Producers approach Won Bin before his injured recovery
Last year June, before completed his army, Won Bin had knee injury and had to go through physiotherapy but several big film producer has been approaching him ever since besides receiving several contract invitation. Yesterday, his company agency clarifed that currently Won Bin is still under physiotherapy and there are several stage of therapy that he need to go through before fully recover.
Won Bin had joined the army since Nov’05 but he had knee injuries after 6 months and had to be admitted. A lot of his fans are worried about his condition. Won Bin is now concentrate on the progress of his injury and do not have any plan to return to the entertainment industry yet.
Even though recently Korean movie industry is expected to be in stagnant for a while but lots of producers still think that Won Bin as leading actor in some of their movies and dramas.
His agent also mentioned that Won Bin condition had improved but he is still unsuitable to go into any contract yet, but we will definitely wait for his return won’t we?

Jo In Sung express gratitude to his fans
Jo who became an actor 8 years ago thanks his fans. Last Thursday, exactly on 28 Dec he celebrated his 8th anniversary in the entertainment industry.
He left a message in his fans club which says “Dec 28 is a very meaningful day for me. In the past eight years, every single piece of my making is a memory to me. Fans who had always supported me had made me who I am today and I would like to express my gratitude to fans who had given me strength to go on all these years.”

Which celebrity you want to go with for winter holiday?
Singer Lee Hyo-Lee and comedian Yoo Jae-Seok were voted as number one celebrity to bring along for winter holiday. A website bookstore recently invites local and international publisher to participate in “Which celebrity would you like to go with for your winter holiday?”
Among 4903 readers, 1,262 voted Lee Hyo-Lee and 2,006 voted Yoo Jae-Seok as their favorite female and male celebrity to bring along.
Besides Lee Hyo-Lee, other female celebrities like Moon Geun-young is in 2nd place with 22% votes, Kim Tae-Hee in 3rd close with 21.3%, Song Hye-Kyo in 4th with 18.8% and Jun Ji-Hyun with 12.1% readers would like to bring along for their winter holidays.
As for male celebrities, Jo In-Sung in 2nd place with 16.9% votes, Rain in the close 3rd place with 16.6% votes and Lee Jun Ki in the 4th with 14.6% votes.
According to the location chosen for winter holiday more than half wanted have their holiday in Europe, follows by Japan, US/Canada and South East Asia.

Song Seung Hun, Bae Yong Jun, Lee Byung Hun vying on Japan market
Year 2007 had just startede, the three great Hallyu stars Song, Bae and Lee are ready to promote themselves in Japan.
Song who had recently completed his army in November had visited Japan two weeks ago with fans meeting, media interviews and participate in local television variety show to announce he had returned to the entertainment industry. His other plan is a Super arena meeting with fans in March 2007.
Lee who will have his own ‘Lee Byung Hun film Celebration’ which includes all his making includes “A Bittersweet Life”, “Everybody Has Secrets” and “Joint Security Area”. His new film “Once In A Summer” will have it’s premier on January next month too.
Bae is the biggest share holder of KeyEast an entertainment company in Japan. He is said to own more than 33% of the shares. KeyEast is a listed company in KOSDAQ. KeyEast had started to sell Bae as an idol and the company main objective is to promote everything about Bae. Bae latest drama “Four Gods” is expected to broadcast over in Japan around May next year.
Just a guess who will be the real HallyuJap stars?

What and which Korean stars makes Hallyu news in 2006?

Rain- Top 100 who shape the world in Times
Rain the South Korean pop king had made it big across Asia moving toward the West.
Pop culture is usually thought move in a single direction from the west to the rest of the world but now it is said a swirl begin where Rain moves the waves without any constraints.

Rumors for Kwon
Kwon Sang Woo at first was seen with an anonymous Japanese lady, he then rumored to be the
“Korean actor K sex video might be on the net”, to add on the bad news he was then blackmailed by gangster.
Fortunately, he is now safe and sound.

Singers turn actors
Among singers like SE7VEN and Kim Jung Hoon had started acting especially Kim who become so famously known as ‘Prince Lu’ in “Goong – The Princess hour”

Song Seung Hun returned to the entertainment industry
Song was greatly welcomed by local and overseas fans as well as media attention after completed army. It is reported he had the greatest welcome ceremony in Narita airport, Japan since completed in 1931.

Won Bin hurt in army
Due to a knee injury, Won Bin had to release from the army camp after 6 months in camp.

Other familiar names that keep flashing at Hallyu in 2006 includes Lee jun Ki, Hyun Bin, Lee Byung Hun, Jang Dong Gun, Song Hye Kyo, Lee Da Hae, Lee Young Ae and Yoon Eun Hye.

Lee Jun Ki publish his pictures this Christmas
Lee who is the leading actor in “King and the Clown” had since gained popularity. It is reported that there are 12million fans in his blog everyday.
During Christmas Eve, Lee published his photos and one of them is a cute baby santa clause with his cute face the other are pictures where he spent in Tokyo Disneyland which shows he was in Disney’s Tigger and Winnie the Pooh costumes.
Hey, still remember his movie “My Girl” which happens in Christmas too?

“Stairway to Heaven” expensive to broadcast in China
Korean drama “Stairway to Heaven” will be broadcast in one of the television channel in China. In order to grab the license and to promote the drama, the station had to spend US$650K.
Originally, the station decided to invite leading actor Kwon Sang Woo and actress Choi Ji Woo to promote the drama but both agencies demanded US$130K and US$75K respectively.
According to famous China actors and actress normally get about US$14K for appearance.
Mmm, this explained how famous are korean hallyu stars, right?

Lee Young Ae in charity for the sick
Last Thursday Lee donated 1 billion won for a hospital in Seoul in order to help patients who face critical illnesses.
The donation is distributed to 13 different patients who had to delay their operation due to lack of funds. These patients include liver transplant, bone marrow transplant and cancer patients. Every patient receives 5 to 20 million won.
Lee says originally she wanted to donate anonymously but was discovered and she hoped that the patients would recover soon.

Jang Dong Gun model for Japanese game company
Jang will be a model in two of the NDS games which are distributed by a Japanese company.
The company says they choose Jang as their model as they had considered his popularity among different age group of consumers.
He also gave people a feeling that he’s not someone who played games so when Jang in the advertisement which shows how he concentrated on games he’s playing will leave deep impression on viewers.
The advertisement will appear in a few of television channels by end of this month in Korea.

Lee Jun Ki in charity during holiday season
Korean actor Lee Jun Ki donated 20 million won for the poor.
Yesterday, Lee approached a charity body and says that he hopes the donation can provide the poor a little help. According to a reliable source, the money will be distributed to around 100 poor students by today.
Lee says: “Christmas and New Year is approaching and at this season usually poor family will struggle to celebrate the holidays and every time when I see the children who don’t have enough money to continue their studies, I feel very sad.”
Lee Jun Ki had been in a few charity activities and he had since donated part of his commission that he received in “King and The Clown” for a few charity organization.