Korean boyband JYJ’s member Kim Jaejoong held a fanmeet in Taiwan in his own name for the first time on 23 May, attracting a total of 2600 fans. He sang two songs at the fanmeet, earning one million TWD within a day in Taiwan.

There were four interactive game segments in the fanmeet—Charades, Pictionary, Q&A session as well as “attacking” Jaejoong’s bag to see what was inside. These games allowed fans to be able to interact with Jaejoong upclose, and he even lifted up his top to show off his muscles willingly, causing his manager to break into cold sweat as the fans screamed loudly.

Kim Jaejoong also created a romantic atmosphere, displaying his vocals as he performed “I’ll Protect You”, the OST of Korean drama “Protect The Boss”. He also performed a Korean ballad “For you”. As he loves drawing, he even brought the popular app game “Draw Something” on stage, showing off his talent in drawing. As expected, fans could easily guess his drawings, giving Jaejoong much pleasure.

Surprisingly, Kim Jaejoong actually has much knowledge about health supplements at such a young age! He brings medicine for liver protection, and even vitamins for knee and joints protection everywhere he goes. He explained that he had to ensure that he is constantly in tip top condition as he has filming, and have no other choice but to take care of himself through taking these health supplements, causing fans to feel much heart pain.

Kim Jaejoong missed Taiwan delicacies so much that he chose spicy hotpot for his celebration party after the fanmeet ended. After eating, he immediately posted a picture on twitter of himself holding soup dumplings in one hand, while using chopsticks to hold a piece of meat dumpling in another hand, allowing international fans to feel his happiness being in Taiwan.

Constant yawning during his rushed schedule

Kim Jaejoong held his personal fanmeet at ATT Showbox last night in Taiwan, and even though the most expensive ticket costs 4500 TWD, the tickets were sold out within an hour.

Kim Jaejoong has recently started filming Korean drama “Dr. Jin”, he tweeted yesterday morning showing a series of photos of him yawning, and wrote, “I’m so sleep till I have double eyelids, I’m so tired, ah!”. He arrived in Taiwan in mid-afternoon, and there were 300 fans welcoming him at Taoyuan international airport, and he immediately proceeded to Jinghua Hotel.

At night, fans screamed the minute he appeared at the fanmeet, and after singing “I’ll Protect you” and “For You”, he did his usual greetings to the fans in Chinese, saying, “Hi everyone, I’m Kim Jaejoong.”

Attacking his bag, revealing medicine bottles

It has been a year since Kim Jaejoong last visited Taiwan, and he expressed that he has always been eating soup dumplings and would like to try other Taiwanese delicacies. He laughed, “I want to eat something that’s good for men’s health!”. At which, the host immediately introduced him to snake soup at Huaxi Road, to which Jaejoong asked, “Is it delicious?”. Fans immediately replied, “Ne! (‘Yes!’ in Korean)”. Jaejoong said he would try it the next time.

The contents of his bag was searched and shown during the fanmeet, revealing his wallet, handphone and cologne, as well as knee and liver health supplements and cod oil. He said, “I don’t have time to eat during filming, so I can only eat health supplements to take care of myself.”, leaving fans feeling the heartache for him. He left Taiwan today at 1:30pm via flight KE692.

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“Generation of idol artistes having dual roles”. This is one of the crucial terms that reflects the trend in recent TV dramas. KBS drama “Love Rain” (Girls Generation’s Yoona), “Man From The Equator” (ZE:A’s Lim Si Wan), SBS drama “Fashion King” (Girls Generation’s Yuri), “Rooftop Prince” (JYJ Park Yoochun) are popular TV dramas that chose idol artistes as their main leads. KBS drama “Dream High” season one and two even starred many idol artistes together. Such idol artistes with dual roles have become essential in TV dramas. Idol artistes that acted in these dramas usually became the topic of the town because of their “poor acting skills”. There were people who criticized, “Because these idol artistes got their casting roles in TV dramas due to their popularity and not by abilities, it makes survival difficult for newbie actors of the same age.” So, what do the professional producers and the planners think of their acting skills?

(T/N: Only translating TVXQ related comments)

Ranked 1st: Park Yoochun
Compliment: His acting skills have improved to the point he knows how to “play” with the feelings of the audience. He has developed into an actor who can take on big roles and makes one feel at ease.
Criticism: Acting as a prince that travelled to the future in “Rooftop Prince”, it seems like he is quite unfamiliar with his role, hence the acting is rather unnatural.
Points: 8/10

Ranked 8th: Kim Jaejoong
Compliment: Perfectly portrayed the role of a “New concept Director” in “Protect the Boss”. He has the ability to become an actor with an aura.
Criticism: Without dancing and the stagelights, (his acting) gives one goosebumps. An example of an actor with poor acting skills.
Points: 6/10

