[OFFICIAL] Hyun Bin ❤️ Son Ye Jin (BinJin Couple)

[Channel20]

Haha.. Super creative Binjin stan 

 

 

Gosh, now this Binjin's hip-hop/rap song is stuck in my head now 

 

Whatever, I'm still happy to sing a long with it 

 

Binjin Binjin Binjin  

 

 

[Cherie Cee]

I appreciate your insightful posts @celest1al and @Kariabout the recent issue. Your posts are level headed and objective, thank you so much (eye smile here)! Having said that, we should put a period on this issue. FINISHED. THE END.

 

Moving on, we should continue sailing on our luxury ship in calm waters. Are you guys ready for August 3? We should prepare ourselves as for sure it is going to be one heck of a ride!

 

P.S. This forum is limited only to 2000 pages. On that note, if you must quote somebody, please edit the quoted post. Better just to mention the person and their post on your reply, pretty much as I did here. I know we all want to say something and be heard, but we should do so sensibly, please. Sorry if this may sound like a rant, but a little edit here and there won't really hurt, will be kinder to our eyes when we read through the forum and would save precious space.

[SameLove]

2 hours ago, Sandra Wheeler said:

RiRiGaGa you are an amazing counter! LOL, I had so much fun reading your post and agree that many of your symptoms occurred for me. My children and grandchildren, with whom I now live, have recently threatened a K-drama intervention program! I then signed up for Korean language class, ha! 

Oh my gosh, I can totally relate. I am 67 and my husband and son scratch their heads because all I talk about are K-ent and BinJin. But they both say that as long as I am happy, that’s all that matters.

[Loveumore]

10 hours ago, Baylack said:

It doesn't give a specific Pacific actual time cut-off so would that be 11:59 p,m,?

Pacific time now is 18.25pm still july 31, 2020. So it ends around est 4pm Hongkong time / 3pm korean time.  PLease continue to vote. 

 

About our lovely BinJin couple same as usual dear shippers world, we do keep uplifting them in our prayers so that our desires for them to be one would be greatly favor by Him. Only God's perfect grace we will be able know the real about their relationship. What we have so far LA, golfing, and this recent ones cf's together we just enjoy with gladness and not boasting too much about it. Beware evil spirits is always everywhere looking to destroy one's happiness. 

 

 

10 hours ago, Baylack said:

It doesn't give a specific Pacific actual time cut-off so would that be 11:59 p,m,?

Pacific time now is 18.25pm still july 31, 2020. So it ends around est 4pm Hongkong time / 3pm korean time.  PLease continue to vote. 

 

About our lovely BinJin couple same as usual dear shippers world, we do keep uplifting them in our prayers so that our desires for them to be one would be greatly favor by Him. Only God's perfect grace we will be able know the real about their relationship. What we have so far LA, golfing, and this recent ones cf's together we just enjoy with gladness and not boasting too much about it. Beware evil spirits is always everywhere looking to destroy one's happiness. 

 

 

[KjmluvsCLOY]

Flailingfangirl, thank you for your post. I certainly hope we can all focus on the excitement of the last couple days because, IT IS EXCITING!! I cannot wait for Aug 3rd!

I would add that focusing on the positives for our ship should also keep us from losing our forum again! Everyone here is awesome, so let’s just read our thread’s posts and ignore those who feel differently! Every shipper on Soompi has a right to whatever they want to ship!

ME? I am sailing on this BINJIN boat and even threw away my life jacket! Yup, I feel that confident. 

[TotoroSY]

Here's change of topic. A very interesting article in Japan media on the impact of CLOY on the perception towards North Korea, and many stories by NK defectors on how CLOY's depiction is very close to life in NK. CLOY may be a rom.com but its political-social impact is really wide reaching. I believe this is one of the reason why HB and SYJ accepted this drama, cuz of the script and the scenario.

