With August just around the corner, Lee Byung Hun and Lee Min Jung unveiled two cuts from their beautiful wedding photoshoot.
The pictures, revealed through Lee Min Jung’s agency on July 30 showed the two actors smiling brightly as they held each other hands in a comfortable environment.
The photographer who was in charge of the shoot has friendly ties with both actors, making the shoot memorable with all friends around the happy couple.
Lee Byung Hun and Lee Min Jung will tie the knot on August 10 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul.
Gratitude to soompigalz at LMJ soompi for this lovely lovely photo <3
All in on romance
Actress Lee Min-jung of SBS drama “All About My Romance,” left, poses with her fiance, actor Lee Byung-hun, in a pre-wedding photo released by the actress’s agency yesterday. A friend who is a photographer reportedly took the photos for the couple. The two celebrities will get married on Aug. 10 at the Grand Hyatt Seoul Hotel in Hannam-dong, central Seoul. [JoongAng Ilbo]
Korea's Top Actor Lee Byung Hun - Only Nine Days Until His Wedding, Honeymoon in Southeast Asia? WHAT'S THE REASON BEHIND LEE BYUNG HUN AND LEE MIN JUNG’S DECISION TO HONEYMOON IN SOUTHEAST ASIA?
Lee Byung Hun - Only Nine Days Until His Wedding, Honeymoon in Southeast Asia?
What's the reason behind Lee Byung Hun and Lee Min Jung's decision to honeymoon in Southeast Asia?
Well-known actor Lee Byung Hun and actress Lee Min Jung are holding a private wedding ceremony on August 10 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seoul. Because of both their busy schedules, they decided to have their honeymoon at a nearby destination.
With just a few days remaining before the wedding, they still haven't decided a specific place, but the two agreed to 'go somewhere as close as possible in Southeast Asia where [they] can rest.' It is speculated that Lee Byung Hun's upcoming project and busy schedule were influential in making this decision.
Lee Byung Hun has been busy promoting the movie 'Red 2' (aka 'Red: The Legend' even up until the last month, and before he could catch his breath, is already scheduled to work with Jeon Do Yeon in the movie 'Female Warrior: Memories of the Sword' right after his wedding. He has training sessions for the action scenes in his next movie right up until the beginning of next week, and also plans to continue his monthly routine of keeping up with Japanese relations until his wedding day.
Lee Byung Hun and Lee Min Jung have traveled to America together recently. Not only that, due to their respective schedules, they have frequently traveled overseas, and that is why they plan to honeymoon somewhere nearby. Moreover, since the couple plans to spend at least a day with their guests coming from overseas, they really can't afford to go very far for their honeymoon.
The couple is busy making all different kinds of preparations before the wedding. Lee Min Jung is taking care of the small details, such as preparing their newlywed home and checking the guest list, whereas Lee Byung Hun is catering to the big picture things, such as the wedding ceremony itself.
Cinema still: G.I. Joe: Retaliation starring Lee Byung Hun. -- PHOTO: UIP
With Red 2, his second English-language movie this year, South Korean actor Lee Byung Hun’s star continues to burn brightly in Hollywood.
The new movie has boosted Lee – a major film and television star across Asia, with new fans in the West – to the point where he is now getting recognised on the street in the United States, he says.
His Red 2 co-stars Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren say it is recognition well-earned, both singing his praises at a recent press event in New York.
The feelings are mutual. Lee says he was beside himself when he learnt he would be working with them and other members of the star-studded cast. “I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep. Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich – they’re my heroes.”
“Helen... I grew up with her movies too,” he tells Life! and other reporters. “Her image is so cold and tough but in real life, she is amazingly beautiful and amazingly nice. I really love and admire her.”
Willis, who worked with Lee in another action film released earlier this year, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, was the one who first suggested roping in the 43-year-old actor for Red 2, the sequel to the 2010 film about special agents coming out of retirement.
Here he plays Han, a contract killer hired to kill Frank Moses, Willis’ ex-CIA agent character.
