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Kang Ji-hwan lookin’ fine for Cosmo

I kind of thought that Kang Ji-hwan only ever looked like his current clean-cut character in Lie To Me, or his last clean-cut character in Coffee House. Happy to be wrong. So much that I only have three things to say:

**purrrrrr**
 
**paws**
 
**mrrrrawwrrr**
 

 

 

 
**flees from javabeans**
 

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i really like him.he is so hot and sexy here :)

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me too!!!

"rugged look" suits him!! but the cigarette kinda turned me off.. they dont show smoking on tv.. but they show it ALOT on magazines... the heck. ;/

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I agree! Smoking is such a major turn-off blech DX

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Funny I was thinking urgh about the cigarette then I saw your post LOL

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That thin column of smoke creeps me out....I can imagine the smell and the connotations: secondary smoke, lung cancer, the list goes on. Urgh.

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. . . and we're back to the smoking!!! what is wrong with these actors!! I know, the whole"contract" and "pose" thing, but they keep putting a cigarette in the "rugged hot guy" look, when in real life if someone looked like that with a cigarette, you would most probably steer clear cause he'd be a gangster or sth like that!!!

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Smoking shouldn't be stylish or cool! They should stop promoting it X(

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They should be doing PSA's AGAINST it.

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this!
i was turned on just by the title but as soon as i saw that picture ...

I shut down.

ps/ agree so much with @JNC cigarette= uncool

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Hmm... let me refer everyone to this article about smoking and people's attitudes toward it:

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/05/23/smoking_bans_and_smoking_shame

The article talks about the moral superiority non-smokers feel toward smokers, and the basis of that attitude.

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Yeah, I'm sorry. As someone who gets violently ill from even a whiff of cigarette smoke even outdoors, I have zero sympathy for people whining about not having the right to poison themselves and others in public places. Moral superiority has nothing to do with it.

There are others who have much more cause to complain about the way public space is used - for example, the disabled.

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I REALLY don't want to get into a dust-up with you (or anyone) about this, cause I do totally understand where you're coming from (yeah, why should anyone have the right to pollute my personal space with their nasty, carcinogenic habit)... but I also don't feel that smoking should be SO abhorred and stigmatized as a disgusting thing that only morons do.

Having worked in the medical and mental health fields, I have seen how smoking can be a coping mechanism for people that's considerably better for them (and often for the people around them) than the coping mechanisms smoking replaces.

Again, I'm not suggesting that smoking is a great or healthy thing, and maybe I have no leg to stand on when suggesting that the public should allow it where they can be affected, but I would ask for a little less of a judgmental attitude toward those who smoke.

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I'm not trying to get into a fight with you at all! I hope it didn't come across that way.

I do understand that smoking is an addiction that is very hard to beat, and I don't have anything against smoking that goes on in private spaces (although I feel sorry for smokers' kids). I do have a problem with smokers acting all righteous about their "right" to smoke in public places though, because I am so tired of being blasted by smoke in doorways at school for example, which I have no way of avoiding. At least in North America, our freedom to practice our rights is bounded by the provision that our rights don't trample on those of others, or harm them in any way. The same way free speech is limited to anything that is not hate speech.

It's true that people are often very disdainful of smokers, and it would be better to focus on the behaviour as harmful rather than those who engage in it... because there's just no point in that. But I also think that as a society we have endured enough casualties, lost enough lives to tobacco-related illnesses, that a culture in which smoking is no longer socially acceptable is justified, and one of the steps toward eradicating it completely.

I don't know much about your field, and nothing about the personal circumstances of your patients, so in that area I will yield to your greater expertise. :)

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I absolutely understand your concern for a public space that acknowledges the positive rights of, and doesn't violate the negative rights of, any citizens in the public space. What those rights are, I think, is still to be determined.

However, I cannot disavow the psychic pain I've seen in so many of my patients. You can think whatever you will about the (purported) cause of their pain, but that many people in (at least the US) feel immense psychic pain and are desperately seeking an alleviation of that pain, is, I think, probably indisputable.

