• Check out the new poster for the Jeon Ji Hyun–Hwang Jung Min movie The Man Who Was Superman, photo above.
• End-of-the-year awards ceremonies are approaching, and KBS has selected Lee Da Hae as its MC, along with Tak Jae Hoon.



• Don’t drink and drive. Actress Hwang Bora (24, to right) learned that the hard way when she was arrested for driving under the influence despite claims of only drinking one glass of wine. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps you’ll remember her as Yoorin’s goofy best friend in My Girl. She was also in the Nonstop series Rainbow Romance and Lawyers.
• Cable channel Mnet just had its M Countdown Christmas-themed concert, featuring mostly artists I don’t care about, like Super Junior, SG Wannabe, Seeya, and Girls Generation, and some I do, like FT Island, Dynamic Duo, and Lee Soo Young.
• Chun Jung Myung is busy cramming in as much Hansel & Gretel promotion while preparing for his upcoming January 2 military service enlistment, which starts even earlier than Gong Yoo’s on January 14. Sob.
• Actress Han Ji Hye, girlfriend of actor Lee Dong Gun, has released photos of herself with her older sister and younger brother online.

SONG OF THE DAY

Lucite Tokki - “비오는 날” (Rainy day). Lucite Tokki is an awesome new indie band from the Pastel Music label, with a similar sound to (similarly awesome) labelmates Love & Pop, Fanny Fink and Misty Blue. [ zShare download ]

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Baby-faced actor Chun Jung Myung’s last project before beginning his military service early next year will be the soon-to-be-released film Hansel and Gretel, which opens on December 27.

The film is described as starting with the jumping-off point of “What if Hansel and Gretel hadn’t returned home, and had to live on in the forest on their own?” in a macabre fairy tale.

His character, “Eun Su,” finds himself lost in a forest after an accident and comes upon three children living in a house deep in the woods. Although he tries to escape the labyrinthine forest, understanding and warm-hearted Eun Su worries about leaving the children behind.

He’s spent the last three months filming the movie and even sustained a finger injury, acting without the hesitance one might expect from someone about to enter military service. It’s his first time working with children actors, with whom he grew close while filming. Even now, he exchanges text messages regularly with his younger co-stars, and he had strong words of praise for them: “They’re not just child actors, they’re my colleagues. Even working late into the night, the kids didn’t give up and kept going through the end, doing their best even while rubbing their eyes sleepily. I learned a lot from them.”

I’m pretty easily freaked out by horror or suspense films, but I have to admit it sounds (and looks) pretty interesting, if kind of creepy…

SONG OF THE DAY

I.F. (Infinite Flow) - “길을 잃어버리다” (Losing my way) [ zShare download ]

More about the movie HANSEL AND GRETEL >>

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Gong Yoo, Jo In Sung

As Male Stars Enlist in Military Service En Masse in 2008… Will It Leave Behind Another Void?

A Korean man cannot avoid his military service, and stars at the busiest time in their careers are no exception. Male stars generally reveal their thoughts on military service upon reaching the appropriate age, and fans accept their absence as a disappointing but inevitable truth.

However, because most of these actors who must leave at the height of their careers are around the same age, they tend to enter their service at around the same time. Moreover, their mass exit from the film and television world leaves a gaping void behind them.

 
And now, trying something new…

SONG OF THE DAY

Love & Pop - “Falling in Love, Farewell Love” [ zShare download ]

See who else is enlisting in the coming year >>

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