hihihi. it's news about MGY and it has MCW with it.. *recalls POTW*
this has made my day :D

love her, but she still looks unnaturally skinny ;-;

Do all Korean celebrities absolutely HAVE to act, sing & dance as well?

Happy 22nd Birthday! (Though she looks only 16 to me though I do know that Asians tend to look young... and she's purdy!)

omg in that dancing picture she looks like she has the body of a 12 year old...
ayy... i really hope she doesn't have an eating disorder/ body image problem...

happy 22nd b-day!
but seriously she's freakin' skinny as hell!
i hope she gains some wait soon.

skinny or otherwise, she looks way better to me in her Tommy Hilfiger dance gear, than that purple dress.

take away those peep-toe Wedgie platforms she's wearing, slip on some flat Mary Janes and now that dress will look like it belongs to a 6 yr old, front bow sash et al.

This girl really needs to it. Tip: buy some burgers with fries at mcdonald for . She's unnaturally skinny, it scares me. I love her but im worried for her health condition

geez people. Just because you may feel super fat looking at her because she doesn't mirror the body type YOU'RE used to - doesn't mean that there is something wrong with her.

Different people have different body types.

The girl looks fine.

can't believe this girl's 22. i feel old, lol.
she looks too skinny though.

yeah, she does look young but oh so cute!!!!
Happy Birthday to her!!!! I think her charity work is awesome :)

Happy birthday! She looks happy... despite the dress.

Awww she is so cute. Even though she's older than me I still want to pinch her cheeks.

Happy Birthday! She seems like such a lovely person...but she needs to really gain some weight. She is starting to look like skin and bones.

only 22 and she seems to have been around so long, I must say that I only really noticed her after watching Painter, though I had seen her in 'My Little Bride' . Goes to show a TV drama while perhaps lacking the status of a Film does have the advantage of 20 hours plus on the screen over weeks. She is young but also has a young looking face, that will likely look much the same when she 30, minus any 'babyfat', much like say Jang Nara who has the same sort of 'look'

Yeah, I think everyone's body is different ^^

Or maybe I'm just saying that since my weight is similar to her's and I'm perfectly healthy >.<

Anyways, I can't wait for her new project! She's a great actress. And I still haven't watched her movie &style (<--- isn't that what it's called....?) I saw her cfs and she's good at dancing too ^^ She can do the moon walk XO

omg I LOVE HER DRESS!!!

oh we're both born in the same year and month (only 4 days apart!) we must be soul sisters ^^ yupeeee ^^ I find this absolutely great lol :P
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MGY unni. Wishing you all the luck in your life dear.
MCW looks absolutely gorgeous ^^

hmm.. i dont know about the body type comment that someone made above. i agree people have different builds but she was not this skinny before, thus the weight comments people are making have nothing to do with that. she has lost weight from before, and this has been commented about everywhere on every site, but i think she looks a bit better than before? she's so cute though, happy 22nd birthday!

happy birthday!.. wish can see her in drama soon.. :-)

Crap, she's a year older than me, yet she looks like she could be my little sister. *sigh* She seems so tiny too.

Wow.....what is with the dramatic weight loss.

Happy birthday though! I hope you ate a lot! ;)

Happy Birthday! She is such a wonderful role model.

ABSOLUTELY LOVE HER ^-^

She's so awesome. Really. There's like nothing that she can't do and yet she's so humble and down to earth, and really does care about her fans. Apparently, she did a CyCaD tour where she went around her cyworld, fan cafe, and DC gallery and left a thank you message on each :-)

I really wish she'd come out in a new project soon!! I want to see more of her great acting ^^ She was fabulous as Shin Yoon Bok in the Painter of the Wind, and I heard that the broadcast of the drama finished airing in Taiwan and that she gathered a lot of chinese fans :)

Absolutely love MOON GEUN YOUNG!!!

She's such a great role model! I wish the US would have someone like her to look up to instead of people like Lindsay Lohen, Britney Spears, etc...

It seems that there's nothing she can't do. She can DEFINITELY act, sing, dance.. and on top of that she's very studious, down-to-earth, as well as kind-hearted. She knows how to give back to society, and knows the true meaning of "noblesse oblige." And, you can tell that she REALLY does care about and love her fans a lot from her letters on her fan cafe. She seems so REAL, nothing fake about her, unlike other celebs who tend to seem fake.

