New image of BYJ

Feb. 6 , 2010

Thanks a lot to Makishi of BYJGallery who captured and shared this new images of BYJ that they said BYJ has a new hair style. His hair have grown so he has to comb it in side ways again.
And I think this photos were taken during his dubbing session of WLS anime.

BYJ - New refreshing photo of AB Spring '10

Feb. 6, 2010

Thanks a lot to Suehan/BYJQuilt

Courtesy of http://blog.naver.com/sdh055/90080555492

History of BYJ - DATV Opening Ceremony

Feb. 5, 2010

Videos and photos lifted from Flare's blog (thanks a lot sis)

【VOD】DATV開局セレモニー#1




【VOD】DATV開局セレモニー#2

News and Clear Photos of BYJ - VK CF

Feb. 5, 2010

Thank you so much to Roytavan of TWSSG blog (Thai family)

Source: The Hankook Ilbo

Yonsama Craze Goes on Despite H1N1 Flu and Financial Crisis.

Actor Bae Yong-joon's clout has gone beyond simply drawing a bigger number of tourists to Korea. The super star played a significant role in achieving a surplus in tourism balance of payments.

Ever since Bae was appointed a promotional ambassador for 2010-2012 Visit Korea Years, he has made an outstanding impact on bringing in over 7.8 million tourists to the nation in 2009. "Our initial target was 7.5 million and it was easily surpassed.

The release of Bae's book "The Journey in Search of Beauty of Korea" diversified the interests of foreign tourists previously centered on Seoul and its vicinity, further to other remote regions of the country, thereby contributing to invigorating regional tourism", said a member of the Visit Korea Year Committee.

The committee analyzed that such impressive outcome is clearly exceptional, considering the global tourism industry reversing the upward trend to post a negative growth for the first time in 6 years after the industry was hit hard by the 2003 outbreak of SARS, as the H1N1 influenza and the financial crisis swept across the world.

While other countries are struggling amid sluggish tourism demand, Korea saw a 15% year-on-year rise in the inbound tourism traffic and the tourism balance of payments returned to a surplus in 9 years since 2000.

As of September 2009, the surplus stood at 320 million dollars and it is forecast to further widen by the end of December. The rising trend was also witnessed in the number of incoming tourists which exceeded the annual 7 million mark for the first time in history.

External factors including strong yen amid fluctuating foreign exchange rates were critical in achieving such successful results.

To break the data down by country, the majority of inbound tourists were from Japan with 4 out of ten being Japanese, followed by China and the U.S. Winter Sonata well captured the charm of Korean culture, prompting a boom in visit to Korea.

In fact, the promotional poster titled "Old Palaces of Korea" featuring Bae Yong-joon recorded a 70% attention rate in February last year, according to a survey by Yomiuri Shimbun, showing how influential Bae is in Japan.

Bae's management agency BOF said, "With his appearance in Winter Sonata, Bae Yong-joon generated more than 4 trillion won back in 2005 in economic effects in both Korea and Japan according to a survey.

We believe Bae played a considerable role in attracting 7.8 million foreign tourists last year after he was appointed a promotional ambassador for Korea in October 2008".

Bae got actively involved in promoting Korea as a tourist destination through the print media and TV advertising during 2009.

He also joined the "Smile Campaign" organized by the Visit Korea Year Committee to encourage Koreans to develop a kinder attitude toward foreign tourists.


Most of all, he certainly lived up to his title as a promotional ambassador for Korea when he held a special event at the Tokyo Dome where 45,000 Japanese fans flocked together in celebration of the publication of his book The Journey in Search of Beauty of Korea which is considered an excellent guide to Korean culture.

Polaris Pendant / WSL Necklace

Feb. 4, 2010

The BOFi Jap. produced and will be releasing another new product. A Polaris pendant which Jun Kang have given to Yu jin in the WLS TV drama series and in WLS anime.

Polaris Pendant is a symbol of eternal love

Sales start date: February 5, 2010 (Fri) 12:00
Price :JPY16,800
Material: SILVER 925
Size: 27mm × horizontal pendant length 14mm, length 42cm chain
Weight: 4.6g (chain included)
Original release: Digital Adventure
Vendor: MUCHA

Anime "Winter Sonata" special case with logo

Designed to fit even a simple casual dress style and glamor.

A Give away for the first 300 buyers - an original cellphone chain from MUCHA

■ Material: bell, cubic
■ Size:100mm length
The length of the rope 30mm
Diameter of 10mm cubic
Outline of the ring 20mm
15mm diameter ring



Many thanks Tomato this video in You Tube

Major Projects Of VKC

Feb. 4, 2010

A repost of BYJ related news from Korea IT Times.

