This is my nook. A place where I want to share my hankering for Bae Yong Joon, my passion for SS501 [Kim Hyun Joong, Heo Young Saeng, Park Jung Min, Kim Kyu Jong, Kim Hyung Joon] and my wanting to know more about many other Korean artists. ^^
^^ been busy over the weekend that's why i failed to blog. though busy, i still kept myself up to date especially with regard to yong joon.
hmm, what was my last blog entry? ahh..yeah....right...the day when he went back to seoul from guam. there's one picture of him from the airport when he arrived in guam which i'm sure most have seen on other baesites so i won't be reposting it here anymore.
i'm sure too that you've seen the videos and screencaps of the interview from skyperfect. hmm, not yet? click here, and here and you'll be directed to happiebb's blog.
as for the wedding, like what i posted on soompi, there was a confusion on the date posted on the net. some say it's the 10th some it's the 11th. hee, i admit, i waited on the 10th but when 3 o'clock came i knew then that i've the wrong date ^^. the following day, i was expecting to see yong joon. the articles said that the wedding is at 3pm. i'm was already in front of my computer as early as ...
..duh dee dum dee doo...2:45 still no yong joon...
hmm, how come there are no photos of other stars coming?
click...click...click...click...click...3pm still no photos of yong joon nor other stars...
3:15! first photo was out...it's lee byung hun...still no photo of yong joon...is he coming? ...more photos are being posted in soompi...song seung hun, park yong ha, son ye jin, song hye kyo...huh? choi ji woo? i though she's sick? but she did not facing the camera. 3:30 no yong joon then i read the article that style posted on byjgallery. the article said that yong joon can't make it due to some commitments with regard to the book he's doing and that he's not in seoul. but he did convey his congratulatory message to PD Yoon and his wife.
won't be posting the photos anymore [except for the 2 sets of photos below]. though you might be interested to see what they're wearing and how they look, you may check bb's blog by clicking here.
btw, i'm sure had yong joon attended the wedding i won't be able to finish what i've to finish over the weekend due to the tons and tons of photos. anyway, since yong joon was not around for the media to feast on, the shutterbugs busied themselves taking photos of [from most to the least photographed from my observation] song seung hun, probably due to the recently mbc drama awards and east of eden lee byung hun, who is said to be the 2nd biggest hallyu star after yong joon park yong ha, wls and the most recently drama on air where he won together with his co-stars sohn ye jin, summerscent [my 2nd least fave amongs the four season dramas] choi ji woo only had 2 photos and only her back view was taken same with song hye kyo.
won bin the other hallyu star was not around to attend as well.
*** just saw this on byj's quilt many thanks, suehan!
as we all know, when asked on live television he answered "Ah, personally, I hope my close junior SSH would get the Award, but there are many competitive actors whom I have been impressed with. I really don’t know who would get the award."
i bet, if he had answered the above before he went on live television the news will be out as fast as lightning.
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[Trans] BYJ from MBC Section TV korean to english translation by suehan on byj's quilt
[Caption: The 2007 the Grand Award winner, Bae Yong Joon ssi!]
Female Reporter: Oh!, here is Yonsama, Bae Yong Joon ssi.
Male Reporter: Who would you say will get the Grand Award today?
[Caption: Q: Who will be the Grand Award winner today?]
here's suehan's complete translation of the video below. thanks suehan!
after suehan's translation, you may also read [EDITED since i posted wrong speech earlier] below the speech of kim myun min. i'm still looking for the translation of song seung hun's speech. when i find it, i'll just add the text later.
btw, does anyone here know what lee jun ki said on his portion? seems like there are some controversies on what he said about the drama such as 'Beethoven Virus', 'New Heart' and 'East of Eden' and japanese fans as well. [NOTE : please see lee jun ki's comments on the mbc awards below]
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[Trans] Conversation between BYJ and 2 MCs at the 2008 MBC Drama Awards. korean to english translation by suehan
Shin: Now, we’ll announce the honorable Grand Award Winner of 2008 MBC Grand Awards as the last award.
