When it comes to online novels that are popular among the post-80s, it is necessary to mention the Korean female writer cute Tao . Her " That Boy is So Handsome " and " The Temptation of the Wolf " were made into movies back then, making Jiang Dong-won , who was still a newcomer back then.
Jiang Dongyuan's classic scene in "The Temptation of the Wolf":
The day before yesterday, this female writer born in 1985 got married. A friend of Cute Tao posted a wedding photo of Cute Tao on Ins:
for Guang For those born in the 1980s and 1990s, this news has successfully evoked many people's youthful memories:
Cute Tao's original name is Lee Yunshi, graduated from Sungkyunkwan University. "That Boy is So Handsome" she wrote at the age of 17 made her famous overnight-
In August 2001, "That Boy is So Handsome" was serialized on the humorous BBS of the Korean DAUM website for two consecutive months, with an average of 80,000 clicks per article, and the sales of physical books exceeded 2 million copies, becoming the best-selling book in large bookstores. There are more than 180 novel fan clubs on DAUM, with more than 3 million members of the author's personal website, and it has captured female readers aged 20-30 on a large scale. More and more people suffer from the so-called "that boy syndrome".
After the novel "That Boy is So Handsome" was published in China, it ranked among the top five in sales in the same year, competing with "Tiny Times" and "Wolf Totem".
Cute Tao
While sweeping the book market, Cute Tao's novels were also mass-produced on the movie screen -
In June 2004, the movie of the same name adapted from "That Boy is So Handsome" was released in South Korea, starring Song Seung-heon and Zheng Duobin . This movie was the youth film with the highest popularity and the highest number of pre-sale tickets in the history of Korean films back then. After the release of the movie
, the box office soared, higher than the box office of "Harry Potter 3" and "Monster Shrek 2" released at the same time.
The film occupied the Southeast Asian film market during the summer season that year. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and other places all bought the film copyright at the fastest speed, and the limelight greatly surpassed the momentum of "My Savage Girlfriend", which is comparable to it.
The success of this movie back then also made book fans look forward to the sequel. It is heartbreaking that the heroine Zheng Duobin, the film's heroine, committed suicide in February 2007, and the movie "That Boy is So Handsome" has never been made.
Another novel by Cute Tao, "The Temptation of the Wolf", was also adapted into a movie and was released in South Korea in July 2004.
The momentum of this movie before it was released was not as great as "That Boy is So Handsome", because the three starring actors Kang Dong-won, Zhao Han-sun, and Lee Qing-e are all making movies for the first time, and they are not as popular stars as Song Seung-heon, but after the release, they have unexpectedly received good responses.
Jiang Dongyuan, who was still a newcomer back then, became a hit with his performance in this movie and won the first movie award in his acting career: the 25th Korean Film Blue Dragon Award Popular Star Award... He also won several newcomer awards in other movies.
The scene of Jiang Dongyuan flirting with an umbrella in the film also became a classic scene of the favorite "tribute" of Korean film and television dramas, and they are enjoying it.
In " Descendants of the Sun ", Song Joong Ki once "salute" this scene:
In " Please answer 1988", there is also such a scene of "salute":
And the heroine of the movie "Temptation of the Wolf" Li Qing'e also won the 42nd Korean Movie Big Bell Award Best Female Newcomer Award:
85, Cute Tao, who was born in China, has also signed for sale and is called a "beautiful writer". She once admitted frankly that she had plastic surgery: "My face has plastic surgery and her nose has been injections. This is normal in Korea, and my mother also supports me for plastic surgery. I think it is nothing wrong as long as it can increase confidence."
After going to college, Cute Tao studied film and television screenwriter major. When she came to China for interviews with media, she revealed that she admired Han Han very much and spoke with Han Han on the phone -
"He and I went through many calls in private, and his personality and cognition were very good. We had made an appointment to meet in Shanghai, but we missed it. But when I was talking on the phone, I was so shy that I blushed. It was just that there was an interpreter at that time, so I could only say some very formal words. The one I feel the best about Chinese men is Han Han. If I want to marry, I have to marry a Chinese man like him. "After saying that, Cute Tao added another sentence: "I can't wait to see him." "
Cute Tao also said that he has a very good impression of Chinese boys. "I found that Chinese boys are very good at caring and taking care of girls, very considerate, and respect their girlfriends. My mother really hopes that I can marry into China because it is a blessing. "
Han Han
And now, although the 33-year-old Cute Tao did not successfully marry a Chinese man, her novel copyright "married" to China in 2016 -
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