I was going to title this post – The Insane Geun Geun Posse – but on second thought the kittens cuddling picture speaks for itself. I don’t think anyone is conjuring up a fervent passion for Jang Geun Seok and Moon Geun Young to JUST DATE ALREADY out of thin air. From even before Mary Stayed Out All Night until now, these two have exhibited a flurry of onscreen and offscreen verbal and nonverbal gestures that say one thing and one thing only to anyone with a functioning visual cortex: “I’m totally affected by you.”
What that affection means is unclear until the day these two come clean – either by dating someone else, or admitting to date one another. They can be soulmates, they can be romantic partners, and in an ideal world, they can be both. I never realized the breadth and depth of GeunGeun shippers the world over until I ventured out there to declare how much I adore them together. And then suddenly AKP was flooded with GG lovers who have provided a plethora of interesting and detailed analysis of their every interaction. I will continue to post about them going forward, but I wanted to created a master post for all GG lovers to congregate anytime to chitchat. This post will be tagged under the “Discussion Forum” category, so you can all find it easily in the foreseeable future (see link on the right).
To talk about our Geun-Geun ship coming true, we need all first acknowledge (as the Baiduers have) the holy grail of acting couple shipping – I am talking about none other than Hyun Bin and Song Hye Kyo, otherwise known as KyoBin. KyoBin is the elusive golden fleece of couple shipping – which is when a viewer watches a two actors play a pair of lovers onscreen, see something special, and hope they are dating in real life. This is different that hoping two actors who have never worked together would date. KyoBin represents a desire for a coupling stemming from concrete evidence of onscreen chemistry so potent, as a viewer you devote your time and attention to dreaming they would actually hook up and have perfect babies together.
There is a post on Baidu that is revered like it’s God’s 10 Commandments – it’s the post that was started during the airing of The World They Live In/World’s Within by fans of that drama, who hoped that KyoBin would become a reality. Nearly 3 years later and eighteen months after KyoBin confirmed that they were in fact dating in real life, that post has over 25,000 replies, and shippers of any drama couple continue to drop by and add a reply hoping that the aura of that magical post which came true would rub off on their hopeful coupling. Baiduers had a fun field day comparing GeunGeun with KyoBin in terms of their behavior with each other prior, during, and after they filmed a drama together.
KyoBin’s hugs in World’s Within were full contact embraces, with Song Hye Kyo burying her face into Hyun Bin’s neck. I don’t need to explain what Moon Geun Young is doing up there. Furthermore, eels have remarked that Jang Geun Seok has publicly told his fans that he has a very sensitive neck.
While promoting WW, the body language, the gestures, and the looks that Hyun Bin and Song Hye Kyo were shooting each other literally mirror the Geun-Geuns at their M3 Press conference.
I’ve seen tons of K-drama press conferences, and at most the leading couple poses playfully for the requisite media couple shots. Rarely do you see them keep shoot looks at each other during the interview portion. Usually when one is talking, the other is listening politely. Let’s all say a HAIL to KyoBin, and pray that if our GeunGeuns indeed have romantical feelings for each other, they can go public like KyoBin did, and be as well accepted by their fans, the public, and still have a successful career.
It’s adorable when you take a trip back in time to one of their earliest onscreen meetings in a variety show. Both were so young, and yet they just naturally were in sync if you watched them gamely participating in whatever the host asked of them.
Do you guys notice that at every awards ceremony they’ve been to together (whether as hosts, presenters, or participants), Jang Geun Seok and Moon Geun Young are always dressed in matching or complementary outfits. Especially given Jang Geun Seok’s penchant for weird awards attire prior to 2009, his new-founded classy looks are always in tune with whatever Ms. Moon has picked out. At the Baeksangs above, they went for a sleek black and silver look. At the SBS Awards in 2009 they went for a retro light-colored look.
And of course, at the KBS Drama Awards 2010 – they were dressed like they were going to a wedding. In my mind, they went to their own wedding afterwards.
I’ve checked out a bazillion BTS videos of the KBS 2010 Drama Awards and here are some highlights. Moon Geun Young moved her chair closer to Jang Geun Seok first, and then he followed suit. They were the only couple onstage who won the couples’ award that were standing within shoulder touching distance of each other, every other couple had a respectable inch or two distance from each other.
