Archive for the ‘ Celebrity ’ Category
For an extra peak at Korean football hero Park Ji-Sung, here’s a short documentary by Football Asia from 2009. It comes in two parts — the first is about 4 and a half minutes long, the second is about 7 minutes — and is worth watching for a little background on Park and the South [ READ MORE ]
The most visible World Cup presence leading up to the event had been in the commercial realm. While that has changed to some extent on game days, it generally remains the case even after Korea’s first successful match was played over the weekend. Korea is a very commercial society, perhaps even more so than my home [ READ MORE ]
“Baek Ji-Sung, Baek Ji-Sung, Baek Ji-Sung.” The name reverberated around Korea on Saturday evening long before the Manchester United player sealed a famous 2-0 win over Greece. As one Korean friend noted, he “is a hero.” If the recent elections were held the morning after the Greek game, Baek would have cantered home, even without a [ READ MORE ]
Today at work I returned to my desk to find five beautiful ladies beckoning from the cover of a pizza box (left-overs from a pizza party in someone’s class, no doubt). The ladies in question were from the Korean pop group “Cara”. At this point you may justifiably ask yourself “why the hell are they on [ READ MORE ]
If somebody told you Korea had a successful transsexual pop singer and actress would you be surprised? Introducing Harisu (or Ha Ri Soo), the stage name for the woman (and former man) Kyung-Eun Lee. After a talent agency discovered her singing at a nightclub in Japan, Harisu (it is a play on “hot issue” — say [ READ MORE ]
I was having a chat with my mom this morning about various topics including the Olympics, when she asked me if I had heard of Korean figure skating great (and Olympic gold medal heiress) Kim Yu-Na. On my end it was kind of funny for two reasons. The first being that she is impossible to avoid [ READ MORE ]