Mmmmm.
One great byproduct of Jung Il-woo being in a new drama (49 Days) is that we’re sure to get lots more photo shoots and other random acts of eye candy while he’s in the public eye again. Even if he does look a little silly posing with an unlit cigarette… Isn’t the implied cool factor of holding a cigarette negated by the fact that he’s pretending it’s lit?
So while the photo concept is kinda…er?…I guess I’m saying I don’t care. He’s by far my favorite character in 49 Days, as the grumpy Scheduler who likes to rock out, rides a motorcycle, and eyes the ditzy half-dead-girl with incredulity and aggravation. He’s pretty, and uptight, and SO about to get his afterlife turned upside-down by his wayward charge. I CAN’T WAIT.
Jung’s spread can be found in the April issue of Cosmopolitan.
Via My Daily
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One word: hot!!
My heart stoped on several seconds. Love him soo much!
Maybe the bath water got on the cigar ;D
Still, it’s Jung Il Woo and therefore any spread is better then no spread.
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BTW, since his big burst of popularity in his High Kick days, has his popularity increased, decreased, or the stayed the same in Korea?
I think his time away from the public eye might have made his popularity decrease in comparison to some of the rising young stars right now.
After all, it’s been about 4/5 years since High Kick, The Return wasnt that much of a hit (correct me if I’m wrong, but it was a mania drama, yes?), and he hasnt had much luck in dramas otherwise…
So, yea, he’s known but I dont think he’s that hyped.
He’s damn hot though.
From what I have read here, he is earnest in his desire to be a good actor, and tends to be VERY honest in all his interviews. Maybe too honest?
He said outloud that the Oh My Lady script for the character he played wasn’t good, and he spent time doing live theatre to hone his skills more. He takes criticism for his acting well.
I like that!
And he is lovely lovely lovely…I like his mouth.
JIW was the reason I watched High Kick, but Return was what convinced me I needed to follow his career. Like Jomo said, he was really open about his confusion over Take Care of Agasshi, but I’m okay with that since he seems perfectly willing to accept criticism himself- and furthermore, use it to improve.
When it comes down to it, yes he is really, REALLY pretty. But what I like best about him is how earnest and hard-working he seems. He takes roles he’s uncomfortable with just to expand and grow as an actor, and doesn’t appear concerned about raising his popularity. Interestingly, that makes me want his popularity to grow, haha. He just pushes a lot of my buttons.
Lol. You guys never seen those vapor cigarettes…thats what it was.
I did think about that… but it didn’t even have vapor coming out. So it fails either way :/
Gosh, he’s really pretty! Especially in the last picture. The colours are so hazy and beautiful there. <3
agreed.
gonna put the last pic as screen saver
we’re getting a lot of good photo spreads these days…
Need to make a place on my wall haha.
Yeah, what you don’t see is that he’s looking at me just as I’m entering the red tub just out of view of the camera….;)
LOL
And I’m actually on the other side of the bed. His body is shielding me from sight.
YY! I am shocked at you shocked! What would grandpa think?!! Or, are you just seducing the scheduler to get your oppa back? In that case clever girl!
Viola, I’m not doing anything naughty, I swear. Just lying there thinking about schedules.
I have a feeling his character in 49 days is the dead acquaintance of Lee Yo-won character… just a possibility, but wouldn’t it be awesome if that’s the case?
I think the same too. A short glimpse at the back of the corpse on the tar looked like him & he was momentarily taken aback by Ji-Hyun in the souless girl body elsewhere, if I read correctly…
Yeah, he’s my fav character in 49 too at the moment and I think I’ll like the architect and the souless girl too!
Sooooooooooo HOT. *drools*
Btw, the colors and lighting in these shots are gorgeous.
Questions reap-ing through my mind:
1. Is that a red plastic baby bucket he’s soaking in?
2. Is he wearing any underwear?
3. Why is he not in a shower?
4. Why can’t I see his abs?
5. Why is he smoking when he’s soaking? Shouldn’t he be laving soapy lather all over his abs?
6. Why is he wearing clothes in the last pic?
7. WHY CAN’T I SEE HIS ABS?
Hahahahaha I completely agree!!
