Confirmed, Gong Hyo Jin and Lee Jin Wook Are Dating

It is currently being reported by local news agency Sports Seoul that actress Gong Hyo Jin and actor Lee Jin Wook are dating.

According to Sports Seoul, Gong Hyo Jin and Lee Jin Wook came to know each other through a meeting of film industry people and quickly became close as they both are model-turned-actors and have a passion for fashion. Following their similar interests, the two were spotted in March of last year at a fashion show together. Gong Hyo Jin and Lee Jin Wook are being called a “visual couple” due to their model-like figures and fashion style. 

An acquaintance stated to the news agency on May 29, “Gong Hyo Jin and Lee Jin Wook are dating. Both are of a certain age and are famous actors so they are meeting each other carefully. Still, they value and are attentive of each other.”

Sports Seoul captured the two on a date on May 14, with Lee Jin Wook coming to see Gong Hyo Jin near her house later at night after hanging out with his friends. Their dates are described as secretive, with the two actors choosing to meet at night or where there aren’t a lot of people. They are said to enjoy dates in the car, with either one wearing a hat or mask.

In response to this report, both Gong Hyo Jin’s and Lee Jin Wook’s agencies are stating that they are currently in the process of confirming with the said individuals first. Stay tuned to Soompi for updates on confirmation.

Lee Jin Wook recently completed the popular 2013 cable drama “Nine: Nine Time Travels” and the 2014 film “The Target.” Gong Hyo Jin is set to appear in the summer drama “It’s Okay, That’s Love” with Jo In Sung.

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Both Lee Jin Wook’s and Gong Hyo Jin’s agencies have confirmed that the two stars are currently dating. Gong Hyo Jin’s agency, Soop Entertainment, confirmed the romantic relationship between the two actors in a press release. “Gong Hyo Jin and Lee Jin Wook recently started dating after being friends. They will both continue to show themselves as good actors in their respective positions.” Lee Jin Wook’s agency, Will Entertainment, also confirmed the relationship.

Congratulations to the new celebrity couple!

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Kim Bum-Moon Geun Young Ends Their Relationship “Will Be Supporting Each Other As Fellow Actors”

Actor Kim Bum and actress Moon Geun Young broke up.

According to representatives today, Kim bum and Moon Geun Young recently decided to go back to being fellow actors from lovers.

he two had been caught going on a trip to Europe in November last year, publicizing their relationship. The two had acted in a drama together, naturally developing special feelings for one another. But after about 7 months of dating, they decided to go their separate ways.

About this, Kim Bum”s agency said, “It is true that the two split up recently. It ended well and they are supportive of each other. Please continue to support them as actors.”

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MC Mong Becomes Labelmates with Girl’s Day, Preparing for Comeback

Singer MC Mong will be making his comeback to the entertainment industry after a four-year hiatus.

Rumors about him meeting up with industry officials have been circulating for the past month, and according to sources in the industry, MC Mong recently signed an exclusive contract with Wellmade Yedang. His new album will be released at the end of this year.

Although the singer signed a contract with Wellmade Yedang, his comeback will be managed by DreamT Entertainment, which was acquired by Wellmade Yedang six months ago. This will make MC Mong and Girl’s Day new labelmates. 

A source in the music industry explained, “After signing the contract, MC Mong and Wellmade Yedang are discussing various matters, and thus have not yet officially begun preparing for the album. His return will not take place immediately, but rather after a while. He is largely supported by his celebrity acquaintances, and wants to become a source of strength for everyone.”

After being accused of intentionally delaying his enlistment in the military for years in 2010, the singer went through a series of trials and quietly withdrew from the entertainment industry. He has been reportedly suffering from anxiety and even depression.

Another source commented, “MC Mong was supposed to release an album under his previous agency, but did not after stopping his activities due to the military evasion scandal. To help him start of anew, the agency helped to solve his problems as MC Mong went through a very hard time.”

The upcoming album will be the singer’s first in five years, his latest one being “Humanimal” in 2009.

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Korean Movie : Norigae (노리개)

My Thoughts:

At first I don't even put any interest on this movie, well I'm like almost all of you out there... I prefer Gong Yoo than Ma Dong Seok so when the poster came out I don't even try to take a glimpse on it well need to blame it on the A list actors coz almost every one of them look 'hot' kekeke~. 

