Are They Really Married?

The Korean Variety World is filled with a lot of creativity and tends to innovate itself continually. For this post, I will talk about the variety/reality “We Got Married”. This post is a follow up of one of my previous post, “Did They Got Married?”. But this time I will talk to you about their last season, their Fourth Season. I like most of the couples on this season, a few where previously mentioned, but the ones that made a space on my agenda are the following.  

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1.    Song Jae Rim and Kim So Eun: Born on February 18 of 1985, Song Jae Rim is a model turned actor who began his acting career on 2009 and is known for his characters on "The Moon Embracing The Sun" (2012), "Two Weeks" (2013), "Inspiring Generation" (2014), among other projects. But what really gave him his fame was his appearance on "We Got Married" Season 4 on 2014 with fellow actress Kim So Eun. Kim So Eun was born on September 6 of 1989, but made her acting debut before Jae Rim, which makes her his senior (seonbae) on the industry. Her acting career started with a small role on 2004, until she got the part of Gum Jandi's best friend on the 2009 hit drama "Boys Over Flowers", the one that marked a great impact on her career and from which she is better known. Later she started on "A Good Day For The Wind To Blow", "A Thousand Kisses", "Scholar Who Walks The Night", among others. The role of Chu Ga Eul on "Boys Over Flowers" and on another drama, gave her the opportunity of winning the Best New Actress Award on the KBS Drama Awards of 2009. The first encounter with Song Jae Rim was on a blind date, so both actors where on a dark room before actually meeting each other, when they finally meet Kim So Eun had a feeling of him been her husband but he didn’t know who she was. This first meeting was very peculiar and gave us the greatest ground of how entertaining they would be. Song Jae Rim's chessy lines and out-front expressions, as well as his 4D personality, was what made us love every episode. They won Best Couple, he won Best Male Newcomer, and she won New Star of The Year on the MBC Entertainment Awards of 2014. Their virtual marriage lasted from September of 2014 to June of 2015. After almost a year and a half after the SoRim Couple come together again for a drama, "Our Gap Soon". In this drama, from the SBS channel, they portrayed a couple of 10 years, which gave us all the feelings of their past work and did not disappoint us at all with their incredible work. That is why both actors won Special Award Actor/ Actress in a Serial Drama on the SBS Drama Awards of 2016.

       

2.   Eric Nam and Solar: Eric was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, the oldest of three brothers, graduated from the Boston College in 2011 B.A. on International Studies with a minor on Asian Studies, which later helped him get an incredible job as Business Analyst at Deloitte Consulting in NY. After stablishing himself with a job in NY, then he ventured on his passion, music. He signed with B2M Entertainment on 2012, on 2013 he released his first mini album titled Cloud 9. He was better known for his work as a MC, correspondent of the entertainment show “Section TV”, and a great number of variety show appearance. He later left his job as correspondent and focused more in music, on December of 2015 he signed with CJE & M, later he appeared on the reality show “I Live Alone”, where he showed his everyday life with the audience. On the other hand, we have the wife of the show, Kim Yong Sun aka Solar. Born on February 21^st of 1991, Solar is the leader and main vocalist of MAMAMOO, signed under Rainbow Bridge World. She debuted on June of 2014 with the track “Mr. Ambiguous”, considered as one of the best K-Pop debuts of 2014, Retro-Jazz-R&B concept with strong vocals is what makes the group one of a kind. Solar also ventured on the acting world with a part on the minidrama “Imaginary Cat” with actor Yoo Seung Ho, where she portrayed his first love. On April of 2016 both joined the virtual marriage, where their first encounter was on a Scape Room, where Eric had to help Solar scape without knowing who she was. After a couple of hours, they finally could meet and it was a great surprise for both. Their marriage lasted approximately eight months, where they started a little awkward, later develop to friends and finally you could see how they started to feel attracted to each other. The development of their relationship was fun and one that the audience love it, that was the case that they won Best Couple on the MBC Entertainment Awards on 2016. The Dong Couple (the name comes after the combination of both names), while always be remembered as a fun, cute, and sweet couple.  

