On November 16th, actress Lee Min Jung posted a couple of pictures on her mini homepage, sharing her latest with the fans.
In one of the pictures, Lee Min Jung is seen wearing a black top with see-through details looking sexy yet elegant. In the second picture, Lee Min Jung looks down to earth in a sweater but the beauty still impresses with an allure all her own. Both of the pictures showcase her beauty with her amazing side profile.
Lee Min Jung was sweet to her fans and even replied to the fan comments on her mini homepage commenting, “I know. It’s been a while because there was something wrong with Cyworld password~~^^”
Netizen comments include: “I am so touched that she even added a reply”, “Lee Min Jung is as pretty as ever”, “I think Lee Min Jung got prettier since she started dating Lee Byung Hun, “Her side profile is really beautiful”, “Praise Lee Min Jung”, and “She is a goddess indeed.”
Lee Min Jung and Lee Byung Hun made their relationship official back in August.
Image: Lee Min Jung’s mini homepage
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33th Blue Dragon Awards being held on Nov.30 at Sejon Cultural Center announced this year’s nominees. The executives of Blue Dragon Awards said “we have chosen top 21 nominees and they were selected by renowned film experts through a number of surveys and on-line votes from the netizens.”
The films to be focused on are Masquerade and Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time. Masquerade is nominated for the best picture award, best director award (Choo Chang-min), best actor (Lee Byung-hun), supporting role (Jang Gwang) award, marked as the most nominated film. Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time is also nominated for the best picture, director (Yoon Jong-bin), actor (Choi Min-shik) supporting role (Kwak Do-won), a tie record with Masquerade.
The Thieves which was the biggest hit this year, got nominated for 8 sections, including best film, and director (Choi Dong-hoon), Architecture 101 got 8 nominations including Rookie of the year awards for both actor (Cho Jung-suk) and actress (Bae Suji). All About My wife got 6 in including Leading actress (Lim Soo-jung) and Eungyo for 5 nominations including Rookie of the year for the actress (Kim Go-eun). Meanwhile Kim Ki-duk’s Pieta gets nominated for 3 awards including best picture, director and leading actress (Cho Min-soo). With very competitive nominees this year, the results are to draw people’s attention.
Sony Korea's new mirrorless camera 'Alpha NEX-5R' TV advertisement which was aired from Novemeber 21 featuring actor Lee Byung Hun as its main model went to a full-fledged marketing. Clip from Sony Korea.
The Arena Homme+ annual title “Black Collar Worker” is awarded to the most outstanding (male) figures of the year and for 2012's 7th edition of the Audi A-Awards, the prize includes actor Lee Byung Hun as the top award recipient.
The Men's Fashion Magazine 'Arena Homme Plus' have chosen 6 outstanding, creative and professional individuals consisting of 5 men and 1 woman well known in their category of choice for the "Black Collar Worker" award.
Among the winners are director Choi Dong Hun (The Thieves), actor Lee Byung Hun and singer Lee Seung Chul alongside Dir. Park Chan Kyong, PD Shin Won Ho and the first female winner of Fashion Designers, Woo Young Mi.
This marks the second time Lee Byung Hun being selected to receive the A-Award recognition after 2009. This year's award ceremony will take place on December 18, 2012 at the InterContinental Seoul Hotel.
Actor Lee Byung Hun shared how he felt about Ryu Seung Ryong‘s statement involving his girlfriend Lee Min Jung.
Reporter Kim Saeng Min interviewed Lee Byung Hun and Ryu Seung Ryong on the November 24th installment of KBS 2TV’s ‘Entertainment Relay’.
Kim Saeng Min showed Lee Byung Hun the clip from the recent Grand Bell Awards ceremony in which Ryu Seung Ryong said to Lee Byung Hun, “Be strong away from home, I will take care of Min Jung.”
Lee Byung Hun smiled an awkward smile then said, “That (he said that) alone makes me nervous” and brought laughter to the viewers.
Ryu Seung Ryong explained, “I was in the play ‘Taxi Driver’ together with Lee Min Jung. We’ve known each other a long time. We go to the same hair salon so we’re close and we even exchange Ani Pang hearts.”
Image: ‘Entertainment Relay’
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The actor Lee Byung-Hun was anxious about a Ryoo Seung-Ryong’s Lee Min-Jung comment.
On 24th, in KBS 2TV ‘Entertainment Broadcast Show’ the guerrilla date of Lee Byung-Hun and Ryoo Seung-Ryong was on the air. In this broadcast Lee Byung-Hun saw a video that Ryoo Seung-Ryong saying “I’ll take care of Lee Min-Jung” in the last Grand Bell Awards, and told “I’m anxious about the last comment.”
To this Ryoo Seung-Ryong explained and made people smile, “I acted a play with Lee Min-Jung. I’m close to her because we go to same hairdresser, and we exchange hearts (in cellular phone game).”
Meanwhile the London date of Lee Byung-Hun and Ryoo Seung-Ryong was originated in a promise that if the movie ‘Gwanghae : The Man Who Became King’ hit ten million audiences, they will ‘Guerrilla date’ in London.
On November 24, reporter Kim Saeng Min interviewed both Lee Byung Hun and Ryu Seung Ryong for KBS 2 TV‘s “Entertainment Report.”
Reporter Kim Saeng Min decided to bring up a previous clip from the Grand Bell Awards Ceremony, where Ryu Seung Ryong says to Lee Byung Hun, “Just worry about taking care of your business abroad and I will protect Lee Min Jung.”
