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1 hour ago, petunia said:
If her dramas are getting remade won't that mean she is extremely popular? Old school hallyu used to be like that. I didn't know they were remaking recent dramas anymore. Similar to boys over flowers or rather the original hana yori dango being remade everywhere.
I became a Sohyun fan right after the airing of School 2015's last episode so I didn't get to see it's increasing popularity during broadcast. But what I remembered was that its KBS youtube videos are getting million views and the Yibi vs Taebi battle was so intense among the viewers. The drama also trends in other countries twitter. Sohyun had been on the top list of hot actresses in China. When she went to Taiwan, the fans flocked her in the airport and based on Taiwan fanclub, everybody in Taiwan just recognizes her that she had to put disguise just to roam around the country. School 2015 OST also was Top 4 on the top musics in Taiwan. School 2015 was extremely popular. It was the drama that made her known in and out of Korea.
On the other hand, Let's Fight Ghost boosted her popularity (mostly among guys lol). She was invited by VIU to do a fanmeet in Singapore (venue was in a mall). Fans flocked Changi airport upon her arrival. The 6 floor mall venue where she went was also full of fans. Most of the dedicated fans that you see now came from Let's Fight Ghost fever. My brother who doesnt even watch kdrama watched LFG. So yeah, both dramas were extremely popular.
2015-2016 was the best time for Sohyun fans. I remember how happy I was with the amount of news and updates about her. She really lie low after she entered univ last Feb 2018
Sorry for the long post XD
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2 hours ago, kimjojo said:
And two of her dramas are getting a thai remake.
School 2015 and Let's Fight Ghost are really popular overseas. School 2015 already got a Chinese remake.
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1 hour ago, ChunSungIm said:
theres many her drama playing on netflix right now
- Radio Romance
- Love Alarm S1 & 2
- Bring It on Ghost
- The Owner of the mask
- Moon embracing the sun
School 2015 and Nightmare High too
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22 hours ago, superman26 said:
Woah! Really?? den the hair extension do looks good on her, it looks almost natural. i tot it look too fake but wow! i was swooning for KSH wen they were interviewing Love Alarm. The cast is so cute together. Somestimes i feel that she prefer the 2 guys end up together. Hahaha.
I also think her hair extension during Love Alarm promotion is good (if I didn't know she cut it I would have believed it's her natural hair). The earliest that they can film is Feb/Mar and 4-5 months are definitely not enough to bring back her hair length from S1. Hopefully it grows shoulder length so shorter extension will be required.
And it might be an unpopular opinion, but I wouldn't mind if Sohyun attends university first even if it means delaying Love Alarm filming. (she's already on leave for 3 semesters if my calculations are right) I just love the idea of her experiencing what it feels like to become a normal person. Now that she and Jung Ga Ram became a bit closer, maybe it'll be easier for her to attend classes? She's shy to strangers so it would be a good idea to have somebody she knows on school
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19 hours ago, aineofcebu said:
This is definitely my fave ep from her LA trip last year. This is heart warming as a fan to watch that she has a great dream as an actress
Lets make sure to aim high Sohyunie, and do our best at all times but still enjoy every moment
Love this episode too! I also love that one episode where she bought a burger and accidentally spilled the drink on her sleeves
she was super adorable.
I really hope she becomes more open with herself to the public. I've noticed she stopped posting on twitter and her Instagram is now full of promotional posts that her fan accounts start to look more realistic than hers haha
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6 hours ago, Breeze said:
Taecyeon Expresses Resentment Against Kim So Hyun While Gifting Her with a Coffee Truck
Taecyeon’s not happy that she never came to visit him in the military.
Ok Taecyeon recently sent Kim So Hyun and her staff a coffee truck to cheer on their drama, The Tale of Nokdu, but what caught the attention of fans was what he wrote on the banners.
The photos show a coffee truck with a banner that reads, “So Hyun, although you didn’t come to visit me in the military…”
And on another sign, Taecyeon wrote, “I’m cheering you on, actors and staff! And you too, So Hyun. Although you never came to visit me in the military…”
This wasn’t the first time Taecyeon sent his former co-star a coffee truck. During the drama, The Emperor, Taecyeon sent Kim So Hyun a coffee truck that said, “Come visit me in the military” on the front.
It appears that Taeyeon asked Kim So Hyun to come, but she was too busy to do so.