Lee – who has appeared in the Korean series All In (2003) and Iris (2009), as well as internationally acclaimed films such as director Kim Ji Woon’s A Bittersweet Life (2005) – was also an assassin-type character in G.I. Joe: Retaliation and 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, his Hollywood debut.
Although the three Hollywood films have required him to flex his muscles and show his martial arts moves, Red 2 calls for more dialogue, including some that required good comic timing.
Lee acquitted himself well, Willis reports. “He’s a really terrific actor. Funny and really helpful in scenes that were more complicated physically,” says the American star of the Die Hard films.
Mirren, who plays another assassin out to kill Willis, went to a film festival in London to watch one of Lee’s Korean movies, Gwanghae: The Man Who Became King.
In the 2012 historical drama, he plays both a king and the lowly acrobat who stands in for the monarch when his life is threatened.
“He was absolutely brilliant in it,” enthuses the British actress who won the Best Actress Oscar for The Queen (2006), adding: “It was pure acting. And to see him as this incredible martial arts actor as well, I think he’s really special.”
Mirren and another cast member, Mary-Louise Parker, make admiring references to Lee’s chiselled physique in this film, which features a scene where his character is forced to take off all his clothes.
“Yeah, every Hollywood movie makes me go naked,” Lee jokes, adding, “I wish they would stop it” because it means a punishing diet and exercise regimen that lasts for months. “Every character I have done in Hollywood so far, I have had to be perfect, physically,” he says.
“In Red 2, there was one line in the script that said, ‘Han is naked. His body is perfect’. Because of that line, I had to go on this diet,” he says of his high-protein, sugar- and salt-free regimen.
“I was in New Orleans, which is famous for fried food and has a lot of great bars, and I couldn’t enjoy it because I was filming,” says the actor, who is set to marry South Korean actress Lee Min Jung, 31, next Saturday.
He hopes that as his career in the United States grows, he will eventually be able to branch out and do different genres, just as he does back home.
“Unlike in Hollywood, I’m just an actor in Korea. We do various genres, we don’t distinguish between action stars versus dramatic actors. We do everything.”
Things are progressing in the right direction, if the level of recognition he gets from paparazzi is any indication. But as a humbling reminder, he just has to think back to a time when none of them knew who he was.
When he left a cast party for the first G.I. Joe film, for instance, he remembers spotting about 30 photographers waiting outside.
“I said to my manager, ‘Do I look okay?’ but when I walked out, the photographers were like, ‘Move, move!’ because they wanted me out of the way,” he recalls, laughing. “Nobody recognised me. I was so embarrassed!”
This story was originally published in the Straits Times Life! on Aug 1, 2013
As commemorative launch of BullsOne new website, new TVCF featuring top actor Lee Byung Hun as the new model have been released in 4 different version of 30s and 15s commercial clips.
ismaha posted on 20-7-2013 02:49 PM
Katt, boleh x is nak request, suruh LBH join show Running man
Teringin ...
Hmm.. susah nak cakap.. BH ni bukannya jenis yang suka appear on variety shows. At least not anymore.. dulu2 masa dia muda2 dah kerap sangat buat variety show. Hari tu yang dia agree nak buat 'Healing Camp' pun sebab LMJ yang encourage. Fans terkejut jugak sebab BH ni memang sangatlah elusive.. jarang2 sangat nak cerita personal stuff tapi sebab Healing Camp tu fave show Minjung, dia pun agree.. sayang punya pasal, kan.
Aishh.. tinggal 4 hari je lagi.. dah nak kahwin our Byunghun-ssi. Mesti meriah di Seoul dengan fans yang datang dari HK, Japan etc. Tapi kita sini sibuk dengan Raya.. macam last year.
Is.. nanti check soompi for the latest updates. Kita minta friends and other fans to update masa wedding tu. Kalau tak sibuk sangat hari Sabtu tu.. yelah tu, Raya ke-3 mesti ramai datang.. kalau tak sibuk, I'll post as well. Tapi di thread ni mungkin lewat sikit.