I only started put an interest on it because of my curiosity on the movie title, Norigae (노리개) means "Korean traditional ornaments worn by women". That curiosity brings me to this movie and later realize that the story line remind me of Jang Ja Yeon. Since I've been following her suicide case which has stir the Korean entertainment for some time. 

Watching it just remind me of how brutal the industry, and how women discriminated. For me this movie is just like a door which lead us someway we thought we knew and ignore it, and it's about time for us to open the door, take a look and listen. I don't know if this movie might change how people view on the case, or maybe take a little bit concern on how women have been treated instead of pretending to be blind, deaf and ignorance.

I've quoted a review from cliqueasia which I can relate to and agree with it.

"Although sort of an open secret, sex bribes within the South Korean entertainment industry have more recently become an indictment, not just on the industry as a whole, but on South Korea's treatment of women in general, particularly those in showbiz. How entertainment, and the desire for fame by the young, are unconsciously entwined with the power structures of big business and politics still seems, at least from a non-Korean perspective, to be a last vestige of one the misuses of Confucian morality. However, little seems to have changed for women's rights with the exposure of the issue, with sex scandals and first hand accounts of abuse popping up constantly. The latest was the Open World Entertainment scandal, in which the CEO of the company was arrested on alleged charges of sexual assault of his performers, two of them underage, and even using his power to intimidate the male singers employed by his company to assault female trainees. It seems only natural, then, that there would be filmmakers ready to ruminate on this sensitive issue with the local audience.

The director for the film Norigae, Choi Seung-ho, claims that he drew inspiration from the Jang Ja-yeon scandal of 2009. Jang Ja-yeon was a popular actress from TV, starring in the show Boys Over Flowers. She had just embarked on, what many believe would have been, a productive film career, when she was found hanged on a railing inside her apartment complex. While this was perhaps not a rare decision for women in her profession, the key comparative difference in her case was that she had a clear wish to haunt her persecutors from the grave. She did this by keeping a seven page journal with names and dates of all those involved in her abuse. (Note: The journal has since been judged as a forgery by the courts of South Korea). The journal alleged that she was forced by her manager to provide sexual services to studio execs, directors and CEOs in return for the promise of future career advancement. In Norigae's narrative, Jang Ja-yeon is represented by Jeong Ji-hee (Min Ji-hyun). Most of the story takes place in court, where prosecutor Kim Mi-hyeon (Lee Seung-yeon) brings claims against Jeong Ji-hee's agent, director and their CEO, with allegations that Jeong Ji-hee was forcibly brought to meet the CEO by her agent to perform these 'services' and was subsequently groped. Initially, Mi-hyeon gets nowhere as witnesses willing to support a dead woman's account are hard to find. The entire prosecution, therefore, relies on the existence of the diary of Jeong Ji-hee, which no-one seems be able to find or, for the authorities covering up after themselves, claim didn't exist at all. Lee Jang-ho (Ma dong-seok) enters the story at this point as the key player in the whole saga, being the only reporter dogged enough to hunt down the diary. Of course, the plot is helped along by the fact that, having been acrimoniously fired from his post with a popular newspaper and relegated to an online news company with few staff or viewers, Jang-ho can't sink much further down the social ladder of South Korea, where status is everything.

