Jang Keun Suk: Weibo Live Q & A

English Translations by @sa_sha26


Jang Keun Suk had a one hour and 15 minute live Q & A on Weibo from 4-5:15pm today, 13 June 2012, with a record breaking 312,578 questions posted in that short span of time.

He is such a funny and playful guy!  I love his sense of humor!  And to spend time to communicate with his fans this way, how can you just not love him?!

Keun Suk was able to answer more than 50 questions out of the 312,578.  Here's what transpired in that Weibo Live Conference:

Q: How do you prefer Chinese eels to call you? Jang Keun Suk, Prince, Handsome...
A: Jang Keun Suk! Or Boss

Q: I gave up my class and came to talk to you, are you touched? Of course no!!
A: Faster go back to school^^

Q: When you miss eels, do you read eels' weibo? Did you ever read mine?
A: I am always looking at you all [laughs]

Q: Keun Suk~ What is the difference of the coming concert with previous one? Will you come to Beijing? Must come~ Eels are waiting for you~
A: Our investment this is 5x times of the previous one!!

Q: Can you come to China more often~ You're so bias, all the time you go to Japan!
A: Then you give me some advertisement/commercial!

Q: Keun Suk, your Japanese is so good! When can you speak Chinese so fluently? without a translator. Haha, exited~~
A: Wait for me in June......

Q: The Cri Show this time must be very exciting! Can you give us some hint!
A: I spent alot this time! I am so poor CRI...

Q: Your hairstyle is so special, and so charming, but if for drama purpose, will you change it?
A: Of course! I'm an actor.

Q: You call Jason, Pig, then what animal are you?
A: I'm not animal!

Q: Which Chinese food do you like?
A: Mapo Tofu(Spicy Bean Curd) ! Dried Bean Curd!

Q: So much of investment... The ticket will be very expensive right? We are students...
A: Let's become poor together....

Q: When will you sing chinese song for us?
A: When I'm drunk, anytime!

Q: After having concert in so many countries, eels from which country are most playful??
A: To me, this is a borderless world!

Q: Which is part that differentiate you from others? Narcissist?
A: I am the best! Alcohol.. Tobacco.. Girls...Ah!!! These are not!

Q: What is your next plan in China?
A: "No plan" is my plan....

Q: Brother, if you have a chance to choose, will you be actor/star as well? Hope you are happy everyday!
A: Of course!

Q: What do you think about your body shape? Do you feel that you need to workout? Abs?
A: Now there's a coach following me everyday, my plan is to ruin coach's body shape! kkkk

Q: How do you feel about the Happy Camp?
A: I felt the highest level of happiness! Haha

Q: You like Actor Jang or Singer Jang?
A: I like Jang Keun Suk!

Q: When did you change your display picture?
A: I am laughing out loud!! KKKKKKKK

Q: Recently which is the matter that make you angry ? and which one makes you happy?
A: I don't get angry often, but the happiest thing now is replying to your question!

Q: Because of you, there's alot of girls that are unable to get married..do you have anything to say about it?!!!
A: What should I do, I am also single ㅠㅠ

Q: Can I tell you secretly, You're so handsome!
A: I am telling you publicly, I know.^^

Q: Which song do you like the most in Just Crazy album?
A: In My Dream^^ Because the copyright income is high!!

Q: What do you do when you're tired? I am also a Libra!
A: Drink alcohol...........

Q: Champagne, Wine, White Wine, Beer, Soju, Sake, which one you like the most?
A: Alcohol

Q: Do you put honey on your lips?
A: Yes... lick it for me?

Q: If you reply me, I will do whatever you want hehe...
A: Go to sleep^^

Q: Can you post a picture of the site!!
A: If I post it, what you will do?

There are 3 person translating But still so slow -_- Faster!!!!!! http://twitpic.com/9vwso8

Oh, This is fun???? http://twitpic.com/9vwt0b

A Poem for Prince Jang Keun Suk

Re-blogged from en.korea.com


Here is a sweet poem by an Eel to the Master!! Enjoy friends..

