...Hallyu began roughly 12 years ago when the rest of Asia discovered Korean soap operas. One of the breakthrough dramas was a series 'Winter Sonata' starring Choi Ji-woo & Bae Young-Joon. After that, more Korean dramas saw their way to foreign shores and Korean films and music started to follow suit. Korean marketing people started to see a Korea-centric trend. They dubbed this flow "The Korean Wave" or Hallyu....
1.6.12
[News] Jang Keun Suk lives up to his nickname of “Asia Prince”.
[News] Jang Keun Suk lives up to his nickname of “Asia Prince”.
Cr. - soompi
Jang Keun Suk has once again evidenced his popularity in Japan through a large scale newspaper advertisement.
Recently, the pictures above were posted on an online community bulletin with the description “The King of Hallyu, The Power of Jang Keuk Suk”, receiving much attention.
The revealed pictures show Jang Keun Suk’s jacket cover photo for his new Japanese album ‘Just Crazy‘ featured on Asahi newspaper in Japan. This advertisement, which has four double-sided pages, contains a full-body image of the artist on one side, and four different stills on the other side.
The fans in Japan waited in line since early morning just to get their hands on one of the 500,000 copies of this paper, even leading a Japanese broadcast station to report on the large crowd that had gathered.
Netizens commented, “He definitely fits the title of ‘Asia Prince’”, “His popularity is unmatched”, “Jang Keun Suk is impressive”.
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