Despite the claim of being merely 'inspired' by the Jang Ja-yeon scandal, which includes the great lengths the opening credits go to leave no doubt that the film is entirely fictional and the characters are in no way related to real people, the script ends up being a carbon copy of how the story played out in the media. This is the first problem with the film. Even one with a cursory knowledge of the issue will be able to predict and comprehend in advance the roles of each of the characters. Bad guys over here, good guys over there. This is a surmountable problem but, unfortunately, the one dimensional characters never take the viewer anywhere unexpected. Although the treatment of Jeong Ji-hee is reprehensible and many instances of abuse and bullying are shown, we are given no other answer to the questions posed by the actions of the individuals themselves. The perpetrator's actions are not really explained with any real depth, other than the fact these men are cretins and seem to be able to get away with their behaviour. The fact that the why of their actions is not discussed, leaving us with a simple story of abuse of authority and criminality, means the director fails at his attempt at resonance with social reality that he must have sought in the first place. This renders the film inert and rather boring to watch during stages one would expect to be riled up, intrigued, informed or braced by any other emotion that would keep them motivated enough to keep watching. The second, related problem, is that of the intermingling of flashbacks with the courtroom proceedings of the present. For the most part, the flashbacks do not help build tension or add insight but pull the viewer out of the events and any explanation behind the motives of all of the key players. For example, one of the key perpetrators, her agent Cha Jeong-hyeok (Hwang Tae-gwang) is meticulously descriptive in his dialogue in the flashbacks. It's almost like he is narrating the course of his future court proceedings from the point of view of the prosecutor. The flashback containing the CEO and his S&M session with Jeong Ji-hee surpasses this ridiculousness. Presumedly, this was done for shock value, to bring to light the real perverseness of the ones with the most power and how they are able to hide themselves from any responsibility. The scene, however, felt like it was spliced from another movie. Worst of all, through this blatant eroticism, the audience becomes complicit in the torture by the fact that it gives no license to the viewer's imagination or to ruminate on their own personal values. Not only that, it detracted from the real substance of the movie; Kim Mi-hyeon's struggle to bring the abusers to justice. This is perhaps the only compelling feature of the narrative.

Making a film that is a mere reanactment of the actual life of a specific victim and not giving an analysis of what lead to the characters actions, or at least an interpretation of what kind of a society would deem it permissible to function in this particular way, disempowers the director for whatever he wanted to say with this movie. The only advantage that a movie like this has is that it broaches the issue as it is still relatively fresh in the media and has a chance to reach a receptive audience. But is that done for the benefit of the victims or someone else? Any proper analysis would take years of research and hard work in committing this social reality to film. This film only appears to be cashing in on the hardships of the real victims. There is plenty of need for a film dealing with this aspect of South Korean society. Sadly, this is not it and one could only hope that other film makers would have the courage to approach this issue with more sensitivity and less sensationalism.

The film ends with the perfunctory images of angry women with placards as some sort of indication that the issue will carry on in the hearts of the victim's families and those with a stake in the righteous cause of female equality. By that stage, however, all good will is already lost on the filmmakers part. It is lost because, as was said before, the film merely captures the rage of a particular, specific incident but not the rage of those abused then and still today. Just before the credits, statistics from a recent survey by The Korean Women’s Development Institute are shown. One of them was this: 60.2% of the actresses surveyed agreed to the statement “I received a request for sexual bribery or to sit in for drinking parties.” Facts can always be a launching pad for great film. Upon seeing this, in retrospect, one could be forgiven for feeling like the movie had just started, since this simple statistic is far more revealing than the rest of the movie that preceded it."

Credit Source: cliqueasia

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No Min-woo Considering SBS Drama Role

Singer-actor No Min-woo is looking into appearing in a new SBS drama, his agency said on Monday.

The 27-year-old actor is “positively considering” an upcoming Monday-Tuesday series tentatively titled “God’s Gift,” an official with MJ Dreamsys told TenAsia over the phone.

He is said to have been offered the role of a rock band leader/idol star, which was originally set to be taken on by idol group BEAST member Lee Gi-kwang but gave up on due to his busy schedule.

“God’s Gift” starring top Korean actors Jo Seung-woo and Lee Bo-young, is set to premiere after current series “One Warm Word” ends its run in February. B1A4 Baro will be in the show as well.

The drama itself will be about a mother, who has lost her child, protecting that child after going back two weeks in time.

No made his debut as a drummer in rock band TRAX in 2004 though he left the band in 2006 to kick off his acting career which has included several projects including “Pasta” (MBC, 2010), “Midas” (SBS, 2011) and film “Ghastly” (2011).

Courtesy of No Min-woo’s Twitter account & Tenasia

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miss A’s Suzy and Kim Soo Hyun to Reunite on Screen with Suzy’s Cameo on “Man From the Stars”

According to several broadcast officials, miss A’s Suzy participated in the filming for SBS’s “Man From the Stars” that took place on February 10. She will be appearing in the upcoming episode on February 13 as someone close with Do Min Joon (Kim Soo Hyun), bringing out Chun Song Yi’s (Jun Ji Hyun) jealousy.