You have articulated the questions burning in all the fangirl’s minds!
7. Didn’t I read here that ABS is a post-Army condition?
Maybe after he gets out, we can see them.
“gets out” of where? Army or bathtub?
……….. Huh? …………..
Army.
Sorry, you forced to imagine somethin NSFW.
It took me about five minutes to recover before I could type.
Back to putting the robe on the reaper before he drips all over me…
RAAAWWRRR!!!
It’s a good thing he’s halfway around the world right now because god know what I’d do. If I could get my hands on him, he’d be in serious danger.
I don’t want to go to prison for rape D:
You know what? Something just occurred to me. . . He so could have been an F4. I never got into the Korean Hanadan because no one could ever replace Inoue Mao and the J-boys for me, but maybe if Jung Il-woo was Jiho-sunbae or even the Player-sunbae, and than someone spunky like Han Chae-young in her Choon Hyang days doing Jan-di, I may have been sold. . . Oh, the what-ifs in life. Than again, he might have been wasted after all the bad I’ve heard concerning the story and the production. Well, back to salivating.
that would have been perfect!!
If Jung Il-woo was Jiho-sunbae, my, I would like to be Jandi. Two hot men chasing after me, I like them both, lee minho and jung il-woo
남규리 이요원 주연의 SBS 새 수목극 ’49일’(극본 소현경 연출 조영광)이 표절 논란에 휩싸였다.
각종 인터넷 게시판에는 ’49일’이 지난 2003년 출간된 신화의 팬픽 ’49일간의 유예’와 흡사한 점이 많다며 표절이 아니냐는 지적이 나오고 있다.
네티즌들이 의심의 눈초리를 보내는 이유는 기본적인 키워드가 비슷하기 때문.
’49일’은 결혼을 일주일 앞두고 교통사고로 혼수상태에 빠지게 된 주인공이 자신을 진심으로 사랑하는 사람들의 눈물 세 방울을 49일 안에 얻으면 환생할 수 있다는 조건을 저승 스케줄러로부터 제시받고 벌어지는 에피소드를 다룬다.
’49 일간의 유예’ 역시 수학여행 가기 전날 한 남동생의 심부름을 가다 교통사고를 당해 혼수상태에 빠지는 주인공이 죽음의 문턱에서 49일 안에 동생이 자신을 인식하게 되면 환생을 시켜준다는 저승사자의 설명을 듣고 고군분투하는 내용이다.
Pretty similar eh? Both stories deals with death from accident. Both dramas deal with some sort of recognition within 49 days deal. Actually, it is the same story, but 49 days changed the ending though. They made a tradition melodrama 반전 ending but it’s still interesting. I think the new ending is okay, but I am sick of people stealing other people’s work.
I find it especially funny that production team had already consulted their legal teams to make proper adjustments “before it aired”. Changing the 3 tears criteria was clever adjustment though.
’49 starring Lee Yo namgyuri sumokgeuk a new SBS ‘(a play directed sohyeongyeong joyounggwang) engulfed in a plagiarism controversy.
In various Internet bulletin boards ’49 Days’2003 publication of the last days of the grace of mythology fanfic ’49′, and possibly closer to point-like pointing out that is it not plagiarism.
Suspicion because of netizens to send a similar, because the basic keywords.
’49 Days’ to marry one week before in a car accident in a coma fell to the hero he truly loved people’s tears, three drops of 49 days within to gain reincarnate can condition limbo scheduler quote from receiving widening episode deals with.
’49-day grace ‘also an excursion to the top before the car accident my brother go on an errand of such protagonists falling into a coma and death within 49 days from the jaws of when his brother recognized his reincarnation sikyeojunda description of the angel of death Is struggling to hear the information.
Oh my poor head….
sikyeojunda….is that a new word, Jomo?
Yes, I worked really really hard on the translation. I referenced ancient texts, some extra-terrestrial texts, as well as ones I will find in the future.
