Bae Yong Joon 배용준

[Guest frances]

[Trans] Going Out - Journey Towards Miracle of Spring Snow

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Original in Chinese: catindream / www.loveyongjoon.com

Translated into English: happiebb / www.joonsfamily.com

Going Out – The Journey Towards the Miracle of Spring Snow

The path to success is always rocky,

or as the Chinese saying goes, it’s full of stormy weather.

Not willing to simply go with the flow or jump on any bandwagon,

surely you have to pay a price for not wanting to be like anyone else.

If you choose to be yourself, to retain your own unique identity,

then you must be able to brave the pressure that comes along with it.

Because you’re at the top rungs of the ladder,

because of your sterling performance,

because of how outstanding you are,

you can’t help but invite trouble or gossip or sarcasm.

It seems like everything in the world is out to prove that ancient adage

– Nobody can just become successful that easily…

So… this path, this road to success seems particularly tough,

with lots of obstacles.

No matter when you first started out in the entertainment industry,

or when you totally transformed yourself and came out with The Image…

whatever you do never fails to invite talks from all fronts.

Whether your project was a failure or a success is just a judgement,

a judgement that people form based on their perceptions.

Therefore whether people are disappointed, or whether people are receptive…

these are all outcomes that are acceptable.

No one, absolutely no one can please the whole wide world, life is short,

and everyone’s standards and judgements can be miles apart.

What’s more important is to face yourself honestly,

your own judgement and feelings inside are what truly count at the end of the day.

Being in the limelight or being watched so excessively

can be quite a heavy burden to shoulder, I suppose?

If you want to live the way you would like to live,

maybe you have to learn to concentrate on your plans,

and block out the noises around you.

The cries in the pictures in The Image…

are these silent cries stemming from your inner self?

You’re the one with the princely image,

You’re the one who chose to overwrite this with The Image,

You’re also the one curling up into a ball looking all vulnerable and weak…

No matter that you’re being criticised.

No matter that you’re being doubted.

No matter even if you’re being scandalised.

When people who don’t know you watch and observe you with such feelings,

what bounces back at them is… nothing.

Nothing but your silence.

Maybe you did heave soft sighs in your own private world.

Maybe you too felt tired of it all, very lethargic.

But at the end of it all,

I will always be able to see your smile, sparkling under the bright sunlight.

Perhaps this is enough.

There’re sorrows and joys in this world,

and there will always be rain and stormy weather in this world.

But so long as you hold firm to your own beliefs,

the clarity in your eyes will see beyond the mist and haze.

To stand up amidst difficult conditions, to set off again amidst your silent cries.

Bae Yong Joon, you can do it.

Going Out. April Snow.

I actually like both names,

and what I like even more is the meaning and implication of it all

when we put these two together.

No, we don’t want to remain status quo in our lives,

we don’t want to stand inert in our positions, so we choose Going Out.

In life, there will always be challenges outside of our control or capability to manage.

These challenges may be difficult, or sometimes embarrassing,

or maybe these are helpess, hopeless situations,

very extraordinary circumstances.

But… there will be the wonderful spring snow,

there will be miracles that we can look forward to.

These are just like the ups and downs

you’ve gone through all these years of walking the actor’s route.

You chose a director whom you can put your trust in,

and you chose a script or rather a storyline that you fancy.

Yet… the project had to be delayed again and yet again

because you were unable to find someone suitable to star opposite you.

Now everything is in place and you’ve thrown yourself into the filming wholeheartedly,

you’re faced with the political issues

that you somehow cannot completely disassociate yourself with.

But please bear in mind…

In a person’s journey in life,

it is precisely because of such challenges

that there are different things to appreciate at each and every turn.

People are inter-related and therefore one person’s action will invariably affect another’s.

And things are inter-dependent, so one thing will influence the development of another.

Everyone and everything in this world is so interlinked.

Well, no man is an island.

An individual’s strength is limited,

there may also be constraints that block one’s way forward.

In the scuffle of this hectic world,

many people will get lost or worse, will lose themselves.

So we should try our utmost to be the best that we can.

Do strive for the best, and also learn to take things in stride. In good stride.

Going Out is rarely a straight and easy path,

but the Spring Snow in April…

well, that’s a miracle that may happen, or maybe not.

But… I truly believe that so long as I have faith

and so long as I can grin and bear everything that life throws at me…

Be it that the road is easy or paved with difficulties,

I do wish to tread ahead and surge forward together with you,

and it is with hope and faith that I move forward.

[Guest happiebb]

sharing pictures, some old and some new....

this is another picture from that taiwan shopping channel CF...

this is a full-size promo standee for hyundai sonata...

bringing back the daihatsu mira car memories...

these are taken at tea loft at lotte hotel, run by bof...

japanese CF, lotte chocolates, rummy & bacchus...

