Actress Kang Hye-jeong is set to become the latest Korean star to join the Hollywood bandwagon. No details about the movie is released yet, but if everything is going as planned, she will be joining the filming in late 2008.
Korean pop star Rain has made his Hollywood debut a couple of months ago with Speed Racer. Other Korean stars that are set to make their Hollywood debut include Jang Dong-gun, Lee Byung-hun and Jun Ji-hyun etc.
According to a Hong Kong newspaper… Japanese star Takuya Kimura is set to make his Hollywood debut in 2008 with movie I Come with the Rain.
The details of the movie is unknown yet, but Takuya is not playing the main character; Hollywood star Josh Harnett will take the center stage instead.
It’s also said that Korean actor Lee Byung-hun might be involved in the movie as well. Lee is Takuya’s co-star in his latest Japanese movie, Hero, which is scheduled to premiere next month.
Korean star Lee Byung-hun celebrated his 37th birthday with over 16,000 Japanese fans in Tokyo on July 12. It must be pretty amazing to have 16,000 singing a birthday song for him.
Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo are voted the most popular Korean stars in a recent Japanese poll.
Bae and Choi are made famous with TV drama Winter Sonata a few years ago, and still remain popular.
Lee Byung-hun and Kwon Sang-woo are ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively at the male’s poll; where as Jun Ji-hyun and Lee Young-ae are 2nd and 3rd in the female’s poll.
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The 43rd Korean Baeksang Arts Awards 2007 was held last week; here are some of the pictures…
Lee Jun-ki…
Japanese star Takuya Kimura finally got to meet Korean star Lee Byung-hun in Pusan, Korea.
The 2 Asian stars will star in movie “Heroes,” a remake of popular same title Japanese drama starring Takuya Kimura and Takako Matsu.
Takako is in Korea for the filming as well… but Takuya is always the center of attention wherever he goes.
Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho and Jung Woo-sung, 3 of the most famous Korean actors are going to star together in the next movie (current title is Good Guy, Bad Guy and Weird Guy).
The movie is invested by the same company that produced The Host, the best selling movie in Korea history.
All the 3 actors are famous not just in Korea, but currently 3 of the most high profile Korean actors internationally as well.
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