A Phone Call From BYJ

Jan. 6, 2010


In "Gangshimjhang" or "Strong Heart" TV show of SBS yesterday Jan. 5'10, hosted by Lee Seung Gi and Kang Ho Dong, one of the Korean actor named Philip Choi that have a face resemblance with my "Honey Baeb" Yong Joon ssi was one of the guest. Philip shared his bonding moments with BYJ.

This article was translated and posted by Suehan in BYJ Quilt... many thanks to my Bae sister.

A Secret Phone Call with BYJ

Thanks to baebae72 for this video in You Tube

Emcee 1: You had a secret phone conversation with Bae Yong Joon?
Emcee 2: Are you really close to him?

Phil: What happened was that I said, “I’m me and Bae Yong Joon is Bae Yong Joon”, when I had the interview with the newspaper company. He saw that interview article and called me.

Emcee: Really?

Phil:　Hello.
BYJ: Are you Phillip?
Phill: Who is this?
BYJ: I’m Yong Joon.

I was so nervous when Bae Yong Joon ssi called me

Phil: Oh, senior. How are you doing?
BYJ: You said, “Bae Yong Joon is Bae Yong Joon, and I’m me.”, in the article?

I remember saying that, but I insisted denying it.

Phil: Well, I don’t know. I can’t remember well.

But BYJ said that he had seen it.

BYJ: Did that fact give you damage?

I thought a little while, because I was scared.

Phil: No, brother. I’m honored to have such face.
BYJ: Is that right?

I want to use this incident as an opportunity to get close to him. It was summer time and I like water skiing. So I told him that I would invite him to the shore someday. And we went Cheongpyeong Lake (suehan; 清平湖畔, http://www.gptour.go.kr/site/foreign/english/sub04/01_01.jsp) with his closest friend, Ryu Seong Soo.

Cheongpyeong Lake ....Photo courtesy of Visit Korea

So, we all went there, Bae Yong Joon probably imaged to ride a big yacht, but the shore I went to is a very shabby place. And I even had a hard time turning on the engine. I told to him to get on the boat, and he did. He had a cast on his arm at that time. When I turned on the engine, the boat started shaking.. Daldaldal… And we had fun and I thought he was hungry. He said, “How about ramen?” So I cooked ramen and serve him on an aluminum pot. He picked noodle like this on the lid of pot and ate it uncomfortably. So, I said, “Bro, you look a bit awkward.”, and he responded, “What are you talking about? It’s fine.” He ate it like this..

He was so humanly and awesome to me. And someone asked him for his autograph, but he couldn’t do it because he had a cast on his arm. He told him that he would send it to him later. And I had a phone call from that person (the store owner on the lake) about a week later; he said that BYJ sent him an autograph. He kept his promise. He’s surely different than others.

BYJ will open a Gosireh Branch in Lotte City Hotel Kinshicho

Jan. 6, 2010

Lotte Hotel advances to Japan with “Koala’s March”

Original in Japanese: (media?)
Translated into English: Cloud Nine (thanks)
Photos from LOVE 44Blog (thanks)

Lotte Co. announced on Jan. 5th that they will open Lotte City Hotel Kinshicho in Sumida Ward, Tokyo on April 6th. Their group company runs a luxury hotel in Seoul, however, this will be their first move to hotel business in Japan. Emphasizing its uniqueness by setting up guest rooms with the character of their main product in confectionery: Koala’s March they aim to invite tourists and businessmen.

Lotte City Hotel Kinshicho is being constructed in front of Kinshicho Station of JR and Tokyo Metro, with 19 floors above ground and 2 below. It has 213 guest rooms of 9 types. Besides to meet the demand of businessmen in central Tokyo, the hotel also targets the tourists to Tokyo Disney Resort (Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture) and to “Tokyo Sky Tree”, a tower under construction in Sumida Ward.

The hotel’s concept is [Tokyo Sweet Stay] which is totally appropriate to the confectionery maker.

It includes two Koala’s March rooms and a chocolate theme café restaurant [Charlotte Chocolate Factory] in order to [provide sweet and welcoming amusement, flavor, and healing.] (according to Lotte Co.)

In the hotel a Korean restaurant "Goshireh Fua", produced by a Korean Wave Star Mr. Bae Yung Joon, will open.

Tokyo’s hotel market has seen a series of advances by luxury hotels from overseas for the past few years, however, because of the recession by the financial crisis the number of hotel guests has declined and is still suffering badly.

Lotte City Hotel Kinshicho, while bringing in the luxury images and service know-how from Lotte Seoul Hotel, sets the room charge at rather low rate from 13,000 yen per person (tax included).

Their strategy is to stimulate new demand in downtown Tokyo.“