Which Lee Min Ho Drama Was The Most Popular In Japan?
If you guessed that "The Heirs" or even "Boys Over Flowers" was the most popular Lee Min Ho k-drama in Japan last year, you might have to guess again.
It wasn't his character in "The Heirs," the conflicted heir Kim Tan that drew the most viewers. Nor was it his character in "Boys Over Flowers," the spoiled but conflicted heir Gu Jun Pyo.
The character favored by Japanese audiences was the general he played in "Faith: The Great Doctor.' Lee Min Ho's historical fantasy drama was selected as the best Korean drama viewed in Japan last year.
On Nov. 10, the 2012 SBS drama received the first prize in the Korean drama section of the 2014 GAYO Entertainment Awards.
The winning drama was selected based on the yearly sales of the GAYO Store. That's Japan's largest video streaming site.
Lee's popularity in Japan seems to have led to the success of the drama as well. All of his dramas have been popular there and his music is also well received.
His second album, "Song For You," was released on Oct. 9 and by Oct 12 ranked number one in the Japanese music chart Oricon. It was his second album and the second time an album of his topped the charts.
For those of you who missed "Faith: The Great Doctor," here's a rundown of the plot. In this fusion fantasy series, Lee Min Ho plays General Choi Young, a Goryeo-era warrior assigned to guard Prince Gongmin. When the prince's new wife takes ill, he sends the general off in search of a great healer. And somehow the general travels through time and winds up in modern-day Korea. He kidnaps a plastic surgeon played by Kim Hee Sun and takes her back to his own time. The drama involves Lee Min Ho in plenty of action scenes and some romance. The plastic surgeon at first wants to return to the present but changes her mind when she falls for the general.
Lee Min Ho will soon be seen in the film "Gangnam Blues," about the 1970's fight for land in the developing region of Seoul. The film will be released in January 2015.
If you did not guess the correct answer to the question above, you may want to watch all of Lee Min Ho's dramas again. Not that it will necessarily help you find the right answer. But it would be fun to watch them all again.