Han: Yes, for the announcement of the honorable Grand Award winner, previous year ‘s winner, Bae Yong Joon is waiting for it.
Shin: It has been one year since wuri Yonsama has appeared. Actually, it might be difficult to watch the scenes if not watching this MBC Grand Awards. There are so many rumors floating around.
Han: What rumors?
Shin: There were rumors, like his hair has grown to about his waist, or his hip..something like that. There are so many rumors. A little later, we will be seeing him in a year and confirming it. What kind of appearance will he show today? Here is last year’s Grand Award winner, Bae Yong Yoon ssi.
(The screen is showing last year’s ceremony)
Song: Bae Yong Joon ssi of TWSSG!
Shin: Congratulations, Bae Yong Joon ssi!
Bae Yong Joon: Thank you. I really appreciate the viewers who have trust in us and been waiting for our drama all the way.
(caption: Then, who will be the Grand Award winner, today?)
Bae: Annyeonghaseyo, this is Bae Yong Joon.
(Applause)
Bae: It has been a year since I have appeared. Many directors, staff, actors, actress, and seniors, have put forth hard work to produce good dramas this year. It looks like the end of this year is more difficult compared to other times, but I hope MBC drama will give hopes and laughs to many people of the new year. I’ll work hard as an actor as well.
Shin: It has been a year, Bae Yong Joon ssi. I’m glad to see you. There are so many rumors about your hair, like your hair is near your waist, or hip, and someone said that your hair was braided, but now we can confirm that it’s not true. I have a personal question for you. You have been waiting quite a long time backstage.
Bae: Yes.
Shin: I’m wondering if you were curious about the Grand Award winner and already opened the envelope.
Bae: I didn’t because I heard that it would be marked if I had opened it.
Shin: That’s why. We work hard to have the envelope explode with stuff to keep it from being opened backstage if we have enough production costs.
(laughs)
Shin: Do you remember his black crutches, which were the biggest topic last year and were the fanciest ones that I’ve ever seen in my life?
Han: You even had special crutches.
Shin: I asked you before what you were going to do with those crutches later on. Do you still have those, or did you give them to someone as a present? Or did you put them up in an auction?
Bae: They’re at my house.
Shin: I’ve never thought that I wanted to keep them as well.
Shin: Do you remember last year? I asked you when you were going to get married. You said that you would marry in three years no matter what happened. One year passed already. Two years are left, please share the story if you have good news that we don’t know about.
Bae: It seems that there is something can’t be achieved even with plans and efforts. And still 2 years remain, I’ll try hard.
Han: Many women dreamed about that, didn’t they?
Shin: Actually 2 years will be passing quickly. You might marry a strange girl to keep the promise with your fans and to marry within 2 years if you’re not prepared, so please work hard. Now, Bae Yong Joon ssi, will you please announce the Grand Award winner.
Han: Who do you think will receive the Award?
Shin: It’s a very difficult question.
Bae: Well. It might be a boring answer no matter how I answer.
Shin: then..
Bae: Ah, personally, I hope my close junior SSH would get the Award, but there are many competitive actors whom I have been impressed with. I really don’t know who would get the award.
Han: You might have answered a difficult question.
Shin: I thought you would answer conventionally because it was a very difficult question but you showed your thoughts.
Shin: We’re curious about and look forward to who will be getting the Award. Now, please announce the Grand Award winner of 2008 MBC Grand Acting Award.
Bae: 2008 The Grand Award goes to Kim Myung Min nim of Beethoven Virus and Song Seung Hun nim of East of Eden.