[Guest julica]

Hello, how r u guys doing??!!

Well, there's something I'm curious about... Why Choi Ji Woo and Bae Yong Joon don't talk to each other anymore??! I think they're so cute together!!! Can someone explain to me??! Did they have an affair?!?

Well, there's another thing... does anyone have the pictures of his family, I mean, his mom, dad and sister?! I'm really curious about this too... does he looks like his mom?!?! I think I read it somewhere...

Well, for who colud answer... thank you!!!

[Guest delinnia]

Hello, how r u guys doing??!!

Well, there's something I'm curious about... Why Choi Ji Woo and Bae Yong Joon don't talk to each other anymore??! I think they're so cute together!!! Can someone explain to me??! Did they have an affair?!?

Well, there's another thing... does anyone have the pictures of his family, I mean, his mom, dad and sister?! I'm really curious about this too... does he looks like his mom?!?! I think I read it somewhere...

Well, for who colud answer... thank you!!!

Good morning julica,

I'm afraid I don't think anyone from this thread could answer your questions. It concerns YJ's personal and his family private matters that we don't know of. Anyway please be at home in Bae's family thread.

[Guest t05gal]

[Trans] Bae Yong Joon as Actor (Part 2)

original in korean by jeany almighty 2005.03.08

translated in english by soil

Jung Hwa- unni said she fancies a man with a nice voice.

She’s just like me. ^^:::

(Yes, yes I know,

I said last time I fall for a man with great bottoms, )

I am sensitive to

not only other’s voice but also my voice, too.

When nice smooth voice is once coming out from my throat,

I am pleased.

I love listening to music regardless of its genre.

But I love especially

aria or western classic songs:

and I love songs of our traditional formal palace music the most.

When I listen to that vocal music,

I agree that human’s voice is the best one

among all musical instruments.

Bae Yong Joon’s way of acting out different types of voice is great.

I think that the cream of his acting is

eye and voice acting.

Particulally in ‘Winter Love Song’

his voice acting was more characteristic than ever.

Basically his voice is great.

It is not too low, but stable deep voice with good resonance.

Sometimes it gets a hint of nasal sound,

having charms to make our heart flutter

Besides, he has clear and refreshing voice, swallowing voice,

ringing voice, and straightforward powerful voice.

Sometimes he adds delicate vibration,

sometimes he makes a bit ascending tone to leave lingering sound,

He can command his voice to convey

various feelings and emotions like sweetness,

friendliness, joyfulness, loneliness, and coldness.

Bae Yong Joon is accurate in delivering lines;

His diction is clear.

And he can expose well the personality and feelings

by controlling his voice color, pitch and tone.

Above all

he knows how to jump on the line of an opposite player,

how to make a pause in his lines, with feelings expressing.

He has a wide range of delicate voices so that I can’t list up all.

‘Winter Love Song’ is a good text

that displays how delicate and marvelous

his voice acting is.

My favorite scene in ‘WLS’ is:

Riding gondola, they reach a mountain villa…..

They have to stay up there all night…..

Eu Jin takes off his glasses.

‘When Min Hyung wakes up from a shallow sleep,

look how his eyes are!

He looks at Eu Jin with a bit blood-shot and unclear loosened eyes,

raising his heavy eyelid,

as if he wakes up from a real sleep

With Eu Jin getting baffled, taking back his glasses.

Min Hyung openly approaches to her as if he were determined to do something.

And then ……

Eu Jin: …. Why did you do this?

Min Hyung: Because I love you……..I……I love you.”

(DangSinEol SanRangHaNiGga….

NaeGa……NaeGa DanSinEol SaRangHaNiGga)

Of course, this short and direct line is touching enough.

Here, his tantalizing expression is exellent.

His action is also perfect.

But what makes this scene the best is

his voice acting.

An instant he stops my breath and empties my head white.

He doesn’t simply let out the words ;

“because I love you”.

Grasping the end of her line,

he explodes it at once.

It is so powerful, and overwhelming

not only to her but to me and to a lot of people

Probably this is the only line

that he roars.

And then two terms of pause follow.

It’s really incredible.

These pauses are not too short, or not too long, and evoke a tremendously deep emotion.

He lowers his voice in the first “I” (NaeGa) deep down,

and then seriously…….ardently…..

pulls out a voice -the second “I love you”

(NaeGa DangSin Eol SaRangHaNiGga )- from his chest

by moderating a pitch.

He speaks “NaeGa DangSinEol” without stopping,

unnoticibaly raising the last syllable ‘Eol’

to make the feeling of love alive.

