Lee Joon Ki to Play a Violent Man in New Drama

Amidst the current dispute with Mentor Entertainment, Lee Joon Ki is poised to take on a new drama, playing as a violent man. He will be working with star writer Song Ji Na who also wrote “Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi”.

The drama currently titled “The Story of Men“, talks about how a man causes the collapse of a huge multinational corporation. Writer Song Ji Na had mentioned briefly about the plot of “The Story of Men” on her blog after she finished “Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi”. She said :

“I have always wanted to write a story about a violent man. And I now wish to make them the focus of my story.”

Lee Joon Ki will play as someone who actively seeks redress for his father but fails in the end which then causes him to be sentenced to imprisonment. According to a related personnel :

“Song Ji Na has already chosen Lee Joon Ki right from the start. Although the contract has not been signed yet but we can basically confirm Lee Joon Ki’s participation in this project.”

Well no matter how excited you are, just wait for further confirmation. Things are definitely prone to changes, especially with Lee Joon Ki’s ongoing dispute with his agency.

Source : DongA via Sohu, Hanfever

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Lee Jun Ki #6th “Asian best actors”

Hallyu actors Kwon Sang Woo, Song Seung Heon, and Lee Jun Ki were selected in the top 10 of “Asian best actors” which the research was taken place in Japan. Last week, in the Japanese famous Asahi TV program “SmaSTATION” a recent researched poll showed that three Korean actors placed the upper region which was about “Japanese females best young Asian actor best 10″.

This recent poll showed the Asian actors’ popularity. Kwon Sang Woo who made a great syndrome in Japan due to the air of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ ranked 2nd, and Song Seung Heon who acted innocent love in ‘Autumn Tale’ and ‘Summer Scent’ placed 4th. Through ‘King and the Clown’, Lee Jun Ki showed his neutral charm and he ranked 6th.

More than 500 Japanese females participated in this poll and the 1st place went to a Taiwanese Star F4 (‘Meteor Garden’). On the other hand, actor/singer Rain placed 10th which indicated that his popularity is reaching in Japan.

Credit : nownews & Lee Jun Ki Fan Group

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Lee Jun Ki starring in “Hero’s Slam”

According to surfacing news since September, Nicholas Tse, Charlene, Han Kyung, Lee Jun Ki, Isabella Leong, Louis Koo, and Jordan Chan will star in Andrew Lau’s new suspense film, temporarily named “Hero’s Slam” The film is set to start filming in December, and wouldn’t be out until December of 2009. The movie will focus on Love and basketball, the main actor is said to be Nicholas Tse and the female lead is Charlene Choi. The story unfolds like this.

The national basketball tournament is coming up, and all the teams are racing to get their seat in the game. Two arch enemy teams in the tournament is Cyclone and The King. Ushering their team into the finals for both teams is important to characters Chen Chi-nan (Nicholas Tse) and Su Qian (Louis Koo). For another team, the Tornado, Miyazawa (Han Geng) is the soul. The two important figures in the regular operations on the basketball court, what will happen … who will do better … a lot of action sequence will be added to make the audience believe the game’s intensity … they are going to set off a big climax.

Credit : Sina, Livi-SaManic-Charlene @ Asianfanatics

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“A Time for Dogs & Wolves” #1 on Yahoo! Drama Poll

“A Time for Dogs and Wolves,” a drama series which aired on MBC last year, has been chosen by Korean and Japanese internet users as the best drama series of the year. According to the organizing committee of the annual Seoul Drama Awards, the drama received 60.1% of the total votes cast from September 4 to October 5 on Yahoo! Korea and Yahoo! Japan.

The recent poll was conducted solely online. A total of 16.8 million people cast their votes on Yahoo! Korea while 17.8 million people cast votes on Yahoo! Japan. However, as one person could cast votes more than once, the total number of votes is likely to be more than the actual number of people who took part in the poll.

2TV’s “Hong Gil-dong, the Hero” took the second spot with 36.9% while MBC’s “Coffee Prince” took the third spot with 2.0%. Actors that starred in “A Time for Dogs and Wolves” also topped the rankings. Lee Jun-ki and Nam Sang-mi shared the number one spot with 60.1% and 47.9%, respectively. Actor Kang Ji-hwan took the number two spot with 36.8% while Sung Yoo-ri took the number two spot in the female category with 39.1%.

Source : KBS Global

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‘Iljimae’ to Air in Japan Starting November

“Iljimae,” a popular drama series on SBS which recorded an average viewer rating of 31.4%, will be aired in Japan. The drama series stars popular actor Lee Jun-ki.

The satellite channel So-net TV, which specializes in introducing Hallyu drama series through “Asia Dramatic TV,” plans to air Iljimae in Japan starting November 24. “Mawang,” a popular drama series that was recently remade in Japan, as well as “Lobbyist” and “Gyeongseong Gibang Movie Theater” will also be aired in Japan.

