For adopting an adorable Korean baby girl!

Although this isn’t exactly related to KPOP, it’s still relevant as pop culture in Korea.

Katherine Heigl, U.S. cinematic gold at the moment, has surprised both Korean and American audiences by revealing pictures of her and her singer husband Josh Kelley’s newly adopted baby: Nancy Leigh or ”Naleigh” as they like to call her. Naleigh is also a special needs child, although it is not quite clear to the media what exactly her special needs are yet.

Heigl explained that she had always been anticipating the adoption of a Korean baby, seeing as her sister, Meg, is a Korean adoptee herself. Her husband was understanding and, from the looks of the pictures, more than willing to adopt the child. Congrats to the new parents of Naleigh! I wonder if this little Korean-American will break out into American show biz when she grows up. It’s always nice to see couples open their hearts to adoption.

Who doesn’t melt when seeing those man-doo cheeks on babies?

If you don’t find babies cute, you somehow missed the natural selection train where the cutest babies need to survive.

Park Ji-hun, the leader of V.O.S, recently revealed that he had a secret family in tow after a solid five years in the industry. The 30 year-old balladeer has been with his high school sweetheart, Sun Myung-sun, for the past seventeen years. Even though they haven’t been able to officially marry, they have even popped out a little one in 2006 by the name of Chan Bi-na, which translates roughly into “a brilliantly shining light.” Park Ji-hun provides a little perspective and background to his situation.

Both of us were born in Dae-jeon. My wife was studying in the school next to mine at ShinIl Girls’ High and we met through a mutual friend when we were in our third year of high school. We became each other’s first love. When I was approaching adulthood, I realized I wanted to do music and my wife supported me all the way. I went to the army when I was twenty-two, and thus had to postpone any plans for marriage or a musical career. After I got out of army, I wanted to pursue a singing career again. I will never forget how my wife has always been supportive towards my goals and decisions. But in the end when I really debuted as a singer, our marriage could not take place. It was painful not to be able to tell everyone about our son. It was tiring to hold back the freedom of my family for the sake of my status as a singer. When the news of our second child came, I was prepared to tell everyone about my family. I did not want it to be the case that our second child to arrive in August will not get any blessings. We thank all the fans who have been so supportive to our family.”

Got to admit, Park Ji-hun and his wife both have a lot of courage, tolerance, and love for one another to put up with this kind of situation. He could have easily ditched his girlfriend to become famous, and she could have easily left him for being a “selfish jerk.” Yet, they have remained together for SEVENTEEN years in secrecy, and the fire doesn’t seemed to have fizzled out, since they are going to bring another baby into this world.

For any of you feeling animosity for Park Ji-hun forcing his family into hiding for the sake of his music career, here are some more pictures of the tike. Bitchan looks like such a happy precocious kid, and at least now, his daddy won’t have to worry about scarring him for life anymore.

Can you guess who this is?

It’s none other than 2PM’s resident prankster, Woo-young. Photographs of young Woo-young have been released, and netizens are just so fascinated that he wasn’t a boring looking kid. He also pretty much looks exactly the same as when he was a little kid minus the baby fat. Here’s a little compare and contrast to illustrate how far he has come.

Woo-young started performing live on stage since he was little. With that little unisex sports bra training outfit, he is obviously very comfortable in his own skin.

Woo-young has always been comfortable with public speaking and doesn’t mind dressing up for formal occasions. Quite the dandy little dresser.

You know that quiet intensity glare that all the boys employ to make the girls swoon? Woo-young has been wearing that expression since he was little and he knows the camera likes a stoic face.

After all those prepubescent years, training and puberty produced the little 2PM dork we have now.

Old pictures of Kim So-eun, part of the cast of the hit drama ‘Boys over Flower’  have popped up on various portal sites in Korea. The critical netizens are actually complimenting her for her natural beauty and for avoiding the plastic surgery craze.

Really, how long will that last though? Especially in such a superficial place like the enetertainment industry? Aside from being blessed with good genes, the lucky Kim So-Eun will act along-side the oh-so-cute actor Yu Seung-ho (knowns as the little So Ji-sub) in the upcoming movie, “4th Period Mystery Zone”.

Hahaha! It’s TOP of Big Bang! The nose gave it away

Did you guess right?! The cutie is none other than sizzling hottie, Lee Min-ho, F4 leader in the equally hot drama, “Boys over Flowers.”

Child actor, Yoo Seung-ho has graduated from….middle school! The 16 year cutie still has years to fill out. But you can already tell, the boy is going to be a hottie.

And we’ll be waiting.

Yoo Seung-ho will be starring in the film, “71” with Kim Bum and Big Bang’s Seungri.

Congratulations. 

What did the F4 crew really look like in highschool? Well, not the slick, overly styled crew in the current #1 drama, “Boys over flowers” drama. Lee Min-ho (top left), Kim Hyun-joong, Kim Bum (bottom right) and Kim Joon all wore their real haircolor and style (no pamas for Lee Min-ho) and looked half the age than they do now.  Now this is what real high-schoolers look like…innocent.

There is always an ongoing debate on whether stars have gotten plastic surgery or not. We have the general misconception that if you undergo plastic surgery your whole look will change dramatically but that is simply not true. All it takes for a gorgeous girl to become more so is just a bit of tweaking. We, at POPSEOUL!, have mentioned many times before that it only takes a few milimeters to change from good to better. And looking at the childhood pictures of stars, we can already see that they have the “batang” or basics to build on.

So guess who is who. It’s easier than you think.

Top: Kim Tae-hee, Lee Hyori, Jun “Gianna” Ji-hyun
Middle: Han Ji-Min, Lee Na-young, Moon Geun-young
Bottom: Yun Eun-hye, Song Hye-kyo, Su Ae

Old school bad boys from the 90s have become loving daddies and they have the pictures to prove it. Sean from Jinusean has left his wild hip-hop days, DJ Doc’s Kim Chang Ryul cleaned up his act after his marriage and rapper from Cool, Kim Sung Soo finally matured since marriage. Can you tell who’s the daddy of these adorable babies?

Kim Chang Ryul’s family portrait. His wife looks lovely in that pink dress and his son looks so cute with the purple bow-tie, but what’s up with Kim’s hair? I guess he still has the DJ Doc blood in him.

Kim Sung Soo’s daughter is so adorable. She should become a child model!

Sean and his daughter, Ha Reum are wearing the same shoes. How cute!

Holy Ka-moly! All I gotta say is “Thank goodness for plastic surgery and cosmetic dentistry in Korea!” Guess who the lovely vampire fanged girl is – hint, she is one of the hottest and prettiest stars today.*

Bi was not always the sexy and charismatic singer that he is today. There was a time when sexy Bi was just a small bee in a boy band called “Fan Club” back in 1998. These pictures are floating around the internet and fans are going ga-ga over what a cutie he was (and still is).*

Rain will perform in Sydney on April 14 (Black Day) at Acer Arena as part of his “Rain is Coming” Tour.