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Originally posted by ayie77 at 28-8-2008 09:11 AM 
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waaa..time ni chimei ade kat korea!!!!! tp tak dapat tgk dia..sbb tak tau pun dia ade kat situ time tu...kalo tak silap dorang buat kat seoul city hall tu rasenye..dekat je ngan tmpt hostel kami..ish..ish..geram siut.. ..kalo tak bleh tgk abe yong haku.. |
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hehehe..tapi takpe..sempat beli photobook abe yongha....nak beli cd album dia bleh takde juai kat korea..hampeh sungguh!!
ha!!! chimei gi galeri bae yong jun tuh..pergh...mahainye nak masuk dia...actually bukan gallery pun lebih kurang cam cafe je..so decide tanak masuk..tgk dr luar je..merchandise winter sonata byk le tpi mahai gaban..mahai lagi dr beli kat nami island nun.. |
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waa卌himei baru balik dari korea ke?? Bahagianyer |
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Originally posted by nzhass79 at 3-9-2008 09:54 AM 
waa卌himei baru balik dari korea ke?? Bahagianyer?. Mahai tu maksudnyer mahai bape? Bape beza dia kalo beli kat nami?saje la tu?dah tau tu tmpat BYJ?
erm!!! ada merchandise winter sonata kat situ skit2..bear yong jun pun ade..tapi mahai woooo..lam 20 ribu won tuk benda kecik2 je..tau dah tmpt tu oppa bae pun..tapi tmpt dia kecik je...sgt kecik smpi kan tak sangka tmpt tu dia punye..hehe |
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Reply #1528 ayie77's post
muka dia looks old kan |
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Originally posted by chimei at 3-9-2008 09:37 AM 
waaa..time ni chimei ade kat korea!!!!! tp tak dapat tgk dia..sbb tak tau pun dia ade kat situ time tu...kalo tak silap dorang buat kat seoul city hall tu rasenye..dekat je ngan tmpt hostel ...
tak rezeki lorrrrrrrrr.............kalu jumpa sah2 bawak balik tu.. |
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want to share jun sang & min hyung beautiful shape
credit as labelled |
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Korean dramas carve a niche in Japan
September 05, 2008
Bae Yong-joon, right, and Choi Ji-woo, who starred in Winter Sonata, a Korean drama
The full force of the Korean Wave hit Japan in 2004. Four years later, the phenomenon known here as "hallyu" has succeeded in creating a comfortable niche for itself in the Japanese TV and music world. In November, 2004, the initial frenzy clogged Narita Airport, as thousands of Bae Yong-joon fans flocked to welcome him to Japan, ten people were injured as the crowd outside his Tokyo hotel scrambled to get a peek at him. Today, the hallyu boom has evolved into a calmer, sustained and widespread interest in Korean pop culture that has increased the Japanese public's desire to better understand the customs, lifestyle and cuisine of their closest neighbor.
Of course, not everyone has rushed to ride the Korean Wave, but it has succeeded in widening the perceptions and perspectives of many. Here on the northern island of Hokkaido, where Korean TV dramas are especially popular, signs of the hallyu presence are everywhere. Ladies gently jostle each other out of the way to get at the wide array of hallyu magazines at the local bookstore, and TV commercials remind us that the new "Winter Sonata II" and "Spring Waltz" pachinko (pinball) machines will be out soon. At the local music store, a large box containing a 30-centimeter Kwon Sang-woo doll decked out in the priestly robes he wore in the movie "Love So Divine" is propped up against shelves full of Korean drama theme music collectors` boxes and DVDs from John-Hoon and Rain.
In Hokkaido, five to six Korean TV series are shown each week on terrestrial TV, mostly on weekday mornings and mostly without Japanese dubbing. Not only have many Japanese TV viewers discovered they love Korean dramas, but they have found that they are just as happy watching them in the vernacular with subtitles. That would have been utterly unimaginable even a few years ago - an indication of the amazing effect the hallyu boom has had. Add in the plethora of dramas offered on Japan's dozens of satellite TV channels, and those of us who have never been to Korea could easily spend everyday there vicariously, if we like.
Nor is the exchange all one way. While Japanese TV tourists flock to Seoul, several Korean dramas have featured Hokkaido locales. This February and March, director Kim Jin-min has been in the port town of Otaru filming a new TV drama starringLee Dong-wookand Oh Yean-su that will air on MBC in May. Otaru is hoping it will be good for local tourism, too.