In the end, my Geun-Geun love will wane as surely as time passes. But the natural progression of a fan’s fervor doesn’t negate the special brand of magic this acting couple sprinkled on viewers of M3. When and if the Geun-Geuns do end up publicly dating, I will be the first to throw a party at AKP. You will all be invited, with virtual champagne and cavier, and let all future onscreen couple shippers bow to THIS post as like it’s the new Holy Grail. Let’s end with some perfect moments from M3, shall we?
I hereby give the GeunGeun’s permission, as captain of the Holiday Ship, to elope anytime they want to, because I’ve already gotten a set of their wedding pictures in my possession. 😀 I, however, demand pictures of any Geun-Geun babies, which will surely be the world’s most perfect infant specimen.
Wow, this was a monster post! I highly suggest everyone post comments about your observations and theories of our fave GG couple here (if you’ve posted already, you should go back to all the random GG posts and copy and paste so we can aggregate it all in one place). Or better yet, just have fun spazzing! Captain here, signing off.
[Credit: all pictures as labeled, and the unlabeled pictures are all screencapped by me]
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I <3 Geun-Geun.
That is all, because it says it all.
YAY! I LOVE IT & Thank you! Thank You! Ockoala!!
Thanks so much for starting this. I just love this couple. No matter whether or not they do go public or not. I do believe they will eventually date if not already.
Geun-Geun love indeed! I spent the past few days rewatching mu gyul and mae ri scenes and it made me happy all over again. ::squee!::: and I thought my PK obsession was bad...that was nothing compared to this. <3 I love all these posts and comments, and will be hoping hoping with the rest with everyone else.
i echo your every word....i just love their every interaction - whether they were comical, sweet, loving or arguing - EVERY moment was such a wonderful treat for my senses...aaaaahhhh...
seriously!! i want to see more of the geuns together on screen! I don't care if it's just 2 hours of them eating and sleeping :::sigh::: But i'll take them solo. I wonder when MGY would have her next acting project. Probably not anytime soon since she was active last year. (She's awesome that she focuses on her studies) but YAY JGS for 2011!!!! I haven't bought a CD in a while and JGS's will be the first. I'm even considering getting the M3 photo book..hopefully a chinese one will come out? so i can pick out the words i do know how to read :P
yes, miso, i can't agree with you more....i wondered abt the very same things you were wondering abt... ('',)
I'm also currently rewatching MSOAN, I just can't get over they super powerful chemistry they have with each other. Seriously, if they are not dating or have strong feelings for each other how is it possible for them to display such a realistic feeling of being a couple in the drama. I don't believe anyone acting can be so convincing. Therefore I conclude Guen Geun must be dating (underground).
please please please. i'll wait even longer than 3 years for this to happen!
Yes I'd be shipping for the GG couple for a long time too ~ I'll party all night til dawn with you when that glorious day comes, that thy publicly announce they are dating. In the meantime.. seeing them super close as REAL friends already brings me super delight and happiness that them dating is just the icing on my cake. Babies? Oh my.. I think I'll have a seizure when that happens.. too much stimulation on my fangirl hormones. ^^
WOW, Ockoala!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! WOWWWWWWWW!!!
A SPECIAL place for the insane lovers of the Geun-Geun couple to rant and rave to our hearts' content???!!!!
You have answered one of our prayers!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS OCKOALA!!!
You are just too precious for words!! ('',)
Now, if your monster of a post can weave some kind of magic and make the Geun-Geun couple a reality, then it would have answered the prayers of the legions of the Geun-Geun couple zany, wacky, loony fans!!!
I concur with EVERY SINGLE WONDERFUL MORSEL of your thought in this post and i second your suggestion for the rest of the battalion of Geun-Geun couple shippers to come and congregate and join forces here and hopefully, HOPEFULLY, in some way, influence the said couple to BELIEVE that THEY ARE JUST PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER!!! ('',)
Anyone knows how to contact the Geun-Geun couple to grace this post with their presence??? So that they could read every minute analysis of their interaction so far that say what they have yet to say out loud to the world - that they have more than just "very good friends' " feelings for each other. Like i said before, if they do come together, i would be among the first to shout out my joy and happiness for them, because i just LOVE them to bits...
How about it, Geun-Geun couple shippers???
Dear Koala
I was thinking of taking a break from this whole thingy BUT alas, all is not to be the case... Thanks again for always coming up with these little teasers every other day to entice us deeper and deeper into this thingy called Geun2...
My dear chingu KDL
Good to hear your cute rant... Yes, do hope they can read whatever we post here.. Do you think they would?? Do they read English?? no offence, just curious... do fill me in... am all ears...