I'm really not sure why I'm getting so serious on a blog that's certainly here to appreciate the hotness of a man whose hotness I also appreciate, but all the virulently negative comments about smoking have really gotten to me, I guess, and I want to defend my (former) patients for whom smoking cigarettes is probably the least-harmful and least-painful mind-altering circumstance in which they could find themselves.

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And also, actually, I currently live in Korea, and smoking is quite socially acceptable here... you can still smoke in restaurants and bars and coffee houses, and you'll see many people smoking on the streets.

My point is not that smoking is healthy (OF COURSE it's not) but that in the society in which these actors live, seeing someone with a cigarette in an ad or photo shoot doesn't have the impact (or aura of differentness or glamour) it would have in, say, the US, since people here are pretty accustomed to seeing people smoke anywhere and everywhere.

Yeah, maybe they should all be doing PSAs -- maybe that would help to reduce the smoking rate here -- but I strongly suspect that the mandatory military service here has a much greater impact on (at least) men's attitudes toward smoking than any PSAs or magazine spreads.

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I totally get where you're coming from. I live in Iran, and here it's the same; I even get scolded by my friends because I'm too sensitive to this subject when it's not a big deal to smoke. all I'm saying is if we go along with this flow, the next generation is going to be less sensative and the next and . . . but if we start from somewhere, say TV and other media,or just our personal conversations, and voice our distaste for it and how it bothers us, things will gradually get better. I can remember a time when all the men in the family would go out and smoke after meals; but now it's much better, the next generation has a better awareness. so we can make a difference, one person at a time :)
[I know this isn't really a place to talk about this stuff, so "chosonghamnida!!"]

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I can look at this picture and think, wow sooooo freaking hot!!!! total bad-boy aura. *YUM*

but in reality, where i live as an oncology nurse (that's cancer patients i take care of for peeps who are unaware), smoking is NOT hot and those people no longer have a bad-boy aura.

I commend people for quitting, because it is extremely difficult. I know if I was told to never drink coffee again, i might cry. We all have our vices, and some are worse than others.

but to see first hand how it ruins lives in the truest sense. and it's not just old people. i have had young lung cancer patients who died with young children at home. Lung cancer is so dangerous because it is slow to grow, and it really likes to go to the brain. that is usually when we find it, when the cancer is so far gone, and it has started to affect the brain. not pretty.

to consciously make the decision to smoke is one thing, but to consciously make the decision to smoke and to put others at risk who do not smoke themselves is another. I cannot condone that behavior. Do whatever you want to yourself but not to others. Second hand smoke is serious. I can tell you til I'm blue in the face not to smoke b/c it's bad for you. but don't put others at risk, especially the people you love.

~getting down from soap box now...

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I'm actually glad you posted your opinion, Sethe. I agree with you. Of course smoking is bad! But it's the habit and its results that are evil; smokers themselves, fictional or otherwise, shouldn't be vilified, at least not to this extent, that is unless they're blowing smoke in your face. It's like if I were to express my disdain for plastic surgery and its propagation on EVERY article with photos of an actor who's had it. Wouldn't it get irritating?

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Thanks for agreeing with me. And let me just try to clarify my point(s), since I think I might've been a little confusing.

First, I just don't think it's helpful to scorn or vilify smokers -- yeah, because it's an addiction that's hard to kick, and also because it provides a mind-altering condition (temporarily) that many people crave (for various reasons) and it provides a way to cope with negative feelings/situations that's often much healthier (all-around) than other things people might do to deal with those feelings and situations. (And yeah, of course that's not why everyone smokes... probably some people do it just cause their friends do, or whatever, but the blanket condemnation of all smokers seems really unnecessarily judgmental to me.)

My second point is that, whether or not Kang Ji-hwan smokes himself (in real life) and whatever his reasons for doing so might be (if he does), I don't think that seeing an actor smoking in an ad or magazine here in Korea has the same impact it'd have in, say, the US, cause smoking is so much more accepted and unremarkable here.

And as to that, maybe these actors could be urged by their fans (including those posting here) to start an anti-smoking campaign, and try to change this Korean social norm ;)

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Yeah... it makes him look so old with those bloodshot eyes... I'm not a hater, loved him in Hong Gil Dong! but i like him clean, heroic image better, not a smoking (literally) old man (he really looks old here O_O)

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I used to smoke. No longer. Going on 3 years now - quit cold turkey - was very difficult to quit. I felt (and still feel) like a part of me has gone away. I quit because it smelled foul to others, for health reasons, for family health reasons, etc.