Letter to the Prince

Let me tell you that you are the most beautiful man in the world,

Everything about you makes me smile,

Your eyes so deep, I could fall into them and sink in pools of dark caramel,

Eyes that can captivate and capture, but that can also be sweet,

I love your face, I could stare at it forever,

Your nose, your cheeks, your chin, your jaw, all of it,

Total perfection and my eyes are greedy for the feast,

Your neck so manly, your shoulders so broad,

And your slim physique that I find strangely appealing,

I could talk of your hands, large and slender, the kind you would want to hold,

Or those legs that look great in shorts,

I could even mention that tiny waist that for some reason I find so incredibly sexy,

But still, the most beautiful thing about you, is the thing I see shining behind your eyes,

I see it in your mannerisms, and I can see it when you talk,

It’s what’s inside,

You are the most beautiful man in the world,

The way you laugh, the way you think, the way you dance,

Everything about who you are, everything that makes you you, this is what makes you beautiful,

No one can compare to you, you are simply the one and only,

Continue to be the amazing, beautiful person you are,

And I for one am glad to have you in my life,

I am proud to call myself an eel.

~

If a person is truly beautiful it will shine out of them however they try to hide; and it rarely has anything to do with the external

By Rebecca Doddrell

7th June 2012

Inspired by and dedicated to 장근석

Jang Keun Suk's "Just Crazy" Album tops Weekly Oricon Chart

Jang Keun Suk once again caps another milestone in his career.  His debut album, "Just Crazy", released last 30 May 2012 tops the Oricon Weekly Album Chart!  Another first!

A day after its release, the album topped the Daily Oricon Album Chart with 88,000 copies sold, making Jang Keun Suk the first male solo artist whose debut album topped the chart since Naotaro Moriyama in 2004.  He is also the first foreign male solo artist to have achieved No. 1 in Oricon Chart history.

It can be recalled that his debut single, Let Me Cry, released in April 2011 also topped both the Daily and Weekly Single Chart.

Very well-deserved.  Jang Keun Suk is truly a force to reckon with.

Musings on "Love Rain" (Part 3)

I am both happy and sad as Love Rain concluded its final episode ~ happy because I got the ending I hoped for and sad because it has come to an end.  I kinda wish there were 6 or so more episodes 'coz I hate to see this beautiful and heartwarming drama end.

As the drama came to a close, I can't help but look back and think of the things it has stirred in me in the past 2 months.  Yes, the story and plot were simple but I think there is more to it than that - to me, it just absolutely hits HOME.

Let me share with you my thoughts on the characters of the drama. I am pretty sure some were able to relate to one or more of these characters.  I guess I'm a combination of Yoon Hee and Ha Na, but if push comes to shove, I can be a Hye Jung, too! ;-)

Seo In Ha

Some may say he is a coward... maybe so.  But for me, he never was. Putting other people's feelings before your own isn't cowardice but rather selflessness and courage.  It takes a helluva a lot of courage and willpower to do that. Although not one to freely express his thoughts and feelings, In Ha is a very considerate person if you look deeper. He has a really soft heart and would rather sacrifice himself and get hurt than see the people he values most suffer from it.  Until the very end, he sacrificed and placed his happiness in the happiness of another.  And this time around, it's his son Joon. Well worth the sacrifice, I should say.

Kim Yoon Hee

To me, she is the epitome of what a mother is. She is not only a mother to her daughter, Ha Na, she is also a friend.  And there's nothing she wouldn't do for her.

Meek and mild as she is, she has an unbelievable strength within her.  Probably because of all the pains she had gone through in life - losing her parents, falling ill at such a young and tender age, surviving from the illness, going through the heartaches and pains of a first love that never was, raising Ha Na alone, and a whole lot more.  She is a survivor, literally and figuratively.  And I admire her for her strength and courage.

Seo Joon

He is, after all, his father's son.  Sarcastic, insensitive, and indifferent at the beginning, which earned him a lot of nicknames for himself - asshole, devil, and whatnot -  it was a result of being taken for granted and hurting all his life.  As a pawn in the middle of a dysfunctional family, he learned to cope with it differently - by masking his feelings with utter hostility and roughness towards everyone around him, like he doesn't have a care in the world.  When he met his match in bubbly and considerate Ha Na, his natural self came out.  Love has completely changed him into the sweet, gentle, romantic, and thoughtful person that he actually is.  He and Ha Na were a match "made-in-heaven" for they complement and bring out the best in each other.