The cute interaction has fans leaving comments such as “That’s so cute, haha“, “He’ll hold onto this grudge forever“, and “That grudge of his, haha“.
The two actors became friends through the tvN drama, Let’s Fight Ghost.
https://www.koreaboo.com/stories/taecyeon-resentment-kim-so-hyun-coffee-truck-banner/
I always think Taec is the best partner of Sohyun and again he proved me correct
happy to see them still getting in touch after 3 years. But I'm still laughing over his grumpy and sulky messages hahaha
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Since my other post didn't work, hopefully this will
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1 hour ago, petunia said:
What about her hair? I'm not loving the idea of extensions but it might be the only option.
35 minutes ago, elan1 said:I’m not a hair expert but I think her hair will grow a fair amount by the time they start filming season 2.
I think hair extensions is the only way. Unless there is a food or shampoo that can magically regrow her hair faster haha anyways, the earliest that they can film is next year I guess
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It was a roller coaster of emotions yesterday with Taecyeon's truck support and a possible Love Alarm announcement. Taecyeon is soooo adorable and cute with the sulky messages. That's why he will always be my no. 1 partner for Sohyun
Love Alarm leads love to tease us right? But it's certain we'll be getting season 2 after Love Alarm's warm reception globally. I just hope they will give Sohyun enough rest before she starts filming again
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19 minutes ago, superman26 said:
wow! Im amazed that Kim Sohyun haf quite a large fanbase. And dedicated too.
Its rare to get a dedicated fanbase for actresses as young as her.
Thanks for d list. I am so going to run thru the list.
Hopefully its all in english or i will be in trouble to understand whats written
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I wish she do a fanmeeting tour again around asia. if SG it be awesome!
All are pictures only
I suggest that you also check the dedicated Instagram accounts of her fans. Some of them do English translations. Her Philippine fanpage translated some of her Love Alarm interviews in English. For Chinese translations, Sohyun has 2 Chinese fansites and Taiwan fansite that you can check in weibo and facebook (respectively). For Vietnamese translations, KSH Raining Land on Facebook translates almost everything from videos to interviews (I feel they are the most dedicated). For Indonesian translations, you may follow ksh Indonesia in IG. They also have a youtube channel (Stayfine subs if my memory is correct) where they translate videos in Indo subs. For Thai translations, you may want to check KSH Thailand fanpage in twitter.
She recently went to Singapore Feb of this year to promote the Gentle Monster brand. Some of the fans were able to meet her. She also went last year for Love Alarm activities. Who knows, she might visit Singapore again
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1 hour ago, petunia said:
For a second there I thought is she was the next lee seunggi or something. I saw the show her english was good but my early years of kpop taught me never to take practiced phrases seriously. I'm sure her skills are good though.
How old is her younger brother? Its hard to imagine kim sohyun isn't the younger sibling since she is only 20. Basically its hard to imagine anyone younger than her. Same reason I stopped following kpop groups. How can people born in 2000 be adults?
If my memory is correct her brother is just 1 year younger than her, so he's born year 2000. Also, she was born in Australia and just moved to Korea when she became a bit older. I have this speculation that she might have Australian blood but just no clues or indication haha
1 hour ago, petunia said:I figure if she has almost 8 million followers she must have a decent amount of popularity. I don't know about hallyu does it even exist anymore? Love alarm was a definite global phenomenon but I wouldn't label it hallyu. China banning Korea killed the market and Japan hasn't had good relations with Korea these days. Kpop groups still managing to hold dome tours in Japan is an achievement.
Her peak was around 2015-2016 so during that time Korea's conflict with China and Japan wasn't that big. I think back then the definition of hallyu is somebody who is popular overseas. I'm not sure if that's still the definition now.
1 hour ago, aineofcebu said:You really sumed up everything @Mongsuk *high five
(Im still riding a jeep from office to home so cant reply to each concern)
Just to add, after her School 2015 which was her peak (both for local and intl fans most for females) she did 'Lets fight Ghost' which was her 1st lead in romcom and it boosted more on the number of her fanboys still for both
but maybe more onto the international arena since it was left and right that those fan accounts were created and her aegyos (her 1st) are viewed by many Another thing to check out about Sohyun are her hosting skills. Shes really good and very natural on it, really known of it as well.
