From "Tetsuko's Room" tv program in Japan, May 9 2006 (translated by Lee.lena, thanks to Hyc-EverythingLBH) 

LBH's message to fans

Some times there is one moment like climbing to the top of a mountain, and sometimes we come down from a mountain.

You and I will be mutually dependable and inspiring each other with our presence, just walking together and just be there together.

Well, I feel that our mutual presence could cheer up each other.

I want to have such emotional ties with you.

LBH's Handwritten Christmas Greetings
Translated by Splash (Dec 2003)
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Before sending my year-end greetings, I have always wanted to tell everyone officially about my next work, but I end up spending the year like this again.

Everyone of you has been here all this while, despite my long absence, and you are really a source of strength to me.

I promise to be really active next year and thus end my Christmas greetings.

Have a happy and enjoyable year-end and may you have a happy new year!

Lee Byung Hun

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December 2006

A CHRISTMAS WISH & NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM LEE BYUNG HUN



Everytime my movies get released,
the nervous feeling that I get from the reviews and all the hard work put into making it is nothing now.
To meet you guys after a long time makes gives me another reason to be nervous with excitement once again.
Recently, I've went around theaters and even though I saw some people here and there,
I wasn't able to ask them what I wanted to at all.
Have you guys been doing well?
While promoting my movie,
waiting for the release.
I've felt this many times before.
Those who are even more anxious, more disappointed, and even happier than me,
the lead of this movie, really touches me.
If I want to repay this feeling of being so touched,
what I'd have to do is keep on taking shorter breaks and work on great works...
Once again, it's time to end a year.
I hope you spend a fun Christmas.
End the year nicely,
and start the new year with a great feeling.

From Lee Byung Hun

Lovely message translated by joyeux with thanks to leebyunghun.com, honeyhunny.com (cerena) & Lucy-lovelbh.com for the highlight

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February 5, 2005

Personal message from Lee Byung Hun 05-02-05

This is Lee Byung Hun. Perhaps I haven't got used to the time difference, so I woke up at dawn and have been sitting here at my desk just staring blankly, and ended up writing this message.

Completing 3 movies with no break in between sure wasn't as easy as I had thought. I have just returned from a relaxing vacation, that wasn't too brief, but was one that I had managed to take in a long time. Even though it didn't turn out to be relaxing after all ...

As I was preparing for my travel, I packed some books that had been lying around in my house, so I was able to keep myself from being bored during my travel and on the flights. Among the good works I have read, I remember these words from Shin Young Bok's Thoughts from Prison.

"People who have nothing believe that summer is better than winter, but we in prison, even though we may be suffering more than those poor people, would rather choose winter. Because a jail term in summer makes its 10 or even 20 advantages (when compared to winter) pale immediately due to one undeniable fact -- the truth is that a jail term in summer makes one hate the person beside oneself. As one lies sideways and tries to sleep in the narrow sleeping space available, one can only feel the person lying beside oneself as a warm body of 37 degrees. This is really the ultimate punishment, a stark contrast from the primitive friendship that arises when one draws warmth from the person next to oneself during winter ..."

Perhaps those lines quoted above don't make sense to you, but somehow I feel that there are many parts that describe my situation right now. Sometimes I have these extremely bitter and lonely thoughts ... that when we are weary with the very idea of our own existence in life, we become conscious of others' perspectives of ourselves and end up making ourselves and others feel the same way.

When I come across all these big, small and malicious rumors, when I have to face painful and difficult siuations due to the fact that I don't have an ordinary job, and when I can't muster the strength and courage to overcome all these problems, I wonder if all these events that have happened, whether they are happy or painful, have all been predetermined in destiny, so that I have to go through them in life.

Although the suffocating heat of summer makes one dread to even step outdoors, the cool rain comes soon afterwards. The heat cools off the land almost immediately, so we already know that we have entered the threshold of fall. Then the mountains and trees turn gaunt and wither away, yellow in the cold, but become lush and full with leaves again, just when we least realize the changes that time brings about. I wonder if I can have such a calm and peaceful mind to just let things run their natural course. Occasionally when I read articles, I find that they sometimes overrate me. There are also rare occasions when I have seen articles reporting positive events that are really opposite from the truth. At those times, I feel interested, grateful, but also miserable.

But what should I do about the complicated feelings I have about the current situation? I feel it would be really foolish and unnecessary for me to respond to these ridiculous, untrue, and infuriating statements. Who knows, the very fact that I am posting this message could be interpreted as me defending myself, or even me acting in the same way as them (when they wrote all those statements) ...

I am not going to bother about all this. I am not going to waste a lot of time and energy over all that. I have the premiere of my movies to look forward to, then I have to choose my next project, so there are many important things that I have to do, you know.

To become a famous sword, the sword has to to undergo grinding and polishing, cooling off in water after being heated at the flame, and finally finishing on the whetstone, all tedious rituals in a lengthy process, but necessary so that the entire world recognizes the famous sword for its true worth.

I believe what is happening right now is really like the process of becoming a famous sword.

They say that silence is golden, so I still would like to follow that way. However there are times when silence is not golden ...

May you be happy and healthy in the New Year!


Original message posted at www.leebyunghun.com

Translated by Splash at LBH.SG, with much thanks from everyone

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Message from Byunghun in Dec 2006, posted at dotcom

Translated by joyeux with much thanks from EverythingLBH