Park Sihoo at the Princess Man promotion event in Japan in 2012
When I first got to know of Park Sihoo-ssi in 2012, he was on a long break as he had gone from the filming of the Princess Man right into the filming of his first movie “Confession of Murder” (“COM”). So he disappeared for a long while. One of his first public appearances when he re-surfaced was to head to Tokyo for the Princess Man promotional event in September 2012. It was the first time I followed his journey every step of the way.
It left me with a deep impression that Park Sihoo-ssi had a special place in Japan.
The reception that greeted him in Japan was tremendous. The Japanese press reported that he “paralyzed” the airport as thousands of fans had waited for hours in anticipation of his arrival. His Princess Man promotional event at the Tokyo International Forum was filled to capacity for the two shows, a resounding success that augured well for the launch of the drama in Japan.
Park Sihoo paralysing the airport traffic in Japan
My first impression of Park Sihoo-ssi holding a special place in Japan was spot on. He does have a privileged position. He loves Japan and equally, the Japanese audience love him.
His dramas are continually being aired on Japan TV, even those from many years ago including the “Prosecutor Princess”, the “Queen of Reversals”, the “Princess Man”, and the more recent “Cheongdamdong Alice”. They barely break in momentum, even when he was out of action for years! Now, with his return, his older dramas are re-surging again and coming back on air!
Confession of Murder ran for over a year in Japan
His one and only movie then, “COM”, broke record, running in Japan for more than a year without him being in sight. And his Injun with his signature coffee in the movie “Scent” left an aromatic trail in many Japan cities. Even though his latest movie”After Love” was postponed recently due to the tying of legal loose ends, the cinemas played up Park Sihoo-ssi with “Scent” to their advantage. Even “COM” is making another round of the cinemas!
The Japanese press and magazines have always loved and supported him. They are featuring him big time once again, starting with the inside spreads and very quickly progressing to their covers. It is as if he had never left! Thank you Japan for your wonderful support for this extra special man!
After an absence of 3 years from Japan, he still could command a huge showing at his recent Park Sihoo “Live” in Tokyo concert, even though he it was his first concert! At this time when popularity of Korean entertainment has dipped to a low, the press are speculating that he just might be the man to reverse the trend!
I have every confidence! His engines are fired up in Japan. His new drama “Local Hero” (“Neigborhood Hero”) has just gone on air on Mnet. “After Love” will come online soon. And his older dramas and movies are making new rounds and new grounds. He is so well loved by his Japanese fans, many of whom have been there for him since his first drama aired in Japan.
Till today, his position in Japan is still holding strong, despite the flux of Korean stars moving into the Japanese market. Give him a little bit of time and I am sure he will strengthen his special place in Japan!
Many thanks to Japan and the Japanese fans for their wonderful, unerring support! Let us continue to walk alongside Park Sihoo and grow with him from strength to strength. Fighting!
Japanese fans are loyal with their love and support for Park Sihoo-ssi
在日本特殊的地位
初次认识施厚君是在2012年，那时他正休着长假，因为拍摄完了电视剧“公主的男人”，他就紧接着拍他第一部电影“我是杀人犯”，没有休息过。于是，他消失了很长的一段时间。休假后，首次公开露面是在2012年9月，前往东京为“公主的男人”做促销活动。那是我第一次关注他行程的每一步。
给我留下深刻的印象是施厚君在日本有着特殊的地位。
