Tag: Kang Ho Dong

Kang Ho Dong Left Out of Major Broadcasting Stations’ Year-End Awards Nomination List

It seems the entertainment industry is still reeling from the shock of Kang Ho Dong’s decision to temporarily retire at the height of his career in light of the controversy surrounding his tax records. The winner of the 2007 SBS Daesang, 2008 MBC Daesang, 2009 KBS Daesang, and the 2010 SBS Daesang has been reportedly excluded from MBC, KBS, and SBS’s nominations for this year’s awards ceremonies.

[Soompi 2011] Variety Show Review – Revolutions, Controversies and Creaky Old Backs

2011 has been a pretty hectic year. We’ve had more natural disasters than a crazed sadist messing around with the disasters options in Sim City, we’ve seen the world economy go from bad to everyone running around like headless chickens etc. But all of that is dreary real life based issues, let’s break away from that for a bit and talk about variety shows, more specifically Korean variety shows and what they were like during 2011.

Will Lee Seung Gi Be Able to Beat Yoo Jae Suk for the Grand Prize at the Entertainment Awards?

With less than a month left of the year of 2011, many television viewers are speculating and putting interest on the year-end awards ceremonies. Especially with the temporary retirement of Kang Ho Dong, more interest is going into the winner of the grand prize for the Entertainment Awards. This is because it is safe to say that Yoo Jae Suk and Kang Ho Dong pretty much monopolized the three major…

Why was Kang Ho Dong at a Yakuza Party?

On December 1, local media Channel A showed footage of Kang Ho Dong at a special Yakuza event held 24 years ago. The video taken in 1988 shows Kang Ho Dong (in high school at the time) attending a dinner party in Osaka with Kaneyama Kosaburo, Japan’s Yakuza boss, and Lee Kang Hwan, the boss of Korean mafia “Seven Stars.” According to Channel A, it was a special dinner organized to celebrate the two bosses becoming sworn brothers.