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Park Shin Yang — Profile
Name: Park Shin YAng
E-mail: shin_yang_park@yahoo.com
Location: Seoul, South KOrea
Birthday: 1 November, 1968
Bio: Status: Married Location: South Korea Hometown: seoul, south korea Occupation: actor / CF model Schools: Tongkuk University, Drama cinema major, Chevkin Drama University, Moscow, Russia About Me: an actor in Korea, has been helping disabled children for six years. Back in 1998, he got to know about Jumong Rehabilitation Center through his friend. And has been fianancially supporting the center ever since. Jumong Rehabilitation center is a place for disabled children who have no home to go to. It is located in Gangdong-gu in Seoul. One worker at the center said that "Normally entertainers come to visit our center once or twice and that is it, Park however has shown an exceptional support. We have been exchanging news back and forth on how the children are doing. Also he visits our center once in a while to help what he can. Once he visited the center without his manager and played with the children all day long." Park could not attend the autumn event at the center held on September 17 due to his busy schedule. To not to let the children down, Park invited them to Apgujung-dong prior to the date of the event. any entertainers do volunteering work for promotional purposes. Park's six years of commitment, however, sets him apart from this entertainers. ==================================================== East Asian Women (Korean Magazine) 2003 March The exclusive interview with Movie Actor Park Shin Yang who is going to be a father in April ?Getting pregnant before marriage, going overseas to give birth, to the blissful married life now?it has become the calm after the bad weather?? Last October, movie actor Park Shin Yang married Peh Hwei Jin who is 13 years younger than him. And from just before getting married, being harassed by all kinds of cruel rumours to now where they are living blissfully as newly weds, and in addition the fact that his Mrs is going to have a baby at the end of April, Park Shin Yang?s joy is multiplied. In the past, interviews regarding his private life are non-existent and we will change this with our magazine?s interview. On the eve of the New Year?s holidays, around the end of January I received a very surprising phone call from Park Shin Yang?s Manager. The contents of that phone call was that Park Shin Yang would like to accept East Asian Women?s interview on the condition that it must be reported as it is from the interview?no exaggeration, no scandalizing it. Although the invitation for the interview has been sent out several months ago and was also still waiting for his reply but truthfully, the ease with which Park Shin Yang agreed to the exclusive interview was unbelievable! It was already not easy to get an interview with him, not to mention an interview to talk about his private life! To think that someone like him would agree to an interview got the reporter in me very moved! In actual fact, I have been acquainted with Park Shin Yang since very early on. It was during the time when he came back from his studies in Russia and started his acting career. The first time I saw him was at a press conference for a drama production that he was working on. During that time, someone involved in the movie industry said this to me as an introduction ?there is this actor, who is going to become a very outstanding actor in the future, do you want to say hi?? I could only use one word to describe him from my first impression upon meeting him?like a student! He was wearing a pair of Jeans and a T-shirt, carrying a backpack. There was nothing remotely resembling an actor on him! But just like that someone who introduced us prophesized, after he appeared in dramas ?If we loved?, ?Fascinate My Heart? and movies ?The Letter? and ?The Promise?, Park Shin Yang became one of the representative actors in Korean movie industry today. The last interview I had with him was before the premier of ?The Letter?, around the autumn of 1997. It has been almost 6 years. After I got his acceptance to my interview, I was very excited. After that initial excitement, I started to be troubled over how to present this interview because most people know him not as an impetuous actor but rather an honest and steadfast man. The first meeting? The interview was done right after he finished filming parts of ?The uninvited? in Busan, leaving behind a complicated Seoul, to be able to come with a frank and soul-bearing manner to the interview. Coincidentally, the interview would take place at Paradise Hotel, the place where Park Shin Yang first met his wife. I arrived at 6pm on 4th February to the stipulated venue ? the first floor lobby of the Paradise Hotel but I did not see Park Shin Yang at all. Surprisingly he was exercising at the Hotel?s gym at that time. And he has also already prepared the photos that he suggested earlier. ?Even till now, how I met Jin happened just like yesterday, I could remember everything?that day I came with my junior to exercise. While passing by the treadmill, I had the most indescribable feeling, Jin (that is how he referred to his wife) was running on the treadmill then? (He pointed to one of the treadmill in the gym) After exercising, PHJ was preparing to leave with her mum and younger brother when she had a chance meeting where she spoke for the first time with Park Shin Yang at the corridor in front of the gym. He also remembered the first time he proposed to her was also at this very place. To meet his wife who is 13 years younger was all fated?and after meeting her, his direction in life became clearer. After the photo shoot, we proceeded to his room. The first thing I noticed upon entering the room was the book ?Prenatal Fairy Tales by the Father? lying on the bed. After this reporter carefully inspected the book, I realized this was the book that Park Shin Yang would read to his wife who is preparing to give birth in the US every night. It is useful reading that book over the phone? ?of course, my wife Jin said when I read the book to our baby, she could feel that the baby inside like it very much?the first time we felt the baby?s kicking movement was also when I was reading. I originally planned to wrap up filming at the beginning of January and leave for the States together with my wife but filming has been delayed which is why she left first. In replacement are the 4 or 5 daily phone calls and the Fairy tale reading which I longed to do everyday? The meeting at the gym for the both of them was really coincidental ?Yes, those were all not true. Actually I was really shocked at the response I got after I announced I was getting married. During that time I seldom gave interviews, it was because I didn?t consider myself as an actor but rather a student (studying acting), I didn?t think there was anything special I could report to people. But after I experienced the response to the announcement of my wedding plans, I realized I am not like any ordinary person, I am also a star. Am I the Prince of England? Am I Michael Jackson? I am not. In everyone?s eyes, perhaps they think I am a suitable candidate to be a bridegroom? There was frustration and fury in my heart because it was all due to me that my wife Jin had to be subjected to all those untrue rumours.? From his expression, I could tell that he was really hurt during that period. After he announced his plans to get married to PHJ in August last year, he suffered under the circulation of many untrue and malicious rumours?from rumours concerning Jin?s behaviour before getting married to rumours on how he, after getting to know about her past attempted to kill himself because of the shock and the news that when he got married in October, his wife was pregnant already etc Their first meeting was like what was rumoured. The two met for the first time on 5th April last year. Park Shin Yang accepted his junior?s invitation the day before to attend the Busan Car Exhibition Opening Ceremony and PHJ was on holiday with her family then. Both of them were staying at the Paradise Hotel for the first time. PHJ, who usually don?t like to exercise, went to the Hotel?s gym for the first time on the afternoon of 5th April. ?Now that I think about it, I think our meeting has everything to do with fate, in actual fact after receiving that phone call from my junior, I was thinking it would be virtually impossible to go to Busan because there were no tickets due to the holiday season. It was only through a friend of a friend of my junior that I managed to get tickets. And it was because of this plane ticket that I managed to meet