Korean pop star BoA’s 6th album, “The Face” has top the Japanese Oricon chart after its release on Feb 27.
BoA’s previous 5 albums had also topped the chart before; she is only the 2nd artist to have had 6 albums topping the chart in a role. The other pop star that have managed to do so is Ayumi Hamasaki with 8 consecutive chart-topping albums.
Uprising Asian actress Isabella Leong is rumoured to be in relationship with Richard Lee, one of the richest bachelor in Hong Kong with a networth of 1.2 billion US Dollars.
Isabella, 20, and Richard, 42, is said to be in relationship after being introduced with each other by international star Michelle Yeoh while both the actress were filming “Mummy 3″.
Korean actor Lee Cheon-hee and actress Han Ji-hye met the press on Feb 27 to promote their latest movie, “Humming”…
Korean movie “A Destiny” is set to premiere on March 20 in Korea. The movie is one of the most anticipated Korean productions in 2008 as it features actor Song Seung-hun, his first act since discharging from military service.
Song is joined by a strong cast which includes Kwon Sang-woo and Ji Sung etc.
Korean drama “Bad Love” (also known as “Cruel Love”), starring Kwon Sang-woo and Lee Yo-won, has ended showing in Korea on Feb 12 with disappointing ratings.
Despite starring the big names, Bad Love’s final episode only managed a 6.8% rating. On contrary, other dramas that showed on the same time has achieved much better ratings (MBC’s “Yi San” has 34.7% ratings).
Big names don’t always work.
Hero (JaeJoong) from Korean boyband TVXQ is voted as the prettiest Asian men in a poll organised by China’s Xingkong TV channel.
Around 40 million votes have been casted, and Hero topped the poll with 10% of the votes (4.17 million).
Came in 2nd is Taiwanese heartthrob Jerry Yan; while 3rd place belongs to another TVXQ member U-know (YunHo).
4th-10th are Kazuya Kamenashi (Japan), Jimmy Lin, Vic Zhou (Taiwan), Tomohisa Yamashita (Japan), Han Geng (China), Joe Cheng (Taiwan) and Wu Zun (Brunei).
The funny thing is that only one China artist was on top 10… but Han Geng probably got in for being a member of Korean boyband Super Junior, so he is ‘half Korean’ actually.
Korean actor Won Bin is coming back to acting pretty soon.
The “Autumn in my Heart” star is working on his first job since discharging from the army in June 2006… modelling for fashion brand Ziozia, which he worked with since 2001 until he was admitted to military service in late 2005.
His agency said that Won Bin is currently reviewing some scripts and is likely to make his comeback starring in a movie (instead of drama).
The Korea Military Academy has released a photo of actor Gong Yoo in the military academy, wearing his uniform.
Gong Yoo, who joins the army on Jan 14, is the latest high profile star who enter the military service.
2008 will see an influx of big names into Korea’s mandatory military service… Shinhwa’s Eric and Kim Dong-wan are approaching the age limit (28) and will have to join the army this year; others like actors Kim Rae-won, Lee Dong-gun and pop star Kangta are probably joining in too.
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.
