Taiwan actor, Joe Cheng, visiting Korea for the first time, participate in MKFM award ceremony.
Being one of the most popular young actor in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Joe Cheng will be visiting Korea for the first time. He will also participate in the [2007 Mnet KM Music Festival].
From being a supermodel until now an actor, Joe Cheng is also being considered as the new generation's most popular actor inside the Chinese community. In the early part of the year, Joe was being introduced to the Korean viewers through the tv series <ISWAK> via Korea’s Cable TV SBS Drama Plus; because of this, (Joe) has gathered himself quite a lot of fan girls.
When <ISWAK> was aired in Taiwan, the rating of the series had made a record for being on the number 1 spot. While <ISWAK> was being aired in Korea, the Koreans were still hype up about the tv series from the US; but that didn’t stop <ISWAK> from getting the number 1 or 2 spot for The Most Popular TV Series Outside Of Korean in one of the biggest Korean website. The leading actor, Joe Cheng, has becoming even more popular because of this. Recently in Korea, around 15 “café” (as in website) have been established by his fans. His Korean fans are more than 40,000 people; being love by everyone.
On 17th November, afternoon, Joe Cheng will be at “Chamushiru” indoor stadium to participate <<2007 MFMF>> award ceremony. On 18th November, he will be having the first Korea fans meeting event. Last year, the same event was held in Japan and having about 2000 people turning up for the event.
Base to the record, this time will be Joe Cheng’s first and official visit to Korea. Last time when he took a flight to Shanghai for an award ceremony, his flight needs to make a stop at Jeju due to typhoon; while he was there, he was able to buy some Korean kimchi as souvenir.
According to him, Joe Cheng is always aware of Korea’s artists like Rain, Boa, Se7en, etc; he felt very happy to be able to participate in the music award ceremony.
Source: Asianfanatics.net