Thats why i was hoping for TTON to do good, because im hoping that maybe she will be able host the KBS Drama award this year again.
I agree. She's also very good in hosting. You guys may want to try watching KBS Drama Awards 2015 wherein she was the main host (btw she was also the youngest presenter at age 17 (16 y.o internationally)). She also hosted multiple idol awards show. I watched Under19 because of her
1 hour ago, petunia said:Frankly if tale of nokdu doesn't win big at the kbs drama awards I'll be pissed. The drama is fresh and unique not something you see every day. Just because it doesn't have big ratings it shouldn't be ignored. Most people watch dramas online these days. They need to consider other metrics.
I think this is one of the main reason why they create WAVE because many people watch online nowadays. Most of those who watch in TVs are older generations who obviously have different tastes. I was hoping Nokdujeon to be shown on Netflix, but being in WAVE is not a bad idea too
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3 minutes ago, Mongsuk said:
Some pictures of her fanmeeting and international fan support (obviously I'm enjoying bragging these since I'm part of these supports XD)
HongKong (2015), Taiwan (2016), Singapore (2016)
Taiwan 2017
Japan 2018
Korea 2019 (latest)
Sohyun has a Korean fansite name called Stand By which has been supporting her since 2014. So I'll just be posting the international fan supports (I couldn't find pictures of all the rice wreaths given T_T)
Subway Banner Support for her 10th year anniv
Food trucks
Vietnam (for Radio Romance 2018)
5 countries (for Love Alarm 2019)
The Tale of Nokdu 2019
I heard more international fans are preparing coffee trucks for The Tale of Nokdu
The list is not exhaustive (I couldn't find all the pictures). But yeah, Sohyun has a solid international fanbase
I've been away from Soompi for so long so I don't have an idea why my pictures are not showing T_T can anybody help me? *cries*
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Some pictures of her fanmeeting and international fan support (obviously I'm enjoying bragging these since I'm part of these supports XD)
HongKong (2015), Taiwan (2016), Singapore (2016)
Taiwan 2017
Japan 2018
Korea 2019 (latest) -- I attended this fan meeting and it was worth flying to Korea *tears of joy*
Sohyun has a Korean fansite name called Stand By which has been supporting her since 2014. So I'll just be posting the international fan supports (I couldn't find pictures of all the rice wreaths given T_T)
Subway Banner Support for her 10th year anniv
Food trucks
Vietnam (for Radio Romance 2018)
5 countries (for Love Alarm 2019)
The Tale of Nokdu 2019
I heard more international fans are preparing coffee trucks for The Tale of Nokdu
The list is not exhaustive (I couldn't find all the pictures). But yeah, Sohyun has a solid international fanbase
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2 hours ago, petunia said:
I don't know how big her popularity is on an international level but love alarm definitely boosted it. I know I was obsessed with the drama which is why I went into a kim sohyun binge. There wasn't much song kang material to watch since he is new. I was charmed by their chemistry but I was captivated by her acting. I would love to know more about her. Especially after tale of nokdu I'm a huge fan.
2 hours ago, elan1 said:I don’t think she is that well known yet but she deserves to be. I’m still waiting for her to be part of a drama where it’s super beloved and super well known like love from another star.
I have been following her earnestly since her big break in School 2015. Also, I've been watching and following kdramas and kcelebrities for almost 15 years and I have to say she is one of the biggest korean actresses in her age in terms of international following.
She had a hiatus last year (2018) but during era 2015-2017, she was everywhere. She had fanmeetings in Taiwan (2016 & 2017), HongKong, Singapore, Japan (2018 & 2019) and Korea (2017 & 2019) already. She was the youngest Korean actress to have a fanmeeting in Taiwan at age 17. Fans from Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Hongkong, Malaysia send rice wreaths during her drama presscons. She was the first endorser of VIU when they started in Singapore in 2016. The media calls her Hallyu star.
Her 7.8 million Instagram followers also manifest that. It may not be visible here in soompi but if you look through her tags in Instagram, I can say there are at least 100 accounts dedicated to her. She also had solid fanclubs in various countries tho most of their official fansites are in Facebook or Weibo. Also, before the release of Love Alarm, the official trailer got 2M views before broadcast and 99% of the thousand comments are about her.