As Suzy and Kim Soo Hyun have done a drama (KBS’s “Dream High,” 2011) together once before where they were involved in a romance, their reunion on screen will be exciting, both reminiscent of Dream High as well as carrying the fresh appeal of “Man From the Stars.”

Credit Source: Soompi

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I Need Romance 3. Episode 1 - My Thought & Quotes.

“A Woman Who Looks Like Sing Sing”

“On the day I was born, it was the first snow of the year. A seven-year-old Sing Sing left footprints in the snow where no one else had walked, as she came to meet me. I heard it all from Sing Sing. She said that on the day I was born, I was like a sweet potato. I don’t believe her.” - Joo Wan

“How is he going to get through life when he’s so ugly?”- Shing-Shing

 Whether it's one reason or hundred reasons, a man who say's the word 'break up', I have no intention of holding onto him.If I hold on, will you be held? - Shin Joo Yeon

“Sadness is parting from someone—your heart hurts and that pain grows deep. Something gets tangled in your heart. That’s sadness.” - Shing Shing

Some people break up because they don't like each other, but some just can't see the other person, even if they want to." - Shing Shing

There is no reason to be sad or hurt. A relation coming to an end is natural" - Shin Joo Yeon

I didn't understand. There were things I wanted to ask. But I didn’t ask. There is only one reason for all breakups, the passion of dating has ended." - Shin Joo Yeon

“You’ve changed. I thought about it, why you’ve become this woman. Earlier today you said you had someone you were in love with, but that was a lie. If you were in love with someone, if you were receiving someone’s love, you would be a person who treasured memories a little more. 
So if you are dating someone right now, you should break up, because it’s not real love.”
- Joo Wan

"Even if don't want to meet, we will end up meeting soon. Because I'm a person who keeps his promises." - Joo Wan

My thought on the 1st episode:

Starting with a little girl walking with her red coat on the first winter... that was cute. It is good to know that the story begin with something innocent, cute, loveable and sweet. Knowing that this story will soon turn out to hatred, sadness, loneliness and romance... everything that start with a fresh feeling is great.

At first, I've my doubt about these two pairing up... NO! not because of the age, but maybe because I'm still stuck with IRIS and GU FAMILY BOOK. But after watching the 1st episode, I'm relieved that I'm already on track... means waiting for the next episode is definitely a must for me.

This drama have everything you want. If you're someone who repeatedly got hurt and later change into someone much more stronger, capable, cool, successful (well I always want to think I am stronger and cool)... than you'll love Shin Joo Yeon. You'll start to relate  and agree with her in everything she do and for some reason you'll see YOU in Shin Joo Yeon... seriously, I do... and for that reason I'm hooked to this drama.

If that reason wasn't enough, than you'll love Joo Wan aka Allen Joo. He's tall, handsome, sweet, loveable, romantic and so on... everything you want in a guy just list it... he is almost perfect well at least for me. Seriously, I need to find someone soon... I'm the one who need romance now.

Other character really fit in, friends, long lost enemy, crush, ex-lover, and so on. Seriuosly it is too short but yet delightful. Love it!

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The Winter The Wind Blows

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“I’ve lived my whole life thinking that I only have myself to depend on. Will there really be a moment of enlightenment?” -Oh Soo

“I, who wants to live, met a woman who wants to die. We are clearly very different. But for some reason… at that moment, that woman seemed like me. For the first time, I became curious about that woman.” – Oh Soo

“If I can choose when to die, then I thought that was the perfect moment. 

Because you came.” - Young

“One day, I thought, ‘Why am I living?’ No matter how much I thought about it, there was no reason for me to live. ‘Why am I trying so hard to stay alive? Even if it ends, there wouldn’t be anyone to mourn me. Even if my life ends today, there’s nothing to lose.’” – Oh Soo

“Why do I want to live so badly? Why must I live? I don’t even have a reason to do this to her, who can’t even see. An endless lie… Why must I live like this? Was I frantically hoping for a moment like this all my life?” - Oh Soo

"What a person can do for another is not to forgive, but to give comfort. It’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to be scared. It’s okay to cry.” - Young