But:

1. Let's be real. It looks cool on certain people.

2. As a former smoker, I can say that there are days when I miss it a lot. Delicious, I would say, if someone were to ask why I used to do it. Yummy and delicious. (note, it wasn't always delicious - sometimes i would get a headache because of smoking, other times i would get a headache if I didn't smoke).

3. There is something romantic about smoking. Maybe it is because I see it through (smoke)-colored lenses, but I think it can set a scene or a mood, in a way that cannot be done without.

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Have you ever taken Health in school before?
my teacher tells me quite a lot of stuff.... and i definitely do NOT want to smoke.
once you start, it's very hard to quit. Congratulations to You!! COLD TURKEY that is very awesome of you!
(but there is a case where you could get throat cancer, have to take the larynx out surgically, and now you gotta HOLE in you throat... that's right! a real HOLE! and my teacher said she once saw someone smoke THROUGH the hole... *sigh* some people just can't ever learn, even after going through it the hard way..)
Sorry, just saying...But You're still AWESOOM for quitting :D

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Kang Ji-hwan! Can I say rawr?

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Of course you can!!

Let's go, everybody, together: Raaawwwr!!!!

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Lol!

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Raaawwwr!!!!

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yes but not for too long before JB comes along

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pity that lie to me was nothing like i expected.
the actor who plays his brother outshines him in every episode >.<

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i agree. the brother's character is infinitely more appealing and...sexy. it must be the fox grin, although he does overdo that quite a bit. this is why bad boys (almost) always wins the girls, .-.

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the brother is really like a fairy godmother with a cheeky grin. i like how refreshing normal and sassy everyone is though, and not mired in drama!

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Nop... I don't like the brother...

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Same don't like him much either. He's just the typical 2nd lead to me nothing really special about him in my opinion.

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me too! Sometimes, I felt the younger brother is more look like the hyung than kang Ji Hwan. :)

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:o

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aydiosmio! last pic drools keke :D

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mmmmmmm

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I definitely think he looks better in CH than LTM. Darn glasses! Plus, I like his character more in CH too, heehee.

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*gasp. so hot.

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Oh my god, Girlfriday. Javabeans is going to Fuck. You. UP. It was wonderful knowing you, Unni. I'll miss you.

As for Kang Ji-hwan, he is hawt, although the cigarette isn't doing a thing for me. It's quite the turn-off, actually, but the man knows how to work his eyes, damn! This is what Kim Soo-hyun is going to grow into. Anticipate it!

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Big LAUGH!

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HAHAHA. Can I hear cat fight?

And yeah. Cigs need tah go. That's my bad attempt at sounding "cool". Note to kids: Just because everyone else is doing it, does not mean it's ok or cool. Having tar in your lungs is not cool. Other than that, I prefer it when the case dress down in photoshoots.

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Agree on your Kim Soo-hyun comment. i'm already anticipating.

I like this disheveled look of him. In fact, most of his good scenes in Lie To Me was when he's not looking spiffy and uncombed, specially the just woke up scene in episode 5 =)

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Love the man hate the cigarette. It's like he's hot but he stink :p.

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KJH, get that cancer stick out of your mouth, hmph. Otherwise... hellooooo there.

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I know! It is depressing seeing that cigarette in his mouth. Smoking isn't sexy.

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It seems to be a ~badass~ photo shoot staple in pretty much every country. IDGI. There's nothing badass about emphysema. Does the ability to inhale toxins make you somehow more equipped to handle danger? :P

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Cant. Breathe.Too. Hot. Its impossible that so much heat can be radiated from one being.

*Dies from the overwheliming smexy waves powered by the hotness*

Hey would you look at that. My Scheduler looks like Jung Il Woo. Id die again from the ridiculous sex appeal if I could.

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uhhhhhhhhhh.. *lost train of thought**
welll HELLO THERE!!!!!

SOOOO SEXY.......

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For some reason I just love that nose freckle...