So yeah, I'm confident to say that she's really well known overseas. That's pretty much the fruit of my 4 years of avid fangirling haha
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4 hours ago, superman26 said:
Hi i am new to this thread. I was curious about The Tales of Nokdu and i find Kim Sohyun so interesting. And i kept digging and finding all the dramas with Kim Sohyun in it. So far i have been binge watching Bring It On Ghost>Radio Romance>Who Are You>Love Alarm. And wow!! Kim Sohyun on amazing! She is so young when i realise she was born in 1999 and have many acting skills under her belt. And she been with alot of co-stars, from idols to famous actors. She is good and doing well. I cant wait for her to further transition into her adult roles and what she will become in the future.
Hope people will recommend me some of her dramas.
I was scrolling thru some, why Ruler was mentioned in this thread that she is just cameo? isnt she the female lead with Yoo Seungho?
Hope Kim Sohyun will be more successful and keep getting good projects in the future!
Welcome to the forum! It's always nice to see new fans around. Let's make this forum even more lively! I was School 2015 baited and ever since then followed her works faithfully (you can consider me an avid/hardcore fan lol). You should try Page Turner and Nightmare Teacher (web drama). These 2 are definitely must watch.
Ruler did her wrong. Her character appeared so little and she had no development. Sohyun admitted that Ruler was her slump. Until now I have trauma with that drama.
Anyways, do check her dramas when she was still a child actor. Missing You is one of the best
3 hours ago, petunia said:I tried to scroll through her instagram but she has too many posts. Most them like you said is PR stuff which is why I said it looks like a fan account. Why does she not post about her personal life? I want to so badly fix her instagram account and make it more aesthetic. The promotion bot comment is so true. Is mongsuk her dog? The white puppy? Its a cutie pie.
Yup, Mongsuk is her 4 year old maltese. I think she loves her dog more than her younger brother hahahahah jk
Sohyun is known to be ultra private about her personal life thus a single picture or post of her personal life is a gem to her fans. We're kind of used to it tbh haha
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Wahh~ so happy to see the forum being active. Let me join the fun after I finish work
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6 minutes ago, faye406 said:
And Instagram new updates make its harder to stalk her! We're no longer can see her 'activities'
Thankfully her long time fans already had years of training (those 3-4 years paid of lol) on how to get information about her. They now follow accounts from staff, her Hanyang classmates and costars
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1 hour ago, petunia said:
I have a question. Does kim sohyun actually run that instagram account? It looks like a fan account in every way. Why is she following over 6000 people?
Actually a lot of fans asked the same question and Sohyun personally answered that she's the one running her social media accounts. She used to follow fans way back 2015-2016 era that's why she follows 6000+ accounts now (that was 7000+ before actually). Unfortunately, her social media account content is 99% advertisement and 1% about Mongsuk. She almost never posts about her personal life (thus earning her the title "ninja Sso" from fans). Her Korean fans even call her accounts "promotion bot" at times XD
She used to post about her personal life more 3-4 years ago (ratio's about 3% personal and 97% advertisement) but ever since her hiatus last year and after creating Mongsuk's IG account, she posts even less. That's why you need to be a detective to follow her haha
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8 hours ago, angrytomato said:
"Ruler" vibes are coming again, after Monday's episode. Two people at the TTON subforum share this feeling with me. It's time to pray again to the Kdrama Gods: please, give DDJ presence not only in romantic and comedy scenes, but also in action and political stuff. Please, please, please...
I've also seen a lot of comments from Sohyun's Chinese fanpage on how it starts to remind them about Ruler. Some also said that the plot is starting to become all over the place I stopped watching TTON at ep 2 (and will just wait for the drama to finish) so I can't really say anything but I had a huge trauma from Ruler so I'm thinking whether I should continue it or not
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15 minutes ago, petunia said:
So her and jung garam are in the same university? Great news but what does that have to do with syncing schedules? Isn't he 6 years older? He would be graduating while she'd be a fresher so how does it matter? Not to forget song kang is the lead actor there's no way they'd leave him out of season 2 or reduce his scenes. I've read the spoilers about who jojo ends up with but isn't the webtoon still ongoing? She could still end up with either boy in the drama version.