I wish her nothing but the best on her 22nd birthday this year. I can't believe she's turning 22 already. It seems like yesterday when she played the young Eun-Suh in Autumn Story. She definitely has a bright future ahead of her! Wish to see her act in a project soon!!

"In the spirit of that, members of her fan café “Angels” prepared a surprise, raising funds for books, bookshelves, toys, and other school materials to give to a schoolroom in Haenam (to whom Moon had previously donated funds)."

Moon Geun-young not only donated funds to the Haenam school for underprivileged children, but she rescued it back in 2006 when it was at risk of being closed down because of a lack of funds to finance the building. She bought the land, and the building, and rebuilt the school :-)

I recall you posting an article a while back about how the Hae-nam children gathered money in a red piggy bank to help others by donating the money, which they said they learned from the charity deeds of MGY.

Just an update on that, she recently donated the school and the land to a NGO organization called New People to provide professional management to manage the school :) The school provides care to about 70 underprivileged children in Hae-nam.
Here's a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHFRizKeEp8

Great news huh? especially from the rest of the Korean entertainment news that seems to be filled with a lot of suicides, drug scandals, etc.

Happy Birthday Moon GeunYoung! I can still remember her dancing in Innocent Steps..I watched most of her movies too. Can't believe she's a 22yr old woman now. Awesome girl who can act, dance and study..she's kind and sweet.. Every Korean mom's dreamgirl/daughter in law..

For us she seems very skinny but for Korean standards she's just fine, I guess...I was in Korea last month and to my surprise when you go to the malls, even the mannequins are bigger than the actual size of the clothes that they sell. I don't consider myself fat (size 6), but it was so hard to find something that will fit me nicely...almost everything is way too small..they only have one size fits all.

Wow...happy birthday to her...BUT SHE DOES LOOK LIKE A 12 YEAR OLD. Maybe she's going for that innocent child look (***sarcasm**)

@Selva: Are you saying that your birthday is on the 6th may? Cos that's my birthday too! Though I guess I'm younger than you...

This is kinda random.
Although I can't really tell from just these few photos, MGY looks... older? I dunno. She doesn't look as super young as she used to.

She's adorable. One of my Top 3. Cute and great actress. She picks great roles and I look forward to all her work.

Whatever to all the comments about her weight. Yeah, she's skinny. Some people are naturally thin. Like me. So it kind of gets on my nerves when people blast other people for being too skinny. Some people JUST DON'T GAIN WEIGHT.

ANYWAYS, as you can tell, I've had issues with that (like how it's not okay to make fun of a fat person but it's just fine to do so with a skinny person).

Also, you have to think about the extra pressure and stress entertainers have. I'm not just talking about the pressure to lose weight, I'm talking about work hours and general stress. I never realized how much that can have an effect on your weight until this last summer when I had to be the hostess to my friends from Spain, who had a different eating schedule than I did. In two weeks, I lost 15 pounds. I was so busy and their eating schedule was so different that I didn't even realize until the 2 weeks were over that I had lost that much weight.

So, my little rant is over. I don't think she's anorexic or bulimic. I think she's one of those naturally thin girls who maybe just had a rough and stressful week. Leave her alone.

This is why the whole Chinese gymnast "scandal" makes me laugh because people will be saying, "She sure doesn't look 16..."

I'm in my late-20s and I still get carded.

it doesn't suit her, i mean her thinnest. She lost the sweetness i think. I hope she will try to put some flesh. Her face looks kinda dry, i think it's because of lack of vitamins or nourishment.

Thank you javabeans for writing in yourself and clarifying the weight remarks. I remember watching her in a movie from a while back with my boyfriend and she looked very different! I actually showed this picture to my boyfriend who hadn't seen images of her since that movie, and he was taken aback. She seems definitely like more of a role model than many of her peers in the entertainment industry in all of the good work she has done, I just wish someone would address her dramatic weight loss with her. If she had always been thin, then it would be easier to say that is her natural body shape. But she hasn't been, and that is why it seems like a concern. Besides, being that thin, even if it is naturally, is not good for your health. Before people start jumping me on this comment, I am about to graduate with my degree in nutrition and have a lot of experience in this area. Plus, I am by no means a big person and often get told I look about 18, but I am her age and definitely look way older than her! But I really do love how generous of a person she is and wish her only the best of luck! Just with maybe some more food.