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Although sometimes is a little distracting...

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so true. Too bad he and Han Ga In didn't get together. ^^

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Guys. I don't condone smoking, nor have I ever thought smoking was sexy (except for when Spike did it on Buffy AmIright?)...but KJH just made me faint with the cigarette in his mouth.

*hides in shame*

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YAY!!! Someone else who's not as rabidly adherent to the anti-smoking platform as most people (admittedly, for decent reasons) are. They say anti-smoking and anti-obesity are two of the last acceptable biases (in the US, at least). I have no point with that, really. (Cause it's super-easy to argue that both conditions cause major health problems and thus health expenditures.)

In any case, one of my coworkers at my new job totally resembles Kang Ji-hwan... I'm unable to stop myself from flirting with him (cause that's really kind of my thing) even though he's probably leaving soon :(

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I was really expecting more from Lie To Me after all that hype, oh well I still love it though :D

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Not digging the cigarette but OMG SO HOT. Thanks for the pics to fill my kjh void for now, can't wait for lie to me ep5! ;)

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Hot! Sexxxxy! He is just my type( tall,dark, and handsome).

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thats a whole lot'a man right there

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Come 'ere baby.
You look like you could use a little cleanin' up in the shhh-rawr-er.
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Oh... you already though of that! LOL! You're two steps ahead, lady!

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OK! So... I was just thisclose from jumping into the KJH bandwagon. Coffe House didn't do the trick completely for me and I'm just warming up to Lie to Me.

But THIS gave me the final push. I'm sooo on this bandwagon, I'm paying yearly rent!!

Here he is busting a move on Exhibition of Fireworks (2006)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDNahMReOMg

Now I'm ready to drool during Lie to Me :)

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btw, Linda165, he definitely does NOT look like he smells good here, and you know what? Who the F cares?

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I know I wouldn't!! That just gives us the excuse for a hot shower. *70's porn music*

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Oh. My. God. This is getting bookmarked.
This is somewhere between horror and hilarious. Thank you Linda, but... how did you find this??!

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LOL!
I watched Exhibition of Fireworks last week and when I saw the dance I thought SOMEONE better uploaded this to Youtube, and I found it :)

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Niiiiiiice.

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ugh and i was trying so hard not to like him

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Oh my I downloaded the whole series but you guys panned it on DB except for ep 1-4.

I am now going to watch it.Cringing in embarassment but running off still to look for this :-)

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I know!!! Since I found it, I can't stop watching that clip. LOL!

I watched EoF in Dramafever.

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The hips, the thrusting HIPS! :P

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*watchs it again* OMG the hips!

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Oh My Lord! that's both hot and hilarious all at the same time...and is that Yoon Sang Hyun I see in there??....damn I 'm so used to see him in the Oska getup that I almost forgot the guy can look that clean

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also can i say that Kang Ji Hwan is a way better dancer than Han Chae Young or at least more into it

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Yep, that's Oska without his ahjumma haircut :)

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so i always found him hot..
but who knew that all i needed was him to dance for me to be on the bandwagon..
wow..even though there was a bit of a goofy moment in there..he looks FINE!!!!!
ok MUST WATCH IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh god that was kind of painful to watch.

This is my favourite KJH dance moment (Be Strong Geum Soon):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMIW4AyJBBo

So. CUTE.

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Love that. I don't watch Dancing with the Stars, but I would if KJH was on! (...random, but is there a Korean version of Dancing with the stars?) Also can I just say he is the best kisser ever. *_*

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OMG. Please excuse my vulgar expression, what a hot piece of ass! Just what I need.

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Even though he's looking oh so fine, I wouldn't go near him with that cigar stick. >.< Please get it out of your mouth!!

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I'm only repeating what's already been said, but....he. is. so. hot.

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Look the reality of cigs is a mess(I will literally die. Its my kryptonite) but take a pic, dirty with one in your mouth and I will swoon! KNOW IT!

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i like this look much better on him. the pampered prettyboy thing is a turnoff.

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Thanks viewers...I had my morning laugh with your comments.

Man did he look hot when he all rumpled and frustrated on the bed in ep 5 or what?

'goes off to watch it again...'

