Dong-gun’s charm lies in his sincerity rather than in his looks
[Sports Khan 2005-12-27 21:01]
Jang Dong-gun’s charm does not lie in his handsome face or his soulful eyes, but in his sincerity. Movie internet portal cine seoul conducted a polling to 2,665 netizens on ‘what is JDG’s charm?’ from 23 to 26 December. 1,068 netizens (40%) answered ‘sincerity of an actor who perseveres in his efforts’.
It was followed by ‘charismatic acting power’, the answer of 709 netizens (27%). As for his acting power, netizens picked his acting in ‘Taegukgi’ when he’s gone crazy as the best. JDG’s third charm is ‘good looking with distinct facial feature’ chosen by 562 netizens (21%). Also 326 netizens (12%) answered that they felt drawn to him because he’s ‘courteous and modest, in spite of being a world-wide star’.
JDG’s movie ‘Typhoon’ (directed by Kwak Kyung-taek) is also showing a ‘sincere’ box office result, took the 1st place at weekend box office chart for 2 weeks in a row. The movie in which JDG acts as pirate ‘Sin’, during Christmas weekend (24~25 December) gathered 210,000 viewers in Seoul and 770,000 viewers nation wide. It has attracted total of 3.25 million viewers nation wide. JDG’s movie relay will be continued to January next year. His movie ‘The Promise’ in which he acted with Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung is released at the end of January.
Meanwhile, according to Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corporation’s ‘2005 consumer behavior survey’ report, JDG was the best male model, followed by Rain and Eric Shinhwa.