and to get to know my wife Jin in Busan. It was only later that I realized that that friend of a friend of my junior was actually my father-in-law! And my father-in-law also didn?t know that the person who needed the ticket was me, he only knew the request came from someone he knew." When Park Shin Yang was talking about fate, he was talking about that special feeling he had that day after lunch, that trip to the gym to exercise and that ?indescribable feeling? he had when he passed the treadmill he wanted to use. While queuing to use that machine, Jin was beside him. She was waiting for her turn after her brother has finished running. After that, they were running side by side for about 15 to 20 minutes. After running, he went to his junior who was doing weights. His first question was ?Is she pretty?? His junior said one word ?Yes!? He wasn?t wearing his spectacles that day and so he wasn?t able to see PJH?s face clearly but he thought she looked pretty young. After that he asked his junior again ?does she look like a high school student or a college student?? His junior replied ?high school student.? ?After hearing his words, my heart fell to the bottom of my stomach right there! But in my heart, I was already planning what I should do after Jin, her mother and her brother finished exercising. If I don?t grasp this opportunity and I let this girl walk away, I am sure I am going to regret it for the rest of my life. And just like that, without any concrete plan, and I was thinking along the corridor what I should say to her?and I decided I shall ask her three questions?first one?her age, then her name and whether if she would go for dinner with me?? The two did have dinner together but at the table were also her mum and younger brother and it was only during dinner that he found out that she was leaving for Seoul the next day. After hearing that, he suggested having breakfast together the next day. And the next day at 6 am, the two met and had breakfast together?and they went for a stroll along the beach in the rain?holding an umbrella together... The feeling I had on the first and second day of meeting Jin was the same ?Undoubtedly, from the first day I met Jin I knew she is the woman I wanted, even though she was just wearing a pair of jeans, T-shirt and sneakers, and even in very little make-up she was already very beautiful. She is still very young, and is just like a child to me, compared to my mother-in-law who probably understands me more. After that meeting, my father-in-law was against our relationship. He felt that Jin was still a child and there are still many things to worry about. However, after I met Jin, regarding our relationship, there was never suspicion or disbelief, all my life I have lived with a clear and magnanimous spirit.? I already knew that she was pregnant before we got married but I wasn?t in a hurry to get married He told us that this was the place where he first met Jin. The two of them met right at this treadmill. In the midst of our meal and the interview, Park Shin Yang?s manager ran over to us with a HP in his hands. Even without asking who it was, Park Shin Yang already knew who it was on the other line. As soon as he took his phone, he spoke into the phone ?I don?t know what?s happening today, time just passed so fast, I am still in the midst of an interview. I don?t think I would be able to read the Fairy tales to baby byeol (the name of his baby, it means "star") now. Today I was taking photos at the corridor of the gym where we first met, I?ll show you later. As I am still in the midst of the interview, I need to go now. Good night! I?ll call you tomorrow.? Deeply in love ?(smiling) you think so? Actually my dream is to have a family, the two of us treating each other with honesty and respect, not to quarrel loudly, it seems that my dream has come true. Last Christmas eve, the two families had a party together, I prepared steaks for 10 people, my father-in-law suggested a 4-day-3-nights Gangwon-do tour and we went ahead with this plan. One day after midnight, I was skiing with my father-in-law who was in high spirits, he said ?it?s great skiing with my son-in-law in the middle of night!?. My family has no daughters so Jin was treated like a daughter in the family and I in turn became the eldest son of Jin?s family? There are special reasons for living in Ilsan next to my parents ?I am the eldest son and I?ve never thought of moving out to stay on my own when I get married. When I suggested my plans of living in Ilsan, Jin immediately agreed. We eat our meals at my parent?s place, our own home is only for sleeping. You could use the description of staying apart yet living together to describe this arrangement. I think Ilsan is great. We could go hiking at the mountains which is only 30 mins away by car. Because Kangnam is complicated and squeezy, people?s privacy is violated unwittingly, and so it was unpleasant. I used to lived in WonDang and shifted to this present place before I got married. The renovation and furniture of my new place were all designed by me and at that time I was also shifting my live-in office so it was really very busy.? The rumours of me attempting suicide with sleeping pills were false ?Exactly, I am not someone who would do something like that, besides, at that time I was busy doing up the house for my wedding, as well as the shifting of my office was happening too, I was dead tired every day and under enormous stress and all I really wanted to do was to go to sleep. But as soon as I get into bed, I started thinking about this and that and couldn?t fall asleep. In order to get some rest I took some sleeping pills and thus the accident. This is the truth. Rumours relating to PHJ were false ?It was really funny, when the incident happened, a 4000-member strong fan cafe suddenly became 40,000 in a short while! Their sole purpose was to find out the truth. In actual fact, it was all rumours created by malicious hackers on the net. What I don?t understand was why are there people out there who would create rumours like that to attack others. But to think about it, we were all pretty strong and never did succumb under those untrue rumours. Under those circumstances, the way Jin handled it was to avoid any contact with these rumours by not reading or hearing them. Although there were a lot of things going against this relationship before we got married, but Jin at that time reaffirm her resolve that she would not be affected? At the time, Park Shin Yang has already declared his intentions to everybody, PHJ was not going to let the rumours affect her, to face the rumours hand in hand with her was the more urgent task at hand. He hold the anxious PHJ that ?when we die, what?s left would not be other people?s rumours but the love between us?, ?if you die, I will die too.? I was suddenly very curious to know when Park Shin Yang actually got to know about PHJ?s pregnancy. If he had known before getting married, then getting married was imperative. So I asked him directly ?When did you know that PHY was pregnant?? The moment the question was asked, there was an ominous silence all around. After a short while, he replied briefly ?I already knew that a long time ago?. ?If so, then why did you reply ?No comments to personal questions? during the press conference of ?The Uninvited? last December to avoid answering the question asked by reporters as to whether PHY was pregnant?? ?Isn?t the topic of whether your wife is pregnant or not a very personal question? I was under the consideration that such a direct question may cause some unease to my wife. When I got the news that she was pregnant, I was really delighted. In the beginning, she was also unsure of how my reaction would be, she asked me ?Oppa, na, ottoke?? (Oppa, what should I do?) but because of my delight, she said this afterwards ?because oppa liked it so much, I really felt very good.? Even though it was a pregnancy before marriage, but we were planning to get married anyway so it didn?t affect much. We didn?t get married so fast because Jin was pregnant but rather that if we have waited till the filming ended, it would have been too long. And the friend who was going to be our wedding singer was rushing to go to the States because of work, so we decided to do it early.? My kind wife who prepares lunchbox of bread, fruits and popcorn is no longer troubled by the rumours of the past He got drunk while having bean paste steamboat with his family after getting home from his wedding ceremony An ultrasound scan confirmed that baby byeol who was arriving in April was a girl, the dreams that his wife PHJ had when she was pregnant were not of cars but to do with tigers.
