パク・ヨンハ 박용하 Park Yong Ha

[karened]

Ok, I promise this will be the last spam post I'll be posting. This time, it's about a guy called

パク・ヨンハ    박용하    Park Yong Ha

Borned August 12 1977, he was known for his role as Bae Yong Joon's love rival, Kim Sang Hyuk, in Winter Sonata. Well, I've never watched it before so I didn't know. But apparently, based on one interview by him, he had visited Japan to promote the drama there and during one of the events, he sang My Memory from the drama's OST and was later invited to release a cd in Japan. Hence, he debuted as a singer in Japan in 2004. Since then, he has had a rather successful music career in Japan, selling many cds which ranked high on the Oricon charts and held numerous concert tours.

As a singer, he had won numerous awards at Japan's Golden Disc Award 日本ゴールドディスク大賞 .

2005 : New Artist Of The Year (International)
2006 : Song Of The Year (International) // Japan-Korea Friendship Year Special Award  
2007 : Single Of The Year (International) // Best Asian Artist (along with F4 and Shinhwa)
2008 : Single Of The Year (International) // Best Asian Artist (sole recipient)

 

Him at the award ceremony below:

 

A video of him at the Japan Gold Disc 2006.

Since debuting as a singer, he has not acted in a drama series (as a full lead/supporting lead) and his appearance in the drama On Air was his first drama in 5 years. Because of this, he went to his ex-classmate who was holding drama classes for children, and practised in front of her so that he will not get too stressed or shy to act in front of the camera when filming starts. Although he had not been doing much acting, he was still good in the drama ne!! Sugoi! He will be appearing in a kmovie early next year and has just decided to participate in this kdrama as the lead actor. This drama is more vengeful and it is said that we'll get to see a very different Yongha in there.
 

    

Here are some pictures of my favourite pairing in the show. When I watched it for the first time, I watched every single part, but when I rewatched it, I was only watching scenes with either YE or KM or the both of them together. heheh.

If you look carefully at the third picture, you can see that Yongha has changed his hairstyle! Looks weird at first but well, it gets better. And I so like his geek glasses in the fourth picture! I'm really considerig contact lenses man... Lastly, I just want to say that Song Yoon A is really gorgeous. Not that young but still very pretty!! I like her! She said that she took up the role because it will help her to break the stereotyped image built up from her previous roles.

Ok, the next part of this post are some songs from him which I highly recommend. His voice is soothing and the melody of these songs are very beautiful! (If the videos don't appear, check back later - if you are interested. I think something went wrong so I've gotta go fix it, but not now. My eyes are dying from staring at the comp for too long!)

[due to copyright issues, some videos are no longer available on YT, so I've tried finding replacement videos...]

 

Fanvid with memorable moments of Yongha from Winter Sonata.
The song is Yongha's cover of the original My Memory.
 

A fanvid of Yongha.
The song is titled Signal.
 

A fanvid of Yongha with beautiful pictures and bg song.

"ずっと君と僕と、青い空と"
Very beautiful song with beautiful lyrics

Don't Give It Up!

 

외사랑, an OST of On Air.

 

The MV for Yongha's song Behind Love~片思い, the Japanese version of 외사랑
 

The MV for Yongha's latest single Say GoodBye. It achieved pretty good results on the Oricon charts!

A live performance of his song I Love You So Much. I believe that live is (usually) the best way to judge one's vocals.
 

What can be better than to have your favourite song covered by your favourite singer?
Yongha sings La La La Love Song live!! Yes, the theme of Long Vacation!!

How was it? Were you won over by his voice? Or by his looks LOL? Boyish/man looks. Or by his hardwork? I am. I've always liked people who worked hard. Arash is one fine example. Yongha is another. I read an interview on him and that interview really showed how hard it was for him to debut in Japan. Obviously, the biggest problem is the language differences. When he first debuted in Japan, he knew no Japanese and had to take language classes. He was only accompanied by a translator. And he commented that what he disliked most back then was having to attend Japanese variety shows. Because he didn't really understand Japanese and it was hard to have someone translate every single word during the show, he sometimes end up giving weird answers when questions were posed. Then the host, together with other artistes or the audience, would laugh. Although he didn't know why they were laughing, he had to laugh along as well. It is really scary. I cannot imagine myself going to a foreign land all by myself and then having to interact with the people there. But yet he took the leap and challenged himself. I admire him for that. Now that his singer career in Japan has achieved some results, he is making a return to acting. His first drama made waves and now he is moving on to greater things. Amazing!

最近、「オンエアー」というドラマを見て、パク・ヨンハくんが好きになった。
この前に、彼の存在を知っていますが、気になりませんでした。韓国のスターがあまり好きではありませんから。
なのに、オンエアー見てから、どんどん好きになりました！

それから、ソングもたくさん聞いて、びっくりしました。
ヨンハさくんの歌声を初めて聴いた時、「これだ～」って。(ノ∀`)
「私が好きな声だ」と心から感じ、それからはヨンハくんの歌を聴いている時が私の癒しの時間となりました。
強い声で感動的で、いい歌を歌ってくれた。
その強さの中に優しいヨンハくんがいる。♪(゜◇゜人゜◇゜)

「ずっと君と僕と」や、「片思い」や、韓国バージョンの「외사랑」や、「say goodbye」が大好きです。
ヨンハくんの声がすごいです！
そして、踏まれても踏まれても起き上がれる力強さがあります。
心が優しい上に顔もカッコイイ。(*^m^*)
とにかく歌声、笑顔、人柄が好きなんです。

ヨンハさんは言葉の壁を越して、日本で一生懸命した。
言葉も文化もちがうし、だれも知らない・・・時々寂しくて、疲れるはずだろう。
そんな刻苦勉励を見て、ヨンハが好きになった。
今年数年ぶりに俳優復帰したのはすごく嬉しかった。
楽しみなぁぁぁ・・・（｀・ω・´）ゞ