Different Worlds Apart

Shin'cha! Hontoni! Otherwise I cannot explain how South Korea can come up with so many good-looking, handsome guys in their early to mid twenties (and beyond).
Specimen no. 1 Junchuu aka Mickey in Sungkyunkwan Scandal


© credits to the awesome folks @ soompi

When did he become so pretty????



Thanks to the rec of dangermousie I watched Reign of Assassins with Michelle Yeoh and Gong Jung-woo. I really, really liked the movie. Usually I don't watch wuxia much even though I have had a long lasting love affair with King Hua movies from the 1970's (A Touch Of Zen). More recent wuxia was either too long (Tiger & Dragon - don't remind me I was soooo disappointed of that particular movie and would have loved to see more of the Yeoh/Chow pairing which was much more interesting IMHO) or too fantasy/horror.

Anyway, RoA was good, and it had some interesting twists and turns that kept the story going. I especially adore Michelle Yeoh, one of the few martial arts actresses that not only has a very good fighting technique and wire work, but is also an exceptional actress and a beauty to boot.


Okay, and it had Korean eye-candy LOL


And together they are adorable


As dangermousie said, a Mr & Mrs Smith wuxia style, just with a better Brangelina pairing :)

Lately it seems that slash is all around me ... while I was marathoning the first seven eps The City Hall yesterday, the two male protatognists were in a conversation about their uni days and then Guk Jo (love interest of Kim Sun-ah's character) asked this guy: "We didn't sleep with each other, did we?" He then broke into embarrassed laughter (going like: OH aren't I funny sort of guy) By which the other guy (minor character) replied in a serious tone: "Yes (we did)."

WOAH! That's better than watching JJH and Waffle Boy dancing around the issue in Antique Bakery.

And then I turned to the Banjun dramas of DBSK and I came across Yunho and JJ making out in front of a red phone booth ...

Okay, I submit. I herewith declare the superiority of slash in this world, and in my fandom(s).

What JE couldn't accomplish, the Koreans certainly did :P

And this is for little_witch27 - the clips are from various DBSK Banjun dramas. I told you ... it's canon slash :)

Sigh ... why can't someone make this for SMAP or Naito???



But then again, almost all DBSK vids are sooooo made for fake subs ... it seems as if they are planned and made to tell fans .. go ahead .. we offer this on a silver platter do your worst :D

me really don't need another fandom ...

Somehow I can't bend my mind around the fact that Tohoshinki are the same guys as DBSK/TVXQ.
Their style is so different ... while in Japan as Tohoshinki they come across as the typical boy band ...

exhibit no.1 (with SMAP)



... in Korea as DBSK (Dong Bang Shin Ki) they mutate into a visual kei boy/rock band :)

exhibit no. 2


.. and currently as TVXQ they release Mirotic ... boyband ... a very gay boyband with those sleek haircuts.

exhibit no. 3


I think I like the visual kei look best - Heeeee :) And it's with TRAX :)