, are allowed. The meat is considered a delicacy. —Photograph by Antonio Menezes/Reuters
Baby Lion
Hangzhou, China, September 24, 2008-- A baby lion that was regularly fed the tainted milk at the center of China's most recent food scare is examined for kidney stones.
Melamine, a chemical used to make plastics and fertilizer, has been found in infant formula and other milk products from 22 Chinese dairy companies, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The chemical masks protein deficiency in watered-down milk.
More than 54,000 infants have been sickened by the tainted milk, four died. —Photograph by Imaginechina/AP
Hope you enjoy those funny signs and photo news.
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Post by Nene on Oct 4, 2008 2:17:24 GMT -5
jinju, I found some very interesting articles from JoonAng Daily for you. They're great and worth reading. Scene-stealing stunt stars thrive off-camera
You think actress Lee Ji-ah played the violin herself in the new television drama “Beethoven Virus”? Fat chance. And those chef characters in “Le Grand Chef” that prepared sushi with incredible dexterity? Not themselves, either.
It’s a remarkable era of TV performance that we’re living in today. The same actor who was a top surgeon in one drama becomes an eccentric orchestra conductor in his next show. Another actor who was a gangster in his previous gig turns into a chef who wields a blade for wholly different reasons.
As more and more dramas deal with professionals, actors and actresses are under increasing pressure to learn the necessary skills. And more often than not, they need expert help.
Violinist Song Won-jin Enter the stunt guys.
The JoongAng Ilbo met with three individuals who have recently pulled off stunts in cooking, fighting and music. They told us the story of their lives behind the scenes and explained why they like to stay out of the spotlight.
The recently concluded comic book-based drama “Le Grand Chef,” which was earlier released as a feature film, is about rival cooks dueling for control over a restaurant. The show was famous for how its actors had hands-on kitchen training. For months leading up to the shoot, the actors committed themselves to the trade. Some have improved to a point where they performed most of the cooking without stunt doubles helping out.
Underline “most.” Even the well-trained actors needed help in one area: preparing blowfish dishes.
Because blowfish contains poison, only certified chefs can handle the dish. Lee Gyeong-woo, who works at the restaurant Sushi Kuni in Yeonsinnae, northwestern Seoul, first got his Le Grand Chef connection through the film. chef Lee Gyeong-woo “They said they needed someone to prepare blowfish sushi,” Lee recalled. “It’s challenging because you have to deal with the poison and each piece should only be about 0.3 millimeters thin. You also need to slice pieces in specific angles.”
Lee, 43, has worked at several blowfish restaurants across Seoul and is regarded as a local authority. But he had his reservations about helping out in the film.
“I felt chefs belonged in the kitchen, not in front of the camera,” Lee said. “But I had been a fan of the original comic book series and I wanted to make at least a small contribution to the film.”
That experience led to his appearance in the drama as well. Because the TV edition is spread over 24 episodes - compared to just two hours for the film - Lee had more work to do.
But he said it was worth it. “Sometimes, you can get complacent in this line of work and tend to stick with what you already know,” he said.
“And shooting for the drama made me realize my job requires a lot of creativity. And it was the new inspiration I needed after a quarter century in this field.”
Kwon Hyuk-seok is someone who needs inspiration nearly every day. The 27-year-old, after all, is a stuntman and that means he has to do the acting with just his body.
Stunt Actor Kwon Hyuk-seok “When your character is putting his own life on the line to save someone else’s, your action has to show the desperation,” Kwon said.
“And when he is the heroic leader of the pack, your action should drip with charisma.”
Kwon, who began his stunt career in 2005, has done battle scenes for Choi Soo-jong in the historical series “Haeshin,” and for Lee Jun-ki in action-packed “Iljimae.” Both were popular dramas starring household names.
Kwon admits to occasional moments of frustration.
“I would watch my fight scenes on television and then at the end of a sequence, the real actor would pop up,” Kwon said. “That’s when I grow a bit upset, knowing those scenes really belong to me.”
Kwon stressed that athleticism is only part of the job requirement in his line of work.
Having a similar frame as the real actors helps and then the stuntman has to pick up on the real actors’ mannerisms.
