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It’s a February wedding for Go Soo

javabeans — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:52:57 +0000

Well, there goes one more fantasy, dashed: Go Soo is getting hitched, ladies! Next month, in fact, according to his agency, which released the info today.

His reps at BH Entertainment confirmed that his romance (announced early last year) to a non-celebrity known simply as Ms. Kim would culminate in a wedding ceremony on February 17.

Go Soo and Ms. Kim, 11 years his junior (Go Soo is 33, she is 22), reportedly met in 2010 after being introduced by friends. Apparently the couple has been preparing the wedding for the past several months; the official engagement bows between the bride and groom’s parents were made last year.

Sigh. I know my Go Soo crush wasn’t really real, but sadly a part of me feels like a sad Sayuri in You’re Beautiful, trying to chant “Congratulations!” while holding back tears. Aw. I went a long while without really seeing Go Soo’s appeal — he was pretty, but I didn’t feel a pull from his roles — and it wasn’t until Will It Snow For Christmas that I thought he’d become a good actor. When an actor can rip out your heart with a tortured look in his eye, though, you’re good and hooked.

Oh well. Congratulations (sob!), Go Soo.

Via Mk.co.kr

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Go Soo and Han Hyo-joo sign on to melodrama

javabeans — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:14:27 +0000

Get your hankies out, folks: Go Soo and Han Hyo-joo are about to wring some tears and break your hearts in a new romantic melo film, titled Bandage.

Go Soo plays a firefighter who’s lost his wife and closed his heart to love… until he meets Han Hyo-joo, a doctor, and the two help each other heal their respective pains.

It’s a simple story, but these are two actors who are pretty much made for heart-tugging, romantic melodramas. He’s got the expressive eyes (think Will It Snow For Christmas), she’s got the gentle wounded spirit (Only You). Basically, you’re gonna cry and you’re gonna like it.

The movie comes from director Jung Ki-hoon, who drew praise with his last film, the heartwarming Aeja. Bandage plans to begin filming this year after Han wraps the other movie she recently joined, I Am the Joseon King.

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2011 Blue Dragon Film Awards

javabeans — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:21:50 +0000

Awards, awards, awards! Friday, November 25, was the night of the 2011 Blue Dragon Film Awards, and — no surprise — the winners list was dominated by one of the biggest films of the year, sageuk-action-thriller Bow: The Ultimate Weapon. The film is a David and Goliath story of one man (Park Hae-il) taking down the enemy with his exceptional prowess with the bow and won awards for most of its leading stars.

A few other films also nabbed multiple awards, with best picture going to the thriller Bad Deal. (which also won for director and screenplay).

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Post tags: awards, Byun Jung-soo, Go Soo, Gong Yoo, Han Chae-young, Jo Sung-ha, Jung Ryeo-won, Kim Haneul, Kim Hye-soo, Kim Soo-hyun, Lee Je-hoon, Lee Jung-jin, Lee Min-ho, Lee Min-jung, Lee Shi-young, Moon Chae-won, Nam Gyuri, Park Bo-young, Park Hae-il, Ryu Hyun-kyung, Ryu Seung-ryong, Su Ae, Yoo Sun, Yoon Kye-sang

16th Busan International Film Festival’s opening red carpet

javabeans — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:57:52 +0000

The 16th Busan International Film Festival opened on October 6, and the red carpet to the opening screening — So Ji-sub and Han Hyo-joo’s tragic romance Only You — was awash with stars.

(For those of you used to seeing the festival called PIFF, it recently changed its spelling. The festival is in its 16th year and began back when the city was spelled Pusan. The spelling of the southern city officially changed to Busan in 2000, but the festival kept its former spelling, which naturally led to some confusion. Yeah, the Korean romanization system changes hasn’t been the most easy to follow.)

It’s been a while since we’ve had a big, star-packed red carpet, but this reminds me that we’re heading into awards season, and will soon be seeing lots of events like this. Which means, lots and lots of red carpets to ooh over, or, as the case may be, snark.

There were some questionable outfits (always fun), but overall I really like what I saw, even if there was an overwhelming trend toward leg slits Up To There and a good amount of side-boob. But the colors! Yay for colors!

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Post tags: Byun Jung-soo, Cha Seung-won, Daniel Choi, Eom Ji-won, film festivals, Go Soo, Gu Hye-sun, Han Hyo-joo, Hong Su-ah, Hwang Woo-seul-hye, Jang Dong-gun, Ji Sung, Jung Seok-won, Kang Hye-jung, Kang So-ra, Kang Ye-won, Kim Dong-wan, Kim Haneul, Kim Min-joon, Kim Sae-ron, Kim Sun-ah, Lee Beom-soo, Lee Je-hoon, Min Hyo-rim, Nam Sang-mi, Park Jin-hee, Park Ye-jin, So Ji-sub, Sung Yuri, Wang Ji-hye, Yeh Ji-won, Yoo Ah-in, Yoo Inna, Yoon Jin-seo

The Front Line is Korea’s Academy Awards submission

javabeans — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:37:46 +0000

After considering a number of buzz projects released in the past year, South Korea has decided on the blockbuster war thriller The Front Line by director Jang Hoon (Secret Reunion, Rough Cut) to be its pick for foreign language film at the 84th Academy Awards.

It beat out other films like Poongsan (aka Phungsan Dog) starring Yoon Kye-sang, the adorable-sounding ’80s girl-power-and-friendship movie Sunny, the Ha Jung-woo crime thriller The Yellow Sea, director Hwang Sang-soo’s The Day He Arrives, and director Im Kwon-taek’s Hanji (Scooping Up the Moonlight).