The big question, of course, is just why has the hallyu boom been so successful? Mutual profit, timing and quality seem to be the answers. The entertainment industries in both countries quickly recognized the lucrative potential of the pop culture exchanges, and have actively promoted them. It would be difficult to even try to estimate the reverberating economic impact of all the hallyu spin-off industries, from publications and tourism to language study and licensing.
The cross-cultural entertainment world influences are now so great, it's hard to imagine that this all took off just four years ago with one memorable TV drama - "Winter Sonata," starring Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo. NHK, the national public broadcaster, decided to try it Saturdays at 11:10 p.m. in a time slot usually reserved for U.S. and British fare. Like all the Korean dramas shown on NHK since, it was broadcast with Japanese voiceovers. Japanese TV viewers, especially middle-aged women, quickly were carried away by the sensitive love story. Soon, glasses and wool scarves were fashion statements. Yong-sama, as he affectionately became known, was being carved in ice at the Sapporo Snow Festival, and tours to the filming locations became all the rage. NHK quickly followed up with "Beautiful Days," "All In," "Spring Waltz," and the historical dramas "Damo" and the very popular "Daejanggum," which NHK also later ran in animated form for the kids. Asian dramas have occupied the Saturday 11 p.m. time slot ever since. Those desperate for "Desperate Housewives" or "ER" now have to wait until 1 a.m. As an added bonus for those who stay up even later, "Himawari" with Lee Byung-hun airs at 1:50 a.m.
The historical dramas and lighter Korean romantic comedies broadcast on satellite TV and available for sale or rental on DVD have insured that hallyu fans now include both sexes and all age groups. The appetite of the most dedicated fans has become insatiable, and has stimulated interest in Korean movies, music, musicals and tourism. |
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Korean star Ryu Shi-won during a concert in Tokyo on Aug. 19 to 21.
Few fans take their fascination to this level, but even occasional and casual TV viewers will recognize the names of the stars of those first few NHK series - Bae Yong-joon, Choi Ji-woo,Lee Byung-hun, Ryu Shi-won and Lee Young-ae - and their works - "Winter Sonata," "Daejanggum," "Stairway to Heaven," "Beautiful Days," and "Hotelier" - which top a list of the most popular Korean dramas in Japan, according to a survey of 1,600 Japanese, mainly women in their 30s, done in 2007 by the TV Asahi program SMAStation. Hosted by SMAP's Shingo Katori, the program unfortunately has had to compete with these dramas in the Saturday, 11 p.m. time slot. And even Japanese TV scripts have begun to recognize the hallyu presence as a part of the modern 21st century Japanese lifestyle. In the recent Japanese TV series "Hatachi no Koibito," the heroine's colleague is a devoted Lee Byung-hun fan who reads hallyu magazines on her breaks, and rushes off from work to attend his fan meetings. This brings us to the second important aspect of the hallyu success: the timing was right. Had the Korean Wave arrived five or 10 years sooner, when Japan's own TV dramas were at their peak and bringing in average ratings of over 30 percent, the hallyu boom might have faced a more difficult challenge. But, for the last few years, Japanese dramas have been weathering a considerable slump. Although two dozen series are launched each quarter, it has become extremely difficult for most to get anywhere near 15 percent ratings, and few top that figure. Only dramas starring SMAP's Takuya Kimura have been consistently capable of climbing up over the 30 percent mark in the new century. Irritating or inconclusive endings, predictable dialogue and a trend away from serious romances have discouraged viewers, and created a vacuum that the quality Korean products have very conveniently filled. Serious drama fans have taken refuge in the parallel hallyu world with its overall high quality, straightforward and sincere style, freer expression of emotions and romantic leading men.
Hallyu dramas might even be able to help enliven the Japanese prime time lineup, now heavy with variety shows and trivia quizzes, if given a chance, but foreign TV series have been unable to significantly break through into the 8-11 p.m. market. Since 1990, I can recall only one foreign drama that was able to crack that barrier to be welcomed into the Japanese prime time schedule - "The X Files" in 1995.
Still, the hallyu phenomenon has become secure enough in its niche that it has been able to make some dents in the barrier in two ways: Japanese remakes of Korean hits, and appearances by Korean stars in Japanese dramas. In 2006, Tokyo's Tomoya Nagase starred in a successful remake of "My Boss, My Hero," a Korean comedy about a gangster who goes back to high school which was among the top ten-rated Japanese TV dramas that year. A Japanese remake of "Hotelier" was less successful, even though it featured a cameo guest appearance by Bae Yong-joon. SMAP's Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and actress Reina Tanaka will appear in "Ryokiteki na Kanojo," a remake of the 2001 hit Korean movie "My Sassy Girl" beginning in April, 2008.