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Two days after the wedding, he went back to filming and was not able to spend too much time with her. What he could manage were strolls and enjoying good movies together whenever there was time off from filming. Because his mother-in-law had to leave for the States in the middle of January, his wife followed. This was how all the rumours that PHY was going overseas to have the baby started. ?I?ve heard rumours like that, because my wife left for the States before she gave birth, so I could understand the origins of such rumours. But was it so wrong for my young wife to want to be with her own mother when she gave birth? My mother treats Jin like her own daughter but regardless what, there's nothing compared to having your own mother around. Doesn?t a pregnant woman have the right to choose to stay close to the person who would give her the greatest comfort? Because my brother-in-law is studying in the States and my mother-in-law is there taking care of him, as a result Jin chose to go there to give birth. This was what happened but everybody is looking at this matter through coloured lens.? He seemed to be angry with those people who started the rumours ?The size of my new place and my parent?s place is about 60 pyung. After this fact is made known, I heard accusations that I have been too extravagant. My mother was still working one month before I got married. Although my income has increased a little but the house was bought using the money earned from my dad and mum?s lifetime hard work. Many people were like that to Jin too. They say she is a spy? Say she evades taxes? Why is everyone so unfriendly towards Jin? I really don?t understand. All I did was to get married and everyone treats my wedding like a scandal. That really made me a little angry. Maybe that?s because I have never been through anything like this, I couldn?t become the heroic man who could protect my woman. And because of thoughts like these, in turn I became grateful to these trials." What are your thoughts towards how the untrue rumours regarding PHJ were spreading before you got married ? ?I regarded those as rumours that would only be spoken by people with primary school standards. Did Jin fall down from the universe? It is perfectly okay for someone her age to have boyfriends. What can I do if they persist in wanting to say those things? I hope that those people who were angry during that time would also find the love of their life like me.? When would you join your wife in the States? ?As soon as filming wraps up I would go. The movie is targeted to complete by 10th of February. I am going to make up for the postponed honeymoon because of my filming schedules. Jin?s tummy has gotten really big so we can?t really go too far. The important thing is to go somewhere together where we could have a good rest. Before I met Jin on 5th of April, I did not carry too much hope for living. After I came back from Russia after my studies, although I wanted to path out my career in acting but I have always felt lonely. Although I yearn for someone to whisper gentle words to me, but I thought my inability to love was a punishment, God only gave me the ability to act but He did not give me anything else. Honestly, when I am acting, I feel completely drained and exhausted. Sometimes my manager has to piggyback me to the resting area. The thought that I should go out and meet some girls never crossed my mind. Sometime if I do get to meet girls, I would be thinking what they see is not the ordinary man Park Shin Yang but the movie actor Park Shin Yang. If I didn?t get to meet Jin, I would probably be alone for the rest of my life. But I can still hope to live my days happily, can?t I? Surely there must be people out there who are envious? I hope I would always be able to hold onto this love calmly like this.? Because I was worried people would be envious if i am too blissful, I did not fully expressed my happiness. When do you feel the most blissful after marriage? ?In the morning when my wife prepares my morning coffee and when she secretly prepares lunchboxes for me?these are the times I feel the most blissful. Talking about lunchboxes, because she doesn?t know how to cook yet, she would prepare bread or fruits for my lunchbox and one day she even prepared popcorn for my lunchbox! My wife Jin is really very cute! In the morning when I am leaving the house for filming, she would say ?Please don?t go.? or ? You can?t do this.? The next day she would say ?Don?t get any NGs, come home early? if not, she would say ?it?s more important to do a good job filming than to rush to finish it? and after that she would say ?Oppa, you must concentrate while filming.? these kinds of words (smiling widely). We agreed when we got married that we would not quarrel and to be just like now, supporting each other. I hope we would be like this for the rest of our lives.? I have been talking to Park Shin Yang for a while and very soon the time was already 10 pm in the night. This reporter had to rush for the last train back to seoul at 11 pm and besides Park Shin Yang has filming the next day, we decided to call it a day. Nearing the end of the interview, I asked some questions relating to the movie he was doing, I asked him what genre of movie was he filming right now? Usually during interviews, actors would only be too happy to use the opportunity to promote their movies and would talk about some of the experiences encountered while filming the movie or if not, talk about their impressions of the movie. But the reply from Park Shin Yang was ?We have agreed that we would only talk about things relating to my private life so I don?t want to talk about anything associated with movies.? In the end, the closing topic was how he got interested in designing furniture a few years back and things related to his family. Because there were many other topics that I would like to talk about, I left reluctantly at past 10pm, to rush to catch my train. The Second Meeting The second time we met was 5 days later on 9th of February. We arranged to meet in Seoul, Samsung-dong at his manager?s office. Since this was already the second time, the interview took place under a very cordial atmosphere. And Park Shin Yang also has a brilliant reason for his curiosity towards the interviewing reporter. ?I have always thought you need at least 3 years to fully understand a person. The passage of time strengthens the trust between two people and you come to a point that you could even understand each other without words. I?ve met you Reporter Lee a long time ago and had a very good impression of you. Besides my manager has kept in contact with you throughout the years. So when I?ve decided to give this interview, I immediately thought that Reporter Lee would be an ideal person. If I do an interview with a virtual stranger and he gets to see my straightforward manner in private, he would say why is this star like that, the images projected from the movies really is only that of the actor and is completely different from real life. For instance, today I look completely different from what you would expect? ?Blood Type B, curly hair, eldest son, eldest grandson, worst candidate for bridegroom? When not filming, he would sleep in until really late. Wearing jeans, ivory colour knit shirt and black sports jacket, I was probably more familiar with a suit-clad him and I didn?t know what to make of what I see right now. But it is true that he would only wear suits during filming, it?s once in a blue moon that he would wear a suit in real life. Regardless what, even though he isn?t too adept at socializing, he has many good friends in the industry. Movie actor Kim Seung Woo, Shin Hyun Joon, Lee Jung Jae and Jung Jin Young are all his best friends. He said when he calls