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News Article on Kim Jeong Hoon in year 2006 Labels: Kim Jeong Hoon
This must be the ultimate fantasy – to have Prince Charming bend down with shoe for you. It happened to a lucky girl in Taipei recently.
Her ‘prince’ was none other than Korean singer-actor Kim Jeong Hoon of Princess Hours fame.
But it was ski shoes, and not a glass slipper, that he helped her with. He was there to promote skiing for Korea Tourism Organisation.
But there is an example of how obliging the boyish heart-throb is, and how eager he is to win over the Asian market.
When fans in Taipei asked about his love life, his glib reply was: “Why do I need a girlfriend when I have you all?”
And Jeong Hoon, 26, has many anecdotes to share, even though he professes to be shy and reticent.
Hot off the racks in Taiwan and Singapore is an album featuring his best solo hits when he was one half of the defunct pop group UN.
Last week in Tokyo, Jeong Hoon performed to a crowd of 1,000 to mark the release of his Japanese album, 5 Stella Lights.
He is slated to stage a concert tour around Japan from 12 Dec, covering 10 cities including Osaka and Sapporo.
Not stopping by S’pore
Singapore will have to wait though. We understand from his record label Universal Music that there are no confirmed plans for him to do album promotions here.
But Jeong Hoon has visited China at least 6 times – enough for him to pick up some Mandarin.
When in Qingdao two months ago, he said he learnt the phrase “wo ai huo guo”, or “I love steamboat”.
Also, he replied in Mandarin when asked by China Entertainment Television what he would say to move a girl’s heart.
“Yi jian zhong qing,” he said, meaning love at first sight.
As for his most embarrassing encounter, he recounted how he was once caught using a female toilet because the gents had ran out of toilet paper.
What about his “most suave moment”?
He said he feels great whenever he checks out his flat stomach in the mirror after workouts. How vain.
But his most dramatic anecdote yet is how he hot thrown out of his house, naked.
He told The Chosun Ilbo: “I have always been bothered by my ‘pretty’ looks… As a kid, I used to pull pranks that irritated people just to make myself appear more manly.
“Once, in kindergarten, I said I wanted to leave home and got chased out of the house, naked. But it was too cold outside, so I had to go back. In the end I got beaten up and shed plenty of tears.”
Should he get thrown out again, one can imagine hordes of open-armed fans waiting outside, happy to take Prince Charming home.