在日本粉丝的迎接是巨大轰动的。日本媒体报道说，他“瘫痪”了东京机场，成千个粉丝在飞机预期抵达时间前已经等侯好几个小时。在东京国际论坛，他的两场“公主的男人”促销活动是座无虚席，预示着在日本推出的电视剧会是巨大的成功。
施厚君在日本确实有着特殊的地位。他热爱日本，同样，日本观众也特爱他。
他的电视剧不断在个个日本电视台播出，即使是那些较早的电视剧，如“检察官公主”，“逆转女王”，“公主的男人”，以及几年前的“清潭洞爱丽丝”。即使在他空白无声的时期，他们的播出从未间断过！现在，他回归了，电视剧、电影又重新涌动再次重播！
Listening to your voice after Love coming soon to Japan
当时，他唯一的电影“我是杀人犯”（“我杀”），打破了纪录，在日本个城市个家电影院运行了一年多。而他在电影“香气”饰演的仁俊和仁俊的招牌咖啡在许多日本城市留下了咖啡芳香的足迹。虽然他的最新电影“思念爱”最近由于一些法律的收尾工作还未完成，被推迟播出，电影院利用施厚君的优势再次播出“香气”。“我杀”也正在影院有着新一轮播出！
日本媒体和杂志总是喜欢和支持着他。复出后，再次勇烈的支持他，从杂志特写开始，很快就重登杂志封面，就像他从未离开过！感谢给这位特殊的演员那坚持不变的支持！
即使隔别日本3年，在他最近的朴施厚东京演唱会，他仍然可以发挥庞大的表现，尽管是当第一次歌手！目前，韩国娱乐圈的人气正下降到最低程度的时侯，媒体都在猜测他也许有着扭转的趋势！
Local Hero on air on Mnet Japan currently
我有信心！他在日本已经开始重起发动机。他的新电视剧“小区英雄”（“邻家英雄”）刚在日本的Mnet电视台播出。 “思念爱“将很快就首映。还有之前的电视剧和电影正在新一轮的播出。在日本的厚粉们，许多是在他初次踏入日本市场开始喜欢和坚定不移的支持着他。
直到今天，施厚君在日本的地位仍然持别强烈，尽管已经有好多韩国明星进军日本市场。给他一点时间，我相信施厚君会加强他在日本的特殊地位！
非常感谢日本和日本厚粉姐妹们坚强，不屈不挠的大力支持！让我们一起继续陪伴在施厚君的身边，随着他一齐成长壮大。 加油，姐妹们！
A special place for Park Sihoo in Japan
Photo Credits – Many thanks! Park Sihoo Instagram, Mnet Japan, OCN, Scent the Movie, After Love the Movie, Confession of Murder the Movie, kbs.co.kr, Twitter, Weibo
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Many thanks to the Japanese fans for their strong support to PSH!
Nance, you wouldn’t believe me that again we striked the same cord today. I have been focusing on my work this morning but on a non PSH friend’s message asking if PSH has gained back his Korean fans, I quickly replied that I haven’t updated myself how does PSH fare in Korea, however my observations of late, he has kicked waves in Japan and his Japanese fans continued strong support. Those were off my head response to my good friend who is not a PSH fan but often hear me blab so much about him so she asked as a kind curiosity and concern (her love for me). Now only I on fb and read your today’s article. Marvellous marvellous
Simpatico 🙂 And I just simply hate some of the Korean media! They just don’t know when to stop @$%&*!
For that reason I find my excuse not to learn Korean hahaha. No eye see on those unwanted nasty stuff. I wonder what do people gain by sledging other people – karma will pay back on these nasty people
Sihoo-ssi Park 박시후 씨 Nance, I hope my account of my discovery on PSH’s IG yesterday is so strong a tonic to absolutely lift you up from the nasty Korean media who like Dorothy said “so the human heart and spirit is the same universally, it can be very evil with nothing but bad intent on others, or it can be very good, positive about life, knows how to admire deeply what is of beauty and splendour and full of encouragement to lift the spirit of others. “” Some people already decided to them it’s only evil, to these people we rest our case, not worth waste a sliver of energy and one second of our precious time to hate them.
Nance, you probably notice a little bit of my big discovery yesterday on PSH’s Instagram. I have been waiting til I cleared all my urgent tasks on hand and come here to share. To start this sharing, let me repeat the nicely phrased words Dorothy Ooi has given me (save me from cracking my juices to produce similar impact words) : Quote from Dorothy Ooi : “”Through this Persian youngster named XXX (he is a university student)- can appreciate the human heart and spirit is the same universally, it can be very evil with nothing but bad intent on others, or it can be very good, positive about life, knows how to admire deeply what is of beauty and splendour and full of encouragement to lift the spirit of others.
So you a 50 something and Sepher just 20 – with an age gap nearly 40 – can still have commonality of compliments and praises when you touch and discover someone good and worthy of your admiration. “” Unquote.
