The Electric New Paper
By Chang May Choon
07 November 2006

This must be the ultimate fantasy – to have your Prince Charming bend down with a shoe for you. It happened to a lucky girl in Taipei. Her ‘prince’ was none other than Korean singer-actor Kim Jeong Hoon of Princess Hours fame. But it was ski shoes, and not a glass slipper, that he helped her with. He was there to promote skiing for Korea Tourism Organisation.But this is an example of how obliging the boyish heart-throb is, and how eager he is to win over the Asian market. When fans in Taipei asked about his love life, his glib reply was:‘Why do I need a girlfriend when I have you all?’ And Jeong Hoon, has many anecdotes to share, even though he professes to be shy and reticent…

Jeong Hoon has visited China at least six times – enough for him to pick up some Mandarin. When in Qingdao two months ago, he said he learnt the phrase ‘wo ai huo guo’, or ‘I love steamboat’. Also, he replied in Mandarin when asked by China Entertainment Television what he would say to move a girl’s heart. ‘Yi jian zhong qing,’ he said, meaning love at first sight.

As for his most embarrassing encounter
he recounted how he was once caught using a female toilet because the gents had ran out of toilet paper.

What about his ‘most suave moment’?
He said he feels great whenever he checks out his flat stomach in the mirror after workouts. How vain.

But his most dramatic anecdote yet is how he got thrown out of his house, naked.
He told The Chosun Ilbo: ‘I have always been bothered by my ‘pretty’ looks… As a kid, I used to pull pranks that irritated people just to make myself appear more manly.

‘Once, in kindergarten, I said I wanted to leave home and got chased out of the house, naked. But it was too cold outside, so I had to go back. In the end I got beaten up and shed plenty of tears.’

~Kwfong