these friends, there would be no misunderstandings even if the conversation starts and ends in the middle of nowhere or if it gets off topic. But because of each other?s busy schedules, it?s hard to meet up frequently. The interview today started off with the topic of his baby ? Byeol. The name Byeol is very pretty ?Very early on, I?ve already thought about how I should name my baby when I should get married and have children. Then I was thinking of using maybe ?san? (mountain), ?gang? (river) and ?byeol? (star). These names do not sound proud, is charming and do not sound flippant. It can replace the name ?seung-bi? in the registrar because the two names sounds very similar. A close monk once advised that the word ?seung? should be in the name. What kind of father do you want to become? ?I love kids, if possible I would like to have a few more. It?s not such a bad life working hard for kids. Yes?after Byeol is born, like all fathers, I want to give my children the best, I don?t want anything bad to happen to them? What are your views on (going against speed limits) speeding? ?True, it was (going against speed limits) speeding but is there anyone who has never done anything wrong? There have been no problems between us from the moment we started to after we got married. Are we in the Chosun era now? I am not someone who would go to a bar, when I feel like having some alcoholic beverage, I would go to Rock Cafe. Talking about speed limits, I am not like some people who are already in a bar but couldn?t bear putting the alcohol into their mouths. There are many people like this. I feel people like that epitomizes true hypocrisy.? As soon as we talked about sensitive topics, the atmosphere became tense. This reporter decided to play a prank on Park Shin Yang by asking him a question I am sure would disgust him. For a serious actor like Park Shin Yang, I was really curious to see what kind of response I would get if I asked him that silly unimaginative question of his blood type group. ?(Looking at me incredulously) Type B.? In order to protect their privacy, he chose to have the baby born overseas. Perhaps he might be viewed differently due to this. But he very clearly said he was fully prepared to withstand everything that might come his way. Oh dear, this isn?t a very good blood type to have, isn?t it? ?Perhaps it?s because this blood type group has very strong sense of self-centeredness and tends to be stubborn? Yes?among the managers in the agency (Sidus), 90% of them are Type B. There are also many friends in the industry that are Type B. Talking about the cons of Type B personality, in defense I would like to say that Type B people tend to be more independent, and there is this self imposed requirement on ourselves that everything has to be completed 100%. Therefore I don?t think we should let our first impressions affect us too much. Reporter Lee, what is your blood type?? ?Haha?I am also Type B. Type B and Type B people don?t go so well together. So what is PHJ?s blood type?? ?She is Type A. and I am the worst candidate for a bridegroom for her - type B, curly hair, eldest son and grandson in the family. When we have our family gatherings, there would be at least 40 people present. But I really don?t want to give Jin any sort of burden because she doesn?t really know how to cook now. Yet I believe very much in her, that after the baby is born, she would be able to do it. And it would be great if my wife can feel that she is the luckiest woman on earth. For my wife?s happiness, I would work harder.? There was still some time for a respite until the premier of ?The Uninvited? in May but Park Shin Yang was of the mind that if a good script came along, he was going to dive right into filming again. If possible, for the sake of learning, he would like to do 2 movies a year. As an actor, one should always be very careful in selecting scripts. But if the decision was to do at least 100 films in this lifetime, then the strict criterion could be relaxed somewhat. The desire to be the best father in his daughter?s eyes prompted him to design her cot, swing and desk personally. He has always wanted to be involved in the stage design for stage dramas and musicals. This interest got him started in designing furniture. In a short while to come, you would be able to see desks with ?Designed by Park Shin Yang in Moo-youn-han furniture store in Gangnam of Seoul. And in the future, there would be sofas, beds, chairs and wardrobes all designed by him. He also designed the baby cot for his soon-to-be born daughter. And hoped to also do the swing and desk for her personally. ?In order to hear my daughter say I am the best daddy in the world, I would do my best. I would also do everything I can to protect my happy home. So as to prevent other people from spending too much time gossiping about us, I came forward to give this interview. I want to become the trustworthy son in the eyes of my in-laws and a good brother-in-law to my younger sister and brother-in-law. It?s the same for my parents, after Jin has given birth, she would remind in the States to further her studies. Even as our own house is always empty, I would always regard my parent?s place to be my true home.? How are you feeling now that you are going to meet your wife soon? ?Yesterday I just talked to her over the phone, she said, ?oppa, I am feeling a little nervous.? And because of that, I am also feeling that way (smiling).? Is there anything else you want to say before we end? ?I think we should do something to improve the remuneration of the movie industry workers. There have been tremendous developments in the Korean movie industry yet these workers do not have anyone to speak for them. They work 18 to 20 hours a day for a meager salary. If an organization that seeks to improve their welfare is set up, I would give them my strongest support. What I want to say is that in order to change this, our movies should try to venture overseas more, when the pie is bigger, there would be more investments from corporations and the amounts that could go to the workers would also be increased.? And I was surprised to hear this from Park Shin Yang, ?Interviews with contents like what we have today is almost non-existent in movie magazines or interviews?, ?and because of that, I feel especially burdened.? In the past, he has wanted to participate in overseas performances, and should there really be any opportunities, and even if it was for a reason like this, there is no stopping the gossips I am sure! I was surprised to find out that he is a coffee fanatic during the course of our interview. I was not sure how this ?green tea may adhere to his image more than coffee? idea got into my mind. After I told him what I thought, he laughed immediately and said, ?I am really curious exactly what sort of a man does people think I am?. ?Maybe a very sincere and polite model man?? ?I really don?t know, and because of this I feel a huge responsibility. If I haven?t agreed to this interview, then that would be the image that everyone would have of me. From now on, I plan to shoot one movie a year and the next interview let?s have Reporter Lee do the interview again!? Park Shin Yang replied this reporter quickly. The man who was wary and unwilling to even reveal the exact location of where his wife was staying in the States during the first interview, after this article was published, told this reporter their address in the States and even where their daughter would be born. This is Park Shin Yang and his wife, a couple for the sake of their privacy, even if they might be subjected to strange looks from people, were prepared to risk it by having their baby overseas. There, they no longer need to be worried about opinions of other people and could begin to live their quiet and blissful life.
