Korean heart throb goes home, vows to return
Korean heart throb Bae Yong-joon concluded his two-day visit to Taiwan yesterday, saying that he would definitely return. Bae, a soap opera and movie actor, was in town promoting his soon-to-be-released movie, “April Snow.”
“I will miss you all,” he told a crowd in Mandarin at the National Taiwan University indoor gymnasium to a response of shrills and shrieks. The actor, who has gained significant popularity across Asia, took time to talk with fans out of the more than 2,000 people present following a special screening of his latest movie.
Locally, Bae is probably best known for his work in a Korean soap opera titled “Winter Sonata,” which made a big hit in Taiwan. Perhaps due to the fact that his fame preceded him, Bae came to Taiwan to promote April Snow, also known as “Going Out” in the Korean.
In April Snow, Bae plays In-soo, a lighting engineer who finds out his wife is cheating on him, but then finds himself falling for another woman.
In what is seen by many as a way to counter illegal downloading and pirated DVDs of the movie, producers are distributing the film simultaneously in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan next month.
During his stay, Bae was heavily protected by 72 bodyguards, organizers of his visit said. In addition to his private security, however, ten police officers were dispatched for his departure.
According to a United Evening News report, the airport police department traditionally employs several officers to safeguard stars from places such as Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore who are often mobbed at the airport. They said they can expect hundreds of fans to turn out to see Bae leave the country just as hundreds came to welcome him upon his arrival at Chiang Kai Shek International Airport.
Source: The China Post 2005/8/22
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Comment by seda — May 3, 2007 @ 3:16 am