Apa2 pun, LBH soompi will be updated first. Then the EverythingLBH website.
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katt posted on 5-8-2013 01:25 PM
Hmm.. susah nak cakap.. BH ni bukannya jenis yang suka appear on variety shows. At least not any ...
alaaa tp RM kan bukan talk show, ,
Ermmm...peluangnya tipis arr neh katt....,
Yela katt lagik 4 hariiii, , ohhh 10 ogos tarikh bahagia BH
memg is dah xsabo ahh nk tgk update2 darik fan di soompi dulu....., yela soompi kan paling cept skali, is akn jengok soompi nnt yeekk
Actor Lee Byung-hun of the movie “Red 2” and actress Lee Min-jung of the SBS drama “All About My Romance” will have a relatively small wedding compared to other celebrity couples, said the actor’s agency yesterday, according to local media reports.
The wedding ceremony, scheduled to happen on August 10, will be closed to the public.
The couple has invited around 900 guests, about half the number other celebrities typically invite to their weddings, including entertainer Park Kyung-rim who invited 2,000 guests to her wedding back in 2007.
“Thank you for sending your blessings to the two who have met their life partners and will create a happy future together,” said the actor’s agency, BH Entertainment.
The couple will have a press conference at 3 p.m., prior to their wedding at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hannam-dong, central Seoul, to share more about their honeymoon plans and future together.
With a wedding on its way, Lee Byung Hun caused Lee Min Jung to cry in a surprise proposal at a movie theater.
According to Lee Byung Hun’s agency, BH Entertainment, Lee Byung Hun organized a special screening of his new movie, Red2 for Lee Min Jung and her friends to watch.
The surprise didn’t start until the end of the movie when Lee Buyng Hun appeared on the screen, confessing his love to her before actually coming into the theater to formally ask Lee Min Jung to marry him.
The company stated that Lee Min Jung was overwhelmed with emotion and couldn’t stop crying at the surprise event.
The couple will get married on August 10 in the presence of around 900 guests.
What's sure to be one of the biggest, most-talked-about weddings this year, is also going to be a relatively small one.The couple announced through BH Entertainment that not only will there be members of the press at the wedding on August 10th, there will only be about 900 guests invited.
This is in comparison to other celebrity weddings that average out to welcome 2,000 people. Comedian Park Kyung-lim had opened her special day up to include 5,000 people!
Media can rest assured though because photo-ops and a press conference will be held before the wedding ceremony.
Celebrities Lee Byung-hun of film “Red 2” and actress Lee Min-jung of SBS drama “All about My Romance,” who are marrying one another on Saturday, will go to the Maldives for their honeymoon, a popular travel destination for newlyweds in Korea.
Many celebrities, including actor Shin Hyun-joon of SBS drama “Stairway to Heaven,” and Sunye of girl group Wonder Girls have gone to the island in the Indian Ocean after their wedding ceremonies.
The couple will announce more details about their honeymoon and other post-wedding arrangements such as their new home and future family plan at a press conference prior to the ceremony.
Saturday’s wedding will happen at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hannam-dong, central Seoul and it is closed to the public. It has been said that the couple has invited around 900 guests.
Counterclockwise from the top, actor Lee Byung-hun, left, poses with Hollywood star Bruce Willis during a promotional event for action comedy film “Red 2,” in which Lee speaks only in English. Actress Bae Doo-na, right, waves her hand while posing with Halle Berry at a promotional event for American sci-fi film “Cloud Atlas.” Singer and actor Rain, right, who is known as Jung Ji-hoon, talks with a foreign film crew while shooting American action film “Ninja Assassin.” / Korea Times file
The Korea-China relationship is closer than ever. Some diplomatic analysts attribute it to President Park Geun-hye delivering a speech in Chinese at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University in June.
She spoke in Chinese for only five minutes in the early part of her 20-minute speech, during which she made multiple pronunciation errors. But the “unprecedented” event, given that a head of state normally speaks only one or two sentences in the language of a country he or she visits at the beginning of a lengthy speech, left Chinese people with a strong impression of her and her willingness to get closer to their country. And it worked.