Interests: Hobbies and Interests: meditation, listening to music, taekwondo, fishing, speed skating, ballet, gymnastics, etc. Favorite Movies: The uninvited, HI Dharma, The Big Swindle, A Promise, Kilimanjaro, Motel Cactus, The Letter, 'Glass', The Poison, Indian Summer, White Valentine Favorite Music: classic Favorite TV Shows: Lovers in Paris, Power of Love, Scent on an Apple, Fascinate my Heart
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Park Shin Yang — Profile
Name: Park Shin YAng
E-mail: shin_yang_park@yahoo.com
Location: Seoul, South KOrea
Birthday: 1 November, 1968
Bio: Status: Married Location: South Korea Hometown: seoul, south korea Occupation: actor / CF model Schools: Tongkuk University, Drama cinema major, Chevkin Drama University, Moscow, Russia About Me: an actor in Korea, has been helping disabled children for six years. Back in 1998, he got to know about Jumong Rehabilitation Center through his friend. And has been fianancially supporting the center ever since. Jumong Rehabilitation center is a place for disabled children who have no home to go to. It is located in Gangdong-gu in Seoul. One worker at the center said that "Normally entertainers come to visit our center once or twice and that is it, Park however has shown an exceptional support. We have been exchanging news back and forth on how the children are doing. Also he visits our center once in a while to help what he can. Once he visited the center without his manager and played with the children all day long." Park could not attend the autumn event at the center held on September 17 due to his busy schedule. To not to let the children down, Park invited them to Apgujung-dong prior to the date of the event. any entertainers do volunteering work for promotional purposes. Park's six years of commitment, however, sets him apart from this entertainers. ==================================================== East Asian Women (Korean Magazine) 2003 March The exclusive interview with Movie Actor Park Shin Yang who is going to be a father in April ?Getting pregnant before marriage, going overseas to give birth, to the blissful married life now?it has become the calm after the bad weather?? Last October, movie actor Park Shin Yang married Peh Hwei Jin who is 13 years younger than him. And from just before getting married, being harassed by all kinds of cruel rumours to now where they are living blissfully as newly weds, and in addition the fact that his Mrs is going to have a baby at the end of April, Park Shin Yang?s joy is multiplied. In the past, interviews regarding his private life are non-existent and we will change this with our magazine?s interview. On the eve of the New Year?s holidays, around the end of January I received a very surprising phone call from Park Shin Yang?s Manager. The contents of that phone call was that Park Shin Yang would like to accept East Asian Women?s interview on the condition that it must be reported as it is from the interview?no exaggeration, no scandalizing it. Although the invitation for the interview has been sent out several months ago and was also still waiting for his reply but truthfully, the ease with which Park Shin Yang agreed to the exclusive interview was unbelievable! It was already not easy to get an interview with him, not to mention an interview to talk about his private life! To think that someone like him would agree to an interview got the reporter in me very moved! In actual fact, I have been acquainted with Park Shin Yang since very early on. It was during the time when he came back from his studies in Russia and started his acting career. The first time I saw him was at a press conference for a drama production that he was working on. During that time, someone involved in the movie industry said this to me as an introduction ?there is this actor, who is going to become a very outstanding actor in the future, do you want to say hi?? I could only use one word to describe him from my first impression upon meeting him?like a student! He was wearing a pair of Jeans and a T-shirt, carrying a backpack. There was nothing remotely resembling an actor on him! But just like that someone who introduced us prophesized, after he appeared in dramas ?If we loved?, ?Fascinate My Heart? and movies ?The Letter? and ?The Promise?, Park Shin Yang became one of the representative actors in Korean movie industry today. The last interview I had with him was before the premier of ?The Letter?, around the autumn of 1997. It has been almost 6 years. After I got his acceptance to my interview, I was very excited. After that initial excitement, I started to be troubled over how to present this interview because most people know him not as an impetuous actor but rather an honest and steadfast man. The first meeting? The interview was done right after he finished filming parts of ?The uninvited? in Busan, leaving behind a complicated Seoul, to be able to come with a frank and soul-bearing manner to the interview. Coincidentally, the interview would take place at Paradise Hotel, the place where Park Shin Yang first met his wife. I arrived at 6pm on 4th February to the stipulated venue ? the first floor lobby of the Paradise Hotel but I did not see Park Shin Yang at all. Surprisingly he was exercising at the Hotel?s gym at that time. And he has also already prepared the photos that he suggested earlier. ?Even till now, how I met Jin happened just like yesterday, I could remember everything?that day I came with my junior to exercise. While passing by the treadmill, I had the most indescribable feeling, Jin (that is how he referred to his wife) was running on the treadmill then? (He pointed to one of the treadmill in the gym) After exercising, PHJ was preparing to leave with her mum and younger brother when she had a chance meeting where she spoke for the first time with Park Shin Yang at the corridor in front of the gym. He also remembered the first time he proposed to her was also at this very place. To meet his wife who is 13 years younger was all fated?and after meeting her, his direction in life became clearer. After the photo shoot, we proceeded to his room. The first thing I noticed upon entering the room was the book ?Prenatal Fairy Tales by the Father? lying on the bed. After this reporter carefully inspected the book, I realized this was the book that Park Shin Yang would read to his wife who is preparing to give birth in the US every night. It is useful reading that book over the phone? ?of course, my wife Jin said when I read the book to our baby, she could feel that the baby inside like it very much?the first time we felt the baby?s kicking movement was also when I was reading. I originally planned to wrap up filming at the beginning of January and leave for the States together with my wife but filming has been delayed which is why she left first. In replacement are the 4 or 5 daily phone calls and the Fairy tale reading which I longed to do everyday? The meeting at the gym for the both of them was really coincidental ?Yes, those were all not true. Actually I was really shocked at the response I got after I announced I was getting married. During that time I seldom gave interviews, it was because I didn?t consider myself as an actor but rather a student (studying acting), I didn?t think there was anything special I could report to people. But after I experienced the response to the announcement of my wedding plans, I realized I am not like any ordinary person, I am also a star. Am I the Prince of England? Am I Michael Jackson? I am not. In everyone?s eyes, perhaps they think I am a suitable candidate to be a bridegroom? There was frustration and fury in my heart because it was all due to me that my wife Jin had to be subjected to all those untrue rumours.? From his expression, I could tell that he was really hurt during that period. After he announced his plans to get married to PHJ in August last year, he suffered under the circulation of many untrue and malicious rumours?from rumours concerning Jin?s behaviour before getting married to rumours on how he, after getting to know about her past attempted to kill himself because of the shock and the news that when he got married in October, his wife was pregnant already etc Their first meeting was like what was rumoured. The two met for the first time on 5th April last year. Park Shin Yang accepted his junior?s invitation the day before to attend the Busan Car Exhibition Opening Ceremony and PHJ was on holiday with her family then. Both of them were staying at the Paradise Hotel for the first time. PHJ, who usually don?t like to exercise, went to the Hotel?s gym for the first time on the afternoon of 5th April. ?Now that I think about it, I think our meeting has everything to do with fate, in actual fact after receiving that phone call from my junior, I was thinking it would be virtually impossible to go to Busan