Because it is a physically demanding job, stunt work has its moments of danger.
Kwon knows this all too well.
When shooting the historical epic “Daejoyoung,” Kwon fell off a horse that was going full speed. His head was protected by his helmet as he crashed into a rock, and he said he had the presence of mind to scramble out of the way of a herd of horses chasing him.
“I was quite scared,” Kwon recalled. “I knew I could die if I got stomped by those horses.”
Still, Kwon says he has no complaints about what he calls “a dream job.”
“Growing up, I watched a lot of action films and I always liked the bad guys who had spectacular falls rather than the good guys who beat them up,” he said. “I want to become a true action star, someone who expresses himself through action.”
Song Won-jin expresses herself not through action, but through music. The 29-year-old violinist currently plays her instrument for Lee Ji-ah’s character in “Beethoven Virus,” a popular series about a motley crew of an orchestra. Song takes care of the character’s solos.
But she wasn’t the stuntman that the producers had in mind. Song doesn’t have Lee’s lean fingers and thus doesn’t actually appear on the screen in place of the actress. Instead, Song plays the part off camera.
She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and is currently teaching at Gwangju University. In 2007, Song was named “The Artist to Watch” in the classical music category by the Korean Arts Critics Association.
Even for an accomplished artist, Song said playing for a TV show isn’t nearly as simple as it seems.
“Unless the player is a veteran, it can be a tough job,” Song said. “Sometimes, they give you only two days’ notice on what they want you to play. It’s not very different to performing on stage.”
A 60-second scene that you see on TV may have taken up to five hours to record. Even if a piece only ends up being used partially, Song has to perform the entire piece. She said she never feels 100 percent satisfied.
She cites Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 as her toughest piece to date. She played it with a male lead during the show’s second episode and it took two full days to record.
There have also been re-shoots when the movements of Lee’s fingers or the location of the bow did not match the actual music.
“Be afraid of the Internet,” Song said. “Believe me, there are people who notice.”
But Song said you can’t satisfy everyone.
“A medical doctor will always find faults watching an operation scene in a drama,” she said. “But you have to give credit to actors, too. It’s not as though they get all the time in the world to master different crafts.”
Then why would she want to play the music behind the scene and help out actors?
“I wanted the general public to get easier access to classical music,” Song said.
“I hope people can listen to my playing on television and feel a chill down their spines.”
By Lee Young-hee, Lee Do-eun JoongAng Ilbo [jeeho@joongang.co.kr]
Spiritual suicide
[분수대]생사학 October 04, 2008 The recent suicide of a famous actress has shocked society. She’s not the first, but her case stands out.
She was a popular star, almost like family to many ordinary people over the last 20 years. She was also a symbol of the growing Korean entertainment industry.
Choi Jin-sil was the first person to become famous with just TV advertisements. She was also the first to be called a “walking business.” She was even a pioneer in demonstrating the marketing power of TV stars, launching an era of systematic star management.
Most of all, she was accessible. Nowadays, everyone likes to talk up their humble credentials, but when she debuted, actors and actresses were of a superior breed.
Choi admitted growing up poor and was loved as “the girl next door.” Her bubbly side fit in well with the new culture trends of the 1990s, when big ideological debates disappeared. She personified the carefree new generation in her TV and movie roles. After a career slump, she returned to the screen portraying a hard-working housewife swept off her feet by a rich man.
One of the main reasons her suicide is worrying is because of a possible domino effect. According to a study titled “Research on the Werther Effect in South Korea” by Yu Cheong-wha, after a suicide by a famous person, 137 more people committed suicide on average a month between 1994 and 2005.
South Korea has the highest suicide rate among OECD countries. This is often attributed to fierce social competitiveness. Of course, there are those like Jean Amery, the Austrian-born essayist who viewed suicide as one’s right to decide one’s own death, but a high suicide rate clearly indicates an unhappy society.
Professor Oh Chin-tak, author of ”Suicide, the Most Miserable Death on Earth” even proposed a public discussion on thanatology, or the study of death. Beyond just preventing suicide, he emphasized a new view of life and death.