I also consulted Yoda, whose influence found clearly is.
sikyeojunda is a word. Once the future arrives, I will be able to tell you what it means.
Um… Could someone translate? Is the melodramatic ending in regards to 49 days or the other drama (which, coincidentally, is what exactly?). If 49 days, that would really suck because I wanted something that had a darkly comedic and stirring touch… Which they’re doing pretty well. Not a melodrama… >.>
Someone please translate???
And why are we trying to bash 49 days in a Jung-il-woo thread??.. . Please lets not deviate from the pretty..
translation please
Wow,,,,
I can’t breathe a while,,,,
The last photo is my favourite,,,make me want to sit beside him and sleep,,,,
*little uncomfort with the cigarette*
aaahhbadududidoddmmeeeeeeehhhhhhGUH.*drool*
God… He’s so pretty… Why isn’t he more well-known?!!
I think his decrease in mainstream popularity has actually led to more people regarding him as a serious actor (because he’s gone for more off-the-beaten roles and activities). A trade-off, I suppose.
*drools*
This is my honest opinion, I don’t understand taste in men nowadays. What’s happening to the macho rugged looking men? Why are these girly men with excessive plastic surgery considered “hot”?
I guess this is where the saying “different strokes for different folks” applies
I cant explain it but, personally, the western 80s/90s Fabio-alpha male turns me off. My tastes tend to be a bit eclectic, I think…
that said, I dont think Jung Il Woo is a pretty boy. If anything, it’s (looking at High Kick) Kim Hye-Sung who was the “pretty boy” (and I find him good looking too). But, I dont think he’s rugged manly either….
He’s in the middle and just right
I think people look a certain way to fill a certain role. And people are attracted to what that role represents haha.
Oh man, I’m laughing my pants off at the mention of Fabio. I was never a fan of the Fabio-look, or Fabio himself. My goodness, I can’t believe a lot of the Romance books from my younger years had a Fabio-lookalike on the cover. Truthfully, my tastes vary, but I’m not a fan of overly muscular dudes (except said dude is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and even he is toning down the muscles). It’s okay to have muscles and be fit, but too much is a turnoff for me. But Alvina is right, it all depends on your personal taste and perhaps even the role the person is trying to fulfill. I mean I liked Jake Gyllenhaal before he was all muscular and what not and that dorky-look he used to have was awesome, but I don’t mind the chiseled look he has now too. Pretty boys make people around here drool the same way rough hotstuff like Lee Jung-jin and Lee Jung-jae do. . . . I guess I can understand where Dreamer is coming from. I could never see why Rain was considered hot, but whatever rocks your boat I guess.
LOL.
I dont understand the whole fabio-macho-man attractiveness either.
But then again MY ONE LOVE IS G-DRAGON.
Call him what you will, but he’s damn smexy.
adios and good luck to you dear
*runs away with T.O.P*
*holds on to Daesung and Seungri* Just let me have these two awkward and funny cuteys and we’ll call it even. *frantically* Their MINE! MINE! ALL MINE! . . Except I have to warn you j, I might have to fight you for T.O.P if he continues to be funny on variety shows. X)
did you watch cafe live? i just about died between all the falsettos and top+dae <3
DING DING DING!!!
GD is sooo H.O.T!
I’m with you there! GD is really super-freakin-sexy!
JILW looks hot in the pics.
Um, betweeen the girly guy and Fabio, I’ll take the girly guy. Sorry, Fab. Nothing personal. Just that I can’t take those bulging tree trunk-sized biceps straining beneath undersized tees. I think Fabio looks like the Hulk, except the other dude’s more purple.
*whispers* The Hulk is green. HAHAHAHA. I kind of feel bad for Fabio. I think the last I heard of him was when he was on a Famous Amos commercial (or was it a shampoo commercial?). But I gotta say, how can a guy with all those muscles seem feminine? As much as I love hair on a guy’s head, even Kevin Sorbo pulled off the shoulder length better than good ol’ Fabio.
