Spring is right around the corner (finally!). And casual clothing brand Giordando already brought out the big gun, Jang Dong-gun and Jung Ryu-won as the models of choice for the new season. Absent from the ads is fellow superstar, Rain.
Doesn’t the face painting make you feel all spring-y inside?
Jang Dong-gun will star in the upcoming movie Laundry Warrior (2008).
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Donggun-ssi is a real hottie. He is fantastic in his ads. He knows how to express himself…a real artist to the core.
“You are the song playing in my heart…”
@ Jee
Yep, saw Coast Guard. JDG was amazing in that (so was the actress who played the girl, don’t know her name). I am looking forward to seeing Medical Brothers–Lee Young Ae is one of my favorite actresses. I can’t wait to see the two of them together. As for All About Eve, I read that is still considered one of Korea’s all-time top K-dramas (along with Winter Sonata which I wasn’t real crazy about). So I have to have that on my list. I saw Taeguki a couple of years ago but I did watch it again recently since I was going through all of JDG’s movies anyway. I re-watched The Promise as well (that was a painfully bad movie, though JDG was so cute as Kunlun–I do like that character). I agree with you, it’s not about his looks. He’s truly an excellent actor. Looks are a bonus but they can hinder an actor as well. Look at Bae Yong Joon. He’s so handsome but can you imagine him playing JDG’s character in Coast Guard? No, not really. But JDG has looks that are good but he’s not “perfect”, so he’s able to be more diverse. I thought he was amazing in Chingu and Typhoon. Also, I actually really loved the movie “Love Wind, Love Song”. I not only liked JDG in that, I loved the whole movie and I don’t usually like these sweet Korean love stories.
P.S.
JDG’s MAX beer commercials are HILARIOUS. They are so adorable. My favorite is the one in the grocery store. Cute-ness! Anyone who hasn’t seen the MAX commercials should try to find them online. You will truly laugh out loud.
@ for real
I don’t think it’s that JDG has a small face. I think the girl has a big face (nothing wrong with that, she’s very pretty). I noticed it before in some other ads with her in them. It’s not very wide, but it’s a bit long. It’s her face that is matching his, not the other way around.
So, I’m assuming you idiots aren’t from the U.S. Slang usage of the word PIMP is a compliment. Now, STFU and go back into your 3rd world caveholes.
There’s NOTHING flattering about the word “pimp”. Stop trying to speak for Americans. No one in America uses this “slang” (translation: “insult”) except in rap/hiphop culture, where the word means anything but something nice and flattering.
Jang Dong Gun is a perfect man! ^_^
haha, I’m sorry, the face paint just made me laugh. seriously, wtf. hahaha.
@Dumpling
It’s so nice to read that you appreciate JDG’s acting now.
Although I don’t like the story of Coastguard, JDG’s acting there is really good. And I really admire JDG because he accepted that movie eventhough he was just paid only about 10% of his usual talent fee when hes very popular and could choose a big budgeted movie that time. But since he really wanted to work with the director of coastguard, he accepted that film and even said that he’s willing to do the movie even for free just to have the chance to work with the coastguard’s director. Imagine almost doing the film for free and working very hard for that movie without thinking of his looks, JDG is really a true actor.
@Dumpling – are you kidding me? If you call any guy a pimp, they would be happy. I’m a guy & I’m American. In my circle of friends and most circles in this country, you call the guy who gets all the chicks a pimp. That’s standard, not only in rap culture but in mainstream culture (youth). There’s a double standard here, if you call a girl a hoe / slut it’s derogatory, if you call a guy a pimp it’s complimentary.
dumpling – let me break it to you easily – simplified for the feeble minded, so you can save yourself from the embarrassment, without further ado:
1. Don’t try to act like you know what you are talking about.
2. Go study some more American slang usage, matter of fact, first master your engRish.
3. A lot of people use the term PIMP, not only in hip-hop culture, but just regular street slang… it is in fact a compliment. We are not talking about the literary meaning here, slang usage of the word PIMP would mean something along the lines of: someone who is handsome, gets all the women, has a lot of money, etc.
