Rain begins his Asia tour yesterday
Korean Hallyu star Rain who is in top 100 who shaped the world had arrived in Hong Kong to begin his world tour.
Yesterday, he had started to prepare for his concert. When he was on the way to his concert ground his limousine was stopped by the traffic police as the limo was speeding at 100km/h. Originally, the speed allowed is only 80km/h. Paparazzi who spots the chance to capture Rain’s picture stop their car half way on the bridge while the police issuing a ticket to the driver.
Paparazzi, reporters vans and fans rented cars had been tailing his limo since the day he arrived, some even on 24 hours standby.
Although Rain had only left his country for only a few days he had started craving his home cuisine and had brought his crews with him in a cargo lift to a Korean Restaurant, although situation is not totally in control but Rain is not affected. He happily accepted fan gift, among them is a white microphone and an airplane model printed with his picture.
Rain returned to the hotel around 9pm.

First ad for Song Seung Hun after army
News about Song returning to the entertainment industry is at it’s peak when he signed a one year contract as a representative for a sports company. There are rumors saying that the contract is around 8 billion won, the highest is Korea.
This is the first contract that Song accepted after army. With his beautiful healthy body line Song will definitely invades million of hearts this time.

Rain in milk ad at Thailand
Korean Hallyu star Rain is in a Thailand Dutch Mill advertisement. In the ad, Rain is dancing in the street while drinking. Rain who was very busy preparing with his world tour previously had get some time off to do the ad and became Dutch Mill representative which earned him 5 billion won.
The ad had been recently broadcasted and is well received.

?The Snow Queen? leading actress Seong Yoo Ri touched by fans gesture
Yoo Ri fans club aka “Love House” had a surprise for her. Last week, fans prepared food for all the actors, actress and film crews at “The Snow Queen” shooting site.
The fans club was established around FINKL time and had grown together with Yoo Ri. That day, fans prepared food for almost 50 people to show their support towards Yoo Ri.
Yoo Ri who is sick at that time was served with red ginseng. She expressed gratitude towards her fans, thanks them for their support and told them that she will turned their support into strength.
“The Snow Queen” is expecting great support especially from Yoo Ri and the famous leading actor Hyun Bin huge fans club.
Well, will it turn out right?

Jun Ji Hyun praised in advertisement
Recently, Jun Ji Hyun and Kim Eun Joo were in a shampoo advertisement, Jun who is famous for her long shining black hair is highly praised in the commercial. Jun who is known to have healthy black hair is said to be the best candidate in such advertisement.
Kim who stars in “Fox, what are you doing?” or more commonly known as “Foxy Lady” plays opposite Jun in the advertisement also leave a deep impression in the ad.

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.