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Repost: soompi/dam-su
original source: Welcome to Asia Love: A Latina's LOVE for everything ASIAN ~
written by: Tany (moonfairydoll)
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The one that started it all...
I think my absolute love & sometimes unhealthy obsession with everything Asian can be attributed single-handedly to one man and one man only.
BAE YONG JOON.
Before I fell completely in love with him the only Asian actors I actually knew about and liked were Chow Yun-Fat & Jet Li, and even then I had only seen them in American films. And of course I've always liked Asian-American actors like Lucy Liu & Margaret Cho amongst others. But I never had a true taste of real Asian culture until the first time I saw BYJ on TV. While other Bae sisters may have seen him for the first time in Winter Sonata, I actually discovered him through the kdrama 'Hotelier'. I had never in my life seen an Asian drama before, I didn't even know they existed. I was changing channels and landed on what was then International Channel and is now known as AZN TV (which sadly I don't have anymore *cries*) and saw these two Asian actors (at the time I didn't know they were Korean); who I later came to know as Song Yun Ah & Kim Seung Woo, and thought 'cool, an Asian movie', but it was only a matter a minutes before I discovered it was what I had come to know all my life as a Novela or soap opera. I became hooked immediately.
Curiously enough the first time I saw BYJ I didn't like him all that much, I know... hard to believe. I thought he was cute, but that was that. It was his portrayal of Frank Shin that made me fall completely head-over-heels in love with him. His performance in Hotelier in my opinion is one of his best to date. I just love him in that drama (even more than in Winter Sonata and that's a lot). After that I just had to find out more about him, the drama & the other actors.
It was while looking for more info on the theme songs of Hotelier that I discovered the great world of Kpop, which led me to Jpop & Cpop. After a while I developed a love for Asian movies, dramas & music. It's been a year and half since I first saw BYJ and thanks to him I've discovered a world full of rich culture, great music, stellar acting and entertaining stories.
My love for everything Asian is so great that I even have a deep desire to learn to speak, read & write in Korean and one of my biggest dreams is to visit South Korea someday.
To date I've only been able to watch 2 of BYJ's dramas (Hotelier & Winter Sonata) & one of his movies (Untold Scandal), but hopefully I'll be able to watch more of Yong Joon oppa and his amazing acting in the future.
While I've become a fan of many other Asian actors & music artists, Bae Yong Joon remains my favorite, and always will be. Because while reading more about him I discovered not only an amazing actor but someone who is real, kind-hearted & someone that makes his fans feel like family. His candor and humility keep me hooked to anything and everything he does. And I only wish the best for him in his professional & personal life.
So thank you Yong Joon for opening the doors to a whole new world & culture to me. You'll never know the impact you've had on this 26 year old latina from Puerto Rico.
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