Jung Ha Na

Whereas her mother (Yoon Hee) is quiet and soft-spoken, Ha Na on the other hand, is so full of life.  But I think that is the extent of her being the exact opposite of her mom.  Deep within, they are actually no different from each other.  She has her mother's strength, which allowed her to endure the pains she went through with Joon. Ha Na may be a sweet and mild-mannered person, but her steadfast character cannot be questioned.  When she wants to get her point across, she can be tough and stubborn about it.  And once she makes up her mind, nothing can be done to change it.  

Baek Hye Jung

Much as I hate her, I do understand her.  She just loves In Ha to a fault.  Deprived of the only love she ever wanted and hoped for in life, her anger at Yoon Hee for being the very reason for this has engulfed her very being that she has pushed away all the people around her without actually intending to.  She is the word b**** personified.  She sincerely loves her son Joon though, she just has a different way of showing it.  I like how the story gave justice to her character in the end.  She is after all, an understanding person, but with a very sharp tongue. :-)

Han Tae Sung

Though he knew his feelings for Ha Na may never be reciprocated in the same way, he continues to love and care for her.  To me, that is loyalty... or could it be stupidity?! :-))  Nah, Tae Sung is a loyal and dependable person, someone who would always be there whenever you need him.  His gentle and receptive nature can sometimes be to his detriment as it makes him look so pathetic.  He is a great person but I pity him for he never really got over Ha Na.  I think any girl would be lucky to have him and be loved by him for his loyalty is without a doubt.    

Lee Sun Ho

A true friend.  He kept his unrequited love for Ha Na to himself.  He never took advantage of the situation even during the most vulnerable moments of the relationship.  He even went out of his way to try to get them back together. He was always a witness to Ha Na's pains, and in doing so, was also hurting himself the most in the process.  Sun Ho is like a ray of sunshine in a gloomy day.  He always seems be there whenever you needed a shoulder to cry on, or someone to listen and cheer you up.  

Lee Mi-Ho

Mi Ho is actually a sweet girl notwithstanding the b****y and annoying side of her personality.  She can be affectionate and understanding, not to mention loyal and devoted, when she wants to be.  She is so fixated on Joon (who wouldn't?! XD) but it proves that she would do anything for someone she cares and values so much.

I will surely miss Love Rain.  My Monday and Tuesday nights will never be the same without it. :-)

JKS tops Japan Oricon Chart (Yet Again)

With the realease of his new album "Just Crazy", which took a year to prepare, Jang Keun Suk once again tops the Japan Oricon Chart a day after its release - proof of how much he is well-loved by his Japanese fans and the unusual bond he has with them and his fans all over Asia and the world.  Another milestone in his career and to me, a well-deserved one.

100 Q & A with Jang Keun Suk ("Cut" Magazine, June 2012)

Re-blogged from jangkeunsukforever

Credits: rockin’on Inc
Japanese-Chinese translation: lucine_Rei__抹茶小囧
Chinese-English translation: Aphrael, Sarah Ye (edited by tenshi_akuma)




Q1. What’s your blood type and constellation?
JKS: Type A, Leo.

Q2: Family members?
JKS: Father, mother and me.

Q3: What’s your strong point?
JKS: No weak points.

Q4: What’s your weak point?
JKS: Lots of strong points.

Q5: What’s your motto?
JKS: No one is superior to anyone else. / Sincerity will get across to everyone eventually.

Q6: Which is your better arm?
JKS: I’m right handed.

Q7: What is your favorite word?
JKS: Kizuna (絆; Bond).

Q8: If you say yourself as an animal, what will be?
JKS: Rabbit.

Q9: What you are good at?
JKS: Teasing.

Q10: What’s the meaning of your name?
JKS: Down to earth, have firm conviction to keep going on.

Q11: What’s your earliest memory?
JKS: 5 years old, I was hit by bus.

Q12: Do you have lots of friends?
JKS: Now, I do have a lot.

Q13: What kind of kid you were?
JKS: Smart and adorable.

Q14: What kind of music you’re listening recently?
JKS: BritPop

Q15: What’s your trademark phrase?
JKS: I always like to add “cri” at the end of a sentence.

Q16: Please use one sentence to say your personality.
JKS: Free spirit.

Q17: What habit you can’t stop (change)?
JKS: Touch my nose.

Q18: If you only can eat one meal, what you would eat?
JKS: Sushi.

