Korean star Gong Yoo, famous for drama “1st Shop of Coffee Prince”, has joined the army. He made his final farewell to his fans and the press just before entering the army academy on January 14.

Korean star Gong Yoo, famous for drama “1st Shop of Coffee Prince”, has joined the army. He made his final farewell to his fans and the press just before entering the army academy on January 14.

Korean star Lee Byung-hun is named as one of the cast for Hollywood movie “G.I. Joe”, which is based on the popular comic and cartoon series.

Lee will play the role Shadow Storm, not the main character but one of the fans favourite. He will star alongside Sienna Miller, Ray Park and Rachel Nichols etc. The movie has not started filming yet, and is expected to be released in summer 2009.
Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou was in Korea to promote his movie “Secret”. Below are some pictures during a fans meeting on January 9…

Taiwanese band F4’s latest music video, “Waiting for You” has created lots of debates lately, that the MV (the video, not the song) is copying Korean band TVXQ’s “Step by Step”…
Waiting for You MV…
Reality TV star Nicole Richie and pop star Christina Aguilera have given birth to babies at the same Los Angeles hospital on Saturday (Jan 12), just about an hour apart.
Richie got a baby girl while Aguilera a boy.
Congrats.
Korean actress Moon Geun-yeung is making her comeback in drama acting after 5 years with drama “Wind’s Garden” (unconfirmed title).

The drama is based on a popular novel. Moon Geun-young will star as a talented painter who disguised as a boy while in search for her father’s murderer, and met with a master painter who guided her into a great painter as well.
The drama is scheduled to star filming in March 2007.
Korean actress Jeon Ji-hyun and her co-star Hwang Jung-min in movie “The Man who was Once a Superman” held a press conference on Monday (Jan 7) to introduce their movie…

This time for real… Nicole Kidman is pregnant; she has confirmed the news via her representative in U.S.

There has been multiple pregnancy rumours since Nicole married country singer Keith Urban in June 2006, but all of them were false alarms… until now.
Congrats to Nicole and Keith… best wishes and have a healthy baby soon.
Actress Keira Knightley tops a British poll as Beauty Icon of 2007. The poll was carried out by Superdrug, a British health and beauty retailer.

Kelly Brook and Kate Moss came in 2nd and 3rd place.
Korean actress Son Ye-jin and the main cast of movie “Open City” attended a special movie screening for the press on Jan 4…

Son Ye-jin is starring as a gang leader who often uses her beauty to deceit others; Kim Myung Min stars as a detective that is tracking down that gang… and both of them somehow fell in love. Both the police and gangs won’t be happy about that obviously.