Continue about my discovery : I 1st saw this Tehran fan as the very 1st one who occupied the sofa seat on PSH’s very 1st posting of Instagram (not counting the 1st 2 photos when PSH announced he started IG). I was thinking wow this young Tehran man ahead of all of us ajuma fans, is he in the right group? You know Instagram the thing for is Generation X Y , me and Dorothy Ooi being alien to IG, perhaps many youngsters are on IG just wanted to get high on being the 1st one to comment on any new IG account…All he said was “1st one”” something of that effect. Then yesterday morning I saw the same young man his last comment on PSH’s latest IG (the real stone bed photo) and he left the last comment and he said “”Sihoo I love you.”” That really aroused my curiosity. So I wrote on PSH’s thread encouraging this young man fan to continue rendering support. What followed by evening is avalanche of this young male fan (20 years old) and me exchanging non stop how marvellous how we love Sihoo how good are his TPM, QOR, PP. That’s something I never ever expected to come since I commented. Among the many deep insights from this young man, I quote here some of his words “” he (PSH) can play in all roles in the best form. for example a comedian in prosecutor princess, emotional role in queen of reversals and be like a hero in the princess man & etc…with his comedian role I laughed, with his emotional it made me cry, with his hero role i love him and believe that he can be a real hero””. He said so many spirits lifting words, as and when he and I chatted on IG, we kept tagging @park_si_hoo_01, please come here and read our feedback. (it was also there and then me this clumsy ajuma accidentally sent a direct message to PSH’s IG while I thought I was typing on my chat with this Tehran young man. I haven’t realised I could do private message to anyone on IG, LOL). Anyway Dorothy Ooi joked (a typical ajuma’s ignorance of technology joke) that hope that accident thing doesn’t go viral….hahaha…on 2nd thought I wish that can go viral, because the gist of that message was “” PSH you will read how similar both our views of your excellent workds. Me in my 50s old lady of Asian origin while XXX (name of the young man fan) is a young 20s male engineering student in the middle east. What’s the chance that we concur so much in our opinion. Your works gave us one voice regardless of age gender education country background or culture.””
The young man fan also repeated a few times that PSH fans are kind people just like PSH himself, when we were on the subject that somehow PSH’s fans are of older age and maturity and needless to say majority females. The young man told us that in his country, his friends all love PSH (that I interpret to be large group of young fans YAY!!). And reading this young fan’s feedback of why he likes PSH, I have the relief that it is not just the moth following fire kind of fanship, it’s the type of honest respect and admiration of a great actor with a great attitude to handle the challenges life throws at him.
PSH’s Japanese fans are exceptional! They are his supporters who gave him a great strength to overcome many hardships. They are so devoted to him , that they can come from far distances to stand in line for hours just to see him and welcome him. They can even collapse after seeing him. .For PSH the best flattery is to be admired , imitated, respected. As Japanese do all the time, and due to this, he was motivated in everything he has done ,becoming a superstar. His Japanese fans are so loyal to him ,that this is truly overwhelming , but makes him so happy.Because the best gift of an actor is the love of his fans , revealed in many ways , and Japanese fans are champions. And for PSH the greatest thing is to interact with his fans , to touch their lives. That’s why Japan is a special place for PSH, where to get from his fans , he gives a piece of himself. a real piece that matters so much. His true love for his Japanese fans!
今日の話題を分かち合って、施厚君、日本の特殊な地位、ことを実感！いつ、絶え間なく放送作品、俳優にとっては無形の力だ！好きと支持施厚君、こもるの！施厚君、ぜひ、強気の地位を守り続けられ、新たな市場開拓、何事も、力を尽くしている！本土、他人の私意、公正な評判に影響する。いいから、盛大な完璧には、眼明心が過大な要求を、すべての人はいらない！施厚君、の相悦の私たちにとって簡単で美しい！そんな清涼は複雑な私意を瓦解て欲しいと希望している！施厚君、ファンに、いつまでも、どこまでも、魂の奥に同行し、精神分野の共鳴！そんな「わかる」は、世の中最大の幸せ！そのため、才能をもっと知って施厚君成功の裏のつらさ、はっきり背後の不屈の強さ！かわいがって、もっと深く彼を愛して下さい！
Chai Hua Loke Dorothy Ooi Thank for the wonderful discovery and sharing! It is great to know that Park Sihoo-ssi’s fans pepper the world including in Tehran! And a young man with such wisdom at that! Please, feel free to invite him to our facebook book club 🙂 We would like to get to know him and his friends who share our joy in our favourite man and his beautiful works! And I definitely would love to hear more from the other side of the world and his perspective on the world at large and the world of Park Sihoo-ssi!
Nance the same thought crossed my mind. But then I thought better give him some space for a while after all he should be busy studying. I not sure if Facebook is his cup of tea . After all he is only 20 years old.