     

3.      Henry Lau and Yewon: Henry was born in Canada on October 11 of 1989 to a Taiwanese mother and a father from Hong Kong. He came to be part after auditioning for SM Entertainment on their Global Auditions in Toronto on 2006. He has a classical music background since he played since age 5 and the violin since age 6. On 2007, he appeared in Super Junior's MV for the track "Don't Don" in which he played the violin. It was in 2008 that he officially made his debut as a member of Super Junior M, with the mandarin remake of the song "U" of 2006. Their debut album "Me" was later released on April 23 of 2008. Later on, the same year he didn’t made public appearances and dedicated his time to study music at Berkley College of Music in Boston. He composed two songs with Super Junior's leader, Leeteuk, on 2010 and 2011. On 2013, he made his solo debut with "Trap", but what really has got him his fan-base is his 4D personality on variety shows. He has made great appearances on variety shows and was part of the cast of "Real Men" since February 2014 to January 2015, the show concept is to send celebrities to real military bases in South Korea and experience their hard work. Besides music and variety, Henry has made an impact acting on 2015 with the Mnet drama "Persevere, Goo Hae Ra" and the incredible drama with Shin Minah and So Ji Sub, "Oh My Venus" that ended on early 2016. In March of 2015 was confirmed that Henry was going to be part of "We Got Married" alongside Yewon, an ex-member of the girl group Jewelry and an actress. Kim Yewon was born on December 5 of 1989 and made her debut in 2011 as a member of Jewelry. The group later disbanded on 2015 and she ventured on her acting career. She is best known for her cameo role on the drama "Replay 1997", where she portrayed Sung Shi Won (Jung Eun Ji) big sister. Other acting projects had been on the dramas "Miss Korea" (2013) and "Hotel King" (2014). Her appearance on variety shows has been good received and most people know her as part of the "G8" on the show "Invincible Youth 2" with fellow female idols (Sunny and Yuri (Girls' Generation), Amber (fx), Suzy (missA), Bora (Sistar), Ko Woo-ri (Rainbow), and Jiyoung (KARA). The show took place on a fishing village in Daebe Island, where they had to live the hardships of that area with games, missions, and special guests. The show first aired on November of 2011 and ended on November of 2012. After the disbandment of the group on early 2015 she was cast on the reality "We Got Married". Their virtual marriage lasted just 2 months, which it ended on June. The couple made a nasty departure from the show, because of a scandal involving actress Lee Tae Im and Yewon (using informal speech towards her "seonbae" actress), and the objections of viewers and netizens about Yewon appearance on the show alongside the beloved Henry. It was decided by the producers as well with the labels, that the couple would leave the show. After a year, the couple reunited casually and Henry uploaded a picture of them, but had to remove it after all the bad reaction it received. On October of 2016 Yewon's contract with Star Empire expired and she passed to join Jellyfish Entertainment, now she is part of the cast on the Korean version of Saturday Night Live. I was saddened by the end of this couple since they had so good chemistry and would had develop in something really good, the few episodes that aired where full of fun and cuteness, from which I hope all the true fans love it as much as me.     

4.      Choi Tae Joon and Bomi: The actor Choi Tae Joon was born on July 7 of 1991. He made his debut on 2001 on a small role as young Jo In Sung on the drama Piano, later on he was known for his role in Padam Padam (2011) as Im Jung. Other projects that he has appeared on are Adolescence Medley (2013), Mother's Garden (2014), All About My Mom (2015), The Flower in Prison (2016), and his latest project was Missing Nine (2017). On May of this year he will be acting alongside Ji Chang Wook and Nam Ji Hyun for the rom/com "Suspicious Partner", the story of two layers with different perceptions who come close as the solve cases. For the time been, he is one of the hosts of the variety show "Hello Counselor" since September of 2016. Yoon Bomi, born on August 13 of 1993, is one of the members of the girl group Apink, also songwriter and actress. She was first introduced as a member of the group on the reality show, Apink News on 2011, made her debut with the group with the songs "I Don't Know" and "Wishlist" from the album "Seven Springs of Apink". She also made some acting jobs (cameo on "Replay 1997", web drama "Love Profiler K") and great appearances as an MC for variety shows. She is well known on the variety world, since her personality surface and charms the audience, and because of her hard work on them ("The Human Condition" 2014, "Real Men Female Edition" 2015). On September of 2016 Choi Tae Joon and Bomi started they virtual marriage from episode 341 to 363. The first encounter of the couple was memorable, since she mistook him with actor and friend Ji Chang Wook, and the last made a special appearance on their wedding day. This couple was cute and charming, Bomi's personality is one perfect for variety shows, as well as Tae Joon's bragging in every opportunity is was clever and funny. The couple seemed sincere on the development of their relationship on the show, which was fun to watch.