Q19: What drink you like?
JKS: Water

Q20: No matter what, what you are just not good at it?
JKS: Diet (Losing weight).

Q21: What color you like?
JKS: Beige (creamy color)

Q22: What kind of person you look up to?
JKS: A person who has firm conviction.

Q23: So far, what’s the happiest shopping you’ve done?
JKS: Bought my first car.

Q24: So far, what’s the most regretful shopping you’ve done?
JKS: When I bought clothes on the internet. Not a success.

Q25: What did you dream recently?
JKS: I dreamed to drive my car for fun.

Q26: When did you cry recently?
JKS: During shooting “Love Rain”

Q27: So far in your life, what are you proud most for yourself?
JKS: Become Asia Prince.

Q28: So far in your life, what is your most regretful thing?
JKS: I don’t think there is any.

Q29: What you want most now?
JKS: Car.

Q30: Please tell us the best book in your life.
JKS: “Norwegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami.

Q31: If you feel blue, what you will do to make you feel better?
JKS: Go for a drive.

Q32: So far, what’s the most embarrassing thing you did?
JKS: 2010 Crishow in Seoul, during performance, my voice became cracking.

Q33: So far, what is the happiest thing you did?
JKS: I stood on the stage at Tokyo Dome.

Q34: Please tell us what’s in your bag?
JKS: Wallet, fragrance, water, sunglasses, facial mask.

Q35: So far, what’s your favorite movie?
JKS: I love all Charlie Chaplin and James Dean’s movies. I have watched many times but every time I watch them still feel like I watch for the first time.

Q36: If you have another life, who you want to be?
JKS: Still, be myself.

Q37: Recently, what made you smile?
JKS: Got “Popularity Award” at 48th Baek-sang Arts Awards.

Q38: Whom you respect most?
JKS: My mother.

Q39: Spring, summer, autumn, winter, which season you like?
JKS: Summer, because I can swim.

Q40: Now, where do you want to travel the most?
JKS: India.

Q41: If you are not doing what you’re doing as an actor? What you will do?
JKS: A director of a car repair shop.

Q42: Do you have any pets?
JKS. Suni, a dog.

Q43: What you will do when you go home today?
JKS: Sleep.

Q44: Do you believe fortune teller?
JKS: I’m more on believing in myself.

Q45: If you only can live for a week, what you will do?
JKS: Have a happy party.

Q46: What kind of transportation you like?
JKS: My car.

Q47: Do you like working in groups?
JKS: Yes, I do.

Q48: If there is some rule that you can’t accept, what you will do?
JKS: I will work hard to change it.

Q49: What book you read recently?
JKS: “Le rire du Cyclope” by Bernard Werber.

Q50: Which fashion items you just buy without even realize it?
JKS: Sunglasses.

Q51. Do you write in a diary?
JKS: I used to.

Q52. If possible, whose diary do you wish to read most?
JKS: The diaries of my managers.

Q53. What role do you take on usually when you’re with your friends?
JKS: Leader.

Q54. What kind of person do you find it hard to interact with?
JKS: People who lack in what is expected.

Q55. What kind of behaviour (mannerism, attitude etc) from a woman will make your heart pound?
JKS: Pushing her hair behind her ear, which looks feminine.

Q56. The thing that you want to challenge most now is?
JKS: Solo travelling, such as to India.

Q57. Which part of your body do you like most?
JKS: Pubic bone (恥骨).

Q58. Looking back on your life so far, what do you describe it?
JKS: Roller coaster.

Q59. The pattern you like most is?
JKS: Leopard print.

Q60. Please say something to yourself of 10 years later.
JKS: You’ve been working hard.

Q61. To date, what was your most heartaching experience?
JKS: Shooting an undergarment ad during my teenage years.

Q62. What do most people say about their first impression of you?
JKS: Unapproachable.

Q63: What’s ringtone on your cellphone?
JKS: Default ringtone.

Q64. What’s your daily routine is?
JKS: The drama filming recently.

Q65. Your favourite proverb?
JKS: Heaven helps those who help themselves.

Q66. Your most memorable teenage memory is?
JKS: The period of my overseas studies in New Zealand.

Q67. What do you like others to say about you?
JKS: No wonder is Jang Keun Suk.

Q68. Your ideal image of a man?
JKS: My father.

