Jung Ryeo Won 정려원

[Guest fashionista]

thx for the pics jahye. i watched autumn shower because of her. the failure of the drama was due more to the writing than anything else. i just wasn't drawn into the relationship between the male/female characters. RW definitely had much more chemistry with her male co-stars in MNIKSS than with OJH. her acting is good in AS even though it flopped.

[Guest xosandy]

For Jung Ryeo-won, It's Time to Kick Back

At the tender age of 24, Jung Ryeo-won has decided to slow down. “I have been charging ahead, and now I’ll take a rest for a while. While I relax, I’m going to lay out a daily schedule of things I really like to do,” she says. Fresh from her leading part in the MBC TV hit drama “My name is Kim Sam-soon”, she was offered a starring role in “Wolf” due next January -- and politely turned it down. Apart from TV commercials already shot, she only has a stint as presenter of the MBC “Entertainment News” lined up.

So how will she fill the empty hours? “I’m going to watch myself in my dramas, one after the other,” she says. “It’ll be really interesting. And I’ll cook lots of tasty delicacies and exercise hard.”

The second of three children, Jung Ryeo-won emigrated to Brisbane, Australia in 1991, when she was in fifth grade. Her father has a retail business. “In the first few years in Australia, I couldn’t get along with Australian students,” Jung admits. “Since there were few Asians in the neighborhood, the Australian students were very curious about me, but they also bothered me. When I was in sixth grade, I was standing at a pedestrian crossing one day and a car stopped. The driver rolled down the window and spat at me, shouting, ‘Go home!’

“At first, I didn’t even understand what he said. I had never been abused for being yellow before.” Since then, she studied English hard. “I thought, ‘Hang in there and you’ll soon be able to hold your own in English,’ and I made progress quickly. One year later, I gave a speech as a representative of Asian graduates and talked about my experience of discrimination. I got a big round of applause.”

By junior high school, Ryeo-won had adapted to school and had a lot of part-time jobs as well. “I worked in supermarkets, pharmacies, clothes shops, bookstores, libraries, lottery stands... I wanted to become independent. It was a great experience and lucrative as well. I came to Korea with my savings.” She says one remarkable thing about Australia is that Christmas falls in the middle of summer, since antipodean seasons are the opposite of Korea’s. Her family used to go swimming on the Gold Coast every year. “Australians love to travel and eat out with their family. They have barbecue parties at weekends. But here, I found that Korea at night is brighter than in the daytime. There are too many bars and too many wives waiting for their husbands at home.”

Her childhood dream was to become an academic. After graduation from high school, she got into Griffith University, majoring in international business. But then, during a short visit to Korea in 1999, she was spotted by a show biz scout in Apgujeong, and the rest is history. She hit a low in 2002, when she became confused about her identity between worlds. “I wondered what brought me to Korea. Sometimes I felt alienated from my fellow Koreans, and my work as a singer wasn’t what I had expected.”

There is one more thing she would like to do with the quality time ahead: go out with a man she can respect. Asked what she thinks of Daniel Henney, her costar in “My name is Kim Sam-soon”, she retorts, “He’s just a friend. I often exchange text messages with Kim Sun-ah, Daniel Henney and Hyunbin. We’re a family now.”

When she returns to the entertainment business, she hopes to become someone of the caliber of Mel Gibson or Ethan Hawke. “Aside from acting, I want to go to New York to study jewelry design. I keep lots of jewelry I designed and manufactured at home,” reveals in parting, already full of plans again. “I also hope to publish a collection of my journal, notes and pictures.”

(englishnews@chosun.com )

Credit: Digital Chosunilbo

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/new...0512040009.html

[Guest Born: 1985]

^ Ah that's so cute. Trading texts. She's really pretty.

[Guest sammie]

she really look slike heart e. in mnkss, but with these still shots, not really

[elizabeth]

Jung Ryeo Won instyle

credits to search engine

[Guest *sOo.RiM.eE*]

^ gosh she seriously has THE GREATEST fashion sense ever! and so friking gorgeous! gosh i want her legs... im so jealous... *sniff sniff*

i wonder if she dressed herself or if her coodi dressed her... b/c it seems like outside of MNISS she still had great fashion sense...

the pixies are cute... XD

[Guest Mademoisella]

^agree i love her fashion!! and how sweet of her to text with her costars <333

o i think daniel and her made a good couple!

[shyguitar]

i cant see the pix, pls repost them.... thanks

[shyguitar]

i really hope that she ended up with hyun bin...... they really hve a good chemistry..when i watched MNIKSS, i kept playing back their sweet scenes.... just cn't get enuf of them... i hope they'll make a movie or even a commercial.... i love her character in the movie.... intelligent, fine,beautiful and understanding.. i didnt enjoy the series coz i felt pity over her... having daniel as fall back is very relieving.... is she was left all alone, depressed and all that.. gosh, i would be totally sad.. i think that daniel is too tall for her..but they look cute together... i hope someone could recommend a good english site of hers.... it's a good thing that she knows english well.... i hope to see her in movies and series soon...... havnent seen autumn shower but im lookig forward to it...

[Guest winternight]

hhehe ..finally, i found her thread. lol

i loveeeees this girl..hehhe yups she has a great style and such a KUTEE smile.hehe

she always smile..kekek

yups...she looks so kutee wih daniel and wih hynbin too.

looking forward for her name new drama. and her english is good.

[Guest amyliaz]

I've been searching for this thread! Woot. I love Ryu Won, especially after MNIKSS. ^^

[Guest mrs.sangwoo]

my mom loves her!

i love all her clothes in mnikss. and her accent is hot!

[elizabeth]

i cant see the pix, pls repost them.... thanks

try copy/paste but yeah if you still can't see i'll re-edit it.

[elizabeth]

More pix

-Gifs-

AWww.. she's crying in this one..

credits to asianfanatics

[Guest daisy]

she has a very pretty smile...does anyone have a before surgery picture?

[Guest xbtcmdx]

she had surgery?

[Guest pinkjiawen]

I admire asians who manage to survive discrimination outside asia. ^^

and I just adore her outfits in MNIKSS...so shimmery w/ the accesories and all...

she really does look like this actress here in Philippines, name's heart evangelista. I don't like heart at all though

[Guest winternight]

wow..nice pic

and..i just read the article. aww, she is a strong independent girl. 3> ryowon..hehhe

i love seeing her wih danniel. they're so kute together

what is she doing now>

[leikela]

I'm watching MNIKSS right now. She's cute. She looks good with both Daniel and Hyun Bin.

[Guest Born: 1985]

I always wondered...people claimed she had surgery..I looked at her pictures from like 2001 to right now....I don't see much difference, just that her face isn't as chubby, still pretty though