Jun Ji-hyun is the only female on "Best Actor" list

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

Jun Ji-hyun of “The Legend of the Blue Sea” was the only woman who made it on the list of the 10 best actors of 2016, compiled by Gallup Korea.

The research firm, between Nov. 4 and 25, had run a survey targeting 1,700 Korean men and women above the age of 13 to freely answer their pick of this year’s best two movie stars.

Actor Hwang Jung-min of “The Violent Prosecutor (2015),” “The Wailing (2016)” and “Asura: The City of Madness (2016)” topped the results.

Following in order were Song Gang-ho of “The Age of Shadows (2016),” Gong Yoo of “Train to Busan,” Ha Jung-woo of “The Handmaiden” and Yoo Hae-jin of “LUCK-KEY.” Lee Byung-hun of “Magnificent 7,” Lee Jung-jae of “Operation Chromite,” Jung Woo-sung of “Asura: The City of Madness, Jun Ji-hyun of “The Age of Shadows” and Ma Dong-suk of “Train to Busan” rounded up the top ten.

Jun, who came in ninth, was the only female in the list. A local media outlet commented, “Jun is the pride of the Korean actresses in the largely male-dominant field.“



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Comments

[by-venoms-sting.livejournal.com]

It's messed up that she was the woman only on that list.

[pastelpinklace.livejournal.com]

It sucks that mainly in (romance) dramas is where women are equally represented to their male co stars (but all the tropes...sigh) I'm glad at least park chanwook enjoys making female centric movies 😔

Ha Jung-woo of “The Handmaiden”
It wasn't even about him, rme

Lee Byung-hun of “Magnificent 7
Wtf lee santa made the list but less controversial cheating queen kim minhee didn't

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

the way it works is they just ask you whatever actors you think of and not necessarily what film/drama they were in so if you're already a household name it's easier to be listed - jun ji hyun was also listed in top 5 some previous years when she didn't even have a film or drama that year. of course, it's a damn shame that there are way more actors who are well known to begin with

[chimpansee.livejournal.com]

Ha Jungwoo was fantastic in The Handmaiden though... but then so were the actresses, so idk why they weren't there. Even the old lady that I know from being the mother in LIB was amazing in that movie and she was only in it for two seconds.

[secretkeeperr.livejournal.com]

was jihyun in age of shadows? i know she was in amsal which is v similar in theme and era to age of shadows.

[simplyseasalt.livejournal.com]

No, that was Han Ji Min. Jeon Ji Hyun didn't film a movie for 2016.

[simplyseasalt.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty small poll size, so I guess I shouldn't be bothered by it so much. I know Uhm Ji Won and Son Ye Jin did well for 2016 for films, so there's that at least.

[blanca-diablo.livejournal.com]

This is utter bs, there are far too many talented women for there to be only one woman on the list and for it to be Jun Ji Hyun.

[lechuza-yoya.livejournal.com]

is more like, who "serious" actor do you know?