Cheers to a good day....
JKS does. When he was interviewed in Spore he was handed a list of questions the host was going to ask him, all in English and he never questioned once. The host was impressed.
Dear Tangee my chingu ('',)
Thank you so much for appreciating my mindless ranting and raving...just too excited to have this special place for us, shippers of the Geuns, to rant and rave and basically lose our heads/minds and whatever that is left of our lives in our undying love for and worshipping of the Geuns to become a REAL COUPLE... ('',)
F1968, thank you so much for your reply to Tangee's questions....and yes, he was impressive in the interview,
altho, a few times during the interview, he did ask his interpreter for confirmation of the English words for the Korean words he wanted to say,
and for some of the questions, he spoke mostly Korean and the interpreter interpreted his answers ... ('',)
Saw on YT re interview with some HongKong reporter who spoke in Cantonese[one of HK's major chinese dialect] and JGS seem to understand every word and during the session, he reply bits in English and Korean but I WAS impressed that he seem to understand Cantonese... talk about self-improvement, way to go, cutie boy!
Thanks F1968 for that update... me impressed too..
Read that JGS actually went to NZ for his high school and he even learn Japanese too! So English is not a big deal for him since he's been there for quite some time.
yep JSK can speak english (odk how fluent he is) can speak Japanese, I heard he speaking bit Japanese at SBS award BTS.that boy surely learn more language as he realize that he gain more popularity in other country
Dear zz
thanks for update... I heard that he went there for 6months but was called back due to his acting commitments..
bit off topic.. have heard Lee Byung Hun being interviewed during his GI Joe premiere.. that man speaks very well indeed .. he is at par with bigger guns like Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung [did you know he majored in French Literature!! yet he acts well.. maybe that why I'm so in awe with him... he he.Han Ye Seul speaks well too. Lee Da Hae not too bad having studied at Sydney High School for 5 years..
Dear Erika
Thanks re JGS on Japanese.. Yes... am pretty sure he wants to upgrade himself to the international arena... that charmer will have no problems whatsoever... Fighting JGS!
Ow captain this is one major post to worship our geungeun.you have wrap it up of all our discussion on them with the add of kyobin which I adore before geun2..at that time I never join any blog and go fangirling over them.after watching WW and see how they chemistry is I was hoping that they become real couple which indeed come true and I believe that SGH working overseas not because of fans hate them as item or HB-HJW shipper but because her acting has been recognize by the world and they keep their love as they use to be with HB confirm at recent interview he had gf.
so after seeing the same gesture that geungeun show during filming,bts,awards,conferrence pers now I believe geungeun bound to be a couple,not now but will be.geungeun will take their senior path and will make the next sweet,cute,lovely great couple.geungeun forever
yes!!! HB and SHK were one v v handsome couple before M3 and Geun2.. no doubt about it... Of course, now there is KTH&SSH another super handsome couple... ooohhhh that's eye candy to the max!! Of course, Geun2 is the handsome and cutie young one whom we all adore to death!!..
Whether they will follow senior path, we will have to wait and see... Patience is all we have!
Cheers...
"Geun2 is the handsome and cutie young one whom we all adore to death!!"
I ECHO EVERY WORD!! ('',)
Yes tangee,kyobin is my ultimate no1 couple that is until I met geungeun.if one day my,no our wish come true that they become real couple,I hope no bashing on our gorgeos couple esp MGY like rumour said bout kyobin esp SKH if they do that they have to deal with me.hehe.We all do.
BTW, the other day, I read somewhere about SHK being the face of Korea [about her PanAsian looks representing Korea overseas] ... my junior feeds me that... also KTH somewhere else sez that she is the most beautiful actress in Korea.... Am i right? anyone beg to differ?
yes SHK is no one beauty in Korea and other parts of the world recognize it too..lucky HB and if he let go SHK I would be really mad..hehehe
yep tangee, SHK is no.1 beauty in korea because of her original beauty..and other country recognize it too..lucky HB to have her as GF before other guy take her..I hope they can get married as soon as HB finished his MS..
we see it, we feel it, chemistry is everywhere and it cant lie.
they might play hide and seek with us, but the reality is undeniable.
i will join your party, i even bring more champagne to celebrate this holy moment.
lets cross our finger and hope it wont take long to make this happen ....cheers ..to geun couple ...to geun baby
they look incredibly cute.