Jung Ga Ram is 6 years older but he only entered Hanyang univ last year (2018) which is the same year as Sohyun. They even had a class picture together. Now with the male lead, nobody really knows who is the male lead but in the webtoon, Jojo will date both Sun Oh and Hye Young. So my expectation is that Jojo and Hye Young scenes will increase significantly in the 2nd season.
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32 minutes ago, elan1 said:
2018 was actually a pretty busy year as well. She was still filming radio romance, the Travel reality show to California, she hosted the idol competition show under 19, and she started filming love alarm.
I wouldn't consider the reality show and idol competition as hectic as in the drama. For TIMFT, it probably only took her 2 weeks at most to film everything inc her trip in US. For Under19, she can prerecord most of her scenes as an MC. Love Alarm has considerably a more lenient film sched since it's pre produced. I remember Sohyun saying that she can still take a stroll while filming. It was completely different in 2015-2016 when she had 4 dramas, 2 movies and plenty of endorsements, fansign events, fanmeetings (taiwan, hongkong and singapore) and awards night presenter (main MC for KBS which took like 4 hours). It was a huge treat for the fans, but she looked dead tired during those days
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1 hour ago, petunia said:
These days I've seen actors announcing new dramas or movies even before they finish the one they have so I thought maybe kim sohyun has some other offers. She did do 2 dramas this year so I guess she needs some rest before the new of season of love alarm which they must renew unless they want angry fans.
She used to announce projects left and right during 2015-2016 era but I don't think that is possible since she's currently attending university. Her year long hiatus was due to schooling. I think the only feasible project that can suit her studies is Love Alarm, because she will have more scenes with Jung Ga Ram (as per the webtoon) who is her classmate in univ. I think they can sync their sched so that they can attend univ and film at the same time. She doesn't seem to take movies but I think she wants to have one
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56 minutes ago, petunia said:
I don't know that just sounds like plot for the sake of plot. The whole point of miss granny was rediscover and redo a life of regrets and the message of family and taking loved ones for granted. If they turn it into a drama I'm worried they'll focus more on the romance aspect of it which would be very awkward or they turn it into a gag comedy like welcome to waikiki which would miss out on the original message. Unless they have a rock solid writer who knows exactly what plots they want to explore I don't want them to make it into a drama. Look at the mess they did with beauty inside which was a poignant movie. The only good thing about that was the chemistry between the actors but writing was a mess.
It's true that the writing of this to a drama is critical especially since an exisiting material can be a point of comparison, but there's no harm in trying. The advantage of a drama is that it can give depth to each scene that movies couldn't do due to limited time. But like you said, the writer should be able to flesh out the emotions from a particular scene without being draggy. Miss Granny drama is a double edge project, but I think it's worth the try.
1 hour ago, angrytomato said:Of, course, Love Alarm season II
No news about season 2 but I feel they will announce it as soon as she finishes the drama
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1 hour ago, petunia said:
Is she not confirmed for miss granny? I was confused because it shows on her mdl page but I couldn't see it on her wikipage. Wasn't love alarm female centric because to me she was the main character. Thats why I became interested in her because of kim jojo and then who are you and page turner to me were female centric. I don't know about her other dramas but that is 3 dramas at least that I would call female centric. I don't feel her screentime in tale of nokdu is small even if it isn't dong ju centric but its full of many female characters even the male lead is dressed as a female almost always. I would call that a female centric drama as well compared to many other dramas that are currently airing. I'm upset to see the ratings for tale of nokdu fall because its a fresh and unique drama.
Love Alarm is a web drama while Page Turner is a 3 episode special drama so I didn't include them since I was pertaining to short weekday dramas (16 episodes). But both are female centric (I still consider Page Turner as Yoo Seul's drama). What I mean with female centric dramas are those where the center of the story revolves around the female lead haha. But it's nice to have a women village as a fresh concept
Unfortunately, we only heard of one article about Miss Granny and nothing more. So it might be just a rumor, or they are saving it for next year since a similar type of drama aired last 2018/19.
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she was super adorable.
happy to see them still getting in touch after 3 years. But I'm still laughing over his grumpy and sulky messages hahaha
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but maybe more onto the international arena since it was left and right that those fan accounts were created and her aegyos (her 1st) are viewed by many 
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Actually the first time she kissed back in a drama was in Radio Romance. This is also where she did her first real kiss (not just peck) She and Dujun kissed 8 times here, at least 2 of them were initiated by her character lol