Lee Byung Hun smiled wanly in response and said, “It makes me feel uncomfortable, even if he is just saying it for kicks,” causing the men to laugh at his honest answer.
Ryu Seung Ryong clarified his relationship with Lee Min Jung saying, “We have worked on projects like ‘Taxi Driver‘ together which was filmed back in 1997, so we have known each other for a very long time. We even frequent the same hair salon and send each other playful heart emoticons on Kakao Talk’s messenger option of its puzzle game AniPang.”
Two meaningful records have been reached along with the 100 million spectators for local films makr this past week. Surpassing the record of Taegukgi, Masquerade crossed the 12 million mark on November 22nd as it recorded 12,001,875.
According to KOBIS of the Korean Film Council, Masquerade sold 12,035 tickets on 159 screens on November 22nd to breach the 12 million mark, 71 days after its release on Sept. 13. The Thieves passed 12 million earlier this year in 32 days and 13.2 million in 70 days after its release which broke the record of The Host (13.1 million) to ascend to the top of the Korean box office.
Meanwhile CJ E&M, to celebrate Masquerade’s 10 million breakthrough, is going to show a special 2-minute clip of 'The people that made the king' to the public on their content curation service web www.interest.me. They have also shown a clip of Hasun (Lee Byung-hun)’s life outside the palace earlier on Nov. 19.
The hit A Werewolf Boy is also making news. it has attracted 4,300,000 audiences in 16 days, making a new record for a Korean melodrama, and has now broken the 6 million milestone on Nov. 25, in 24 days following its opening. This places the film on 3rd place at the 2012 Korean Boxoffice, and director Jo Sung-hee has said that he’s thankful for the love being showered on the film.
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International television and film star Byung Hun Lee will be honored with the “Star of the Year” Award at the CineAsia 2012 Awards Luncheon on Thursday, Dec. 13, at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong.
Robert H. Sunshine, managing director of the annual convention, stated, “Mr. Lee is a wonderful actor who has delighted television audiences and moviegoers not only in Asia, but internationally as well.”
Byung Hun Lee is recognized as one of the starters of the “Korean Boom” in television and film. Known as one of the “Four Kings” in Japan, Lee is the only actor to sell out the Tokyo Dome with 45,000 screaming fans. Having completed a 70,000-fan arena tour in Japan in 2007, he has successfully finished another tour in 2011.
Lee started his acting career in 1991 with a Korean TV drama “Asphalt, My Hometown.” Since then he has acted in many dramas on the small screen including “Tomorrow Love,” “Police”, “Son of Wind”, “Happy Together”, “Beautiful Days”, “All In” and "Iris.”
Although much of his early success came from television dramas, Lee’s real passion was for making films on the big screen. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird and I Come With the Rain premiered in 2008. Lee's critically acclaimed film I Saw the Devil premiered in 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival.
Lee's first Hollywood film was Paramount Pictures’ GI Joe: Rise of Cobra in 2010. He recently completed filming GI Joe 2: Retaliation with a U.S. release date of March 29, 2013; a new 3D trailer and special footage will premiere at CineAsia. Lee’s first Korean period piece, Masquerade, premiered internationally in September 2012 and became the fourth highest-grossing film to date in Korea. In June 2012, he had his hand and footprints imprinted in front of the world-famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, a first for an Asian actor. He is currently shooting Red 2 in London.
On Oct. 30, Lee won Best Actor honors at the Grand Bell Awards (Korea’s equivalent to the Academy Awards) for Masquerade. The film took a record 15 awards.
CineAsia 2012 will take place Dec. 11-13 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It will feature screenings of upcoming Hollywood films, sponsored events, timely seminars and a tradeshow.
Lee Byung-hun at a film gala in Los Angeles in 2011.
Lee Byung-hun, the lead in the Korean blockbuster “Masquerade,” is on a high: A month after winning the best-actor prize at the 49th Daejong Film Awards, South Korea’s version of the Oscars, film-industry group CineAsia has named him its star of the year.
“It is a great honor to be able to single out the notable achievements of Byung-hun Lee at this year’s CineAsia,” Managing Director Robert H. Sunshine said in a statement. “Mr. Lee is a wonderful actor who has delighted television audiences and movie-goers not only in Asia, but internationally as well.”
The organization will present the award to Mr. Lee during its annual convention in Hong Kong, which takes place Dec. 11-13.
In “Masquerade,” set in the early 17th century during the Chosun dynasty, Mr. Lee plays the dual roles of a commoner and king who swap places after a suspected assassination attempt against the ruler. The movie recently claimed the title of one of South Korea’s biggest-ever box-office hits.
In June, Mr. Lee and fellow Korean actor Ahn Sung-ki left their hand and foot imprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, which draws thousands of movie fans from around the world each year.
The 42-year-old actor began his career more than two decades ago in Korean TV dramas. He later turned to movies, starring in such hits as “JSA: Joint Security Area” (2000), about South and North Korean border soldiers who become friends but face a tragic end, and “The Good, the Bad, the Weird” (2008), a rollicking Korean western set during Japan’s occupation of Manchuria.
His movie career also has taken him to Hollywood. He starred in the action blockbuster “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” (2010), and will appear in the sequel, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” due out next year. He currently is filming “Red 2” with Bruce Willis, Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich.
CineAsia brings together movie-industry professionals from across Asia and elsewhere, with a focus on exhibition and distribution. Last year, the group honored Chinese actress Li Bingbing as its female star of the year.
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