Young Blue-dragons; Package of Promising Actors

Fall is fading and winter already at the gate in South Korea. It means the year is coming to another end (as always time flies on its own will). On the other hand, it’s award season for everykind of Hallyu showbiz: music, TV-drama, film, etc. Say hello for red carpet moments!

Blue Dragon Awards is one of the top three Korean film industry ceremonies, along with Grand Bell (Daejong) Awards (held earlier this month) and Baeksang Awards (in the spring). This year, the event took place at Kyung Hee University Grand Peace Palace on November 22, 2013. Actually, I only steal a peek on the recap of winners and red carpet events a week ago (via dramabeans.com). Here is the thing that stole my attention from the 34th Blue Dragon Awards. I found it, among all of the winners, nominees, and guests walked in elegant and glamour. There are some youngsters taking away noonas breath, hahaha. It’s the package of New Actor Nominees, fresh meat on the table!

As expected, Yeo Jin-goo (16) stood out for his strong performance in dark-movie Hwa-yi: The Boy Who Swallowed a Monster and took home the award (such countable result). I remember his heart-breaking performance in Sad Movie (2005). He has played as everyone’s young-counterpart cast as long his life (trust me: it’s a very long list). Currently, he plays as 24 years old informatics-engineer in sitcom Potato Star 2013QR3. That’s a big leap for his actual age (he’s still a teenager, but yunno, he kinda grew too fast that now he’s labelled as noona-killer, hahaha).

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Im Seul-ong (26) was nominated for his role in thriller-movie 26 Years. I doubted him when he started acting, since he debuted as an idol: member of vocal-group 2AM (I tend to think that NOT everyone in idol-land has acting-talent, my bad, hahaha). Seulong improved so much by taking various roles in several projects. Recently, he also stars SNS-drama Infinite Power which broadcasted via Samsung’s Youtube Channel.

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Next, there was Lee Hyun-woo (20) nominated for spy-movie Secretly Greatly (other title: Covertly Grandly). Not so far from Yeo Jin-goo path, Hyun-woo also started as child actor. He has been taking many supporting roles for TV-dramas and did them quiet wonderfully. I hope I can see Hyunwoo as leading cast in his next projects, of course for roles that also proper for his age. I haven’t heard about his next project, meanwhile we can see him as MC at weekly music show SBS’s Inkigayo.

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Go Kyung-pyo (23) was also nominated for horror-movie Scary Story 2. This movie starred by many familiar young names: Sung Joon, Lee Soo-hyuk, Baek Jin-hee, Kim Seul-gi, and Kim Ji-won. I’m glad that he got more spotlight recently. I hope he’ll get real roles for qualified project, tough I don’t demand for leading cast right away since his popularity is still budding. Along with our New Actor winner, Kyung-pyo also stars sitcom Potato Star 2013QR3, and his movie Youth Talk is just released, where he plays as a youngman who decides to sleep with his girlfriend the day before joins the army (ha!).

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Lastly, Seo Young-joo (15) was nominated for Moebius. He’s a real newish for me, since he’s the youngest and his name is not familiar. Full of curiosity, I searched the movie-review (via hancinema.net) and my jaws dropped as I read it. I’m surprised and impressed that he dared himself taking this project, since the movie-theme is absurd and deviant from my point of view. It’s not that the movie portrayed sexual-matter but it’s deeper and weirder than most of other same-theme-movies. Youngjoo currently stars in weekend drama Gold Rainbow. Yup! He’s another young counterpart actor in dramaland.

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It’s always fun to see young actors building their resume and skills. Let’s wait for the next year awards and wish that they who reviewed today maintain their good performance with other wonderful works. It’s rainy here in my place and I guess it’s also colder at your place or maybe you’re waiting for first snow. Holiday-season is approaching. It’s time to follow the line in front of theatres, which movie you want to watch this holiday?

FYI:

34^th BLUE DRAGON AWARDS WINNERS LIST

Best Picture: Wish
Best Director: Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer)
Best Actor: Hwang Jung-min (New World)
Best Actress: Han Hyo-joo (Cold Eyes )
Supporting Actor: Lee Jung-jae (The Face Reader)
Supporting Actress: Ra Mi-ran (Wish)
New Actor: Yeo Jin-goo (Hwa-yi: The Boy Who Swallowed a Monster)
New Actress: Park Ji-soo (Mai Ratima)
New Director: Kim Byung-woo (The Terror Live)

Cinematography: Berlin, Choi Young-hwan
Lighting: Berlin, Kim Sung-kwan
Music: Hwa-yi: The Boy Who Swallowed a Monster , Mowg
Art Direction: Snowpiercer, Ondrej Nekavsil
Technical effects: Mr. Go, Jung Sung-jin
Screenplay: Wish, Kim Ji-hye, Jo Joong-hoon
Short Film Award: Mija, Jeon Hyo-jung
Box Office Audience Award: Miracle in Cell No. 7
Popularity Award: Kim Min-hee, Lee Byung-heon, Sol Kyung-gu, Gong Hyo-jin

Wish everyone to have great upcoming holiday!

Salam lestari, Tien ^^