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47th Baeksang Arts Awards

javabeans — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:20:28 +0000

It’s too bad that Hyun Bin was missing from the 47th Baeksang Arts Awards, since he and his drama picked up a bunch of awards. (Alas, there’s that whole mandatory military thing.)

Not only did he grab a Daesang in the TV portion (film Daesang went to Lee Byung-heon for his thriller I Saw the Devil), both his projects won awards as well: Tang Wei for film Late Autumn, who’s pictured above with Ha Ji-won, his co-star in Secret Garden, which won top honors for the drama category. Looks like he’s on a roll, even in absentia. Do the Marines allow celebratory Baeksang parties for their celeb enlistees? Surely he earned a drink or two, at least.

The awards were held on the evening of May 26 in Seoul, and hosted by actors Ryu Shi-won (Style) and Kim Ah-joong (Sign).

WINNERS LIST

FILM SECTION

Daesang: Lee Byung-heon (I Saw the Devil)
Best Picture: Ajusshi (The Man From Nowhere)
Director: Lee Chang-dong (Poetry)
Top Excellence, Actor: Ha Jung-woo (The Yellow Sea)
Top Excellence, Actress: Tang Wei (Late Autumn)
New Actor: Choi Seung-hyun (TOP) (Into the Fire)
New Actress: Shin Hyun-bin (He’s On Duty)
New Director: Kim Young-taek (Hello Ghost)
Screenplay: Yook Sang-hyo (He’s On Duty)
Popularity Award, Actor: Choi Seung-hyun (TOP) (Into the Fire)
Popularity Award, Actress: Park Shin-hye (Cyrano Dating Agency)

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Moon Geun-young’s birthday message from Go Hyun-jung

javabeans — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:22:16 +0000

Moon Geun-young celebrated her 25th birthday over the weekend (though she’d be counted as 24 by Western standards), which is receiving press attention for two reasons: (1) She sent her fans a birthday message via handwritten letter, and (2) top actress Go Hyun-jung sent her a birthday congratulations.

Moon’s handwritten letter was posted to her official fan cafe, called Moon Geun-young Angels, along with the above photo with a cake that fans had prepared for her. In the letter, she wrote:

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Go Hyun-jung publishes beauty book

javabeans — Sun, 01 May 2011 12:30:41 +0000

Add actress Go Hyun-jung to the list of actors-turned-authors; the Daemul and Queen Seon-deok star has published a book of beauty secrets titled, appropriately enough, Go Hyun-jung’s Secrets.

The book covers Go Hyun-jung’s everyday life in “documentary format,” which, uh, okay. (I suppose we can deduce that it means there are photos and short descriptions/essays/ blurbs describing her life, but still. Oh well; this wouldn’t be the first time the word documentary was stretched to describe one of her projects.)

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Go Hyun-jung glams it up for Elle

javabeans — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:23:36 +0000

We’re used to seeing top actress Go Hyun-jung playing chic (Daemul) or relatable (What’s Up Fox?), but it’s not often we see her taking on that other K-dramaland staple, the femme fatale. The former beauty queen (Go was a Miss Korea runner-up) puts on the dramatic makeup and ruby-red lips for the April issue of Elle magazine, which was shot at a hotel in Dubai.

The supposed concept for the shoot with rookie model Park Jae-geun is apparently “Love Story,” which… eh, sure, why not? These weirdly elaborate fashion-mag shoot ideas rarely ever come through in the actual photos, do they?

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2010 SBS Drama Awards

girlfriday — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:47:55 +0000

There are lots of awards handed out, for sure, but at least SBS has some strong shows this year, with great performances all around in the competition. Go Hyun-jung stacks up another Daesang for her turn as the first Korean female president in Daemul, which if I’m to go based on all the parodies, involved lots of shouting in the rain. There’s a performance by Noh Min-woo, a THREE-way tie for Best Couple, and of course, some red carpet hits and misses.

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See the stars before they were stars

javabeans — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:01:11 +0000

I love these types of shows: KBS has put together a special program, Top Star X-File, which digs up old photos and footage of current stars. Among those featured in the episode: Hyun Bin of the currently airing Secret Garden, Go Hyun-jung of the currently airing Daemul, Yoon Shi-yoon of this year’s hit Baker King Kim Tak-gu, and So Ji-sub of this summer’s Road No. 1.