because there were no tickets due to the holiday season. It was only through a friend of a friend of my junior that I managed to get tickets. And it was because of this plane ticket that I managed to meet and to get to know my wife Jin in Busan. It was only later that I realized that that friend of a friend of my junior was actually my father-in-law! And my father-in-law also didn?t know that the person who needed the ticket was me, he only knew the request came from someone he knew." When Park Shin Yang was talking about fate, he was talking about that special feeling he had that day after lunch, that trip to the gym to exercise and that ?indescribable feeling? he had when he passed the treadmill he wanted to use. While queuing to use that machine, Jin was beside him. She was waiting for her turn after her brother has finished running. After that, they were running side by side for about 15 to 20 minutes. After running, he went to his junior who was doing weights. His first question was ?Is she pretty?? His junior said one word ?Yes!? He wasn?t wearing his spectacles that day and so he wasn?t able to see PJH?s face clearly but he thought she looked pretty young. After that he asked his junior again ?does she look like a high school student or a college student?? His junior replied ?high school student.? ?After hearing his words, my heart fell to the bottom of my stomach right there! But in my heart, I was already planning what I should do after Jin, her mother and her brother finished exercising. If I don?t grasp this opportunity and I let this girl walk away, I am sure I am going to regret it for the rest of my life. And just like that, without any concrete plan, and I was thinking along the corridor what I should say to her?and I decided I shall ask her three questions?first one?her age, then her name and whether if she would go for dinner with me?? The two did have dinner together but at the table were also her mum and younger brother and it was only during dinner that he found out that she was leaving for Seoul the next day. After hearing that, he suggested having breakfast together the next day. And the next day at 6 am, the two met and had breakfast together?and they went for a stroll along the beach in the rain?holding an umbrella together... The feeling I had on the first and second day of meeting Jin was the same ?Undoubtedly, from the first day I met Jin I knew she is the woman I wanted, even though she was just wearing a pair of jeans, T-shirt and sneakers, and even in very little make-up she was already very beautiful. She is still very young, and is just like a child to me, compared to my mother-in-law who probably understands me more. After that meeting, my father-in-law was against our relationship. He felt that Jin was still a child and there are still many things to worry about. However, after I met Jin, regarding our relationship, there was never suspicion or disbelief, all my life I have lived with a clear and magnanimous spirit.? I already knew that she was pregnant before we got married but I wasn?t in a hurry to get married He told us that this was the place where he first met Jin. The two of them met right at this treadmill. In the midst of our meal and the interview, Park Shin Yang?s manager ran over to us with a HP in his hands. Even without asking who it was, Park Shin Yang already knew who it was on the other line. As soon as he took his phone, he spoke into the phone ?I don?t know what?s happening today, time just passed so fast, I am still in the midst of an interview. I don?t think I would be able to read the Fairy tales to baby byeol (the name of his baby, it means "star") now. Today I was taking photos at the corridor of the gym where we first met, I?ll show you later. As I am still in the midst of the interview, I need to go now. Good night! I?ll call you tomorrow.? Deeply in love ?(smiling) you think so? Actually my dream is to have a family, the two of us treating each other with honesty and respect, not to quarrel loudly, it seems that my dream has come true. Last Christmas eve, the two families had a party together, I prepared steaks for 10 people, my father-in-law suggested a 4-day-3-nights Gangwon-do tour and we went ahead with this plan. One day after midnight, I was skiing with my father-in-law who was in high spirits, he said ?it?s great skiing with my son-in-law in the middle of night!?. My family has no daughters so Jin was treated like a daughter in the family and I in turn became the eldest son of Jin?s family? There are special reasons for living in Ilsan next to my parents ?I am the eldest son and I?ve never thought of moving out to stay on my own when I get married. When I suggested my plans of living in Ilsan, Jin immediately agreed. We eat our meals at my parent?s place, our own home is only for sleeping. You could use the description of staying apart yet living together to describe this arrangement. I think Ilsan is great. We could go hiking at the mountains which is only 30 mins away by car. Because Kangnam is complicated and squeezy, people?s privacy is violated unwittingly, and so it was unpleasant. I used to lived in WonDang and shifted to this present place before I got married. The renovation and furniture of my new place were all designed by me and at that time I was also shifting my live-in office so it was really very busy.? The rumours of me attempting suicide with sleeping pills were false ?Exactly, I am not someone who would do something like that, besides, at that time I was busy doing up the house for my wedding, as well as the shifting of my office was happening too, I was dead tired every day and under enormous stress and all I really wanted to do was to go to sleep. But as soon as I get into bed, I started thinking about this and that and couldn?t fall asleep. In order to get some rest I took some sleeping pills and thus the accident. This is the truth. Rumours relating to PHJ were false ?It was really funny, when the incident happened, a 4000-member strong fan cafe suddenly became 40,000 in a short while! Their sole purpose was to find out the truth. In actual fact, it was all rumours created by malicious hackers on the net. What I don?t understand was why are there people out there who would create rumours like that to attack others. But to think about it, we were all pretty strong and never did succumb under those untrue rumours. Under those circumstances, the way Jin handled it was to avoid any contact with these rumours by not reading or hearing them. Although there were a lot of things going against this relationship before we got married, but Jin at that time reaffirm her resolve that she would not be affected? At the time, Park Shin Yang has already declared his intentions to everybody, PHJ was not going to let the rumours affect her, to face the rumours hand in hand with her was the more urgent task at hand. He hold the anxious PHJ that ?when we die, what?s left would not be other people?s rumours but the love between us?, ?if you die, I will die too.? I was suddenly very curious to know when Park Shin Yang actually got to know about PHJ?s pregnancy. If he had known before getting married, then getting married was imperative. So I asked him directly ?When did you know that PHY was pregnant?? The moment the question was asked, there was an ominous silence all around. After a short while, he replied briefly ?I already knew that a long time ago?. ?If so, then why did you reply ?No comments to personal questions? during the press conference of ?The Uninvited? last December to avoid answering the question asked by reporters as to whether PHY was pregnant?? ?Isn?t the topic of whether your wife is pregnant or not a very personal question? I was under the consideration that such a direct question may cause some unease to my wife. When I got the news that she was pregnant, I was really delighted. In the beginning, she was also unsure of how my reaction would be, she asked me ?Oppa, na, ottoke?? (Oppa, what should I do?) but because of my delight, she said this afterwards ?because oppa liked it so much, I really felt very good.? Even though it was a pregnancy before marriage, but we were planning to get married anyway so it didn?t affect much. We didn?t get married so fast because Jin was pregnant but rather that if we have waited till the filming ended, it would have been too long. And the friend who was going to be our wedding singer was rushing to go to the States because of work, so we decided to do it early.? My kind wife who prepares lunchbox of bread, fruits and popcorn is no longer troubled by the rumours of the past He got drunk while having bean paste steamboat with his family after getting home from his wedding ceremony An ultrasound scan confirmed that baby byeol who was arriving in April was a girl, the dreams that his wife PHJ had when she was pregnant were not of cars but to do with tigers.
