OK, I know I'm in the minority here, but all I can think of seeing muscled men like him is how much time they need to invest to get such a body. Hours. And all this time could be spend so much better! Like reading a book. Nourish your brain so you won't become boring during the years. Imagine you'd have to live with such a (very likely) vain man. Diet and sports. Nothing much else.

Yep, bluntly generalizing and party pooping, but so it is.

(Now I've outed myself as a really old ahjumma, coming from a generation which didn't care about lots of muscles and e.g. manscaping *eek* at all.)

That said, I like him and am enjoying White Christmas right now.

Interesting, the question of whether he's considered attractive to the average Korean woman because, "he's not pretty." I can't imagine that such an exquisite example of male pulchritude wouldn't be considered smokin' hawt by a goodly portion of the female Korean population. He'd be seen as smokin' hawt by a goodly portion of American women, if only they knew he existed. I imagine flower boys (the pretty, slightly feminine sort) are more popular among a younger demographic, just as Justin Bieber (an American flower boy if there ever was one) appeals to a younger demographic here. But a real man---well, let's just say it takes a grown up woman to appreciate.

The Western notion that Asian men aren't sexy/manly is just all sorts of wrong. Just wait until the plethora of Asian sexy starts to become better known here in the U.S....We'll see what becomes of that ridiculous idea.

Despite how handsome this man is, this is a weird and unattractive photo shoot. Fashion is creepy.

Holy hell.

I don't think I can say anything else coherent right now.

*scrolls back to the top*

Has anybody found the shadow on pic 2 a bit naughty? ;)

I'm just here to read the article.

I can't stop laughing at all the comments. I think the reason I am laughing so hard is because I agree with most of them and I'm a little embarrassed. :)

I dont have an appreciation for those suspenders. Like they are preventing a very important image from being captured.

Pout!

Congrats to him and Baek Ji Young. Their babies will be cheek-pinch cute I bet.

Hi, Lili. Apparently I wasn't clear in my post about what "real women" (read, more "mature" women) find attractive. Please re-read what I wrote. I was actually responding to the idea that he's "not pretty." "Pretty", to me, brings to mind "Flower Boy". Now don't get me wrong, I can appreciate the attractiveness of many a Flower Boy. I used to have a major adolescent crush on David Cassidy back in the day, for instance. But, being of a more, let's just say, "seasoned" age, I find men who couldn't ever be mistaken for jail bait far more attractive. Flower Boys don't make me want to fan myself in the same way someone like Jung Seok Won does. I made no comment about his muscular build (though I do think that contributes to the hawtness), nor did I disparage anyone for whom such a physique leaves them cold.

Mostly, my post was "musing out loud", so to speak, upon ideas about what constitutes "pretty/Flower Boy" and what constitutes just plain "Hawt, sexy grown up male." And before any one says those traits are not necessarily mutually exclusive, I will readily concede that to be a fact as well.

Lastly, while watching K, J, and T Dramas, and looking at many DB posted photo shoots, I have marveled more than a few times over the very unflattering image of Asian men pushed by the American entertainment industry. That's how
the idea that it's "all kinds of wrong" came about.

I respect that you don't find Soek Won's body particularly sexy. Were he any more bulked out, I would heartily agree. I find the bodies of competition body builders, for instance to be somewhat freakish, and to be honest, just plain gross. But, as they say, YMMV. Everybody is entitled to their views of what's sexy, I didn't mean to sound as if I felt my view invalidated anyone else's.

i heart song joongki and bae soobin, and this guy's face doesn't do it for me, but...

his body makes me go "ooooooooohhhh...." (no wonder he was stuntman......drooolll)

i'm happy for the soundtrack lady. go girl. ^_^ (body eye candy... ^_^)

thank you dramabeans for this post

holy moley batman... ABS... *my innocent maiden eyes want to bed led away* but damn... he's fine!