I haven’t seen The Front Line yet, but I’ve been intrigued ever since hearing about it, with its suspenseful plot about a South Korean unit during the Korean War that may possibly be fraternizing with the enemy, led by an enigmatic Go Soo. He comes into conflict with his old friend Shin Ha-kyun, a soldier sent from the capitol to investigate the suspicious death of an officer. While I’ve read some mixed reviews about the film, it seems to be a taut thriller that is entertaining but not quite as successful as another famous North-vs-South military-investigation film, JSA: Joint Security Area.

According to the Korean Film Council, Poongsan was lauded for its unusual story and intensity, but its storyline was deemed to be enough on the outside of realistic that there was concern not all viewers would appreciate it. The Front Line racked up a high score from its judges with its topic of the Korean War and the high quality of the ending. The Yellow Sea had an overall high score — it was neck in neck with The Front Line till the end — but its level of violence kept it from winning out.

This isn’t perhaps as high-profile a submission as some previous entries like Bong Joon-ho’s Mother or Cannes prize-winner Secret Sunshine or then-biggest-Korean-box-office-hit The King and the Clown, and I’m not sure how much reception it’ll get abroad, but I’m still eager to see the movie when I can get my grubby hands on it. Those brother-against-brother, horrors-of-war movies always get me right *there* in the heart.

Via Mk.co.kr

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Go Soo suits up for GQ

javabeans — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:14:32 +0000

*Sigh.*

Go Soo, why so pretty?

Also, what’s with the random rubbing of self on plants?

…and the business suits worn in the deep dark jungles of…sidewalk foliage? Is he on his way home from work after a 3-cha bender, which explains the dress, the document pouch, and the inability to walk a sidewalk properly? “Oops, stumbled here, might as well stop off for a nap while I’m here in this shrub”?

Potentially-inappropriate-plant-love aside, the actor also known as “Go-vid” (Go Soo + David, as in Michaelangelo’s) is looking mighty nice in September’s GQ magazine.

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Summer blockbuster The Front Line opens to high expectations

javabeans — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:21:57 +0000

Yesterday’s Go Soo post had me looking closer at his new movie, The Front Line, a high-budget blockbuster war film that’s expected to do big business this summer.

The plot caught my attention with its suspenseful, uneasy premise, and the creds aren’t so bad, either: Director Jang Hoon steered thrillers Rough Cut and Secret Reunion to box-office success. The screenplay is written by Park Sang-yeon, who wrote scripts for Queen Seon-deok and the upcoming Tree With Deep Roots, as well as the original novels for Joint Security Area and May 18, which were turned into films.

The movie is set in the very last months of the Korean War, and depicts the horrors of war as experienced by its young soldiers. Shin Ha-kyun plays an officer in the counterespionage division, Eun-pyo, who is sent to the volatile eastern front to investigate a suspicious series of events, beginning with the death of a soldier, shot by one of his own, as well as the delivery of a letter from the North Korean Army via the South Korean post. Illicit correspondence can only mean fraternizing with the enemy.

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Go Soo’s classic-movie shoot for Bazaar

javabeans — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:36:46 +0000

Ah, I do enjoy this time of the month, when all the fashion rags put out their teasers to upcoming photo shoots. It gives us such pretty pictures, like these from Harper’s Bazaar featuring Go Soo in a spread that looks like something right out of a classic old movie.

Go Soo’s current visibility in the press is due to his new movie, the highly anticipated war film The Front Line (or Gojijeon), co-starring Shin Ha-kyun. It sounds like an intense and compelling movie, set in 1953 amidst the backdrop of stalemated negotiations for a cease-fire between North and South, several months before the armistice would eventually be signed.

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GQ actor round-up, javabeans version

javabeans — Fri, 27 May 2011 18:27:35 +0000

GQ has a photo spread in its issue this month (as they are wont to do), and it’s like somebody invaded my brain and picked out my favorites, JUST FOR ME! It must be my birthday.

Seriously, it’s uncanny: Yoon Kye-sang! Go Soo! Lee Jung-jin! Kim Kang-woo! (...)
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Go Soo is off the market sadface

javabeans — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:50:38 +0000

Aw, man. The 32-year-old Go Soo (Will It Snow For Christmas?) has revealed that he’s dating. *tear* It’s a sad day for my fantasy life wherein his intense, smoldering gazes are reserved solely for myself. (Hey, it’s a fantasy. I get to pretend it could happen!)

According to a press release circulated on March 10, he was introduced to his girlfriend “a long time ago,” and their relationship has recently developed into a romantic one. News initially leaked on March 8 that she is a university student of fine arts, and Go Soo was in New Zealand shooting a CF at the time. Upon his return to Korea, he released the official statement addressing the rumors.

As the lady in question isn’t a celebrity, Go Soo explains that would like to be careful regarding media attention. He stated that they are still in a “cautious stage” in their relationship, adding that he would keep the press informed when he had more good news to share, and requested, “I hope you’ll be able to help me until we’re able to progress to a beautiful love.”

It’s pretty savvy of him to speak as though he’s including the media in the process, so as to court their favor rather than alienating them. I wonder if the tactic will work, but he’s rather well-liked on the whole, so I can see him winning a few of them over. (On the other hand, the Korean media is a pretty rapacious bunch on the whole, especially when they smell gossip.)

Oh well. I suppose this news alters nothing, since the good thing about fantasies is: Reality has no place in them.

*sniffle*

Via My Daily

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It’s a February wedding for Go Soo

Go Soo and Han Hyo-joo sign on to melodrama

2011 Blue Dragon Film Awards

16th Busan International Film Festival’s opening red carpet

The Front Line is Korea’s Academy Awards submission

Go Soo suits up for GQ

Summer blockbuster The Front Line opens to high expectations

Go Soo’s classic-movie shoot for Bazaar

GQ actor round-up, javabeans version

Go Soo is off the market *sadface*

Go Soo is off the market sadface