People who commit suicide often think that everything will end with death. Oh claims that this is based on ignorance and a misunderstanding of death.
He wrote, “If one views death not as physical death, but the separation of the soul from the body, and one’s life and death as the soul’s journey, then life is a maturing process of the soul that one can’t give up.”
He added, “Fetishism that draws people to commit suicide stems from a wrong understanding about death.” In an era where impulsive suicide is pervasive, he has thrown in the solution of spirituality.
The writer is a deputy culture and sports editor for the JoongAng Ilbo.
By Yang Sung-hee [shyang@joongang.co.kr] I never thought that South Korea has the highest suicide rate among OECD countries. I hope somthing good will come out of this tragedy.
Gong Yoo - Army 60th Anniversary Musical Event Compilation [/center] Hope you like it. Enjoy!
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Post by TheBo on Oct 6, 2008 10:34:13 GMT -5
Hi, guys, I've been on vacation for a few days. I've just been paging through and looking at the pretty pics and laughing at the funny signs, so I don't know who said what, but:
1) I had two cats a long time ago, but they are "no longer with us." They were fun but a lot of trouble, as most pets are. 2) I had a friend who kept an indoor rabbit, and she never seemed to have a problem with the "box" thing--he used it. I guess it depends on the rabbit. 3) I think I'll go now and get my "rays" and "hairlips." LOL.
Bo
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Post by Nene on Oct 7, 2008 1:29:54 GMT -5
Bo, I haven't seen"Hur Jun" yet. I did some research and found out that it was broadcast several years before "Dae Jang Guem" and it got high ratings at that time too. Top 80 Korean Dramas as of December.31,2007 Posted on February 25, 2008 by imbestigador
Here now are the Top 100 Korean Dramas of All Time. Source: NAVER BLOG 1 NAVER BLOG 2 ASK NAVER
1. The First Love/첫사랑 [KBS Two,1997] 65.8 2. What is Love?/사랑이 뭐길래 [MBC,1992] 64.9 3. The Sandglass/모래시계 [SBS,1995] 64.5 4. Hur Jun/허준 [MBC,1999] 63.7 5. A Sunny Place of The Youth/젊은이의 양지 [KBS Two,1995] 62.7 6. You and I/그대 그리고 나 [MBC,1998] 62.4 7. Son and Daughter/아들과 딸 [MBC,1993] 61.1 8. Emperor Wang Gun [KBS One,2001] 60.2 9. Eyes Of Dawn/여명의 눈동자 [MBC,1991] 58.4 10. Jewel In The Palace/대장금 [MBC,2004] 57.8
Heo Jun
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heo Jun (1546 – 1615) was a court physician during the reign of King Seonjo of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea. He was appointed as a court physician at the age of 29. He wrote a number of medical texts, but his most significant achievement is Dongui bogam, which is often noted as the defining text of Traditional Korean medicine. The work spread to China and Japan, where it is still regarded as one of the classics of Oriental medicine today. Although Heo Jun worked extensively with the royal family, he put a great emphasis on making treatment methods accessible and comprehensible to common people. He found natural herb remedies that were easily attainable by commoners in Korea. Furthermore, he wrote the names of the herbs using the simple hangul letters instead of using more difficult hanja (Chinese characters), which most commoners did not understand.
Heo Jun's name and accomplishments are widely recognized by Koreans even today. Korean people still refer to Heo Jun's natural remedies found in his Dongui bogam. Heo Jun is the subject of a popular novel published in 1990 titled "Dongeui Bogam" by Eun-Seong Lee. In 2000, the MBC TV series "Heo Jun" based on Heo Jun's life reached record-breaking viewer ratings.
Ui tae yoo, was a doctor who once was his teacher, when he was just a youngster who worked for others as a helper in no relevant jobs and tasks.Heo jun was highly influenced by him, he taught him a lot of the medicine (known information) and inspired him to become doctor for and of the people.