4. You just got owned.
@johnnydorama
Please take note that about 99% of Popseoul readers are Asians and for Asians like us, calling a person a pimp is not a compliment but an insulting remarks. If that word is acceptable in America, It would never be acceptable in Asia.
@The1One
If the word “PIMP” a complimentary for you and very acceptable in your cicle of friends, then it’s OK. You can can call among your friends PIMPS as much as you liked. But please, don’t try to persuade the readers here that the word PIMP is a generally acceptable term because it’s not.
riksa – then you & the others should take the stick out of your collective azzes. If it wasn’t meant to be insulting & instead a compliment, then take it as such & move on.
Thanks Popseoul for editing johnnydorama’s post.
no problem omo – we are just doing our job
@riksa: 99% are Asians, yet we type in English and this is an ENGLISH SPEAKING WEBSITE BASED IN AMERICA – which could only lead to one not so shocking conclusion: the majority of readers are actually Asian-Americans!
Regardless of your useless statistic however, 99% of Popseoul posts are insulting, and 99% of my comments are insulting as well (the one about JDG was not)… but if you still don’t like my comments, you can take 100% of my fist and shove it up your already full ass.
Wow, debating on words. Generally speaking, I think most guys would take pimp as a compliment. It’s just how its used and its context. Why do people say you’re gay when someone does something idiotic? It’s just the context & how it’s used.
Dong Gun Shi:
Sarang ge yo!♥
Giordano commercials are really good. I miss the ones with JJH though :T didn’t BoA do some as well?
lol @Johnnydorama. I guess only smart people with a sense of humor understand you. And i guess some people need to get in touch with their urban vocabulary. Even girls like to call themselves pimps if they can pick up a some good looking guy/girls in America.
Also, thank you, The1One
@ Dumpling, I haven’t either. Haha, I miss all the smart commentors on popseoul.
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ya’ll.
-sLaVe
LOL. I always enjoy reading the comments on this blog. Debating over the usage of “pimp”. lmao.
@ melda
“Although I don’t like the story of Coastguard, JDG’s acting there is really good.”
The acting was great. The story was troubling. It seemed so obviously politically motivated, which made me question why JDG was so eager to participate in a movie like that. I think more than the subject material he just knew he would really be able to stretch himself under this director.
The DVD that I had has an introduction by the director where he makes a brief statement about the movie and the story he wanted to tell. I found the statement to be very rude and very selfish. Luckily, I watched the introduction AFTER I watched the movie, so I had an open mind. In the statement the director complains about the real-life young men who are subjected to all kinds of difficulties guarding the coast and “we haven’t seen a spy since 2000″ and there’s no reason for all this fuss, that it only leads to problems. Basically, he was saying the ROK guarding the coast is a waste of time and too hard on the soldiers. So he said that’s why he wanted to make this movie and tell this story (a story which is FICTIONAL, by the way–in no way is it based on real events. So he wrote the most outlandish and sensational story he could think of–in which 2 soldiers are harassed by a group of locals, called names, assaulted and threatened, and their service demeaned, i.e. “you just waste tax payers’ money”–just so he could prove a “point” that life is “hard” for the young soldiers guarding S.Korea’s coast line. And all the soldiers in the movie are portrayed as bad guys. It’s a bit anti-military, I would say.
Yeah, I thought it was a dirty trick, this movie. But I loved JDG’s performance too much to hate the movie altogether. I just think the director has issues and comes off as an angry and spoiled child.
By the way, I’ve seen some of the director’s other movies and they always have a scene of women being treated in a sexually agressive way. Can’t help but notice that. All of his movies that I have seen (I think I have seen 4–Coast Guard was the 4th one) are all like this. Dude is a great filmaker but he has issues.
and a JDG fan is happy bec bec a popseoul writer is JDG fan, i hope not every fan of JDG is like you….. 0.0
oh my gosh….
Giodarno at Seoul has nice style. How old is JDG btw?
Absent from the ads is fellow superstar, Rain.
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Rain is not with Giordano anymore. He’s with Calvin Klein now.
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JDG looks really good for his age.
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@Dumpling
Rain and JDG are friends. They weren’t pretending.
OMG! awesome! they’re both my favs!
GORGEOUS!!!
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