NICE photos.

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I just watched Episode 5...

Sooo cute flipping on that bed!!! LOL

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Loved that part! Actually I loved all KJH parts this episode. Ugh, how gorgeous was that smile of his during the almost kiss scene??? I'm SO glad this drama is finally getting better. :)

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oops!!! ** SPOILER ALERT on the above comment!!

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and here we have the only reason i am watching Lie to Me. guh. so sexy.

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well... this will be a good night sleep for me! see you in my *wet* dreams Oppa! LOL

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the first time i'm actually going consent and say he looks pretty HOTTTT here

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Ohhh ~ I don't care if he smokes as long as this cherry lips are there!
And he is ... smokin HOT!

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thanks girlfriday,

Ahem ! can't imagine how to kiss a smoker !!.

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Oh man. The first picture. *0*

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So my question is why must the hot guy always pose in black/white Ts and jeans, and always look shocked/surly/morose/zoned out on an apartment floor?

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'cus everyone loves the bad boy ;)

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Based on this photo essay, it is because he just got a new puppy. The puppy kept them up all night whimpering, completely ignoring the many newspapers KJH put down.

In the first photo, he is tired and rethinking his decsion to live with a dog instead of buying a new car, and his neck is sore from sleeping on the floor.

You can see the dog's water bowl behind him in the second photo, as well as the soiled and discarded newspapers.

Someone help with number three. Maybe the smell is so bad, smoking masks it?

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...ummm, cause' then he gets to pose for the camera looking anguished and "in character" being all deep and filled with emotions that he only wants to share with you...the woman of his dreams, making him infinitely more attractive and swoon worthy, obviously! :) Are you not falling for it?!

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Why can't we have the hot guy looking hot AND useful at the same time? Like not just sitting/slumping/sleeping but actually DOING something. How about...hot guy shirtless and sweaty fixing the plumbing? Hot guy shirtless and sweaty watering the flowers/mowing the lawn/fixing the curtains (can a hot guy do that, or is it too girly?)/ironing his boxers/ scrambling eggs in an frilly apron over a bare torso/scrubbing the shower floor clothes-less?

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Shoot and print it!! I'll buy that magazine in a heartbeat.

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Shoot it and print it!! I'll buy that magazine in a heartbeat.

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Yeah I always wondered about that.

How about fixing a car in nothing but a pair of dirty jeans, smears of grease artfully arranged on his skin? I don't know what is is about guys fixing cars... so cliche, but it gets me every time.

*fans self*

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Apparently he was fixing a car or a bike (to go with the bad boy theme). See the grease stains in his shirt? He just stopped for a cig break :)

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Purrrrrrrrrr

*kneads paws*

Puuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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LOL! I think it's obviously noticeable JB's flees one landed on KJH's nose, and he seems fond of it since it's been there for the longest of time.

Someone's paw prints been roughing KJH... and his white tee?? Har-har!

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i am literally just drooling.. there is an ocean in my mouth...

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I actually think he looks sexy with the cigarette. Cigs are not good for your health. But that doesn't take away their sex appeal. My opinion: Looks damn sexy in pictures just not in real life when you have to inhale that smoke and smell.

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AAAAH That's my Kang Ji-hwan for you **...

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Woah baby!

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SMEXY

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One Word: Damn!

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thank u for posting this... just had a really really bad exam *sob* makes me feel better. lol

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*hugs*

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Love him!!!....As long as he doesn't open his mouth....
:::DUCKS AT THE LADIES THROWING ROTTEN TOMATOES:: lol

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Oh... DAMN.

Has no more words....

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" I love you "

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I don't smoke but even the third pic is HOT in so many different levels.

I like the the dapper KJH but seeing him all rumpled and scruffy made me think of not so wholesome things. :D

And it's 5:24 am from my end of the world. Sleep will surely elude me now.

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Just watched my girlfriend is an agent, can't get enough of kjh! Everyone wants a piece of him ;p

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Really you haven't seen Kang Ji Hwan all rugged?

You should watch Movie is Movie with him and So Ji Sup. Pretty smexy both of them.

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thanks for the reminder. :) It also goes by the title Rough Cut in english.

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