Actor Lee MinKi for singer debut
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Actor Lee MinKi is set to have his singer debut.
He is currently preparing to perform as an artiste for ‘Beach Party Week & T’ on 8th August. Lee MinKi has recently received good reviews for his acting in recent movie ‘HaeWoonDae’ which talks about tsunami disaster.
It is set for Lee MinKi to release a debut album ‘No Kidding’ on 11th August. It has been his dream since young to be a musician.
For this album, there are many producers who took part in the producing like Kid Loco, Popular Computer and ONE TWO etc. Lee MinKi has also been taking guitar and piano lesson so that he can do promotions as a musician.
The filming to the MV to his debut title song ‘Forever Summer’ has also been completed and he is currently practising performing with a band.
Source: sookyeong
The past year has also been busy, as Lee Min-ki has put out an indie film (Oishii Man), a romantic comedy (Romantic Island) and, most recently, a hit disaster blockbuster (Haeundae).
Next he’ll release the survival thriller A Million, which boasts a large cast and an interesting hook: reality show contestants are brought to an island to compete for 1 million dollars (or 1 billion won, per its Korean title “A Billion”). The contestants — which include Park Hae-il, Shin Mina, Jung Yumi, Lee Chun-hee — soon realize that the producer is unhinged and the game is more dangerous than they’d realized; playing the producer is Park Hee-soon, who does unhinged so well.
On the music front, Lee Min-ki will be performing a showcase at the music festival Beach Party Week & T, taking place at Busan’s Haeundae beach (the same beach from which the movie derives its name). The festival runs from August 3 through 9, while Lee Min-ki will perform on the 8th.
HAEUNDAE INTERVIEW
Your swimming skills are impressive.
Lee Min-ki: I learned for three weeks at the National Fire Service Academy. At the initial meeting, I said I could swim in the ocean, but I found that the ocean was pitch-black and scary. Later on, I swam with a rescue group from Gwangan Beach to Gwangan Bridge. I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get to show everything I’d practiced.
How did you come to take this role?
I enjoyed reading the script. I liked that it showed these people living like real people do when the tsunami suddenly hits. At first, the character seemed like your typical blunt Busan man, but that impression changed as I worked. The director told me he wanted me to show a pure, naive side to the character.
There are two scenes that show your lips being bitten by your partner Kang Ye-won. She said, “Lee Min-ki’s lips are in tatters.”
It hurt. We had to shoot that several times, so being bitten, then bitten again, hurt. After filming ended, it felt like my lip was flapping in the sea breeze. [Laughs]
Being from [the southern province of] Gimhae, you must have found it easier to use the Saturi accent.
It’s true that compared to how hard my sunbaes worked, it was a lot easier for me. It was similar to me looking at them and thinking, “Ah, that’s how you show facial expressiveness with the Seoul dialect.” But the worrisome part was thinking that since everyone knows I’m from this area, I’m in trouble if I go wrong at this point.
Even from the perspective of natives, my sunbaes’ Saturi accents were excellent. Sol Kyung-gu hyung would hole up in his room every day, listening to the recordings and sighing, “This isn’t even English or French, and I’m struggling so much with this Korean language.” The result of that struggle came out well.
You’ve shot a lot of projects lately, but compared to when you were called “Korea’s Younger Boyfriend”* the reaction has been relatively quiet.
(*”Younger Boyfriend” refers to his image playing the younger boyfriend to an older woman, as in Dal Ja’s Spring.)
There are people who give me recognition. Of course, we don’t do this to work alone and clap for ourselves alone. I’m grateful if many people give me credit, but that’s not something I can accomplish with my own talent.
Source: dramabeans
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Date: 2009-08-03 08:49 am (UTC)NO KIDDING
NO KIDDING?
...QUE?
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Date: 2009-08-03 09:20 am (UTC)rofl, just something about this makes me want to die laughing.
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Date: 2009-08-03 05:45 pm (UTC)He was my favourite in Rainbow Romance X3
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hopefully he sings well.
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Date: 2009-08-04 02:58 am (UTC)he's the one who's like in love with yoon eunhye right? lol
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