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Two days after the wedding, he went back to filming and was not able to spend too much time with her. What he could manage were strolls and enjoying good movies together whenever there was time off from filming. Because his mother-in-law had to leave for the States in the middle of January, his wife followed. This was how all the rumours that PHY was going overseas to have the baby started. ?I?ve heard rumours like that, because my wife left for the States before she gave birth, so I could understand the origins of such rumours. But was it so wrong for my young wife to want to be with her own mother when she gave birth? My mother treats Jin like her own daughter but regardless what, there's nothing compared to having your own mother around. Doesn?t a pregnant woman have the right to choose to stay close to the person who would give her the greatest comfort? Because my brother-in-law is studying in the States and my mother-in-law is there taking care of him, as a result Jin chose to go there to give birth. This was what happened but everybody is looking at this matter through coloured lens.? He seemed to be angry with those people who started the rumours ?The size of my new place and my parent?s place is about 60 pyung. After this fact is made known, I heard accusations that I have been too extravagant. My mother was still working one month before I got married. Although my income has increased a little but the house was bought using the money earned from my dad and mum?s lifetime hard work. Many people were like that to Jin too. They say she is a spy? Say she evades taxes? Why is everyone so unfriendly towards Jin? I really don?t understand. All I did was to get married and everyone treats my wedding like a scandal. That really made me a little angry. Maybe that?s because I have never been through anything like this, I couldn?t become the heroic man who could protect my woman. And because of thoughts like these, in turn I became grateful to these trials." What are your thoughts towards how the untrue rumours regarding PHJ were spreading before you got married ? ?I regarded those as rumours that would only be spoken by people with primary school standards. Did Jin fall down from the universe? It is perfectly okay for someone her age to have boyfriends. What can I do if they persist in wanting to say those things? I hope that those people who were angry during that time would also find the love of their life like me.? When would you join your wife in the States? ?As soon as filming wraps up I would go. The movie is targeted to complete by 10th of February. I am going to make up for the postponed honeymoon because of my filming schedules. Jin?s tummy has gotten really big so we can?t really go too far. The important thing is to go somewhere together where we could have a good rest. Before I met Jin on 5th of April, I did not carry too much hope for living. After I came back from Russia after my studies, although I wanted to path out my career in acting but I have always felt lonely. Although I yearn for someone to whisper gentle words to me, but I thought my inability to love was a punishment, God only gave me the ability to act but He did not give me anything else. Honestly, when I am acting, I feel completely drained and exhausted. Sometimes my manager has to piggyback me to the resting area. The thought that I should go out and meet some girls never crossed my mind. Sometime if I do get to meet girls, I would be thinking what they see is not the ordinary man Park Shin Yang but the movie actor Park Shin Yang. If I didn?t get to meet Jin, I would probably be alone for the rest of my life. But I can still hope to live my days happily, can?t I? Surely there must be people out there who are envious? I hope I would always be able to hold onto this love calmly like this.? Because I was worried people would be envious if i am too blissful, I did not fully expressed my happiness. When do you feel the most blissful after marriage? ?In the morning when my wife prepares my morning coffee and when she secretly prepares lunchboxes for me?these are the times I feel the most blissful. Talking about lunchboxes, because she doesn?t know how to cook yet, she would prepare bread or fruits for my lunchbox and one day she even prepared popcorn for my lunchbox! My wife Jin is really very cute! In the morning when I am leaving the house for filming, she would say ?Please don?t go.? or ? You can?t do this.? The next day she would say ?Don?t get any NGs, come home early? if not, she would say ?it?s more important to do a good job filming than to rush to finish it? and after that she would say ?Oppa, you must concentrate while filming.? these kinds of words (smiling widely). We agreed when we got married that we would not quarrel and to be just like now, supporting each other. I hope we would be like this for the rest of our lives.? I have been talking to Park Shin Yang for a while and very soon the time was already 10 pm in the night. This reporter had to rush for the last train back to seoul at 11 pm and besides Park Shin Yang has filming the next day, we decided to call it a day. Nearing the end of the interview, I asked some questions relating to the movie he was doing, I asked him what genre of movie was he filming right now? Usually during interviews, actors would only be too happy to use the opportunity to promote their movies and would talk about some of the experiences encountered while filming the movie or if not, talk about their impressions of the movie. But the reply from Park Shin Yang was ?We have agreed that we would only talk about things relating to my private life so I don?t want to talk about anything associated with movies.? In the end, the closing topic was how he got interested in designing furniture a few years back and things related to his family. Because there were many other topics that I would like to talk about, I left reluctantly at past 10pm, to rush to catch my train. The Second Meeting The second time we met was 5 days later on 9th of February. We arranged to meet in Seoul, Samsung-dong at his manager?s office. Since this was already the second time, the interview took place under a very cordial atmosphere. And Park Shin Yang also has a brilliant reason for his curiosity towards the interviewing reporter. ?I have always thought you need at least 3 years to fully understand a person. The passage of time strengthens the trust between two people and you come to a point that you could even understand each other without words. I?ve met you Reporter Lee a long time ago and had a very good impression of you. Besides my manager has kept in contact with you throughout the years. So when I?ve decided to give this interview, I immediately thought that Reporter Lee would be an ideal person. If I do an interview with a virtual stranger and he gets to see my straightforward manner in private, he would say why is this star like that, the images projected from the movies really is only that of the actor and is completely different from real life. For instance, today I look completely different from what you would expect? ?Blood Type B, curly hair, eldest son, eldest grandson, worst candidate for bridegroom? When not filming, he would sleep in until really late. Wearing jeans, ivory colour knit shirt and black sports jacket, I was probably more familiar with a suit-clad him and I didn?t know what to make of what I see right now. But it is true that he would only wear suits during filming, it?s once in a blue moon that he would wear a suit in real life. Regardless what, even though he isn?t too adept at socializing, he has many good friends in the industry. Movie actor Kim Seung Woo, Shin Hyun Joon, Lee Jung Jae and Jung Jin Young are all his best friends. He said when he calls these friends, there would be no misunderstandings even if the conversation starts and ends in the middle of nowhere or if it gets off topic. But because of each other?s busy schedules, it?s hard to meet up frequently. The