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SS501 leader Kim HyunJoong has gained recognition as Hallyu star throughout Southeast Asia.
In ‘2009 Yahoo! Asia Buzz Awards’ held on 14-Dec in HongKong, he received his solo awards such as Asia Best Male Star award, Taiwan Netizen Choice Best Korean Star award, Korea Netizen Choice Best Male Star award, etc. Recently, he attended a variety show by Japan Fuji TV to be broadcasted as a New Year’s Special.
Out of the well-known Hallyu Stars in Japan, Kim HyunJoong is the only one who got invited by Fuji TV. Japan programs usually invites their own local artistes so it is exceptional that they invited an artiste from another country, i.e Kim HyunJoong. This also shows that Kim HyunJoong’s popularity in Japan is significant.
Not only that, in a recent survey done by Japan’s Hallyu Magazine shows Kim HyunJoong getting first place in drama actor and Hallyu star of next generation sections. Defeating stars who entered into the Japan scene earlier than Kim HyunJoong, such as Lee ByungHun, Ryu ShiWon, Kim Bum, Lee MinHo, etc. making the victory even more meaningful.
Kim HyunJoong’s popularity continues to spread to other Asia countries. He received invitations from Asia countries such as China, HongKong, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, etc, furthermore ‘Boys Over Flowers’ had been exported to over 10 Asia countries, leading the Hallyu wave. In the new year, SS501 will visit Thailand as part of their Asia Tour stop in January.
Even though Kim HyunJoong acted in romantic scenes with his unique sensitive acting which captured many females’ heart, he displays powerful masculine attractiveness and quintessence metro-sexual in SS501 performances.
Kim HyunJoong also generated the first syndrome this year in Korea with ‘Boys Over Flowers’, receiving the name of ‘Nation’s Sunbae’ and recognition rises rapidly, constantly involved in various fashion shows, dinner shows as well as large-scale and small-scale events.
As the new Asia’s Hallyu leader, there is a lot of attention on Kim HyunJoong to suppress Yon-sama.
The final round lies between SS501 and Big Bang to get the title of the best idol.
Shopping mall www.martzzang.com has a sudden increase of visitors with its Male Idol Tournament. Upcoming till 9am 31-Dec, the tournament will be held for 2 days where the winners of the first 2 rounds, SS501 and Big Bang will have their final round of competition.
Martzzang.com ambitiously prepared this male idol group tournament with 4 groups DongBangShinGi, SS501, Big Bang and 2PM divided into 2 rounds to compete on their album sales. First round (22-Dec) is DBSG vs SS501 where SS501 won with 69%. Second round (24-Dec) is Big Bang vs 2PM where Big Bang got the victory with 64%.
In this final round, SS501’s mini album ‘REBIRTH’ with title song ‘Love Like This’ will compete against Big Bang’s 2009 Concert Live Album ‘Big Show’. The winner among the 2 groups will become the ‘Best Male Idol Star’.
Martzzang.com’s representative Lee JungGap said “Both groups, SS501 and Big Bang, have a huge amount of fans so it is difficult to forecast the victory of this competition, so it makes the competition more interesting. Please anticipate to see who would obtain the honor of being the best idol star.”
Through 1 on 1 sales figure competition, martzzang.com will provide bonus to the customer who bought the victory product. To repay its customers for their support, martzzang.com will also donate its proceeds from this male idol group tournament to the charity.
Martzzang.com has planned to hold competitions for sale of smart phones and cars and various other items next year. Martzzang competition which customers wish to have can be suggested through customers’ recommendation section.
Best Male Actor: Kim Hyun Joong (6363 votes 67.3%)
Best Male Actor: Kim Hyun Joong (6363 votes 67.3%)
Next Generation Male Star: Kim Hyun Joong (6449 votes 83.4%)
Only less than a week left for year 2009.
Year of Cow, KiChookNyun (the numbering of years in olden days), is about to finish and waiting for the Year of Tiger, KyungInNyun, the year of white tiger to come.
Who are the stars, born in year of Tiger, greeting a year of their own, let’s see it first on screen.
Among the entertainers who are born in year of Tiger, there are a lot of top stars.
Shall we take a look at idol stars first?
The most promising star is SS501’s Kim HyunJoong.
Beginning of this year, he debuted successfully as an actor through ‘Boys Over Flowers’, and returned to be a singer in the later half of the year, and gained good responses from overseas too.
Not only in Korea, he was scouted (maybe for commercials..) in Taiwan and other Asia countries. Seems like next year would be Kim HyunJoong’s year too.
DongBangShinGi has 3 members born in year of Tiger.
They are YouKnow Yunho, YoungWoong JaeJoong, Micky YooChun.
Recently, they have expanded their fields into acting, making us anticipate their new change.
74er pretty boy actors’ activities are also to be anticipated.
UmTaeWoong, leading HoonNam (ugly but gentle guy) line, we expect he will gain higher popularity next year too.
Another actor is Joo JinMo.
Even though drama ‘Dream’ did not achieve success this year, he will return next year with movie ‘MooJukJa’ which is a remake of ‘A better tomorrow’, which gathered much anticipation from fans.
Choi MinSoo who recently returned as an actor after ending a long period of hiatus, is also born in year of Tiger.
He will start with a year-end special drama ‘Father’s House’ and will be accepting a Hollywood movie.
Nation’s singer Jo YongPil, movie actor Moon SoRi, Choi SuJong are also born in year of Tiger.
Entering into the year of their own zodiac, we shall look forward to their active participation.
Actress Goo Hyun Jung can smile happily in year 2009. Goo Hyun Jung won the 'Best Actor of the year' with a total points of 392.8 in the Annual Star Award. Graded by 100 professional judges, Goo Hyun Jung won 49% (392 points), almost half of the total votes and mobile votes of 0.4% (0.8points), winning the champion.
Lee Byung Hun won the 2nd with a total points of 200.2 points. 25% professional votes and mobile votes of 0.1%.
Younger actors are also active and outshine. Idol group SS501's Kim Hyun Joong and new comer Lee Min Ho who started the 'Flower boy' wave after 'Boys over Flowers' was broadcast, won 3rd & 4th. They have very high popularity. Both Kim Hyun Joong and Lee Min Ho gain 1% support by the professional judges, but in the mobile votes, Kim Hyun Joong has a total votes of 53.2% whereas Lee Min Ho has a total votes of 39.8%.
The judging method for the Annual Star Award is by adding 80% Professional Votes and 20 % Mobile Votes.