This case highlights the fact that language is not just a communication tool. The more important function is making an emotional connection and establishing a relationship between people through different languages.
Korean singers and actors seem well aware of this function, so they place equal emphasis on foreign language studies and entertainment work before trying to penetrate overseas markets while riding the Korean wave, or “hallyu.”
It’s no surprise that English is the most sought-after foreign language among Korean entertainers making overseas debuts. In the past, learning English didn’t necessarily mean that entertainers aimed to make their debuts in super competitive English-speaking markets such as the United States and the U.K.
Yet Psy has expanded the sphere with “Gangnam Style.” His mega-hit in those two countries last year with his dance music approved that the world’s two largest markets are no longer impenetrable to Korean entertainers, prompting globe-trotting star-wannabes here to become more aggressive in learning English.
Regrettably Psy is not an ideal example to prove the eagerness, considering that his fluent spoken English was a product of the years he had spent in Boston.
Perhaps a better case in point is actor Lee Byung-hun. The 43-year-old was born in Seoul and has had no educational experience abroad, but he recently played a leading role in a Hollywood action comedy film “Red 2.” The film also stars Bruce Willis and John Malkovich. Many YouTube clips of his TV interviews in English also prove that he is as fluent in the language as Psy.
“I found that my English fluency has improved. This is something other actors, shooting crews, and news reporters I met in Hollywood agreed with,” Lee said during a promotional showcase of the movie in Seoul on June 28. “It’s still mysterious how it could happen. Actually I had no time studying English because I was so busy.” He wrapped up the comment with a joke, “Perhaps it was possible because of how smart I must be.”
In another interview with KBS TV one month later, Lee admitted, “It’s still uncomfortable for me to speak in English. But I try to improve it through trial and error.”
Unlike Lee, many celebrities here rely on private classes. In most cases, a management agency hires a native English speaker or a professional Korean English tutor to educate its entertainers. They normally receive classes at the agency’s office, but the venue is flexible depending on the working schedule of the learner. It has been said that a top singer’s English tutor taught the singer inside a car, accommodating the singer’s schedule.
The singer Rain, also known as Jung Ji-hoon, is known to have learned English from actor Lee Bum-soo’s wife Lee Yoon-jin, a professional Korean-English interpreter. Though the singer’s fame is largely tainted due to a series of unsavory scandals he was embroiled in during his military service, the 31-year-old, who made his U.S. debut in 2008 through the action movie “Speed Racer,” and reinforced his fan base with “Ninja Assassin” in 2009, will be back on stage soon to regain his past glory.
“I started teaching him (Rain) with his U.S. debut only 100 days away,” interpreter Lee said. “Back then he did not have enough time to learn English step by step. So my teaching was focused on how to deliver ‘key messages’ in English during interviews there. Actually there is no problem catching a speaker’s key message with only a couple of words or sentences.”
Actress Bae Doo-na seems to be another trial-and-error based English learner like actor Lee. The 34-year-old boasted about her English fluency in the American sci-fi film “Cloud Atlas,” in which she acted with big name Hollywood stars such as Tom Hanks and Halle Berry.
“I acted with what I had learned of English during my high school years,” Bae said in an interview earlier this year. “I managed to film my scenes through countless trial-and-error. Many of those who watched the movie think I’m a fluent English speaker, but that’s really not the case. I still feel uncomfortable speaking in English.” Following the production, she stayed in London for six months to learn English, according to her management agency.
Comedian Kim Young-chul is widely known as an avid English learner, though there is no immediate sign of an overseas debut. He said learning English will help realize his dream of becoming a global comedian, “like Jim Carrey.” He has published seven books, including four on English conversation.
Kim told The Korea Times in March that learning a language “takes time no matter how smart you are.”
“On the flip side, as long as you try persistently, anyone can learn it,” Kim said. “In this era of globalization, English is something you have to live with. Thus, it is important to have fun with it because it will be a long race.” Last edited by katt on 9-8-2013 03:20 PM
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