Korean stars who have tried acting in Japanese dramas have faced a bigger challenge. Choi Ji-woo starred in "Rondo" in 2006 and Ryu Shi-won co-starred with Japan's top actress Yukie Nakama in "Joshi Deka (Lady Detective)" in 2007, but the latter reached only 54th place in the year's drama rankings. Both series met with only moderate success, in part because the Korean stars were not given ample opportunity to display their talents.
While hallyu fans in Japan might idolize the Korean stars, and rush to their fan club meetings, what they are really buying is the whole Korean drama package - the excellent camera work, the passion, the direction, the perkier dialogue and plots, the detail regarding fashion, and the beautiful background music that make them a distinctly Korean commodity. Thus, Korean stars might want to think twice before accepting roles in Japanese series.
Korean actors who want to try their hand at Japanese dramas may find it educational, but it is also a career choice fraught with peril. Their popularity on the archipelago may be more secure if they continue to star in domestic Korean dramas with export value, and only pop across the sea for periodic personal appearance tours, rather than getting caught up in the sluggish continuing-drama-series market in Japan.
Although Ryu Shi-won's week-long guest appearance on the 2007 NHK morning serial "Don Don Hare" significantly helped spike ratings for that series, just look at what he faced in one romantic scene with Yukie Nakama in "Joshi Deka:" In the scene where she is so distraught that she hasn't eaten all day, what does the script call for - a kiss, a hug, empathy, sympathy? Not even some concerned and caring Korean drama-style wrist yanking (which makes one wonder if repetitive strain injury is an occupational hazard for Korean actresses who have to rehearse scenes like that all day).
No, Ryu Shi-won has to tell her to close her eyes. Then he leans over and pinches her nose while shoving a morsel of food into her mouth. Ridiculously unromantic and a waste of his talents. And the Japanese networks wonder why their drama ratings are plummeting, while the public craves serious romances. As long as Korean dramas continue to fill this void, the hallyu boom should continue to be a lucrative niche industry in Japan.
The next bounce will no doubt come from "Taewangsasingi," starring Bae Yong-joon. Already running on NHK`s satellite channel, it will be broadcast in NHK's lucky Saturday 11:10 p.m. terrestrial time slot from April 5. Japanese actor Masato Hagiwara, whose own career got a boost when he did the Japanese voiceovers for Yong-sama in "Winter Sonata," will be back to give voice to the hero again.
For now, it looks like the hallyu TV boom is here to stay and will continue to bring the peninsula and the archipelago closer together through couch-potato diplomacy.
By Kathleen Morikawa
Columnist for the Daily Yomiuri
Source: KOREA.Net
(Photos courtesy of Korean Cultural Center in Tokyo) |
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A potential comeback for Hallyu’s Queen Goddess of Melodrama
September 5th, 2008 // by javabeans
After a rather disappointing “comeback” last year with the overproduced (and under-thought-out) action drama Air City, Hallyu (and sob) queen Choi Ji-woo just might be back on television by the end of the year.
December will see the start to a new SBS series, Oh! My Goddess!, to be produced by Olive Nine. (Note: Some sources talk about this like a done deal; others say that Choi is almost set to appear in the drama; and others talk of her as the most likely prospect. For what it’s worth.)
In the drama, Choi’s (would-be) role is Lee Mari, a top actress who’s bombarded with romantic advances by four men. Those men (as yet uncast) vary across the board in character and background: one is a Korean literature graduate student with aspirations of becoming a writer, another a famous photographer, one a third-generation chaebol (sigh, that trope won’t die), and the last a young top exec at a media corporation.
The series is said to be nearing contract finalizations. Writer will be Kang Eun-jung of Lovers in Paris, and Oh! My Goddess! will follow Moon Geun-young’s sageuk drama Painter of Wind.
Source: kr.ibtimes.com via dramabeans.com |
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Originally posted by ayie77 at 28-8-2008 09:11 AM
put more pics ++
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dia nih selalu silap gaya la....
dah nampak lebih tua dari abe bae la plak.... |
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annyong....
punye jauh le tercampak umah nie...
mane le pi penduduk tetap umah nie... |
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