Hur Jun (TV series)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hur Jun (허준, Chinese title: 醫道, also known as "The Way of Medicine: The Epic Doctor Hur Jun" in Taiwan, and "The Way of Medicine" in Hong Kong) is a 2000 TV Biographical Drama broadcast by the South Korean TV channel MBC. It was aired by Taiwan Television in 2002 and Hong Kong's TVB in 2005, after the finale of Dae Jang Geum. Because of the similarities between the two main characters of the show, Hur Jun has often been called the male version of Dae Jang Geum.
Also worth noting is that the original title of the show were never used outside of South Korea. In Taiwan, the title was re-worked to become"The Way of Medicine: The Epic Doctor Hur Jun". The first half of the title stuck, and was used by TVB when it aired Hur Jun in 2005.
Synopsis The story is set in Joseon Korea, primarily during the reign of Seonjo. The story covers a time that is approximately 50 years after the death of Dae Jang Geum (the reputed first female doctor of Joseon Korea).
Hur Jun is the son of a sangnom (Korea's version of Untouchable) mother. Due to his mother's social position he was also considered sangnom under Joseon law at the time, even though his father was from the ruling caste and held office as a local magistrate. As a result, he suffered many discriminatory treatments, causing him to lose focus and direction, and eventually led him to participate in smuggling operations. At this time, Hur Jun got to know an upper-class lady who was in exile. The lady's father was branded a traitor and died during exile. Hur Jun sympathized with the lady and handled all of her father's funeral affairs. Not long after that, Hur Jun's smuggling activities were discovered, and he was only saved from death by his erstwhile uncaring father, who rescued Hur Jun, his mother, and the lady in exile and sneaked them out of their town. Hur Jun and the lady in exile eventually got married and went to Gyeongsang Province to live a peaceful life. Read more below: Details
* Title: 허준 / Heo Jun * Also known as: The Legendary Doctor Huh Joon / Medical Rule * Genre: Historical Drama * Episodes: 64 * Broadcast network: MBC * Broadcast period: 1999-11-22 to 2000-06-27 * Air time: Monday & Tuesday 9:55 PM
Cast
* Jun Kwang Ryul as Huh Joon * Lee Soon Jae as Yoo Ee Tae * Kim Bong Se as Yoo Do Ji * Jo Kyung Hwan as Yang Ye Su * Jung Wook as Kim Min Se * Jung Hye Sun as Ms. Son * Park Jung Soo as Ms. Oh * Han In Soo as Ahn Kwang Ik * Hwang Soo Jung * Im Hyun Sik * Kim Hae Sook * Sung Hyun Ah * Lee Ip Sae
Production Credits
* Writer: Choi Wan Kyu * Director: Lee Byung Hoon * Asst. Director: Kim Geun Hong 김근홍 * Cinematography: Kim Young Chul 김영철 * Production: MBC Production
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According to several sources, Hur Jun is one of the best kdramas. Anyone interested can visit the official website to watch Hur Jun there. Official Website EPISODES Bo, do you want to spend your next vacation around this village? Hahaha, it must be fun trying to cross a very unstable bridge like that every day. What a great adventure! Btw, have a wonderful vacation!
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Post by TheBo on Oct 7, 2008 14:41:33 GMT -5
Nene! Thank you, that will be very helpful.
I wonder if you notice that many of the actors appeared in Dae Jang-geum, also. I am being "shocked" by familiar faces every time I watch. LOL. Some of them I'm having trouble placing, but I'm not that far into the drama yet so time will tell.
Bo
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Post by Nene on Oct 8, 2008 13:18:38 GMT -5
Bo, ;D You're welcome. Hehehe, don't forget to visit this place too. I haven't seen Dae Jang Guem yet. Anyway, I recognized some faces. I think they haven't changed much. Some were also in Yi San. Here are some of their pictures.
[/size][/center] While searching for the new James Bond movie, I found these pictures.
Have you seen pictures of the latest Bond girl? She's tall and very beautiful. She just revealed her secret to the press.
At first glance, Gemma Arterton appears perfectly formed in every way.
The 22-year-old actress, who plays Agent Fields in the next 007 adventure, said: 'It's my little oddity that I'm really proud of. People are really interested but repulsed at the same time.'
Read full story here:
Wow, that's amazing. Can you believe she's only 22?
