This past Saturday, CNBLUE were guests on the Korean variety show ‘Quiz That Changes the World’ and one of the topics was how each member had acted in a K-drama this past year, all with success. It seems these days that most of our favorite idol singers also moonlight as actors between albums (or maybe it’s the other way around) but the singer turned actor isn’t a new phenomenon in K-pop. Many of the old school idols have gone onto big acting careers once TV executives realized that idol singers bring with them a huge, built-in audience. So this week, we’ll take a look some of the more successful idol to actor conversions… maybe next time, we’ll look at some that didn’t turn out so well.
[Parts unrelated to JYJ have been omitted]
And then we have those rare cases like JYJ. Not to say that the members of JYJ wouldn’t be acting had they remained in TVXQ, but because they aren’t performing their music on music programs in Korea, acting has been their medium for staying relevant in the public eye. Jaejoong was featured in a role in ‘Time Slip Dr. Jin‘, while Yoochun gave praiseworthy performances to TV dramas Rooftop Prince and ‘Missing You‘.
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