interview today started off with the topic of his baby ? Byeol. The name Byeol is very pretty ?Very early on, I?ve already thought about how I should name my baby when I should get married and have children. Then I was thinking of using maybe ?san? (mountain), ?gang? (river) and ?byeol? (star). These names do not sound proud, is charming and do not sound flippant. It can replace the name ?seung-bi? in the registrar because the two names sounds very similar. A close monk once advised that the word ?seung? should be in the name. What kind of father do you want to become? ?I love kids, if possible I would like to have a few more. It?s not such a bad life working hard for kids. Yes?after Byeol is born, like all fathers, I want to give my children the best, I don?t want anything bad to happen to them? What are your views on (going against speed limits) speeding? ?True, it was (going against speed limits) speeding but is there anyone who has never done anything wrong? There have been no problems between us from the moment we started to after we got married. Are we in the Chosun era now? I am not someone who would go to a bar, when I feel like having some alcoholic beverage, I would go to Rock Cafe. Talking about speed limits, I am not like some people who are already in a bar but couldn?t bear putting the alcohol into their mouths. There are many people like this. I feel people like that epitomizes true hypocrisy.? As soon as we talked about sensitive topics, the atmosphere became tense. This reporter decided to play a prank on Park Shin Yang by asking him a question I am sure would disgust him. For a serious actor like Park Shin Yang, I was really curious to see what kind of response I would get if I asked him that silly unimaginative question of his blood type group. ?(Looking at me incredulously) Type B.? In order to protect their privacy, he chose to have the baby born overseas. Perhaps he might be viewed differently due to this. But he very clearly said he was fully prepared to withstand everything that might come his way. Oh dear, this isn?t a very good blood type to have, isn?t it? ?Perhaps it?s because this blood type group has very strong sense of self-centeredness and tends to be stubborn? Yes?among the managers in the agency (Sidus), 90% of them are Type B. There are also many friends in the industry that are Type B. Talking about the cons of Type B personality, in defense I would like to say that Type B people tend to be more independent, and there is this self imposed requirement on ourselves that everything has to be completed 100%. Therefore I don?t think we should let our first impressions affect us too much. Reporter Lee, what is your blood type?? ?Haha?I am also Type B. Type B and Type B people don?t go so well together. So what is PHJ?s blood type?? ?She is Type A. and I am the worst candidate for a bridegroom for her - type B, curly hair, eldest son and grandson in the family. When we have our family gatherings, there would be at least 40 people present. But I really don?t want to give Jin any sort of burden because she doesn?t really know how to cook now. Yet I believe very much in her, that after the baby is born, she would be able to do it. And it would be great if my wife can feel that she is the luckiest woman on earth. For my wife?s happiness, I would work harder.? There was still some time for a respite until the premier of ?The Uninvited? in May but Park Shin Yang was of the mind that if a good script came along, he was going to dive right into filming again. If possible, for the sake of learning, he would like to do 2 movies a year. As an actor, one should always be very careful in selecting scripts. But if the decision was to do at least 100 films in this lifetime, then the strict criterion could be relaxed somewhat. The desire to be the best father in his daughter?s eyes prompted him to design her cot, swing and desk personally. He has always wanted to be involved in the stage design for stage dramas and musicals. This interest got him started in designing furniture. In a short while to come, you would be able to see desks with ?Designed by Park Shin Yang in Moo-youn-han furniture store in Gangnam of Seoul. And in the future, there would be sofas, beds, chairs and wardrobes all designed by him. He also designed the baby cot for his soon-to-be born daughter. And hoped to also do the swing and desk for her personally. ?In order to hear my daughter say I am the best daddy in the world, I would do my best. I would also do everything I can to protect my happy home. So as to prevent other people from spending too much time gossiping about us, I came forward to give this interview. I want to become the trustworthy son in the eyes of my in-laws and a good brother-in-law to my younger sister and brother-in-law. It?s the same for my parents, after Jin has given birth, she would remind in the States to further her studies. Even as our own house is always empty, I would always regard my parent?s place to be my true home.? How are you feeling now that you are going to meet your wife soon? ?Yesterday I just talked to her over the phone, she said, ?oppa, I am feeling a little nervous.? And because of that, I am also feeling that way (smiling).? Is there anything else you want to say before we end? ?I think we should do something to improve the remuneration of the movie industry workers. There have been tremendous developments in the Korean movie industry yet these workers do not have anyone to speak for them. They work 18 to 20 hours a day for a meager salary. If an organization that seeks to improve their welfare is set up, I would give them my strongest support. What I want to say is that in order to change this, our movies should try to venture overseas more, when the pie is bigger, there would be more investments from corporations and the amounts that could go to the workers would also be increased.? And I was surprised to hear this from Park Shin Yang, ?Interviews with contents like what we have today is almost non-existent in movie magazines or interviews?, ?and because of that, I feel especially burdened.? In the past, he has wanted to participate in overseas performances, and should there really be any opportunities, and even if it was for a reason like this, there is no stopping the gossips I am sure! I was surprised to find out that he is a coffee fanatic during the course of our interview. I was not sure how this ?green tea may adhere to his image more than coffee? idea got into my mind. After I told him what I thought, he laughed immediately and said, ?I am really curious exactly what sort of a man does people think I am?. ?Maybe a very sincere and polite model man?? ?I really don?t know, and because of this I feel a huge responsibility. If I haven?t agreed to this interview, then that would be the image that everyone would have of me. From now on, I plan to shoot one movie a year and the next interview let?s have Reporter Lee do the interview again!? Park Shin Yang replied this reporter quickly. The man who was wary and unwilling to even reveal the exact location of where his wife was staying in the States during the first interview, after this article was published, told this reporter their address in the States and even where their daughter would be born. This is Park Shin Yang and his wife, a couple for the sake of their privacy, even if they might be subjected to strange looks from people, were prepared to risk it by having their baby overseas. There, they no longer need to be worried about opinions of other people and could begin to live their quiet and blissful life.
Interests: Hobbies and Interests: meditation, listening to music, taekwondo, fishing, speed skating, ballet, gymnastics, etc. Favorite Movies: The uninvited, HI Dharma, The Big Swindle, A Promise, Kilimanjaro, Motel Cactus, The Letter, 'Glass', The Poison, Indian Summer, White Valentine Favorite Music: classic Favorite TV Shows: Lovers in Paris, Power of Love, Scent on an Apple, Fascinate my Heart
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