“I, for your sake, placed a million bells. Actually, this sound is from the rustling of the frozen branches of the trees. Later, when I leave, even when you lose the bell, if the winter wind blows, the trees will always make this sound. If only you could see this now, it would have been really nice. But more than this, what I want to show you is actually you, yourself, more than anything, it would be nice if you could see yourself.” – Oh Soo

“If I could have stopped, I would have stopped then. My dangerous acts to get close to Young were crossing the limit. The warning sounds that rang from deep within my heart… I definitely heard them.” - Oh Soo

“I… Even if I’m not around you, even if the wind isn’t blowing, now the wind chime will always ring." - Oh Soo

“I’ll live. No matter what.
Even if I’m stuck in a gutter or stabbed by Moo-chul, I’ll live.
When I was little, left under a tree in the cold, I lived.
I didn’t even feel guilty when I betrayed your parents who treated me like their child, stole money, and left. Even after Hee-joo died, I lived. I’ll find a way to live. I have you, Hee-sun, and… I have many reasons to live now.” – Oh Soo

"You don't care at all how I'll feel after I leave here right?

the fact that I'll yearn for you, miss you, want to touch you, you don't care,
because if you die, that's it. If I know what a disrespectful brat you were a bit sooner...

making food with you, listening to the sound of snowflakes with you, hoding you, those painful,

unforgettable kind of memories ~ I wouldn't have made them.

During that time, if you made those memories just to die, then I'm going to make a new memories to live. If I only have painful memories with you, the it's going to be easy to forget you after you die. Because I have to live even without you. Even without you, I have to live in this disgusting world!" - Oh Soo

“Yesterday I finally realized why Hee Joo chose Oh Soo over me. Even if I have to die, I can’t let go of my ego. Whether it’s for love, parents, you, or even in front of death, I can never degrade myself. But, Oh Soo is able to get rid of himself. He doesn’t have to look cool. He’s not afraid. Do you what I said to Hee Joo when she told me she was going to Oh Soo? ‘Take care. Live well. Be happy.’ I’m that kind of person. I can’t look foolish. Oh Soo abandons himself to keep his love, but me, in order to look good, I lose love… miss the time to get treatment. Like you said, I’m getting punished by karma.” – Moo Chul

“For the first time, I was as joyful as a child. I wasn’t scared of Moo-chul’s knife, either. For the first time, I didn’t consider my thirty years of life as being unfair. For the first time, it felt like the world was fair. I don’t want to forget being with Young in this moment, so when I take Moo-chul’s knife, I should never feel that it’s unfair.

I remind myself of that hundreds and thousands of times, but there are still moments when I’m afraid. Then I’ll think of this again. Up to this moment today, being endlessly afraid of death… Young, who is in front of me… I will never think of my life as unfair. 

Right now, I’m happy. That’s enough.” – Oh Soo

“Rather than saying those words, if you had just told me that when you were young, the wounds you received from being abandoned like trash caused you to live like trash, and that more so than a blind person like me, you were hurting more… those words would have been more comforting. You knew I loved you yet you still fooled me.
If you had just told me that you didn’t get a kick out of tricking me, it would have been more comforting. Out of all the reasons why I can’t forgive you, the main reason is that right now, I can’t even mourn the death of my brother who I missed as much as my mother.
Because of you. Loving a conman like you, let’s just blame it on my blindness. Although I hate you enough to want to kill you, no matter how I think about it, there’s nothing a blind person like me can do. You fooled me good, all along.” – Young

"It's okay to get angry, or even curse at me. Even if you do so later, you will feel more at ease." - Oh Soo

“I can’t thank you. But I can understand you. It’s my fault, too. The moment I met you, my heart fluttered. I should have known then. I’m a fool, right? How is it? If I did this much, I am being very understanding of you aren't I?” - Young

"Even though you don't understand, there is no problem with the way you live, so don't try so hard. But my love for you has always been true." -Oh Soo

“You were all I had, even if others think that it’s just an obsession, still, you were the only one I had. Company stocks? I don’t need them. The shareholders’ position or being your legal representative? I can give that all up. I embezzled company money out of resentment toward your father, but when you were running the company, I didn’t take any money. Not a single penny. I’ve raised you since I was twenty-six years old. Although my parents disowned me for being a mistress, I didn’t have my own child. I raised you! You’re my daughter!” – Secretary Wang

