Recently there has been a new channel offered by Astro/Njoi. Channel 110 is Hello (easy to remember because they took the "llo" in Hello to become 110, the channel number), and there are a number of Korean shows on it. Notably, there are Korean movies being shown every Saturday and Sunday, at 3pm and 9pm. That is four movies a week!
Anyway, I have been watching those that sound interesting, and in the process, discovered a few actors as well. One thing that I noticed is that Hello seems to keep showing movies that feature certain actors. At first there was Kim Myung Min, whom I had seen in Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead (if not mistaken that was on another TV channel; the movie wasn't that good :P ). Hello showed Open City, which was so-so, A Day, which was good, and more recently Deranged, which I had already watched before with Snorlax (I think it was okay but not that good).
A Day also starred Byun Yo Han, whom they had also featured in Will You Be There? (this one is very good; it's based on a book by Guillaume Musso and now I'm dying to read the original) But I don't think they have shown any other movies with Byun Yo Han, so maybe that's a coincidence.
Then there is the actress Son Ye Jin who acted in Open City with Kim Myung Min. Among her movies, Hello also showed Be With You, a super-sweet story that was adapted from a Japanese novel (I thought it would be a cheesy love story and only switched on the TV because I wasn't doing anything else, but it turned out to be a beautiful story), Classic (which I also thought would be cheesy, and it was slightly cheesy, except that the love story in the past was more dramatic and it wasn't so bad after all), and The Pirates, which I didn't watch because it didn't sound interesting.
The other actor that they seem to be featuring is Gang Dong Won. For this one, I thank them from the bottom of my heart (exaggerating much? Maybe... :P ). He is so good-looking. For now I have watched three of his movies (all on Hello) and they are all pretty good.
The first movie that I saw him in was Master. Ironically, at that time I was more interested in seeing Kim Woo Bin (whom I like quite a lot too) in a non-teenage-bad-boy role. I didn't even notice Gang Dong Won much when he appeared at the beginning of the movie, maybe because he was playing a rather arrogant guy and I didn't care much for him. But later in the movie he smiled, and I looked up the actor.
After that I saw him in A Violent Prosecutor. That movie was also quite good.
Then on Sunday I just saw him in Secret Reunion, and I don't know whether he's just growing on me, but I just like him more and more.
When looking him up, I noticed that he actually also acted in Kundo: Age of the Rampant, which Hello had shown but I didn't watch because it didn't look interesting enough.
Next week they are showing Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned. That makes five movies of his that Hello is showing (and I'm not sure whether I missed mentioning any). From the synopsis, it's not really a movie that I would definitely watch, but maybe I should watch it just to see how he does.
Anyway, I have been watching those that sound interesting, and in the process, discovered a few actors as well. One thing that I noticed is that Hello seems to keep showing movies that feature certain actors. At first there was Kim Myung Min, whom I had seen in Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead (if not mistaken that was on another TV channel; the movie wasn't that good :P ). Hello showed Open City, which was so-so, A Day, which was good, and more recently Deranged, which I had already watched before with Snorlax (I think it was okay but not that good).
A Day also starred Byun Yo Han, whom they had also featured in Will You Be There? (this one is very good; it's based on a book by Guillaume Musso and now I'm dying to read the original) But I don't think they have shown any other movies with Byun Yo Han, so maybe that's a coincidence.
Then there is the actress Son Ye Jin who acted in Open City with Kim Myung Min. Among her movies, Hello also showed Be With You, a super-sweet story that was adapted from a Japanese novel (I thought it would be a cheesy love story and only switched on the TV because I wasn't doing anything else, but it turned out to be a beautiful story), Classic (which I also thought would be cheesy, and it was slightly cheesy, except that the love story in the past was more dramatic and it wasn't so bad after all), and The Pirates, which I didn't watch because it didn't sound interesting.
The other actor that they seem to be featuring is Gang Dong Won. For this one, I thank them from the bottom of my heart (exaggerating much? Maybe... :P ). He is so good-looking. For now I have watched three of his movies (all on Hello) and they are all pretty good.
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| Gang Dong Won photo courtesy of AsianWiki |
After that I saw him in A Violent Prosecutor. That movie was also quite good.
Then on Sunday I just saw him in Secret Reunion, and I don't know whether he's just growing on me, but I just like him more and more.
When looking him up, I noticed that he actually also acted in Kundo: Age of the Rampant, which Hello had shown but I didn't watch because it didn't look interesting enough.
Next week they are showing Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned. That makes five movies of his that Hello is showing (and I'm not sure whether I missed mentioning any). From the synopsis, it's not really a movie that I would definitely watch, but maybe I should watch it just to see how he does.
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