"City Hunter" producer Jin Hyeok, "Lee Min-ho is an innocent and complicated actor"

Producer Jin Hyeok revealed his affection for the drama "City Hunter".

Jin Hyeok, who is producing the SBS drama "City Hunter" coming the 25th of May has been creating dramas with human love and impression such as "Painter of the Wind", "Shining Inheritance" and "Prosecutor Princess". These three have been acknowledged quality-wise and were very popular.

While PD Jin Hyeok is busy filming "City Hunter", he revealed his expectations and confidence in the drama.

"City Hunter" has a cast made up of national hot stars Lee Min-ho, Park Min-yeong, Lee Joon-hyeok, Goo Ha-ra and more. PD Jin Hyeok who has cast passionate and young actors and actresses, show his deep faith in them. He especially showed endless suppport to Lee Min-ho, who is playing Lee Yoon-seeong, an MIT doctorate and the Blue House National Communications Team agent.

PD Jin Hyeok said, "Before I start making something, I spend some time with the actors and commune with them as humans. I managed to cast Lee Min-ho as the lead role after spending lots of time with him talking and persuading".

"Lee Min-ho is innocent and complicated at the same time and he has endless opportunities which I look forward to. As much as he is talented, I want to drag most of it out through this project".

He also showed expectations in Park Min-yeong, Lee Joon-hyeok and Goo Ha-ra.

"Park Min-yeong who is running the top layer of actresses in the mood maker of the set with her bright and boldness. Even when she didn't get the script, she chose to do the drama based on faith alone. I thank her for that. Lee Joon-hyeok as well, has been preparing well for "City Hunter" and has been faithful".

"It is the first time Goo Ha-ra is attempting a drama but because of her character fits well with the character in the drama, I don't worry much. She is very passionate and I'm satisfied. I am grateful that I have actors and actresses who trust and follow me".

Meanwhile, "City Hunter" is based on a Japanese comic "City Hunter" and is based on 2011 Seoul and not 1980 Tokyo. This recreates the drama over a gap of 30 years and the Korean "City Hunter" will reset the drama according to Korean timing and atmosphere.

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"City Hunter" Goo Ha-ra cute split hair "Candy girl"

"City Hunter" Goo Ha-ra is cute and lovely 'candy girl'.

Goo Ha-ra is the youngest daughter of the president with a bubbly personality in the SBS drama "City Hunter" coming on the 25th.

Goo Ha-ra's 'candy girl' is when the president's daughter Da-hye attends an academy to get into university and takes lessons with her bodyguard Na-na (Park Min-yeong). She should be studying hard but with no passion to enter university, Da-hye listens to music through her earphones or acts indifferent while eating candy.

Goo Ha-ra looked as if she was possessed by this repeater character with her hair tied in two in an academy at the beginning of April. Looking displeased at the fact of having a bodyguard follow her around because she is a president's daughter, Goo Ha-ra managed to looked bat tempered and childish.

Goo Ha-ra is also known as the 'cutie Ha-ra Goo' among the staffs and actors. Especially the Goo Ha-ra licking a lollipop caught everyone's eyes it seems.

Da-hye in the drama throws love bombs at Yoon-seong (Lee Min-ho). The love purpose Goo Ha-ra will show towards Lee Min-ho is highly looked forward to.

The productions say, "The character of Da-hye and Goo Ha-ra are alike in many ways. She is enthusaistic towards acting and sincere so it might be worth looking forward to her as an actress and not a singer".

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Kim Hyun-joong meets 6000 fans in comfort of Japanese earthquake

Kim Hyun-joong attended the celebration of the release of the drama "Naughty Kiss" in Japan and met with the fans.

Along with Jeong So-min whom he was in the drama with, they met with 6000 fans on the 3rd in Osaka at two times in a row.


Kim Hyun Joong's popularity in Japan was proved as the ticket bookings for this event was sold out in a day and tickets were even drawn to lucky winners. So many fans appeared at the Grand Cube Hall just to see him.

Along with the video opening of "Naughty Kiss", the event started and Kim Hyun-joong started off saying, "It was disappointing that I couldn't visit Japan more often in March but I am happy I could come and say hello before the drama was released".


Kim Hyun-joong and Jeong So-min spoke fluently about their affection for the drama and telling episodes and behind the scene stories.

When there was an announcement that there was going to be another event like this for those who didn't have the chance to come to this one, everyone in the audience yelled.

This event highlight was of course the quizzes by the Kim Hyun-joong and Jeong So-min couple the staff and the audience also took part in together, making special memories.


At a special stage on this day, Kim Hyun-joong sang "Thank you" and the "Naughty Kiss" OST "One More Time", thanking the fans and finishing the event warmly.

Kim Hyun-joong will return to Korea after the press conference he will be attending with Jeong So-min on the 4th.

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"City Hunter" Lee Min-ho and Park Min-yeong "Love Judo"

Actor Lee Min-ho and actress Park Min-yeong from new SBS drama "City Hunter" shot a 'love judo' scene.

According to their publicist 3HW on the 4th, Lee Min-ho and Park Min-yeong shot a judo learning scene in Seoul last month on the 29th.

This scene is about Kim Na-na, former judo athlete and current Blue House bodyguard teaching MIT doctorate and National Communications Team agent Lee Yoon-seong some judo moves.

Lee Min-ho was helplessly hurled over by proficient Park Min-yeong and for a moment was caught up in sweet moment. Their lips about to touch, they exchanged sincere eye glances with each other.

To create a real-looking scene the actor and actress took judo lessons for about two months before the scene. Even after the shoot began, they practiced their moves here and there, showing how passionate they were for "City Hunter".

Park Min-yeong worked hard to make herself look like Kim Na-na. Learning expert techniques like the hip throw and the hold, she learnt quickly and experts didn't hesitate to compliment her.

In "City Hunter" Park Min-yeong will be hip throwing Lee Min-ho quite often like a trademark. Like the scene where the lead female character in the original comic hits the lead male character with a 100 ton hammer every time she was angry at him, Lee Min-yeong will be hurting Lee Min-ho.

Meanwhile, the drama will be released on the 25th of May after "49 Days".


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Lee Min-ho shows Won Bin's "The Man From Nowhere" moves in "City Hunter"

Actor Lee Min-ho is going to display the martial arts moves made by Won Bin from movie "The Man From Nowhere".

Lee Min-ho is Lee Yoon-seong, an MIT doctorate on the National Communications Team in the SBS drama "City Hunter" coming this 25th of May.

He is spreading out his fighting spirit to express Lee Yoon-seong who has the best skills in all areas.

There was a martial arts sparring shoot in Keyonggi-do Paju on the 4th last month. He had to roll in the mud in a weather as cold as 1~2 degrees.

He showed perfect action with no NG's in the rain without using a stand-in as well. He kicked well in the mud that was difficult to even stand in and showed perfect face acting although his face was hard to read as it was covered in mud.

A person in the production said, "He has been training for martial arts to be able to express the Lee Yoon-seong character to his fullest. He was trained by Philippines Kali Arnis who is famous as being the Won Bin martial arts coach in the movie "The Man From Nowhere".

Lee Min-ho this day worked well with several martial arts masters and made the staff overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, other than Lee Min-ho, Park Min-yeong, Lee Joon-hyeok and Kara's Goo Ha-ra are also in the drama "City Hunter".

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