Balladeer Tim is following in buddy and fellow management-company-mate Sohn Ho-young’s footsteps in embarking upon a “momjjang project” (”momjjang” meaning hot bod).

To this end, Tim’s recently started his goal toward bulking up his naturally thin frame by joining a gym and accepting the advice of self-professed fitness buff and ex-G.O.D. rapper Sohn (to right), who is taking Tim under his figurative wing and guiding him along the path to muscle tone and fitness enlightenment. As Tim is known for his soft and gentle image — owed to his melodic ballads and smooth voice — this move marks a move away from that label, going for some added edge. Apparently he’s already gained 4 kg since starting his workout regimen.

Momjjangs are good and all and I never say no to some eye candy, but personally I don’t care what he looks like as long as he sounds as good as ever. (He and Clazziquai’s Alex have got to be the strongest male vocalists — or at least among the strongest — in the current kpop scene. If you care to listen, you can find links to all Tim songs posted here. “Haru sae” and “To my father” are probably my two favorites.)

Via Hankook Ilbo

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Tim, the man with the smooth velvety singing voice, is taking to the stage — as an actor. Perhaps in keeping with his well-known strong Christian faith, his role is in the musical Jesus Jesus (which, as far as I know, is not the same as Jesus Christ Superstar), and he takes on the titular role as — you guessed it! — Jesus Christ.

In case you couldn’t recognize Tim above, here’s a refresher to your right. Prior to his debut as a pop/ballad singer, he’d participated in small-scale plays and musicals, but this is his first time onstage in a large-scale musical.

In the seventeen years since Jesus Jesus made its debut in 1991, it’s been performed all around the world, and Tim’s role was previously filled by actors Cha In Pyo and Kim Jang Seob.

He’ll give performances in a rather short run — June 18 through 20 — in Seoul.

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Although the timing seems weird to me, singer Tim’s management has released the information that Tim, whose college education at Philadelphia’s Temple University is general knowledge, didn’t actually graduate from his studies there.

The information was corrected by his current management company (Rube Entertainment) after noticing the Temple mention during a changing of the management company guard. His management explained, “Tim auditioned [for the Korean entertainment industry] just before matriculating at college, and it wasn’t long after he’d started his studies that he received word that he’d been successful in his audition. He wanted to become a singer so badly that he decided to give up further studies.”

Normally, I don’t think this would be newsworthy, but those of you following news this summer probably remember the string of scandals regarding university professors falsifying their educational background, starting with the now-infamous professor Shin Jeong-ah. There was a widely publicized follow-up investigation, and another prof, Kim Ock-rang of Dankook University, was also found to have faked educational information. That set off a string of other revelations, even prompting celebrities to come forward about falsifying their own schooling histories, such as actress Yoon Suk-hwa, actress Chang Mi-hee, and even Daniel Henney.

Clearly it’s a huge — and unethical — deal for professors to claim degrees they didn’t actually earn, but I don’t think it makes much sense for actors and singers to pad their educational resumes, because that isn’t the source of their fame. So I’m a bit unsure as to why Tim’s management thinks this is newsworthy, particularly at this belated date, except to perphaps bring his name back into headlines as he promotes his newly released fourth album. (Which I find unnecessary, cuz, have you heard the man’s voice? THAT should sell enough records on its own, not headlines.)

Source: Yonhap News

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Tim - “혼잣말” (Talking to myself) from his (new) fourth album.
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