VJ Jerome of Showbiz Extra

I am absolutely crazy for this one segment host of arirangtv’s Showbiz Extra. He is the segment host of the show. Omg he is even hotter than the people he interviews. I just go gaga over Koreans who can speak impeccably perfect English.

Stuff I got so far about Jerome:

Name: Jerome

Job stints: VJ for MNET, segment host for showbiz extra (extra plus)

Series: The Lawyers

MVs: Did some mvs for mc mong and drunken tiger (I am not so sure, but he ore a lack jacket there, skinhead and he looks absolutely hot!)

Some news on him:

Chung Yeo-won plays Hee-jin in the drama My Lovely Samsoon

Having Korean subtitles pop up during popular television dramas has become an ordinary occurrence these days. Except these are not imported American dramas on cable channels, but rather the latest Korean ones on the nation¡¦s major networks.

In the MBC drama `”Law & Love” which started to air last Monday, new actor Jerome To speaks fluent English. The actor plays Tommy, a Korean residing in the NY, United States. In order to help his lifetime benefactor and lawyer Yoon Sok-ki, he does whatever he can do, legal or otherwise.

English with Korean subtitles is already a part of another MBC drama, the wildly popular ``My Lovely Samsoon,¡¦¡¦ where the story of Henry Kim, a Korean-American doctor who can¡¦t speak Korean, and his patient Hee-jin has been an ongoing subplot since the drama¡¦s debut.

In SBS¡¦ ``Fashion 70s,¡¦¡¦ about the revival of the Korean fashion industry in 1970s, English is spoken in the many scenes in which foreign designers instruct design techniques to designers in Korea. Ju Jin-mo plays the drama¡¦s main character, who frequently speaks in English as the president¡¦s assistant and elite information agent. Lee Hye-young, playing a famous fashion designer, also uses English while holding meetings with foreign designers.

In the early part of the drama, fund manager-turned-actor Kim Joon-sung had a small role as a military interpreter during the Korean War.

``Although Kim¡¦s role in the drama was not that major, he contributed much to the drama not only through acting but also his English skills, as he also proof-read English lines of actors,¡¦¡¦ said Lee Jae-kyu, producer of ``Fashion 70s.
Other recent dramas with English-speaking characters include SBS¡¦ `”Bad Wife” in which Nam Eun-mi uses English to show off her intellect over a contract worker; MBC¡¦s ``The Sad Love Story,¡¦¡¦ in which Lee Kon-woo, a son of a chaebol family who studies abroad; and SBS¡¦ ``Love Story in Harvard,¡¦¡¦ a love story between ambitious Korean students who study at the prestigious American university. The dramas ended in May, March, and January, respectively.

Drunken Tiger's DJ Shine Opens Club Belly

And you thought the only cool place to go clubbing was the Hongdae district in western Seoul. Well, there's news for those out there looking for something other than what's offered in the boy-band and bubble gum pop saturated music scene, as a new hip hop joint opened its doors last Friday night in Apkujong-dong.

The launching party was set to start at 12:30 a.m. but the line started to snake up with hard core clubbers hours before and by midnight the party at the underground club was already in full swing.

Outside, local cable music channel M.Net's wacky and not to mention super-hyper VJ Dr. NO was present jumping all over the place greeting and interviewing celebrity guest list that included names like singers Ku Joon-yup and Sim Tae-yoon, M.Net VJ Jerome, actor Kim Dong-hyun (brother of actress Kim Hye-su), rappers Sean2Slow and Dynamic Duo and the person that made the night possible Drunken Tiger's very own DJ Shine.

Very much aware of the lack of venues for hip hop artists to perform DJ Shine, who the other half of his act Tiger JK, is known to show up wherever and whenever their music is called for.

Opening his own club seemed only natural. ``I wanted to make a friendly environment where people come for the love of music,'' DJ Shine said when The Korea Times caught up with him before the party.

DJ Shine says that he is in not for the money or the fame but in it for one sole purpose _ to spread the love of music. That, the clubbers can take his word for, as the club itself is modestly decorated, not even the size of a small theater and DJ Shine is doing pretty much all the PR himself.

``I'm doing this for what it (music) stands for and fortunately my friends were willing to help all for free. Dynamic Duo's up tonight, Bobby Kim tomorrow and Yang Dong-kun next week, they're all doing it because they all believe in the cause,'' he said.

And as Club Belly's very first guest DJ Shine's buddies _ Dynamic Duo, a hip hop act that started in the underground Hongdae scene but has been lucky enough to garner commercial success upon overground debut, took the stage and fired up the party with latest hit ``Taxi Driver'' and ``Chinjja'' from when the two were part of the now disbanded CB Mass.

``The scene's got potential. But it's still very enclosed you see. For music to go places and bigger better things to pop up onto the scene we got cultivate the many different styles and genres, you know?'' DJ Shine said. ``Through the media is one way but having places like this open is also very important, which is why I'm here tonight,'' he added and also mentioned that a club of the like to open in the Kangnam Station area is currently in the works.

So don't be caught at home on Friday nights warming your sheets, get out there and be part of it. A 10,000-won cover charge will get you in and a free drink. For more information visit www.club-belly.com.

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Music Playing in the Background: Just Be My Love- Shinhwa