In the last “SaRangHaNiGga”,

he rolls the sound of “SaRang”(love) slightly inside his mouth,

and then

he doesn’t make a clear pronunciation “HaNiGga” to the end;

he reduces a strength in his voice

and speaks explosively the sound of “HaNiGga”

as if he throws out the sound from his mouth.

He passes on the wave of a sound to the heart of an opposite player.

by controlling the strength and weakness, the high and low pitch,

the resonance, and distribution of pausing intervals

even in one line.

His lines are serious,

but his voice acting which is tapping my ears

sounds like a music tapping my heart.

I enjoy his voice.

If you had a chance to listen to his voice

without watching the TV monitor,

you could realize that his voice acting is excellent.

Here, we, Koreans, are much luckier than the ones of other languages,

because we can be delivered all the meanings, feelings, and emotions

by his actual voice.

I am happy to have scenes where I can enjoy his voice acting,

without any influence of other images like actions, expressions, and costumes.

He, as Joon Sang, leaves from hotel in the morning,

leaving her behind,

because he can’t remember his own past.

His memo is impressive, and beautiful;

Even when I only read it, it is moving enough.

Eu Jin-ah~~~

Did I call Eu Jin ssi like this ?

Eu Jin-ah~~~~! Eu Jin-ah~~~~~! Eu Jin-ah~~~~~~!

But I can’t remember anything.

Gang Joon Sang that Eu Jin ssi misses so much

is me and at a same time not me.

If I lost my memory,

even though I am Gang Joon Sang.

I am none but an empty name.

Sorry,

and thank you for your being with me

at a time I lost,

with all my heart~~~ with all my heart~~~

Listen to this memo through his voice once more

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s beyond my description.

I can’t put that thorough sadness, that feelings, and that emotions

into words ….

I can only place exclamation marks repeatedly.

In a trip with Eu Jin to the sea

“Our first sea, ……. (and our last sea)”

Before leaving for U.S.A. for his operation.

he comes to Sang Heok to say good bye and says;

“I won’t come back again.”

His lonely vibration remains in my heart

and I am still heartbroken with

the sadness and anquish of Joon Sang.

Imagination is interesting.

On reading a novel or a drama,

we can imagine about scenes and characters.

Reading through letters we can picture graphically inside our heads,

Among works of famous Samuel Becket,

there are several radio scripts.

Those lettered scripts lead me to experience an audio effects.

Sound!

Sometimes imagination aroused by hearing sound is bigger

than one by seeing something

Before TV sets became common, when I was a small child,

I often listened to ‘hometowns of folk tales’ (ghost stories)

on radio.

What a panic and a shudder!

Compared to the same drama on TV,

It gave us surely several times bigger effects.

Our imagination makes it possible

to transform audio or video images into image of other senses

and amplify the impressions much more.

I heard from a recent article that they will produce a radio drama ‘WLS’ in Japan.

To be sure, the capability of radio actors will lead the drama.

It will probably arouse another emotions from the radio audience,

but to the ones who are already familiar with the image of TV Drama ‘WLS,’

it will remind the face and motions of Bae Yong Joon.

Once an image is imprinted in our brain,

it can never be easily removed.

If the imagination of audience is confined in only Bae Yong Joon like this,

I wonder if it will be a fortune or a misfortune for them

Actor Bae Yong Joon has a lot of merits.

Probably some of them he was born to have,

some of them he got by the result of endless efforts

I enjoy and feel happy and proud what he has achieved

for the past 10 years.

If I anticipated that he would show us his progressions also in the future

as he did until now , I would put him too heavy burden on his shoulders, wouldn’t I?

hi hi everyone,

thanks frances, if not for your posting here i would have missed this great article. just want to add that i really appreciate what you ladies are doing. fighting!

[Guest yon]

Omo omo.. Yon.. are u also referring to me in our first round of April Snow?? I was sitting beside u also and munching away lehh~!! Felt so paisay disturbing u that time also.. hehe!

hahaa...no leh...i was referring to bb.....

not only the sound of the paper wrapping the bah-kwa and also the "smell" of it is so distracting.....

If i were tempted, i will snatch that bah-kwa from her.....

[Guest frances]

hi hi everyone,

thanks frances, if not for your posting here i would have missed this great article. just want to add that i really appreciate what you ladies are doing. fighting!

hello t05gal, there are a lot of great BYJ articles posted in this thread. pls go to page 1 and Liezle had started making an index of all the articles

welcome to our cozy thread & we hope to "read" more from you

[Guest tiffany]

Details for the events happening for

April Snow promotion- Hunt for SG's BYJ's Biggest Fan memorabilia Collection

Date: 16th October

Venue: Bishan Junction 8

Voting:

(1) Cut out the coupon printed in this week's issue of I Weekly (issue 415, 13 Oct)

(2) Go down to Bishan Junction 8, level 2 to drop your voting coupon

(3) Voting time from 12pm to 5pm

(4) Voting coupons must be original and photocopies are not allowed.

