BYJ's fans held a party celebrating 15th anniversary of his debut

Gaeulyeoja posted this on the Talk Box of BYJ's official home.
Translated into English by Joanne/BYJ’s Quilt

BYJ's fans held a party celebrating 15th anniversary of debut
[Sports Hankook]11/1/09 22:16


In time for 15th anniversary of 'Hallyu star' BYJ, his fans held a party to celebrate it.


BYJ's fans neatly congratulated the 15th anniversary in PM on october 31, at BYJ-run Gorilla-in-the-Kitchen at Shinsa Dong, Kang Nam Ku Seoul. BYJ had debuted in drama 'Salut d'Amour' in 1994. On that day, fans volutarily prepared the occasion, instead of huge party. In consideration of fact that BYJ is yet recovering from sepsis that he contracted after writing photo essay 'Travel in search of Korea's Beauty', fans held a simple meeting to congratulate on his acting activities that has been steady for 15 years.


Besides the 15th anniversary meeting, BYJ's fans hold a regular meeting once a month. Through this exchange, fans make the opportunity of from (talking) BYJ's current news to sharing strong sense of ties between star and fans. They also do diverse donation activities in the name of BYJ including Southeast Asian earthquake-sunami, and flood disaster, etc.


Reported by Lee Hyeonah,lalala@sportshankook.co.kr
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Salut D'Amour, also known as Love Greeting, despite its French name, is a South Korean television series produced by KBS in 1994 and broadcast on KBS2 from November 1994 to April 1995. The drama has a total of twenty five episodes.


Synopsis

The theme of Salut D'Amour, unlike later versions, are not interconnected to one another by one episodes. Each episode in Salut D'Amour contains a separate but closely-related theme from other episodes. (I’ll post all episodes later, after I finish all BYJ’s works along his 15 years.^^)

Characters

Bae Yong Joon as Kim Yong-min
The lead role in the drama. He was born in 1975. Yong-min was elected as the group leader among his group of friends (all the major characters in the drama), and his powers apply in the fields of project work by the university that his friends are studying in, and to an extent, holidays. Yong-min is the childhood friend of Hae-yung, but she later broke up with him during their university days. He went on to develop relationships with Tongnam, Yujin and Ahn-chae. Yong-min had an elder sister, Yeon-ae.

Salut D'Amour is Bae Yong-jun's, Kwon Oh-joong's, Kim Ji-ho's and Park Jun-hee's debut drama and many incidents happened. BYJ (Yong-min) nearly drowned in the river the cast were filming. According to BYJ, the director thought he was initially playing in the water, not knowing that he was about to drown. This event happened went BYJ (Yong-min) jumped into the river to pick up the very shoe Park (Ahn-chae) threw into the river while filming the drama.

BYJ later acted as Choi Hyun-jun in the 1996 Korean drama, Papa as the author of the Korean version of Salut D'Amour. The content described in the drama strongly corresponds to the story in this drama. This is evidenced in one scenario in episode three, Choi (Bae) was having a grand meeting on his new book. The Korean words "사랑의 인사" were written on the display signboard for the meeting.

Soundtrack

- Salut d’Amour, by Edward Elgar
Salut d’Amour is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano.

- It Must Have Been Love (played at the ending of the final episode)
"It Must Have Been Love" is a power ballad written by Per Gessle and performed by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. The ballad became the duo's 3rd #1 hit in the United States, and is one of their best-selling releases, leading the single to be certified gold in a number of countries.

[Source : wikipedia.org]