Many thanks to my good friend M of Japan (almost like old times, eh?)

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(Credits: Many thanks to Japanese fan mittyon for creating video!)

Well, not exactly!  But the MV below is specially made for us by our good friend KK.  Many JHJ fans don’t like the 2004 drama “Sunshine” because of the ending, but we like the way JHJ looks in it.  MV is set to one of our favourite songs, Bette Midler’s “The Wind Beneath My Wings”, and highlights some of our favourite scenes from “Sunshine”.

JHJ in “Sunshine” is the most drop-dead gorgeous pastry chef in the world.  A few years ago a friend of mine in the U.S. was distraught because her son who graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Economics decided to become a pastry chef.  I promptly sent her a DVD of “Sunshine”.  She was not amused and never talked to me again.  People with no sense of humour are not happy people.   Here’s wishing all JHJ fans are happy everyday!

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(Credit: “Sunshine” photo by ahiru of CarpeDiemJAPAN; MV by KK of johyunjae.hk.  Thanks!)

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YOUTUBE:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmtV94CNeKk
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(Credit: MV by mittyon; www.johyunjae.hk.  Thanks!)

Come with me in the silence of darkness
I want to show you secrets of life
I will guide you where dreams could’t take you
She seldom flew away in the night

You’re the moonlight flower
You’re the voice of the night.
When you call I’ll follow.
We’ll leave on the trip of delight.

I have been to the heights of my senses.
Feeling the touch of your cures,
I have seen the magic things under night skies.
Until the sunrise ended the spell.

You’re the moonlight flower
You’re the voice of the night.
When you call I’ll follow.
We’ll leave on the trip of delight.

YOUKU

YOUTUBE:  http://youtu.be/DvurxGpOlDY

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YOUTUBE

TUDOU

For English lyrics of song, please see this link to our earlier post:

http://jo-hyun-jae.com/2009/02/22/i-spread-my-dream-in-the-sky/

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YOUTUBE

TUDOU

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For English lyrics of song, please see our earlier post:

http://jo-hyun-jae.com/2009/03/09/beside-you-like-the-wind/

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YOUTUBE

TUDOU

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For the English lyrics to this song, please see this link: http://jo-hyun-jae.com/2011/05/04/words-you-said-to-me/

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YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uh2JT8-5H8

(Credit: MV by mittyon; www.johyunjae.hk.  Thanks!)

“49 Days” news occupy us every day, but there’s nothing substantial and there’s no photo.  So let’s go back to some vintage JHJ — to remind ourselves why we love him in the first place.

(Credit: quilt of everjohyunjae.co.kr.; www.johyunjae.hk. Thanks!)

Please see our June 11, 2009 post “JHJ in ‘Love’s Greeting’” and June 12, 2009 post “JHJ in ‘Ice Lady’” as well as March 12, 2010 post “JHJ MVs – behind the scenes” — all under Category: JHJ MV, or click on these links:

http://jo-hyun-jae.com/2009/06/11/jhj-in-loves-greeting/              

http://jo-hyun-jae.com/2009/06/12/jhj-in-ice-lady/

http://jo-hyun-jae.com/2010/03/12/jhj-mvs-behind-the-scenes/

Previous posts explain story in MVs which are set to See Ya’s songs.

Whether Lee Yo-Won will be JHJ’s leading lady in his new drama, these MVs are worth watching again because these are the only MVs JHJ ever made.

Love’s Greeting

Ice Lady

(Credit: MVs from the internet. Thanks!)

Videos are identical – 1. YOUTUBE, 2. YOUKU.

A few days ago we played a little game on this blog — speculating on what JHJ could be doing (as he has not been seen or heard from since making a brief appearance at Seoul Fashion Week on October 22.)

One fan forwarded the suggestion (tongue-in-cheek, we think) that JHJ could be “exploring the priesthood”!  She went on to remark: “He’ll be the best-looking priest ever.”  (No doubt about that!)

This remark recalled my schoolgirl days N years ago.  I attended a convent school, and every day a priest came to say mass at our chapel.  There were two priests, I remember, an old one and a handsome young Italian priest who came in my second year of high school.  All of a sudden, many of my classmates became very devout and went to mass every day (before class.)  And two of them even became nuns later.  (Honest to God, I didn’t make this up.)

Now if JHJ were to become a priest, I can safely predict two things:

1.  Church attendance at his diocese will increase dramatically.

2.  Many broken hearts will take a long time to heal.  (I read on another JHJ website one fan writing – at the merest hint he might be dating – “I will never ever forgive him!” – spitting vehemence!)

Maybe even these:

3.  The number of nuns may increase (but only in those convents related to JHJ’s order.)

4.  MBC will re-issue “Love Letter” and it will top the charts.

JHJ’s Andrea is really inimitable!  No one else can play this role with such conviction and compassion.  And yet, as a Catholic, I find some disturbing elements in the portrayal of the priest, not on the actor’s part but on the script’s.  Catholics believe the priesthood is a calling from God.  You sever your earthly ties and devote your life to God.  But Andrea seems to become a priest or not at the pleasure of Eun Ha, and in the end he resumes his priesthood only at her insistence.