 

5.      Jota and Kim Jin Kyung: Lee Jong Hwa, better known as Jota, was born on February 15 of 1994. He first was a dancer, before that he wanted to be a professional Judo athlete but couldn't after an ankle injury. His debuted as sub rapper and lead dancer for the boy group Madtown on October of 2014, with the song "YOLO". Later on, he changed position to vocalist.  He has made great impression on variety shows, especially the ones that involve physical interaction (sports), his appearance on "Let's Go! Dream Team" and "Cool Kiz on The Block" helped him to get a great number of fans and is well known on the variety field. But he isn't only good at sports or physicals jobs, among the idols he is a good cook for which he was able to be part of the show "Wednesday Food Talk". Kim Jin Kyung was born in March 3 of 1997 and is known for being the first runner up on "Korea's Next Top Model" of 2012 on the channel On Style. After the show, she has appeared on top magazines (W Korea, Vogue Korea, Elle Korea, etc.). She is part of the model management and fashion event production agency Esteen, which is also the house of Super Model Soo Joo Park and Irene Kim (model, MC, and global brand contributor for Estée Lauder). Other projects that she has been part of are playing the female lead on various MV's, been Seo In Guk's "Seasons of the Heart" one of her most memorable works (for me, at least). Now she is venturing acting with her first lead role alongside EXO's Kai for the drama "Andante". On May of 2016 Jota and Kim Jin Kyung started their virtual marriage on "We Got Married" from episode 321 to 350. They were a very fashion looking couple, since both love it so much. The chemistry between them was sometimes shy and cute, but never hiding the affection that was growing.    

6.      Gong Myung and Jang Hye Sung: Kim Dong Hyun, aka Gong Myung, was born of May 26 of 1994. He is part of the group of actors who then turned to singers, 5urprise, who made his debut on MV's on 2012 and later was on a web series called "After School: Lucky or Not" on 2013, where actress Kim So Eun was the lead. The group 5urprise was made on 2013 by a collaboration with acting agency Fantagio and LEON Entertainment, the other members are Sea Kang Joon, Yoo Il, Kang Tae Oh, and Lee Tae Hwan. They were selected by going through a two years program on Fantagio called "Actors League". They released the OST for the web series "After School…" titled "Hey You Come On", to later release their first single on 2014, "From My Heart". The projects that Gong Myung has acted on are "Splendid Politics", "Beatiful You", "Entertainer", "Drinking Solo", and "Bride of the Water". Jung Eun Joo, better known as Jang Hye Sung, was born on April 29 of 1991. She first made it to the entertainment industry as a free agent, for which she had a lot of hardships at the beginning of her career. But in 2015 she was cast for the drama "Oh My Venus" playing the role of model Jang Yi Jin, who was a fan but also obsessed with Joon Sung (Sung Hoon) a professional boxer, and finally becoming a couple at the end. This role helped her to later get a contract with FNC Entertainment and portraying Princess Myung Eun on the drama "Moonlight Drawn By Clouds" on 2016, which gained her more recognition. Before the couple was cast on "We Got Married" on late 2016, they were part of the show "Candy In My Ear". This show is about an entertainer having a phone call with a "stranger" for a whole day, where they can share their thoughts and secrets, until the end that he has to guess who the "stranger" was. For Gong Myung he didn’t get it right, but made a great impression on Hye Sung. That is why when they meet again the sparks were so obvious and cute, her display of affection on the show was too much for him but they make it work anyhow.

Well, this is all for Season 4 of “We Got Married”. It was announced that the show will get a break to re-inventing and star at fresh on a new season. The season will end on early May, with a special episode with the only couple that still is virtually married, actor Choi Min Yong and comedian Jang Do Yeon. So far, the fourth season has been the longest of the show, and for me it had great couples and a very good panel, with Park Mi Sun as the official MC of the show. Now all we have to do is keep the memories of the amazing couples and hope for a greater season.