“When I left that house, I left with dignity. Because I love her. Because she loves me too. In order to see me someday, she will live. So even if we’re apart right now… at least one time, even by chance, we will meet. Believing that, I was able to leave that house not only with dignity, but with arrogance. I didn’t even say that I was sorry. But, Young saw that side of me and told me… that she loved me.” – Oh Soo

“I should have just conned her. I shouldn’t have made her fall in love with a guy like me.” 
– Oh Soo

“If I were to be born again, I wouldn’t live like this. But I can’t help the fact that this is the end for me. Hee-sun, even if everyone in the world curses me, I want to understand that I lived like this because I was dumb and simple. Because if I didn’t even understand myself… I’d be too pitiful.” – Moo Chul

“I had to say that one thing to Young… that in this hurtful world, I once thought that life was nothing. If it’s gone, it’s gone – that’s all I thought life amounted to.
But you, Young, became the last reason for me to live like a human being. Could I become the same to you? In this empty world, could I not become your last reason to live?”” – Oh Soo

“When you were gone and I couldn’t see you, the hardest part was that I still missed you. I guess it wasn’t over for me either when I let you go. Even at the moment when I wanted to end it, a part of me still wanted you to run back to me. When I slit my wrist, I looked forward to you opening my door instead of feeling scared. As if I never wanted to die.” – Young

“Isn’t it hard when you can’t look into the eyes of someone you love?” -Young

“No, it wasn’t ever hard, I always felt as if she was always looking at me with all her body and heart." - Oh Soo

THE END

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I've quoted everything from the 1st episode till the end... I believe some best quote has been left but I'm satisfied with this drama. 2013 winter's wasn't that cold when there is hopes, dreams and love. Overall, it's definitely worth watching drama. Every scene are beautiful, seriously both Jo In Sung & Song Hye Kyo looks so perfect that it feels like I'm watching an advertisements for a long run. If you haven't watch it yet... well in case you haven't yet. Go!

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Lee Jong-suk to Play Doctor in New Drama

Actor Lee Jong-suk has decided to star in an upcoming medical melodrama, according to his agency on Wednesday.

Wellmade Entertainment said through a press release that Lee will appear in SBS’s Monday-Tuesday drama tentatively titled “Doctor Stranger” that is set to premiere in April.

The series will revolve around the life of Lee’s character named Park Hoon, a genius doctor and North Korean defector, who gets to work at the top hospital in South Korea.

In the statement, Lee was quoted as saying, “I’m very excited and looking forward to playing Park Hoon who is a very attractive character.”

Actor Park Hae-jin, who had decided on his appearance in the show two weeks ago, will also play a doctor.

The drama itself will be helmed by Jin Hyuk, who has produced a number of top dramas including “Princess Prosecutor,” “City Hunter,” and “Master’s Sun.”

Courtesy of Wellmade Entertainment & Tenasia

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Actor Kim Soo-hyun Set to Tour Asia

Hallyu heartthrob Kim Soo-hyun will meet his Asian fans from March to June, according to Key East, his agency. 

Responding to the skyrocketing popularity of the drama “My Love from the Star” co-starring with actress Jun Ji-hyun, he will hold fan meetings in China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore and Korea. 

His fan meetings will start in Seoul in mid-March and then go to seven cities in Asian countries. 

He has been rising as one of the nation’s most sought-after actors as his works both in films such as “Thieves” and “Secretly Greatly” and the drama series, “The Moon That Embraces the Sun” have been huge hits.

His popularity is now culminating with “My Love From the Star” now airing on SBS, which is ruling the small screen with the highest viewer rating in its time slot. 

“Since making his debut, his works have been making a sensation through his wonderful character performances not only at home but abroad. Particularly, his international commercials have drawn the attention from global fans,” the agency said.

Kim has been recently ranked first in Today’s Actor on Baidu, China’s largest portal site, beating other Asian stars. He also won the Asia Dream Star Award at Cosmo Beauty Awards in Shanghai last year along with Kim Tae-hee.

Kim held fan meetings in October last year, attracting more than 5,000 fans in Japan and visited the United States and Hong Kong to promote “Secretly Greatly.”

Courtesy of KEYEAST & Koreatimes

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