Four Major Projects Being Pushed to Attract
10 Million Foreign Tourists

By: Lee Kyung-min
Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Shin Dong-bin, chairman of the VKC

The Visit Korea Year Committee (VKC) has been making a strong push for four major projects in 2010 to attract 10 million tourists a year, a top official of the committee said. "On the occasion of the 2010-2012 Visit Korea Year, the committee is exerting all-out efforts to herald the brand of South Korea to foreign countries and improve quality of the nation's tourism industry," Shin Dong-bin the chairman of the VKC, said.

In an interview with Korea IT Times, Shin said, "By doing so, we aim to attract more than 10 million foreign tourists every year, attain over US$13 billion in tourism revenue, and secure No. 21 position in terms of the global tourism competitiveness."

Related to this, the committee is actively pushing for four major projects this year – differentiated overseas marketing by market, affluent incentives for foreign tourists when they visit Korea, special events offering something to see and enjoy. There is also a campaign to improve greeting services for foreign tourists, which enables them to feel welcomed when they arrive in Korea.

Special Tourism Sales Promotion Team

"As an initial step, we will dispatch a special tourism sales promotion team to China and Japan to attract tourists from neighboring countries. We will also stage active PR marketing by holding regular explanatory meetings to introduce Korea's tourism resources to foreigners at overseas offices of Korea Tourism Organization," stated the VKC chairman.

In particular, he said, “The committee will engage in active promotion activity to help foreign tourists attend such global events to be held in South Korea such as the World Design Capital Seoul 2010, the World Championships in Athletics Daegu 2011 and International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012.”

Shin expressed, "Along with this, the committee will implement a program to decentralize foreign tourists centering on Seoul to provincial regions and attract more foreign tourists by offering incentives to shopping centers and lodging facilities." To let foreign tourists see the attractive appearances of provincial regions in the country, VKC has decided to hold the 2010 Hallyu Festival in Gyeongju, the World Food Tourism Festival in Jeonju, and Busan’s Fireworks Festival.

Shin stated, “For development of high-quality tourism products linked with the festivals, the committee is maintaining close tie-ups with relevant provincial governments.” He went on to say, "In addition, it will stage the welcoming service campaign for foreign tourists with the start of the inauguration of the Smile Supporters' group comprising college students."

Korea's Tourism Resources

For a successful Visit Korea Year, the committee plans to actively push for four major tourism areas such as medical services, meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE), ecology and performance – in which South Korea has strong competitiveness, Shin proclaimed.

"We can develop truly high-valued tourism products by promoting and spreading 'hallyu (the Korean wave),' image. For instance, Korean culture experience and products developed by hallyu's star Bae Yong-joon, that featured traveling to the most beautiful places in the country, were sold out even if the price was relatively high at KRW140,000-400,000," stated the VKC chairman.

When asked about the current situation of Korean culture's globalization and the brand value of South Korea. Shin said, "Korean culture's globalization now stands on a toddler stage. South Korea also ranks 42 in global tourism competitiveness, much lower than its neighboring countries. By publicizing the brand of South Korea to foreign tourists and promoting Korea's tourism image during the Visit Korea Year, we aim to jack up the nation's ranking of tourism competitiveness to 20 in the world."

Noting that major foreign countries are striving to attract more foreign tourists as a means of promoting their state image and bolster state competitiveness. Shin reinforced that South Korea is also necessary to increase the number of inbound foreign tourists in order to reduce deficits in the country's tourism balance and strengthen competitive power of the domestic tourism industry.

In line with this, Korea declared 2010-2012 as the Visit Korea Year at the Cabinet meeting to strengthen competitiveness of the domestic tourism industry, presided over by President Lee Myung-bak, on March 28, 2008.

"During the period, we will make best efforts to promote the image of South Korea to the world and implement a variety of short-term and long-term projects to attract more foreign tourists. In particular, we are seeking private companies' active participation in the campaign to lure more foreign tourists this year," said the chairman.

As an initial event for the Visit Korea Year 2010, the committee plans to hold an event welcoming foreign tourists. Under the project, VKC will present a bouquet of flowers to first foreign visitors at Incheon International Airport, Gimpo International Airport and Jeju International Airport.

Along with this, the committee will operate PR booths for foreign tourists at major tourist spots across the country, including Haeundae in Busan, Homigot in Pohang and Jeongdongjin in Gangnung, Shin concluded.Shin Dong-bin, chairman of the VKC.

