Categories: My Loves

A Picture Homage to Jang Geun Seok and Moon Geun Young in Historical Dramas

Who has watched the epic drama this photoshopped imaged of our beloved Geun-Geun Couple is paying homage to? These photoshopped pictures are courtesy of the magnificently talented zitalei (小蕾) at Baidu’s Moon Geun Young Bar. Can I just tell you – the thought of either actor doing a wuxia drives me insane with want. Only because wuxias are so angsty, it’ll likely make me unable to ship any other couple but them for the rest of my drama watching life. Okay, I’m exaggerating. Maybe just a little.

I’ll be nice and tell you all – lei photoshopped Jang Geun Seok and Moon Geun Young into the most famous wuxia love story of ALL TIME, between a pair of star-crossed lovers that span decades and eternity. It’s from Return of the Condor Heroes, a wuxia novel by Louis Cha, which has been adopted into dramas more than a ten times (at last count) from about 5 different countries. The most recent adaptation came from Mainland China, and was released in 2006, starring Huang Xiaoming and Crystal Liu Yifei. The 2006 version is also where these original shots came from.

I’m actually not itching for the Geun-Geuns to do another modern drama. I want them to do a sageuk! Moon Geun Young won her Baeksang for her performance in Painter of the Wind, and similarly Jang Geun Seok make quite an impression in both his sageuks, Hwang Jin Yi and Hong Gil Dong. Lei also spliced together some awesome pictures of our Geun-Geuns from their sageuk performances, which I hereby bring for your enjoyment. All credit goes to lei, who was happy to share her work with all Geun-Geun fans the world over.

If you want to take any of these pictures and repost them, be sure to credit zitalei. 😀 I totally squeed like a five year old going to Disneyland for the first time when I saw these awesome photoshopped pictures. I’m so easy to please.

[Credit: all pictures courtesy of zitalei at Baidu Moon Geun Young Bar]

ockoala

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  • My dear koala

    Am dumbfounded.. you never fail to amaze me!! Thank you for seeing JGS&MGY through our eyes.. For that, I salute you yet again! Yes Yes & YES!! anything to bring our favourite OTP together again. Only thing is sageuks are a bit clean cut and not much intimacy as in modern day drama. boating? yes ? no?

    On another note, a bit sad to read about our cutie JGS that he is not much favoured by the middle-aged people in Korea. That is why ratings are low for YAB and M3. JGS sez he would like to stay in Thailand,'cos they welcome him with open arms. He sort of lament that he is liked more overseas than in his home country. Do feel a bit sad for JGS. Is there reason to believe? If that's the case, those ahjussis and ahjummas had better lighten if you need to catch up with the times, really!!! How is it that they cannot seem to identify with his acting with finesse. I find this strange or am I being bias...

    • tangee, i echo every single word of yours here...thank you so much for articulating what has been on my mind for so long... ('',)

      ockoala, i thank God for you, and for what you have done to cater to the Geun-Guen fans the world over...i am just over the moon with these photoshopped and spliced photo of (to me, at least) the most believably perfect couple in Kdramaland... ('',)

      thank you so so much ockoala and hope that you would continue to search for more news and photos of our beloved Geun-Geun couple in the future and put up here for us to enjoy... ('',)

      oh, i am STILL in major Geun-Geun withdrawal mode...when am i going to get over this love????

      • dear KDL
        You are most welcome... Glad that many of us are in this together..
        "oh, i am STILL in major Geun-Geun withdrawal mode…when am i going to get over this love????"
        Answer: Maybe never!!!

        Hey, chingu, you are not alone. LOL!!

      • dearest tangee, my chingu ('',)

        God bless you for being my kindred spirit about this major, major addiction...
        i agree with you!!! totally!!!! at the rate im going, i may NEVER EVER get over the Geun2 couple...arrrggghhh....

        but...its not as if i WANT to get over it.... hehe....hmmm...im mooning over them now...aaahhhh....such beauty....such perfection...how wonderful....hmmmm...

  • WOW, that was some fanart!! I had trouble breathing when I first saw it. Amazingly well done ^.^

    Oh, I would love for them to make their version of Yang Guo and Xiao Long Ni. Or any saeguk drama. Or any drama as long as they got paired up again (with MUCH MUCH better writer please). I

    Thank you for bringing these pics here, Koala... I'm going to stare some more... ^^

  • Disclaimer: The author sucks at storytelling. Enough said.

    One random adventure of a dodo....

    Once upon a time there lived a dodo who liked to lurk on AKP before bedtime. It's become a recent habit, you see. On this particular night, the dodo just happened to be the only creature awake in her home and despite feeling a bit sleepy, she chose to refresh the page on her computer screen (yes dodos own computers and laptops --even iPods. Don't ask us how we use them since we don't have opposable thumbs like koalas, but we somehow we get by fine) when suddenly, she sees a new post with a picture of Jang Geun Seok and Moon Geun Young in wuxia attire.

    The incredulous dodo rubs her eyes and stares widely at the photo. She clicks the "read more" button and gapes in utter surprise when she sees what was hidden after the jump. Due to her impatience and curiosity, the dodo scrolls through all the words until she reaches the small gallery of photos--the gorgeous photoshopped photos of her favorite actors in a sageuk!

    After seeing these loverly photos, the dodo returns to the beginning of the post and reads every single word. She then scrolls back down to the photos, which eventually leads to ROFL'ing. It was a sight to behold. To her amazement, no one noticed. Ten minutes later, after staring a hole into the laptop, the giggling dodo takes the time to do a happy jig-dance-or-whatchoomacallit, forgetting that she needed to wake up early tomorrow. Even after tiring herself out with said dance, the dodo decided she needed to write. But what? The ideas swirling around her head were numerous! So much could be written, such as a fanfic of these two in a sageuk. However, after realizing that time was ticking by, the dodo decided to to save the creative fiction writing of her favorites for later and write up another story instead--the story of herself talking in third person.

    Minutes after posting her story for the world to see, the dodo awaits judgment for turning loony, hoping that spectators will understand that she didn't mean to cause all this ruckus so late in the night. In fact, if you one of those who are lurking, please go easy on the dodo because these photos--containing some sort of magical spell--caused her to forget her Self. Thank you.

    The End.

    • LOL I've to wake up early tomorrow as well...but I read your post at the dead of night...the magic of Geuns can turn anyone crazy...haha

      • I totally did not post that, especially after seeing grammar mistakes all over the place. I swear you can blame my evil twin, who was probably tipsy off of happiness last night. :P

  • The best photo I've seen of the geun2 couple .I wish they made a drama for real.
    Btw any news of any drama involving the couple?

  • zitalei at Baidu Moon Geun Young Bar, how do i thank you for the wonderful work you have done to cater to the Geun-Geun fans the world over?

    thank you so so much for your hard work!! ('',)

    i look forward to more of such adorable photos of the Geun-Geun couple ('',)

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