 

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13532595

A South Korean drama that may yet alter hearts, minds of North

By TAKESHI KAMIYA/ Correspondent

July 31, 2020 at 07:00 JST

A scene from “Crash Landing on You” (Provided by tvN)

SEOUL--A massively popular South Korean TV drama series that raises complex issues about enduring antagonism between North and South offers intriguing insights into what reunification might entail, despite the harsh realities of combining two opposing political systems.

 

"Crash Landing on You” has taken South Korea, as well as Japan, by storm as it sensitively portrays a love affair between a man from the North and a woman from the South. It also depicts “daily life” in the reclusive nation based on accounts of those who fled.

 

The sprinkling of North Korean defectors living in South Korea who have watched the drama series unfold say it offers hope for the future, especially if copies make their way across the border.

 

Two defectors, one of whom plays a role in the drama, offered their take on the realities of life for North Korea's 25 million citizens during recent interviews.

 

LIFE FAITHFULLY DEPICTED

In “Crash Landing on You,” a woman from a wealthy South Korean conglomerate family crash-lands in North Korea in a paragliding accident, and promptly falls in love with a commissioned officer of Pyongyang’s military.

 

The story may appear absurd, but it struck a chord with South Korean viewers impressed by the attention to detail in portraying daily life in the North.

 

Yun Seol Mi, a defector who arrived in the South via China in 2014 and now lives in suburban Seoul, plays the role of a woman playing an accordion on a North Korean train.

 

“There are some factors that can never be found in North Korea, but overall the details of daily existence there were so finely recreated that I got goose bumps,” said Yun, 34.

Noting that a canned drink called “sweet water” is offered in one scene, Yun said a member of the film crew told her that staff members had “obtained the actual beverage from somewhere.”

 

In another scene, the commissioned officer who plays the protagonist's love interest scouts a bustling open-air market to purchase an aromatic candle.

 

Yun explained the background for the scene.

 

“There is a saying that ‘everything except cat horns is available at markets’ in North Korea,” she said. “Cat horns are, of course, imaginary objects, so the metaphor refers to the fact that just about everything else can be found.”

 

Even cellphones are available, according to Yun, who said they are called “son jeonhwa” (hand phone) in the North.

 

Born in Rason, in a northeastern province of North Korea, Yun's father served as a senior local official in the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.

 

“We had a Hitachi-made refrigerator and a Sony TV set at home,” Yun recalled. “My family were part of the local elite.”

 

She said the fridge doubled as a bookshelf due to frequent power outages, which feature in “Crash Landing on You.”

 

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Yun seems to have adjusted comfortably to living in the capitalist South, and recalled the time she enjoyed watching another drama, “My Lovely Sam-soon,” which became a nationwide sensation in South Korea in 2005, while she was in North Korea, even though the country prohibits the airing of dramas from the South.

 

“My Lovely Sam-soon” stars Hyun Bin, who also plays the role of the military officer in “Crash Landing on You,” and Yun quickly became a fan of the actor. She met Hyun on set during filming.

 

“I could not imagine that would ever happen when I lived in North Korea,” Yun said. “It felt really odd.”

 

Scenes featuring the North from “Crash Landing on You” mainly show Pyongyang and a village near Kaesong around the heavily fortified demilitarized zone separating the two countries.

 

Life in the countryside is portrayed in a rustic manner, triggering criticism in the South that it “excessively glamorized” the harsh reality of life in North Korea.

 

The drama also exposes the wide economic disparities between those living in Pyongyang and local areas. A woman in her 20s who was raised in Pyongyang provided an overview of the situation to The Asahi Shimbun.

 

The daughter of a doctor, she fled to South Korea in 2017. As public servants in the socialist state, physicians are known for taking bribes from patients. But her father never engaged in such underhand behavior, she said.

 

While mobilized for labor at a farming village, the woman heard a classmate speaking clandestinely with his father over the phone and describing the work as “too tough” and “unendurable.”

