So Wonho! Loves his body! He takes really good care of himself - I have liked him since he went solo I actually did not know he was part of Monsta-X! I follow him and watch his V-Lives! Really loving his solo work - He is a workout KING https://youtu.be/3zFS-V_iCiM
Love it! Very precise moves, but not rigid. Dramatic and subtle at the same time. Very much a team yet individuals. Excellent portrayal of those unexpected interior experiences that change life dramatically. I guess that’s why they make the big bucks and have the screaming fans?
“Honey, I bey you eat jalapeños on your cereal every morning because you are HOT!”
(Just slip me a roll of gimbap through the computer screen for writing you great lines for when you bump into any one in your posse at the Seoul 7-Eleven . . .)
(If you have not watched this guy on YouTube, you have missed a lot!)
The current “type” among Korean male “idol types” seems to be a cross between the flower boy and the commando.
The number of K-drama actors who have only recently served in the Korean military is pretty staggering, but just ten years ago, when that same generation of hotties was just emerging from their awkward junior high years into older adolescence, they were all about being seventeen and “swoony” NOT um . . .
taking a deep breath . . .
33 and “doomy”!
(from The Famous People)
For me, the most important feature among a whole herd of buff K-Army vets, the truly distinguishing feature is cheekbones. And in that category, Lee Soo Hyuk is number one in the class.
A man with a flat face or a fat face. Nah. Cheekbones, baby. Gimme tha CHEEKBONES.
As Miss Coroner points out in The Imperial Coroner, an adult male face has more pronounced brow ridges and different proportions than a female face, with corresponding bone development in the skull and skeleton.
So, as humans mature from birth to adulthood, it’s fun to be 16 and squee about the boys in the band. (I will not reveal who I squeed about in high school, thankyoverymuch.)
But when adulthood comes, there is something noteworthy about entertainers/celebrities/idols who mentally and emotionally and spiritually mature as they physically mature. They at some point pass from being apprentices to being master craftsmen.
I am glad that the actors who were so adorbs as “flower boys” really are “adulting” in an amazing way. And they have gotten some cheekbones for days.
Case in point for me will always be. Yoon Shi Yoon.
Yoon Shi Yoon in Flower Boy Next Door was just adorbs. So “oppa.”
In "‘Psycho-Pass’ Diary" he displayed some real manly grit and some unexpected acting chops. And in Grand Prince he showed quite a bit of the commando attitude.
IMHO, any man in the entertainment industry in any country who starts out naturally “girly pretty” is going to have a hard time being taken seriously for lead roles as he gets older and older.
I am happy to see that the K-drama “flower boys” who first engaged my attention with their adolescent adorableness have turned out to be mature and thoughtful in the best sense as they have reached adulthood.
This sadly does not often apply to the American entertainment industry.