The ending is debatable.  For Catholics, there is no going back once you are ordained as a priest.  (Some do leave the priesthood, though.  I know someone who married her priest, and I’ll always remember what she said to me  – half in jest – the day before the wedding: “Do you think I’ll burn in hell?”)  But many non-Catholics think when Eun Ha wakes up from her coma, she and Andrea will get back together as a couple.  It is the scriptwriter’s fault for leaving the open ending like that, but perhaps that is deliberate.

“Love Letter” is to be commended for tackling a religious issue, and a controversial one at that.  But there are certain strict religious dogmas in Catholicism that are not to be toyed with.  Whenever I re-watch this drama, my best friend M’s outraged remark always comes to mind: “A priest sleeping with a woman (even if nothing happened) — that’s utterly unacceptable!”

Chinese men become monks usually because they suffer some setbacks in life and become disillusioned with this world.  Does JHJ’s long absence and silence mean he is hiding/escaping from something, someone?  Would that drive him over the edge?

But is JHJ even a Catholic?  Not that we know of.  JHJ once said: “You don’t have to be a killer to portray a killer convincingly.”  Right!  His Andrea is the purest, sweetest, most endearing, most lovable priest there is, or ever will be.

(Credit: MV by zuru92 of Thailand; www.johyunjae.hk. Thanks!)

Jo Hyun-Jae’s Thai fans made this MV in 2009, a year after his visit to Thailand.  Their love and longing are so evident.  We love you just the way you are, they say.  Don’t we all! 

(Credit: Video from http://www.johyunjaefans.net.  Thanks!)

This MV was originally set to a Chinese song.  KK, at our request, changed it to the Johnny Mathis oldie “A Certain Smile” for wulijohhyunjae.  Our readers probably won’t relate to a Chinese song, but most of you may be too young to know this song (Please see lyrics after MV.)  This “certain smile, certain face” really make our hearts sing and haunt our hearts.

KK is suffering from a shoulder/arm injury, but she is inspired by that one new JHJ photo to create this MV, although she has to resort to using old photos.  We are most grateful — a BIG “Thank You” to KK!

A Certain Smile

A certain smile, a certain face
Can lead an unsuspecting heart
On a merry chase
A fleeting glance can say
So many lovely things
Suddenly you know why my heart sings

You love awhile and when love goes
You try to hide the tears inside
With a cheerful pose
But in the hush of night
Exactly like a bitter sweet refrain
Comes that certain smile
To haunt your heart again

(Repeat)

(Credit: MV by KK of johyunjae.hk. Many thanks!)

This “Love Letter” MV is set against the haunting melody of ”Romance de amour” on the classical guitar.  Enjoy!

(Credit: MV by cafe.daum.net/nowguswo; www.johyubnjae.hk.  Thanks!)

Dedicated to the late Mr. Jo Sung-Ho

Papa by Zhang Di

I am the continuation of your life
Engraved with your special brand
I am the hope of your life
Glittering with your sweat and tears

Oh, Papa, Papa
Let me sing you a song
To pour out
What I can never repay

Oh, Papa, Papa
Let me dye your hair once more
To call back
Your lost youth and vitality

You are the reason I’m forever strong
I am your voice that never changes
Chasing after what you have been through
Let my love be forever by your side

(Repeat above)

Papa, my love is by your side

Lyrics translated into English by wulijohyunjae.

(Credit: MV by KK of www.johyunjae.hk. Many thanks!)

And “Seo Dong Yo” will be shown again on Japan’s DATV from November 19.

(Credit: 1st video by http://cafe.daun.net/hyunjaeAnPam; 2nd courtesy of SBS; www.johyunjae.hk.  Thanks!)

This MV is set to the song “I believe” (from “My Sassy Girl”) by Shin Seung-Hoon.  Enjoy!

I believe
That although you are gone
This cannot be the end, can it?
I believe
That your journey back to me
Is just delayed, isn’t it?

I remember so well that I hurt myself
As I cry
I hope you don’t cry as I do
I hope you won’t cry as you leave

I know you will return someday
Because I believe
I will wait for you, just you

I believe
You should not cry
When you think about my pain

I believe
My tears will bring you back to me
My eyes cannot forget
That it is you who make them cry
I hope you don’t cry as I do
I hope you won’t cry as you leave

I know you will return someday
Because I believe
I will wait for you, just you

My tears will bring you back to me
My eyes cannot forget
That it is you who make them cry

Before I met you
The world was not so beautiful
Beneath the same sky
All alone I cry

But I will wait here
Just for you
Even if waiting is hopeless
It’s already enough
To think of love
Time means nothing to me
I will wait for you, just you
Just you  

JHJ, we believe in you, and we will wait for you, just you!

(Credit: Video by 쪽빛마음; http://blog.naver.com; www.johyunjae.hk.  Thanks!)

If I can give up the whole world

At least there is still you that I cherish

You are the miracle of life

Maybe I can forget the whole world

But I don’t want to lose news of you

Do these words reflect your feelings while we are waiting for news of JHJ’s new drama?

(Credit: MV by KK of www.johyunjae.hk. Thanks!)