Flowers and Frame

Feb. 4, 2010

[VOD] History of BYJ

Feb. 2, 2010

Videos shared by Flare (thanks a lot!!)
Sorry can't make it larger.

History of Bae Yong Joon ～初回拡大版

"Trip down the beauty of Korea -Bae Yong Joon This one from: Daily Motion + conan's blog + truelovebyj Thank you so much.

100 Registered members of BYJ official site will be able to tour.

Jan. 31, 2010


Source: JOB
Thanks a lot to Tomato/BYJ Quilt for the translation.

Animation “Winter Sonata” ending scene to be shot in live-action!

29 January 2010

Animation Winter Sonata is currently showing at DATV(sky perfect tv chan.750).
Not only the drama fans but many people are paying attention to its storyline,
Animation “Winter Sonata’s” ending scene for the last episode will be airing
with Bae Yong Joon and Choi Ji Woo’s live actions acting.
Last episode is scheduled to air on Saturday, 24 April.
(airing schedule date may change.)

This time, to commemorate the shooting of live action,
“DATV” is planning a tour to watch this shooting.
100 registered members of Bae Yong Joon’s official site will be able to join the tour.
We will be looking forward to your entry.
(member registration before 31 January 2010 will be available for the entry)

For details of the tour, please see the DATOUR homepage（http://datour.jp/).
(notice on details of this tour, and application is scheduled to be
released at 19:00 on Monday, 1 February 2010 )

[summary of Animation “Winter Sonata”]
airing schedule: every Saturday pm 12:00 – 12:30 (26 episodes)
(rerun: every Saturday pm 9:00 – 9:30 others)
homepage: http://anime-wintersonata.com/

アニメ「冬のソナタ」エンディングシーン実写撮影決定！（2010.1.29）

DATV（スカパー！750ch）で大好評放送中のアニメ「冬のソナタ」。ドラマファンのみならずその後の展開に大きな注目が集まっているアニメ「冬のソナタ」の 最終話エンディングシーンをペ・ヨンジュン と チェ・ジウ が 実写で共演、放送されることが 決定しました。最終話は4月24日（土）放送予定です。（放送予定日時は変更になる場合があります）

今回、エンディングシーンの実写撮影を記念して、「DATV」では撮影見学にご参加いただけるツアーを企画いたしました。ペ・ヨンジュン 日本 公式 サイト ご 登録のお客様を対象に100名 の 募集を行いますので、皆様からのご参加をお待ちしております。（2010年1月31日までにご登録の方が対象となります）

ツアーについての詳細はDA TOURホームページ（http://datour.jp/）をご覧ください。
（本ツアーの詳細および告知・お申込みは2010年2月1日（月）19:00からを予定しております）

【アニメ「冬のソナタ」概要】
放送日程： 毎週土曜日 午後12:00～12:30　　全26話
（再放送　毎週土曜日 午後9:00～9:30など）
ホームページ： http://anime-wintersonata.com/

BYJ's WS Anime Final Scene - Live

Jan. 30, 2010

Winter Sonata Anime's Ending Scene to Be Live-Action

Repost from: Anime News Network
posted on 2010-01-29 17:25 EST

Original stars to film new sequence
that was not in original Korean TV drama

The Nikkan Sports newspaper is reporting on Saturday that the ending scene for the ongoing Winter Sonata anime television series will be filmed in live-action. Yong Joon Bae and Ji Woo Choi, the stars of the 2002 live-action Korean television drama that inspired the anime, will appear in the new live-action footage when it runs on April 24. The new ending in the 26th episode will cover a part of the story that was not in original Korean drama.

Both the original drama and the 26-episode anime follow a girl named Yu Jin Jung (Choi) and her male classmate Joon Sang Kang (Bae) as tragedy and angst befalls them and those around them in the years between high school and young adulthood. The 2004 Japanese broadcast of the drama triggered the ongoing "Korean wave" of pop culture in Japan and turned Bae into a superstar among Japanese female viewers. The Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing Co. eventually imported and translated the drama's manhwa adaptation under the title Winter Love Song.

Bae had already agree to reprise his role for the anime's voice cast, as part of the 2007-2008 deal that gave his Key East company's production credit for the anime. Choi agreed to join the voice cast shortly thereafter.

Image © 2009 Anime Production Committee

BYJ's AB Spring Collection

Jan, 28, 2010

BYJ's new AB Spring Collection panels and frames shared by Style/BYJgallery. Thanks a lot sis.

VOD made by Style,too : BYJ Gallery