 

The following day, a fattened hog arrived in the rural community, apparently a gift from the man's father, a senior official of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, and the classmate was suddenly whisked home to Pyongyang.

 

“I envied him,” the woman recalled. “My family was in a lower class in Pyongyang.”

What surprised the defector when she met others who had escaped from the North after moving to the South was that most of them were from rural regions and had endured an unbelievably miserable existence.

 

“I now appreciate the state (North Korea),” she said. “I received so many benefits simply because I was born and raised in Pyongyang.”

 

REALITY CHECK

Yoon Ji-hyun, a professor of food service policy and nutrition marketing at Seoul National University who studies daily life in North Korea based on accounts from defectors, noted that a drama series can never hope to portray every facet of reality, no matter how faithfully they are created.

 

Yoon said she will continue her research in preparation for possible reunification of the Korean Peninsula, although she conceded there is little prospect of that happening in the current climate of mutual suspicion.

 

She said political initiatives are needed to achieve unification in the political and economic fields, adding that reuniting the North and the South after a nearly 70-year divide would pose a major, but not necessarily impossible challenge, given that both sides are "now rediscovering” each other through dramas.

 

“Genuine reunification will be achieved only when our lifestyle cultures are consolidated,” said Yoon.

 

Although 35,000 North Korean defectors live in the South, which has a population of 52 million, discrimination against them remains rampant, due to the decades of separation between North and South and a gaping economic discrepancy.

 

Despite the enduring popularity of the drama series in South Korea and persistent discrimination against those who fled North Korea to settle in the South, Yun offered some sage advice.

 

“North Korea is not something that can be accepted if it tastes sweet and rejected if it tastes bitter,” she said. “If there really is a strong will to pursue reunification, our citizens must accept the fact it carries a bitter taste.”

 

According to Yun, North Koreans are often moved by South Korean dramas but at the same time harbor an “an abject sense of dread that they will face discrimination if they manage to flee to the capitalist South.”

 

Yun also said her views about South Korea changed somewhat after getting in contact with a North Korean friend who had been avidly watching each episode of “Crash Landing on You.”

 

“It was the first drama I ever watched in which a man and woman from the North and South fall in love with one another,” Yun said. “If North Koreans get the opportunity to watch it, they may well feel confident about being able to communicate with South Koreans once reunification happens, just like in the drama.”

[BinJin99]

BinJin's dating rumours

HB's happy face vs. YJ's poker face

 

 

[Call Me By My Real Name]

13 minutes ago, TotoroSY said:

Here's change of topic. A very interesting article in Japan media on the impact of CLOY on the perception towards North Korea, and many stories by NK defectors on how CLOY's depiction is very close to life in NK. CLOY may be a rom.com but its political-social impact is really wide reaching. I believe this is one of the reason why HB and SYJ accepted this drama, cuz of the script and the scenario.

 

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13532595

 

The political aspect is also one of the reasons why CLOY nearly got, for lack of a better term, "snubbed", during BAA. Around that time, political tension between the North and the South was high because of defectors allegedly spreading bad propaganda. And prior to or during the airing of CLOY, the drama drew negative criticism from the North.

[EdelweissTX]

@Choisamsook 

Recycle bunch of blur granny pictures from the world war 2! 

Love it. I couldn’t agree more. All they have been doing are recycling old stuffs from the past. And kept saying “why Vast is sooo quiet with the rumors though”. And now they got what they have been wondering but of course they keep hanging on their sinking ship until as long as they can. 

[Edelweiss88]

1 hour ago, Channel20 said:

Gosh, now this Binjin's hip-hop/rap song is stuck in my head now 

 

Whatever, I'm still happy to sing a long with it 

OMG!This is hilarious! I wonder what BinJin’s  reaction would be if they get to see this. 