Ranked 9th: Shim Changmin
Compliment: In “Paradise Meadow”, he had a good grasp of pronounciations and showed his ability to be able to portray his character well.
Criticism: His acting can only be shown to his diehard fans, but the quality in his acting is still not up to the standard that could be shown to the public.
Points: 5.4/10

Recently, we invited 10 professionals to a survey in examining the acting skills of idol artistes that had acted in or are currently acting in main TV dramas. Male artistes listed in the survey were ZE:A’s Li Si Wan, 2PM’s Ok Taec Yeon, JYJ’s members Kim Jaejoong and Park Yoochun, TVXQ’s Shim Changmin. Female artistes listed were Girls Generation’s Yoona and Yuri, T-ara’s Ji Yeon, and After School’s Uie, and Miss A’s Suzy. The results of the survey revealed that their average acting skills were 6.7/10. This also meant that if the perfect score was 100, the average score did not even hit 70.

The highest scorer of this survey is Park Yoochun. Professionals felt that “he has very good basics of character analysis, pronunciation and grasp of his lines, which an actor possesses.” Girls Generation’s Yuri scored the lowest grade amongst all, and received comments such as “lack the ability to blend into the drama”.

Yoona received comments such as “Has the basic ability of an actress, but lacks that sense of presence that she has in Girl’s Generation as ‘the centre of attention’.”Ji Yeon and Uie received comments such as “Acting skills that have no creativity”, “lack of ‘natural talent’ and responding ability.” Suzy received criticisms from her acting in “Dream High”, but received a“subject to further examinations” comment upon her great acting in the movie “Introduction to Architecture”.

In the male idol artistes category, Kim Jaejoong and Shim Changmin were among the last few. Professionals commented that Kim Jaejoong, “is used to looking at the red light camera when singing on stage, and he brought this habit into acting.” Changmin received comments such as “his desire to act as a lead surpasses his actual acting ability”. Many professionals felt that Ok Taec Yeon and Lim Si Wan had greater possibilities to progress on.
Regarding on the reason why there is a gradual increase in the amount of idol artistes acting in dramas, Sung Kyun Kwan University’s head and professor of the faculty in mass communication Kim Seon Ju said, “To battle against the intense viewership fight, many productions resort to the high popularity of idol artistes”. There were experts that pointed out, “these dual roles idol artistes are usually the masters of the K-POP trend, hence, it also aids in the international exports of dramas.”

However, there are still doubts about whether these idol artistes are a “guarantee” to high viewership. This year, the second season of “Dream High” bagged a low viewership of 6%. The viewership of“Fashion King” and “Rooftop Prince” were only about 10%.

An expert expressed, “Recently due to the shortage of new actors, it is the first time idol artistes take on the main roles in TV dramas. They should start acting from supporting roles, and improve their acting skills through acting in long drama serials and comedies, instead of taking on the role of main leads.” The ex-tv director of SBS Yun Joon il said, “(They) have to start practising from pronunciation first. This is not just a basic ability you have to have to achieve success as an actor, but also something you have to have as a singer.”


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On Monday, May 21, 2012 the MBC Korean Music Wave In Google will be held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. To celebrate this event, we are giving away two (2) tickets to two randomly selected individuals that answer the below triva questions correctly.

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JYJ Kim Junsu has become one of the candidates in the running for the 6th “The Musical Awards” as best male actor.

The Press Center held the press conference of the 6th “The Musical Awards” at Seoul on 9 May at 2pm, announcing the candidates and works that will be participating in this awards. The best actor and actress award in the musical category caught the most attention.

Especially in the musical “Elisabeth”, Kim Junsu, who acted as “Death”, appeared in the list of “Best Actor Award”, while Park Eun Tae and Kim Su Yong, who acted as “Lucheni” are candidates for the “Best Supporting Actor Award”. According to the exposure of the roles in the musical, it seemed as if Lucheni should be the main actor, however, The Musical Awards claims that Death should be the main role, and Lucheni as the supporting role.

Regarding this matter, The Musical Awards expressed, “The determining of main and supporting roles depends on how one views the musical, and there would definitely be parts which cannot be determined. It is definitely not accurate to go according to the musical producers’ plan of determining the main and supporting roles through the actors’ characters. However, we have had come to this decision after discussions with the producers.”

They also mentioned, “The judging team feels that the main character should be a character that portrays maturity through a series of experiences, while the supporting role aids in the progressing of the whole musical. Considering that Lucheni does the explanation of the whole musical, he should be the supporting character.”

The musical “Elisabeth” has been nominated in 12 catagories, which includes the best main and supporting actors, best main and supporting actresses, as well as the best director award. This is the most number of categories a musical has ever been nominated in the history of The Musical Awards.

Also, the “Most Popular Award” will be determined through 100% internet votes. Everyone would be able to vote for all nominated musicals, main and supporting actors and actresses online from 21st to 31st May.

The 6th “The Musical Awards” will be held at the national Haeorum theatre on 4 June at 8pm, and will be broadcasted on JTBC and QTV at 11pm.

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