So-net TV opened an official website for Iljimae on October 10. It also plans to air a special documentary on the drama series on November 15.

Source : KBS Global

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Lee Jun Ki, Korea’s most famous actor

For the upcoming 14th, ‘Seoul Drama Festival’ held an online popularity poll for a month and Lee Jun Ki received most than half of the votes and came in 1st place. The poll started last month on the 4th till the 5th of October and Lee Jun Ki received a total of 58.9% votes and became Korea’s most famous actor. Following him, Kang Ji Hwan placed 2nd and Gong Yoo placed 3rd. Like online poll trends, new actors received more votes due to their popularity amongst young adults.

Lee Jun Ki has recently been in conflict with his company and this result must have a more special meaning for him. His fans seem to encourage him with this online poll.

On the other hand, Lee Jun Ki’s recent drama ‘Iljimae’ is planning to be aired on the 25th of next month in Japan’s famous broadcasting program ‘Sky Perfect TV’ so his popularity in Korea is soon going to head on to Japan as well.

Credit : Sportsseoul, Lee Jun-ki Fan Group

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Actor Lee Jun-ki Faces Lawsuit

Actor Lee Jun-ki faces a lawsuit as his management agency filed a compensation suit against Lee and his manager identified as Lee for breaking a contract to stash part of his performance fee.

The Seoul Central District Court said Sunday his management agency Mentor Entertainment had filed a suit to demand the actor pay 500 million won ($500,000) in compensation for breaking a contract between the two parties.

In the petition, the agency stated, “The contract signed in May 2004 stipulates the actor belongs to Mentor Entertainment for five years and must work exclusively for the company. But the 26-year-old movie star recently established his own agency in association with his manager.”

The company claimed Lee had stashed more than one billion won.

“He must be banned from working for the self-established company until the contract with Mentor Entertainment expires,” the company added.

Lee immediately refuted the allegation.

“I underwent significant financial damage as the company was poor in dealing with tax affairs and profit distribution,” Lee claimed in a statement. “I notified the company of contract cancellation in February.”

Lee, born in 1982 in Busan, south Gyeongsang Province, is a popular actor and model. He leaped to stardom by appearing in the epic film, “The King and the Clown” in 2006.

Source : Koreatimes.co.kr

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Mentor Entertainment Sues Leejunki

On the 28th of September, Lee Joon Ki’s talent agency, Mentor Entertainment, brings Lee Joon Ki and his manager to court for breach of contract and demands a compensation of 500 million won.

In the details submitted to the court, Mentor Entertainment claimed that there was an agreement with Lee Joon Ki that he was not allowed to sign contracts with other companies within the 5 years with Mentor. However in November last year, Lee Joon Ki and his manager Kim, setup a new company secretly. They have used the new company to gain contracts and profited more than 1 billion won in the process. Mentor demanded 500 million won compensation from Lee Joon Ki and for him to stop all his commercial activities till the end of the contract.

Lee Joon Ki’s manager rebutted Mentor Entertainment’s claims. He said, “Mentor was the one who breached the contract in the first place. They have been delaying the pay for Lee Joon Ki since last year. We have already submitted the court application in February to renounce the contract between Lee Joon Ki and Mentor Entertainment”.

Neither side seems willing to relent at this moment. Therefore a court case is inevitable.

Source : Newsen, Mydaily, Hanfever

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Lee Joon-ki praised for his emotional acting skills

Lee Joon-ki, the 26 year old actor has recently finished filming for the SBS drama “Iljimae”.

He has previousle been in the movie “The King and the Clown” and dramas “My Girl” and “Time Between Dog and Wolf – Drama” where he was the character who faced tragedies. And he is well praise for his ability to portray such complex tragic emotions rather than simply expressing sadness.

Lee Joon-ki is confident in acting these kinds of emotions and says that it is his proudest skill. He said that the “Iljimae” director has praised him for this.

His definition of artist is a person who plays the contents with passionate vitality which is one of the reasons for choosing to be in “Iljimae”. Lee said that people could be attracted to this drama because it was a historical fictio that was fused with a superhero story.

Source : Hancinema & Daum.net

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“Jk Special Film” Jun Ki’s fan meeting in Japan

Lee Jun Ki will have a fan meeting in Japan. named Jk Special Film

- In Osaka (Grand Cube Osaka) on October 06, 2008
- In Tokyo (Nakano Sun Plaza) on October 07, 2008.

All the seat fee 10,500 Yen (including tax). For more detail, please visit Here

Schedule
18:00 – Opening
19:00 – Raising the curtain
22:00 – End

Credit : Crunchyroll Fan Group, Tellmeclub, Junki Thai family

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