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Post by Nene on Oct 8, 2008 13:21:57 GMT -5
KIM MYUNG MIN (OCTOBER 8) Wishing you another wonderful year of happiness and joy. Happy Birthday!
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Post by TheBo on Oct 8, 2008 15:59:03 GMT -5
Nene, I can see even from the photo you give that many (many) of the ladies in Hur June's court were also either court ladies or doctor ladies in Dae Jang-geum, and so were the ladies who live with the first doctor that Hur Jun studies under. Also, that doctor (Dr. Yoo) is one of my favorite older actors, and he has starred in many "modern" dramas such as Who's My Love. The assistant/pharmacist of Dr. Yoo played Jang-geum's foster father, and he was a more comic character there. Lastly, I just figured out that Dr. Yoo's son is played by an actor I liked very much from Phoenix. I'm having a good time figuring who is who. Bo
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Post by Nene on Oct 9, 2008 11:50:14 GMT -5
jinju, Look what I found for you!
Huang Xiaoming calls on Panda protection (CRIENGLISH.com) Updated: 2008-10-09 08:55 Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming, an ambassador to China's Panda Protection Research Center, recently visited the giant panda breeding base in Ya'an, Sichuan Province to shoot a commercial on panda protection.
During his visit, Huang put on a keeper's suit and tried his hand cutting bamboo, cleaning cages and feeding the bears.
Last month, the star announced that he had adopted a pair of giant panda twins with a donation of one million yuan, or about 150,000 US dollars. The twin cubs, which have not yet been named, were born on July 6, 2008, the first panda babies born after the magnitude-8 earthquake that hit Sichuan in May.
That's so cool. I'm jealous of him. I want to hold that cute panda too. Kudos to HXM for helping to protect pandas. I'm so proud of him.
I found these wedding pictures at bb's ramblings. Remember the musician? He's married in 1997--one year after the release of The First Love. He's handsome and his bride's also very pretty.
The cast must have been very close because The First Love is a long series. I can hardly recognize BYJ--his hair's very short.
I also found Lee Ji Ah's new pictures at hankering for yong joon blog.
She's very cute. I'm glad BV is doing very well. I heard the production company is planning to extend this popular series from 16 episodes to 19 episodes. What do you think?
William and Harry plan Ewan McGregor-style charity motorcycle marathon in Africa
By Rebecca English Last updated at 6:27 PM on 08th October 2008 Princes William and Harry have brushed aside security fears to take part in a hair-raising motorcycle rally across South Africa in aid of charity later this month.
The royal brothers, who have longed to emulate actor Ewan McGregor and his friend Charley Boorman in their TV series the Long Way Down, will cross 1,500 km of 'dangerous' mountain terrain during their eight day odyssey.
William has been a passionate 'biker' for several years and owns a 175mph Honda Blackbird superbike, although he has been criticised by his Scotland Yard security detail for driving too fast. Harry - whose idea the trek is - passed his motorbike test after taking an intensive course this summer. Read full story here:
Which one do you prefer? Personally, I like Prince Harry because he's more attractive and more confident than Prince William. ;D I'd like to share this article with you. It's very funny. ;D
The Invasion Of The Kims, Lees And Parks
This post is titled as such because about 40 percent of Koreans have Kim, Lee or Park as their surnames. Make no mistake - I am not against attracting foreign talents to our country. Neither am I xenophobic. I am just relating a fact that only dawned on me recently.........
In terms of TV entertainment, I remember in the early 80s, Singaporeans were crazy over Hong Kong serials. The first popular one was "The Man In The Net" starring Chow Yun Fatt:
Mr Ong, my primary school classmate whom I met recently, told me that his wife watches Korean drama serials almost every night till early next morning. She then catches up on her sleep in the day. What an exciting life! Only blogging seems to be more exciting. The shows that she watches must have stars such as these:
Now I know why the handsome lad in the last photo is also called "the aunties' heartthrob" by people like Chun See. There is even a Wikipedia entry on, not Chun See, but Bae Yong Joon. My wife got my alarm bells ringing when she recently told me that she found the show Da Chang Jin "quite nice".
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It's kind of like me, hehehe.
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