[ElectricHearts]

36 minutes ago, BinJin99 said:

BinJin's dating rumours

HB's happy face vs. YJ's poker face

i love them but this is why we know their gestures so well  We know how they will react lol

 

Honestly, I kept hoping that VAST would finally say something  Glad it finally happened like I wanted it to  

 

 

[SHpectator]

3 hours ago, Chewy said:

That man did not mention who he was. He didn’t talk so I don’t know if he talk that way IRL because he wrote it in words that said 아기처럼 which means like a baby. 

Thank you @Chewy i thought the person spoke with you as journo and not you just reading such unsubstantiated claim from a random person somewhere... anyway i guess i misunderstood what you shared.

 

@TotoroSY thanks for that share! I love how Japanese media still being intellectual and FACTUAL in how they dissect CLOY ... Japan is still whipped and gaga over CLOY but they stay classy with their commentaries i guess.. there's one japan-based shipper here right? Arigato! 

 

meanwhile i echo this observation by one twitter user:

and if i may also add, Jinnie liking spree also stoked media interest (This here said she accidentaly revealed dating HB - https://lovekpop95.com/2020/06/09/son-ye-jin-dating-with-hyun-bin/) yet no "not true" comment or denial from Vast.. therefore... i can't wait for August 3! 

[Angelfish]

33 minutes ago, PreciousByTheBay said:

 

The political aspect is also one of the reasons why CLOY nearly got, for lack of a better term, "snubbed", during BAA. Around that time, political tension between the North and the South was high because of defectors allegedly spreading bad propaganda. And prior to or during the airing of CLOY, the drama drew negative criticism from the North.

@PreciousByTheBay Thank you so much for your post and your opinion on why BAA seemingly "snubbed" CLOY. I have thought that as well and also felt that taking on the topic of a romance across the demarcation line would be a difficult and sensitive topic to address. I felt the series did a masterful job given the clear difficulty and I felt disappointed in the awards outcome. 

[ElectricHearts]

37 minutes ago, SHpectator said:

and if i may also add, Jinnie liking spree also stoked media interest (This here said she accidentaly revealed dating HB - https://lovekpop95.com/2020/06/09/son-ye-jin-dating-with-hyun-bin/) yet no "not true" comment or denial from Vast.. therefore... i can't wait for August 3! 

 

Also we respected their privacy that her liking spree only made that one silly website 

 

We all knew that Binnie and his team would finally address that rumor if it hit SK ent and it finally did Thanks  We can finally enjoy our August.. and then they can kill us .. I don't know if we are ready for it  

 

Also it is probably soon if Binnie dont care anymore about C-ent right now lol.. The straight to the point statements are enough  All his money going to D***** instead  No wonder he has to take all those CFs  (joking but i dont know )

 

[Ririgagarin03]

Hi Binjin fam, 

As much as we're rejoicing over the V@ST denial, please refrain from bashing xyz or other ships that could instigate a fanwar. Let's abide by the Soompi rules..I'm afraid that the moderators will soon take action if we continue to post topics that are against the rules. 

 

Let's all ship responsibly!!! 

Cheers, 

[CH Tan]

 

 

 

 

 

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[Peony]

I am following a lot of Filipino twitters and their Korean and SGP counterparts. I am not on Weibo or any C-forum .

At first, i got a little worried a month back and they trended the "BinJin Married" in the Philippines also to restrain the xyz "Marilous" . But as i go deep into the relations of every fan group and individual fans with a lot of followers, They are pretty organized . They have a dedicated voting team for our OTP . They share news and information and i was surprised that they have also now distributor team for BENCH! I can imagine that they really can influence SMART and Bench! 

 

Going back to the fan war, they can defend SYJ and they are very good at it! As i am trying my best to get better information about SYJ, i read a lot of their opinions;facts and for me, SMART must get both in one CF for the sake of  all of us especially them  .......... they can promote SMART INFINITY!!!! 

[celest1al]

 

 

[stanbinjin]

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[Bin-Jin]

SMART TEASER 3 to mark a new day in AUGUST!!

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