*** Kim Myung Min's Speech thaks to piano_lady of kkm thread @ soompi
Thanks to God. He gave me a talent, the talent to perform And….he did not fully satisfied me with it so that I can make every effort.Thanks so much, God! Thanks to my family members who pray for me, and thanks to my parents And the big senior of our drama, Lee Soon Jae(oboist), taught me, "An actor should not neglect his duties on developing creative work." And he personally sets an example to us. Thanks to Senior Lee Soon Jae. And my Senior Song Ok-soon(Madame Jung.) and Park Chul-min(Trumpetist) you took all Kang Mae's spiteful words as it is my Geun-suk and Ji-ah and Hyun-jun, thank you all Also, thank you so much to our players of Beethoven Philharmonic Orchestra members. They devoted to me as if I were a real conductor. Although they are not here, thanks to Director Lee Jae-Kyu and screenwriters. Also, despite insufficient sleep, Art Director Seo Hui-Tae passionately taught me conducting skills day and night. Without him, I couldn't have successfully made it the role as a conductor a bit. And I want to express my thanks to all my fans who help me and support me whenever mountains block my way. Thanks to all.
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this portion was lifted from the 2008 MBC thread at soompi. i'm honestly having doubts on this post. just really want to know what he said. if someone can clear this up it would really be appreciated.
"Right after Male Woo-Soo Sang nominees were named, and right before he was about to open the envelope and give the award, LJK said "But you know, those people sitting in the front don't look like fans. Wow, they are continuously clapping and wooing. You've been trained well! They must be very happy."
It's because 2/3 of the audience (not the actors, but the fans who came to cheer) were actually people from Japan who came to support BYJ. (correct me if I'm wrong on the Japanese fans coming to see BYJ. I know for sure that 2/3 of the audience were fans from Japan, but I'm not hundred percent sure that they came for BYJ. But Korean Netizens are saying that they came for BYJ, and some of the articles I read seem to prove it, so.. And BYJ is being cursed a lot by the Korean Netizens.. along with SoJiSup.) 1/3 of the audience at the front were hired fans (koreans) who led the clappings so the Japanese fans at the back would know when to clap. "You" refers to the fake, hired fans, and "they" refers to MBC which really wants Japanese fans for the HanRyoo YulPoong.
Then he continued, "According to the script, I'm supposed to say 'Which role did I envy out of all these?'" The woman MC said (they've been running out of time), "People are telling us to keep this short." LJK replied, "So I told them I'm going to make this long. What, do they want me to just keep silence? I personally enjoyed watching New Heart and Beethoven Virus so ..." When Beethoven Virus was not even in that nominee.
LJK really was trying to get on MBC's nerves. Korean Netizens are all cheering him."
guys, here's a clear and complete portion of yong joon's appearance at the 2008 MBC Drama Awards. the video is more than 13 minutes long. check it out ^^
to read the translation of the interview, courtesy of lynn, click here.
found this clip on kmm thread @ soompi. bear with this video first while waiting for a clearer one to be posted ^^
hee, since this came from kmm thread, ssh's speech was cut.
btw, there are a lot of discussions going on about daesang being shared by 2 winners. whatever it is, i know that the 2 actors are deserving of the award.
thanks to kdramafanusa for posting the complete list on soompi.