Omo! *beats chest Hulk-style* I got confused! hahaha Green (very muscled) bod and PURPLE boxers! Oooh Ani, you mentioned Kevin Sorbo…I loooovveeeee him! His muscles are, in the words of Baby Bear in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, “Just right!”
HAHAHA, Hulk smashes things, King Kong is the one that beats his chest. ^_~
As for Kevin Sorbo, he is one of the two Kevins of my childhood: Him as Hercules, and Kevin Smith (RIP) as Ares.
I never “got” his appeal looks-wise before…but now….WOW.
OK this is completely unrelated to the post but Guess what??!!!…KIM SOO HYUN got casted in the Ocean’s 11 movie with Lee Jung Jae and Jun Ji Hyun and I’m having a serious spazz attack right now!!!!!…aaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!
oh. my. stars. my heart completely stopped here. and i still need to function for the rest of the day!!
ilwoo y u so purty >.<
1st and last pic = AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cigar and bath tub: now a good idea for HOT definition.LOL
but the tub is distracting me LOL
I love the last pic. He’s so pretty!
3rd pic: spotted Joo Ji Hoon face!
Ngeks..I mean 4th/last pic!
that’s a weird looking bathtub…but jung il woo is looking good!
um. unf.
the only thing missing from these pictures is ME (in the bathtub holding a lighter)
-gets slapped-
but in all seriousness, he’s freaking gorgeous. and a pretty good actor to boot. i hope 49 days will bring him all sorts of success <3
Geez, I thought I was the one holding the lighter????
the Cosmopolitan tag placement is kinda distracting, it’s like the tub’s brand.
I wish he has bit more muscular arms, but nonetheless these are good photo spreads.
I think it is placed because they know most girls will look there at 1st impression?? Who know what’s behind once the tags is removed, errr somehow you think you know??
so so so handsome !!
“Oh My God” is what came from my mouth as soon as i saw the 1st picture!!
He’s freakin’ CUTE and HOT! He should be in F4 Korea!
He think he can light the cigar without any lighter solely just because he think he’s so damn hot even when the cigar soaked in water. Duh! clever Cosmo: new way to emphasize “hotness”
There will be somewhere in the future where a cigarette means only for prop, a good way to start
A magazine can dream…
Oh I forget this photo spread social message: “I can look cool with unlit cigarette, so can you. Start to unlit your cigarette…”
Ha, ha, ha I start to like this photo spreads >:((
aish, not enough skin!
so many handsome , talented K actors , i guest competition much be very hard . Currently i watch Duo and Midas , good drama .
Oh, come on, JB, it’s obvious that the unlit cigarette is an invitation to you. He’s saying, “Come on Beanie-baby, I’m soaking all alone, waiting for you to come and light my fire.” And I think you should do it, as long as you immediately shove him — and that filthy cigarette — under the water, climb in with him and show us* the other meaning of sssssmokin’.
(Show us figuratively, Beanie-Unni. Hot as he is, and much as I love you, I don’t actually want to watch you both going at it.)
He does look a bit silly posing with the cigarette…but his hotness more than makes up for that!
So cute!
It ‘s very Interrested to reading all A Comment ‘FANS Koreancomments at Dramabeans, I ‘m really GreenHorse about Korean Movies ,Dramas….
TWO FAVORY actors Kim Soo hyun no ONE
Jung II woo no 2
“Mmmmm,” indeed. Right-click, save.
He’s the only one caught my attention when reading your recap without seeing the drama, and one is still not enough to draw me in. Waiting mode.
Is he the main lead for 49 Days or is it someone else?
HOT.HOT.HOT../.omo.HOT
He looks hot.. hopefully I’d be able to start watching 49 days soon.
too pretty…but the red tub n the ciggie pics are sexy..
@lahlita omg you just made me laugh so hard.
Uncomfortable with the fact that he has a cig. It it’s Song Seon .. SSH whatever the dude in Autumn Tale and East of Eden.. I was like smoking? NO! Wth…
>.>; at least it is unlit and I like Lahlita’s explanation.