On the afternoon of the 25th, MBC held their 50th anniversary special event, New Life to Children, at Banpodong's New World Shopping Centre in Seoul.
New Life to Children is a charity event that has been going on for the past 21 years - helping children that suffer from leukemia and other cancers.
With "Hope flourishes, Love flourishes - introducing the Flowerpot of Hope " as the motto of this campaign, TVXQ have started up flowerpot selling to help fundraise for this cause.
The recorded program will air on MBC May 5th New Life to Children.
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Shim Changmin, who will be making his acting debut through the new SBS Monday-Tuesday drama "Paradise Meadow", made a joke and expressed that before his kiss scenes, he would be so nervous that he would be unable to eat.
Shim Changmin attended the press conference for "Paradise Meadow", which took place at 2pm on the 18th. He said, "For half a year I was at Jeju Island for filming and personally, this is my first challenge in acting, so I worked hard and completed it happily."
With regards to the kiss scene with his label mate Lee Yeonhee, who is also of the same age, Shim Changmin shared his feelings, "I was very nervous about the kissing scenes and from the morning of the day of filming onwards, I wouldn't be able to eat. I would just keep waiting like that and constantly used mouthwash."
At this point, Lee Yeonhee joked, "Then before that, you wouldn't even eat meat?" She also said, "Although I said it's a kissing scene, it was actually just a cute bobo* scene. I wasn't burdened by it and it was interesting to film it. I was really happy to watch Changmin being so nervous."
Choikang Changmin also filmed a kissing scene with Yoo Hana. He expressed, "I was really really nervous. Yoo Hana who I was meeting for the first time and Lee Yeonhee who I saw everyday; I can't say which filming of the kissing scene was better. Actually, Lee Yeonhee and I are label mates and to me, she's also a senior in acting as well as a friend, so I learnt a lot from her and she also gave me a lot of advice. Thanks to Yeonhee, my burden while filming was lessened by a lot."
"Compared to Yeonhee, I'm not that familiar with Yoo Hana, and we didn't have a lot of time to interact so the result was a little stiff."
After which Lee Yeonhee smiled and said, "But from what I see, that's not it at all. While filming with someone so familiar like me, he was very shy. Watching the two of them act when they're with me, even the looks of jealousy were hilarious. When (he's) acting with me, he's very introvert, but when he's filming with Hana-unnie**, his face was full of smiles. It was only through the monitor that I could see Mr Shim Changmin taking the lead."
In this TV drama, Shim Changmin's role is a third generation chaebol's*** son, 21 year old Han Dong Joo who met 19 year old Da Ji and fell into a passionate love, then got married only to divorce 6 months later. It will air on the 24th.
*bobo = peck on the lips
**unnie = how a female addresses an older female as "older sister"
***chaebol = South Korean privately owned business conglomerates
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Director Kim Chul Kyu of "Paradise Meadow" has not been stingy when it comes to praise for Shim Changmin, who is challenging acting for the first time.
On the afternoon of the 18th, a press conference was held for the new SBS Monday-Tuesday drama "Paradise Meadow".
During the press conference, Director Kim Chul Kyu admitted that "in the beginning, there was a lot of worries".
Kim Chul Kyu said, "Every night I would ask him to come to the office for one to one practice", "acting skill isn't something that just comes as you wish, there are people who still can't grasp the feel of it even after 10 years", and "because it is Changmin's first time acting, there are also moments when he is at a loss for words, when he's unfamiliar, and even clumsy".
Director Kim Chul Kyu praised, "Thankfully Changmin has a lot of feel for acting and he was able to express himself naturally in a very short time", "the character is calm on the outside and passionate on the inside; which is really similar to him" and "he absorbed (the feel of) the role well".
Getting married at 19 followed by a lightening fast divorce; a love story about thick-skinned and rude youths, "Paradise Meadow" will air on the 24th as a follow up drama for "It's OK, Daddy's Girl".
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TVXQ's ChoiKang Changmin and CN Blue's Lee Jonghyun's warm encounter has attracted fans attention.
During a Japanese magazine interview, Lee Jonghyun mentioned that: "I met TVXQ's ChoiKang Changmin at the airport, and he said that 'I bought your album', which moved me."
Reading this, a netizen recalled an interview done by Changmin for Elle Japan, last year July. It asked what music was on repeat recently, with which he answered "CN Blue" to.
Connecting the dots, fans have commented that, "Wow, they know each other, it's a real surprise", and "No matter how you look at it, it's a really warm encounter".
On the other hand, ChoiKang Changmin recently participated in the "SMTOWN LIVE '10 World Tour", while Lee Jonghyun is busy with his acting work for "Acoustic" since the 18th of last month.
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