looks like yong joon will have to give congratulatory flowers/letters to some of the winners since he worked with them in the past...SSH, Lee Min Sok [Untold Scandal], Moon So Ri [TWSSG], Shin Eun Jung [TWSSG as Dalbi], and Song Ok Sook [WLS as jun sang's his mom]
2008 MBC Drama Awards Winner List
DAESANG / GRAND PRIZE Kim Myung-Min (Beethoven Virus) Song Seung-Heon (East Of Eden)
MALE TOP EXCELLENCE AWARD Jung Joon-Ho (Last Scandal) Jo Jae-Hyun (New Heart)
FEMALE TOP EXCELLENCE AWARD Bae Jong-Ok (Heavenly Beauty Park Jung-Geum) Lee Mi-Sook (East Of Eden)
MALE EXCELLENCE AWARD Lee Dong-Gun (Night After Night / Every Night) Jo Min-Ki (East Of Eden)
FEMALE EXCELLENCE AWARD Moon So-Ri (Golden Age Of My Life) Han Ji-Hye (East Of Eden)
MALE NEWCOMER AWARD Park Hae-Jin (East Of Eden) Jang Geun-Seok (Beethoven Virus)
FEMALE NEWCOMER AWARD Lee So-Yeon (Golden Age Of My Life) Lee Yeon-Hee (East Of Eden)
RADIO TOP EXCELLENCE AWARD Lee Moon-Sae
RADIO EXCELLENCE AWARD Kang Seok-Woo Kang In
RADIO NEWCOMER AWARD Kim Shin-Young
DRAMA (SMS) Beethoven Virus
BEST COUPLE AWARD (netizen) Song Seung-Heon & Lee Yeon-Hee
POPULARITY AWARD (netizen) Song Seung-Heon / Lee Yeon-Hee
PD AWARD Lee Soon-Jae (Beethoven Virus) Yeon Jung-Hoon (East Of Eden)
CHILD STAR AWARD Nam Ji-Hyun, Park Gun-Tae, Shin Dong-Woo (East Of Eden)
GOLDEN ACTING AWARD - MINISERIES Ji Sung (New Heart) Kim Min-Jung (New Heart) GOLDEN ACTING AWARD - SERIAL DRAMA Park Geun-Hyung (Heavenly Beauty Park Jung-Geum / East Of Eden) Hong Eun-Hee (Do Not Hesitate)
GOLDEN ACTING AWARD - SUPPORTING ACTORS Park Cheol-Min (New Heart / Beethoven Virus) Shin Eun-Jung (East Of Eden)
GOLDEN ACTING AWARD - SENIOR Yoo Dong-Geun (East Of Eden) Song Ok-Sook (Beethoven Virus)
SPECIAL AWARD TV: PD category Lee Jae-Gu, announcer category Lee Jae-Yong / Choi Yoon-Young, voice category Kim Ho-Sung / Jong Nam Radio: Eugene (reporter category), Kim Kang-San(voice) WRITER CATEGORY TV: Na Yeon-Sook (East Of Eden), Hong Jin-Ah & Hong Ja-Ram (Beethoven Virus), Kim Eun-Hee (MBC special) Radio: Kim Shin-Wook
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TV: Choi Jin-Shil Radio: Sweet Sorrow
FAMILY AWARD drama 'I Love You, Don't Cry / Don't Cry My Love' team
thanks so much to lynn for sharing this on byj thread at soompi. i've been curious what what said on stage.
no doubt he would choose ssh to win since they're friends way back. ^^
(Trans) Talk between emcee and wuri YJ tonight - 2008 MBC Awards Shared by Wonchun on baidu chinese to english by lynn
Emcee: Last award will be the Grand Award, let’s welcome the awarder Mr. Bae Yong Joon! Our Yonsama!
BYJ: Hello everyone! This is BYJ. It’s been one year already since we met here last time. During this year, the directors and actors have brought us a lot of good works. It’s been hard work for them. I hope year 2009 will be a happy and prospective year for all of you. And I will work hard as well!
Emcee: Before you showed up on the stage, I’ve heard of that your hair has grown a lot and almost reaches your waist. Now looking at you, I found it’s not true, haha. And some audience doubt that is it possible for the awarder to open the envelop beforehead when he was behind the stage so that the awarder can know who will get the award in advance.
BYJ: No, it’s impossible, I didn’t open the envelop.
Emcee: I feel curious where is your black crutch which you brought here last year?
BYJ: They are at my home now.
Emcee: (To the audience), Do you remember that I asked BYJ when he would get married last year on this stage and he said he would try to get married within 3 years, but now 1 year has passed.
BYJ: I can not get married by myself. It’s between two people. And there are still 2 years left , I will be working hard towards it.
Emcee: If you don’t work hard to find a wife, then all the people including your fans will feel really anxious and curious, haha. And who do you think will get the Grand Award tonight?
BYJ: It’s hard for me to make any comments about it, but in my own opinion, I feel like it will be wonderful if SSH can get the award and of course the other actors have done good jobs in their works as well.
Emcee: Then let’s see who i the awardee of the Grand Award tonight is?