(5) A gift will be given away the early voters

(6) Gitfs inclue poster, notebook and folder

(7) One gift per person per coupon each time

(8) There will be 6 finalists for you to vote. Names are on the diplay stand

Channel 8 coverage

Channel 8 will be covering this event and will be there at about 5.15pm. Come on down and join us.

Prize giving and screening of The Making of April Snow dvd

(1) Prize giving at 7.30pm, Bishan Junction 8, level 3

(2) Theerafter they will play The Making of April Snow. Those who have not bought the dvd and would like to know what it is like, come on down to take a look.

Ok, that's all folk. See you all there. Come on down and support us and April Snow promotion. All the contestants are from Joon's Family. ^^

err.... I don't know if mine will be shortlisted but hehe... if it is, well, you'll see my collections there.

[caroline]

Good morning everyone....

Here is a link for LG credit card CF and the making of vod....

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=65O7P5X8

Captures .... :wub:

[Guest frances]

Carol , thanks for the caps!! that LG CF is one of my all time faves love the look of anticipation of yong joon while he is in the train and LYA is in the car.

[caroline]

Carol , thanks for the caps!! that LG CF is one of my all time faves love the look of anticipation of yong joon while he is in the train and LYA is in the car.

You're most welcome Frances ! Yong Joon and LYA look so good together... and I forgot to post the pic he was kissing...

[Guest liezle]

[new photos]Lotte Rummy & Bacchuus chocolate

posted by tomato99 in BYJ's Quilg

from Lotte Japan site:

i hope we can get clearer and larger copy of these photos.

These are photos from Lotte's new chocolates Rummy and Bacchuus.

download PDF files from here;

http://www.lotte.co.jp/camp/rummybacchus/rummy.pdf

http://www.lotte.co.jp/camp/rummybacchus/bacchus.pdf

[Guest chiligoyo]

Hi Liezle,

Think HappieBB has posted the BIG pictures of the one u mentioned.. hee~

[new photos]Lotte Rummy & Bacchuus chocolate

posted by tomato99 in BYJ's Quilg

from Lotte Japan site:

i hope we can get clearer and larger copy of these photos.

These are photos from Lotte's new chocolates Rummy and Bacchuus.

[Guest TY_KSW]

sharing pictures, some old and some new....

Very nice and gorgeous.... to me, those are quite new and hot....

Thanks Happiebb...

[Guest liezle]

Hi Liezle,

Think HappieBB has posted the BIG pictures of the one u mentioned.. hee~

hey there chili, thanks for letting me know. geez how could have i missed that one

Tiff, are there from Joon's Family joining the contest. I know that bb has a huge collection of Yong Joon stuff.

t05gal, welcome to the thread. Hope you will visit us often and post your thoughts about D Man. If you want to read more articles and are lazy to go backpages, check out page one for the index. I'll update them tonight again. I think I've a backlog of 5 pages now

julica, how we all wish to see photos of Yong Joon's family too. but Yong Joon is very careful about this and i think that there are some fans in Korea who has photos of his family but they do not circulate them for they respect Yong Joon's privacy so much. Frances, remember what I told you that Style might have photos from the wedding? It was said that Yong Joon's parents are both good looking and that Yong Joon took after his mom. And his sister is pretty that it was said that she could have been the artist instead of Yong Joon.

TK_KSW, i know whose lips are those in your signature banner top 5 are KSW, 3 from below are from JDG and the last 2 are from BYJ.

carol, thanks for the screencaps again. I hope that Yong Joon and LYA will have another cf. Both are very effective endorsers.

BAEgals, i'll be out the whole afternoon til late evening if anyone of you are free to post news coming from Quilt or KOB or from any portals please post them. Bunch of thanks.

[Guest frances]

Images from The Image Vol 1

pls click to see the bigger pics

[Guest TY_KSW]

TK_KSW, i know whose lips are those in your signature banner top 5 are KSW, 3 from below are from JDG and the last 2 are from BYJ.

Excellent... u got an A

They are my 3 emperors

[willenette]

Thanks for sharing the pictures & his clips. I'm d/l right now.

[Guest liezle]

Scanned AS Advertisement on Yomiuri Newspaper

This is a copy of the AS advertisement and the news about report on 2 Million viewers breaking the new record for Korean Film shown in Japan on page 6 of the Yomiuri Newspaper evening edition. The theater names are shown at the right side.

Our next target is 3 million viewers! Fighting!

[Guest TY_KSW]

Images from The Image Vol 1

pls click to see the bigger pics

Wowwww, me have downloaded to my collection... Thanksss Frances..