Q69. Average sleeping time? What do you do when you can’t sleep?
JKS: 4 to 5 hours. Surfing the internet.

Q70. Do you believe in fate?
JKS: Although I believe, I also feel that fate can be changed.

Q71. Who do you long to see now?
JKS: My family.

Q72. To date, of all the places you’ve been to, which place do you like most?
JKS: My room, my bed.

Q73. Your biggest source of motivation is?
JKS: My feelings to try whatever I want to do.

Q74. Do you think you’re a romantic?
JKS: Of course.

Q75. What do you feel is most important as a person?
JKS: Trust and integrity.

Q76. If you can use magic only once, what do you want to do?
JKS: I want to return to the 2010 “Last in Seoul” performance and fix my voice when it became cracking during singing.

Q77. Your treasure is?
JKS: Myself now.

Q78. If you’re the editor of a magazine, what kind of magazine would it be?
JKS: A magazine comprising of many interesting things.

Q79. What is the difference between romance and love?
JKS: There is no romance without love. To me, there is not much difference.

Q80. Are you strict towards yourself? Strict towards others?
JKS: Strict towards myself, so that strict towards others.

Q81. If tomorrow is a rest day, what do you want to do?
JKS: Sleep.

Q82. What do you like about Jang Keun Suk?
JKS: Creativity.

Q83. What do you dislike about Jang Keun Suk?
JKS: If I suddenly think of something, I will act immediately, if not I will feel uncomfortable.

Q84. Now your biggest enemy is?
JKS: Schedule.

Q85. Have you ever suddenly been conscious about death?
JKS: On a rainy day, my car skidded….. felt like I had escaped death ….

Q86. Do you like interviews? The reason?
JKS: Like. It’s work that allows others to understand me.

Q87. Please list 3 things that you want to carry through until death.
JKS: Acting, performing, travelling.

Q88. What do you think only you can say?
JKS: My trap words.

*tenshi_akuma’s note: The original Japanese answer is “My trap”. It might be difficult to understand this Q & A. He must have answered almost all questions in Japanese, so he might have misunderstood the question. I think his words such as twitters make others feel happy or sad easily. He’s good at controlling our feelings and we are trapped without knowing. So he must be the only professional of saying trap words. I think he intended to answer he’s the only person who is good at saying words to trap someone.

Q89. What are you particular about when you work?
JKS: Whether my intentions of my work are 100% communicated to everyone.

Q90. The song that matches your feelings right now is?
JKS: “Crazy Crazy Crazy”.

Q91. The little happy things in your life?
JKS: When I eat the food I cook with the people I like.

Q92. What’s your jinx?
JKS: It will definitely rain in any place I go to. Rain bringer.

Q93. Your biggest crisis in the past is?
JKS: During my youth, I felt lost when I had to shoot an undergarment ad, and then I told them I would do it if there’s just the photographer and me.

Q94. The method to go through a crisis?
JKS: To face myself.

Q95. What made you upset recently?
JKS: When Suni didn’t listen to me.

Q96. Anything recently when you felt super happy?
JKS: Drinking a cup of ice cold coffee at the scorching filming venue, a very subtle kind of happiness.

Q97. Use one line to express your charm?
JKS: Free and unrestrained.

Q98. Give yourself a catch-phrase now.
JKS: In order to become the World Prince, I will do the best I can today.

Q99. Will you be an artist your whole life?
JKS: Now, I feel that this is my destiny.

Q100. Finally, please conclude.
JKS: So many questions you wanted to ask! Got a big shock. Many thanks for chatting so long with me.

[End]

Musings on "Love Rain" (Part 2)

Let me start where I left off in my previous post, Musings on "Love Rain".  When I said that Life presents a lot of second chances, and once you get your chance, seize it, hold on to it, and fight for it... well, what In Ha did to get Yoon Hee back is a perfect example.

Do not let things of the past hinder you from pursuing what you've always wanted - tangible or not - most especially when it's surely worth fighting for.  I think everyone deserves a second chance at anything, more so in matters of the heart.

I never imagined that a drama would make me contemplate on quite a lot of things about life -- a drama is a drama, it is not real.  But as you would have it, "Love Rain" did.  Perhaps because it's a masterpiece with a concept that is within the realms of reality that I can perfectly relate to it.