Hyun Bin’s photos come from a segment of the KBS variety program Sunday 101%, back in 2004, which makes this pre-Samsoon but post-Nonstop 3. Not that you will have forgotten what he looks like now, but here’s a comparison photo from Secret Garden — looks like more than just six years have passed, doesn’t it?

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Go Hyun-jung lines up her next project

girlfriday — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:26:29 +0000

It looks like the queen of the small screen is ready to rule the cineplex as well. A-lister Go Hyun-jung (Daemul, Queen Seon-deok) has lined up her next project: her first solo starring role in a film. Which isn’t to say she won’t have co-stars. But there won’t be anyone splitting top-billing with her, because well…who COULD?

The upcoming 2011 film is called 가담, which means roughly participant, or party (as in party to a conspiracy). So I’m going with Conspirator for now, because a movie called Party is a) lame and b) sounds like a b-movie set on a college campus in the 80s.

You’d think with all her awards and goddess-like status that Go has done more films, but she’s only headlined three others. She was in the romantic melodrama Woman by the Sea (2006) with Kim Seung-woo (you know how much I love him), and 2008′s Like You Know it All with Kim Tae-woo. Last year she was in the fiction-reality-blurring mockumentary Actresses, where she shared the spotlight with Choi Ji-woo, Lee Mi-sook, Kim Min-hee, Yoon Yeo-jung, and Kim Ok-bin. Talk about an ego war.

The film, directed by newcomer Jung Bum-shik, is described as a drama, action, and comedy, where a woman who suffers from a panic disorder gets accidentally mixed up in a drug smuggling operation. Huh. What a weird premise. My guess is that she causes a shipment to get misplaced due to some freak accident. She’ll embark on a mission to find the drugs, presumably because her life will depend on it. Sounds like a fun game of cat-and-mouse, especially if it’s actually played for comedy.

Her last few drama roles haven’t been my cup of tea (or rather, the dramas themselves aren’t my thing), so I’ll be happy to watch her in something fun in the coming year.

Via Asiae

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New Daemul trailer and stills

javabeans — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:05:07 +0000

With My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho nearing its end, SBS’s new Wednesday-Thursday show, Daemul, is preparing to go on the air. (It premieres October 6.)

Here are a few trailers, as well as new stills that show lead actress Go Hyun-jung as a television broadcast announcer, which was her career before being elected president. While the first trailer to come out was lighter in tone, the new ones have a much different vibe — more forceful, urgent, and with a more serious bent.

(Note about the title: Daemul is slang meaning “big shot,” which many of you have noted is also in use in Sungkyunkwan Scandal. Neither drama originated the term, though it just so happens that both will be on the air at the same time.)

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From the president’s office in SBS’s Daemul

javabeans — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:26:04 +0000

She may be president, but I’m thinking she looks more like a pageant princess. Or a prom queen. Let’s just say that I don’t think a pink evening gown and sparkly heels are perhaps the most dignified look for a nation’s first female president, even if she IS played by the awesome Go Hyun-jung.

Accompanying her in these shots are her three co-stars Cha In-pyo, Kwon Sang-woo, and Lee Soo-kyung.

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Character stills for Daemul

javabeans — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:13:52 +0000

We’ve seen these cast members of Daemul in scenes from the drama, but here are four more character stills featuring the main four leads.

Go Hyun-jung, as you know by now, plays Korea’s first woman president, Seo Hye-rim, while Cha In-pyo portrays the politician with strong leadership abilities, Jang Tae-san.

Kwon Sang-woo is cast as the iron-willed Ha Do-ya, who overcomes hardship to become a passionate prosecutor. (Boo, no more gigolo Ha Ryu? Are they changing his character around to make more room for Cha? There’s been a lot less focus on Kwon lately, and I don’t think it’s just because of his brush with police; there was brief talk of Kwon quitting after the story broke, but the rumors were soon quashed.)

Last but not least, Lee Soo-kyung departs from her sunny, down-to-earth image to play a haughty careerwoman who got her MBA abroad, Jang Se-jin.

Daemul will take over the Wednesday-Thursday slot after My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho and premieres on October 6.

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