Ehhh, I agree that she looks skinnier than she did when she was younger, but IMO, I don't think it's as bad/severe as it looks.

Obviously I don't know too much about her personal life, but I think I would attribute most of it to body changes as she grows up and stress from work.

Now if she continues to get smaller and smaller, then yeah, it's a cause for concern, but for now, I don't think it's that bad.

(Now this could be biased from the fact that I admire her as an actress and humanitarian. Also, I personally get really annoyed when people tell me to "Eat a burger!" or "You're too skinny!". It's frustrating because I do eat, a lot, it just doesn't show)

Eh but I'm not going to turn this into a body issue post. I just came in here to say that I adore Moon Geun-young and look forward to more of her works!

i hope she ate two slices of cake. she needs it.

MGY is absolutely adorable and has the heart of an angel. Can't believe this cute girl is 22 years old already.

Ok, I would also just like to clarify one thing for all of the naturally slender girls out there. While I may joke with my classmates about throwing sandwiches at really skinny girls, that is definitely not something I would ever seriously say. People come in all shapes and sizes and we should recognize that more! However, it is definitely true that a weight more in the middle range is much healthier than either extremes, very thin or overweight. I used to be really thin and no matter what I ate, I was still too thin. Of course, getting older has cured me of my "problem" (hehe sometimes I wish it hadn't, gotta watch my ever growing backside every now and then). Bottom line: be healthy and love your body!

@ mishane #32 and 37, agree with ya.

She is thin but not unhealthy looking. She went through a lot in 2008 with POTW filming and her two filming accidents. After that, she got busy with the awards, CF filming and re-adjusting to her 3rd yr university studies. Cut the girl some slack. She will either regain more weight, or if not, she looks fine the way she is now. She seems too mature and sensible to wither away.

She is a 22 yr old woman, and not a chubby kid anymore. It's us viewers who have to accept it - not her.

She was glowing during her bday fan meeting. The fans performed for her, and she for them, hence that dance. There were POTW parodies and she got in on the fun. They had the rare chance to grill her (and briefly, MCW). It was a happy and fun occasion which unfortunately seemed to be sidelined amidst the anorexia/bulimia speculation.

happy birthday!! she's really like an angel...

in regard to Painter in the wind,,,I saw she had a little bump on her nose and though wow that one big zit they trying to cover up..then it didn't go a way and left me wondering just what it was..now I read she broke her nose making the TV drama..so am guessing that is the course......
Watch her Innocent Steps last night, didn't think much of it as a comedy but it worked as a romance. [the way she was treated brought and sold turned my stomach so ruined any laughs]

it really doesnt matter if she is thin or fat...
whatever she is or whatever she will become in the future
she will stay as moon geun yeong for me forever
for she is what she is for me..

saranghaeyo ,,,

happy 22nd bday....

it really doesnt matter if she is thin or fat...
whatever she is or whatever she will become in the future
she will stay as moon geun yeong for me forever
for she is what she is for me..

saranghaeyo ,,,

happy 22nd bday....

forever will i be yours...

..when i saw the title for this post i literally yelled out "SHE'S TWENTY-TWO?!?!" ...good thing no was around, cause I'm not insane. I'm really not. I'm not. HAHA. i just finished reading dramabean's article on gu hye sun's writing. :D totally sane. 8)

Around March, she mentioned on her homepage that was she planning to go on a diet. Netizens flipped out and so she took it off her site.

"Do all Korean celebrities absolutely HAVE to act, sing & dance as well?"

Yup. If you can't execute a bodyroll and sing Vision of Love, you don't graduate 5th grade. ;)

Give her a break...she is as human as we are..regardless skinny or fat...
It is either you love or hate situation...so look beyond and see her acheivement and heart...:D

Can anyone tell me wats her home page address.. does she still have it by the way?.. i've surfed thro net for so long for it.. skinny or not i lik her very much.. she's very talented for her age n chooses movies wisely..

hi hi.onee..im so happy 2 be found thiz site..really..may u be happy like this ever long long long and long....x)xD..ill pray that this comment will be there to onee...onee ill be ya fan foreva...ill try really really hard 2 see u in person in future, and if it can happen,i wanna kiss ur warm hands...x).well.my grammer and writngs may bad but these words comes from mah heart onee..sa dang haee...xDD