Moon Geun Young spent her winter holiday quietly
Moon had received year end invitations to awards celebrations and other functions but she turned down all of them. Her last public appearance of the year will be tomorrow where she will meet fans for autograph in Seoul then she will stop all her activities until next year.
Her agency says “Moon wanted to spend sometime with her family like other normal undergraduates celebrates their winter holiday.”

“Ice” Blackmailers shaken Korea Entertainment
Recently, there are a few blackmail cases. Actors and actresses in the Korean entertainment are the target. So far there around 5 actor/actress affected.
Parcels were delivered to the actor/actress manager which includes few pieces of blackmail warning letter, drugs and 3-4 injection needles. The blackmailer called themselves “Ice Blackmailers” Usually the blackmailer insists that he/she knows that the actor/actress is on drugs and demanded a big amount of money which in one case they demanded up to 2 billion won. Else they will announce to the world that the actor/actress is on drugs. Those affected have sought help from police. Some reports even dated back to October. Some says that they are from the “antifan” group.
What is “Ice”?
Ice is a type of stimulant drug which also known as Metaphetamines. Users use them to avoid sleep from 3 – 15 days. Ice is the street name but it has other names like ‘speed’, ‘meth’, ‘crystal’, ‘ice’, ’white cross’ or even ‘glass’. It can be consumed orally, injection or even smoked.
Users will get addiction, irritability, aggression, hypothermia, stroke, paranoia, psychosis or even hallucinations.

Who is your dream bride / bridegroom?
Famous marriage agency in Korea had introduced an activity to vote on “Which movie stars is your desirable marriage partner?”
Asia superstar Rain and Jun Ji Hyun were voted for most desirable bride and bridegroom separately.
According to the report, Rain top the chart with 10.5% votes follow by the famous Jang Dong Gun. Rain who is still a bachelor currently very busy with his schedule, his manager says everyday he spent 10 hours on shooting movies and another 10 hours to practice on singing which left him only 3 hours to sleep, must be difficult for him to have girlfriend
Jang Dong Gun who snatched million of hearts with drama “All About Eve” is in second place with a close 1% different in vote.
As for the dream bride title, Kim Tae Hee who graduated from the Korean number one university Seoul University who has beauty and intelligence is in the 2nd place followed by the Asia Sexy Queen Coco Lee.
According to the organizer, voters usually focus on a good body proportion on the bridegroom while for the bride a beautiful angel like face are most desirable.

Song Seung Hun first trip to Japan after army : Fans vying seats to see him
Song who has the tile of “The last Hallyu Star” will be meeting fans in this coming Tues, 12 December. Fans who registered with the official website will only have a chance of 2000 :1 to meet Song.
The website will select 100 out of 20000 registered Japan fans to attend the program. The registration had finished yesterday with 20000 fans who are vying for the 100 places. This obviously proves that Song is very well-liked in Japan.
Fuji television reported that Kwon Sang Woo also attended such meeting in 2004 but the competition on the places is not this stiff. They also say that such result is unexpected.
Song will be staying in Japan for 3 days besides attending the Fuji Television program “Hot Fantasy Odaiba 2006-2007” he will attend few other activities.

Kim Jung Hoon had his first album in Japan
More commonly known as “Prince Lu” in the drama , Kim Jung Hoon originally is a singer. His talent was first recognized in a competition, he then joined a group called UN which stands for United N-Generation. At first Kim wanted to leave for his study after UN dissolve, however he was selected to have a part in the famous drama where his career suddenly change from being a singer into an actor.
Like BoA and Rain, Kim chosen Japan as a beginning point to distribute his first single, hoping to get more recognition in Asia. The album “5 Stella Lights” was already in distribution since end of October, around one month ago. He had performed a few mini concerts in places like Tokyo, Osaka and Fugang and had planned to go more than 10 more places in 2 months time.
There are disputes on original company Eight Peaks and company Group Eight which intend to have the sequel on the original with different group of actors and actresses.
The good news came when the original company decides to proceed with the sequel soon and original actor like Kim Jung Hoon and Yoon Eun Hye will be staring in the sequel which plans to start shooting by end of next year or beginning of 2008.
After the news break out, Jung Hoon fans are so happy about it.
Well, who aren’t happy about it, right? We definitely support the original version!!

Posted by planet/ki7576 at 12:01 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 5 December 2006 12:35 AM EST
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Now Playing: Lee Jun Ki and Jun Ji Hyun top beverages sales market
Korea advertising consortium had done a survey called “Most likable Advertisement in 2006”.
In terms of advertisement, actor Jang Dong Gun and Lee Young Ae top the chart.
Lee Jun Kin who is the first runner up was lagging at a close 0.7%. Although Lee Jun Ki who is famous after staring in “King and the Clown” haven’t climb to the top, he has most numbers of supporters. Besides being the most favorite actor for ladies between ages 10 – 30 years old, his advertisement for a juice beverage is the most unforgettable advertisement.
In terms of sales, Lee Jun Ki top the chart with the juice advertisement as the sales breaks 1 billion won each month and until last October the sales had rose to 721 billion won.
Actress Jun Ji Hyun had done even better. Her advertisement in a tea advertisement which is well received for guys between 20 – 30 years old had reached 1100 billion won of sales.

Daniel Henney has the sunshine smile
Daniel is one of the main character in the all time favorite “My Name is Kim Sam Soon” .He who is famous for his sunshine smile had recently published his photo compilations.
Last Saturday, Daniel was having a celebration for his fans club. In order to have full attention for the fans, no media is allowed to join in.
At the same day, he was meeting fans through his home page www.daniel-henney.com
Fans can get to know more about Henney through chit chatting at the website.
In the website you will get to see pictures for his daily life and story as well.
So what are you waiting for?

Disability rights ambassador Lee Da Hae
Lee Da Hae is the ambassador for disability rights in Korea.
Last Friday, she attended the ceremony to speak on the laws and regulations that were setup 8 years ago to protect the benefits of disable person.
The purpose is to make the public aware of the rights of the disable.

Rain donated stage clothes for charity auction
World famous Korean star Rain donated his clothes for a charity auction. 21 hours before bidding ends, the clothes price had reached 1 million.
The charity function was held by MBC and Korean Red Cross Society. He donated the clothes that he worn at stage during the promotion of his fourth album hit single “I’m Coming”.
The charity mainly is to help children who are bringing up by grandparents who are usually less advantage environment.
Other than Rain, other Korean start like Kim Tae Woo also involved in this charity auction.
This is the second time that Red Cross organize such function to help the less fortunate

Bae Yong Jun attended the “Asia Hallyu Exhibition” at Jeju
Yesterday is the opening ceremony of “Asia Hallyu Exhibition”. The exhibition is held in Jeju Island. Bae who is the representative of the function attracted a lot of fans. His appearance at the function attracted almost 4000 fans from Asia and Japan. Most of the Japan fans cater planes just to fly in to the island.
The event will last until next year March. As the first Korean star in the exhibition he had boost up the promotion of this exhibition.
Yesterday, Bae even perform some magic tricks to the audience. Bae choose Choi Ji Woon as an actress that he work very well with.
After Bae, other famous Hallyu actors like Song Seung Hun will also attend the function. The organizer is expecting more than 150 000 visitors in this exhibition within these three months.