If you check out the tags at the Playground, it’s pretty clear that I must love Jang Geun Seok a lot otherwise I wouldn’t have written so much about him since I started blogging. I write about dramas for the most part and he’s really done only one drama in the last 3 years (Love Rain, which I hated), so I’ve rarely written about him in the last year or so. He’s been primarily focusing on his singing career, releasing albums under the label Team H with his collaborator DJ Big Brother, as well as holding mini-concerts and party events all around Asia. He’s been busy, just not busy doing anything I care to follow much less write about. I do wish he would cut his hair, which has been in that wavy shoulder-length bob for what feels like forever. I actually liked it in Mary Stayed Out All Night since it fit with his bohemian rocker character, but since then it feels both stale and dull. I ran across pictures of Jang Geun Seok last week as he was spotting at Seoul’s Incheon Airport heading back to Korea. It was so shocking I had to say something – he looks absolutely terrible. What happened, Seok? He looks like he’s pushing 30 with the sallow skin and pasty image. If Song Joong Ki looks like he’s preternaturally young and aging backwards sometimes, Seok conversely looks way older than his 26 years of age (27 in Korean years). I’ve always thought one thing he had going was very handsome features and a ridiculously sexy voice, but with all that partying and living it up lifestyle he’s been enjoying for that last few years, I feel like he’s sacrificing his youthful good looks at the altar of dissolution. Feel free to disagree with me, but pictures don’t lie and he looks positively fugly here. I miss the old Jang Geun Seok, who managed to make the costume ridiculousness in You’re Beautiful look funny but cool. I’m also tired of fans giving him a free ride to “sow his wild oats” and “do what he loves”, because that is the refrain of all twenty-somethings justifying their sometimes poor life decisions. I think he’s been making seriously poor career decisions when it comes to being an actor and I hope someone either talks some sense into him or he has an epiphany on his own.
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Eww! Why are his nails painted?! And, I completely agree with you!
I agree...Ewww! I love him, but those nails need to go!
I feel like I'm the only one who hates his long hair. :( I first saw him in Do Re Mi, and loved his boyish good-looks there. I think short hair would have made him look so much younger.
he looks cool whether he sports a long hair like when he did you're beautiful or when he had it cropped short like in beethoven's virus. But i fear that the way he abuses his body is starting to show…
He should be in Heirs with Lee Min-ho.
I don't think he could play the role of a high school student looking the way he does now.
I totally agree that someone needs to sit this dude down - he can be as zany as he wishes, but dear God, please take acting seriously when you do!
You know maybe he should be in Heirs, if it means the show might make him cut off his hair....This is actually one of his saner outfits as long as we take off everything above the neck....sigh....I was thinking about him and his career decisions since the whole Heirs-Jung Yong Hwa thing and I know he's riding out his popularity in Japan right now with his "singing career" and everything but makes me wonder why he's not taking his acting career that seriously (or at least it seems that way with You;re my Pet and Love Rain)...sometimes I even wonder if he owes someone a ton of money he has to payback...anyways I really miss him being awesome in (good) dramas/movies on my screen :(
I once thought that if there ever was a korean remake of Nana, I would love to see him play Takumi.
Please pay more atention to him, you will see he is working now as hard as ever.
He has Johnny Depp syndrome! Trying too hard to look cool - overly 'accessoryized' and over done hair when it's not necessary. My advice: Take off some jewelry and simplify the hair! Get some sunshine on your handsome face. Honestly, I see too many male K stars that seem to be very high maintenance. lol
Sorry! Johnny Depp is cool! He looks good for his age, this guy of 27 looks old and weathered.
Johnny Depp ... who can be like him :) I love Johnny bcz he is cool and he has charm, his long hair give him more sexy look but JGS I hope he will back to the Reality world bcz we miss him I hope he just be healthy right now in his own messy world :(
hey girl what you smokin'?? Johnny Depp is the real thing..he's not really trying to be anything, he's naturally weird and cool like that.
But I agree with you on everything else. JGS really needs somebody to slap him in the face and orient him back to reality. He is looking absolutely odd and pretentious lately. Bring back Beethoven Virus-JGS please. It's not just his looks its his overall behavior and stuff. Sigh!
Or maybe he should try to live in a monastery for few months. Vegetarian diet and discipline would have helped him to restore good looks and goal of life.
His current face is ugly, not handsome like it was used to be at all.
I hate his long hair, eyeliner, and odd accessories.
This whole Asia Prince thing is really not working for him, yeah he is popular, but that can only get him so far, specially with the rise of young and talented actors, he can easily be replaced. His recent projects, both film and TV, sucked so bad. Such a waste of talent.
Someone commented earlier that this is one of the most sane outfits he's been photographed in for a long time. Maybe he has to restore/regroup in stages. This time it's the clothes that are ok. Maybe next time will be healthier/more robust looking skin color. Then after that will be the hair. I can hope, right???
Oh no. :-( i had such high hopes for him in the past looks like that has all gone down the crapper now.