Maybe this name is a little unfamiliar to you, but you must have seen this avatar.
There is also this "contrast cuteness" of cute pose and sturdy appearance.
He is known as "the most capable man in South Korea" - Korean-American actor Ma Dong-seok.
The kimchi circle next door has been really lively recently, and two days ago, Korean media broke the news that Ma Dongxi and Rui Chenghe, artists under the agency BIGPUNCH Entertainment, will hold a wedding in Seoul in May.
As soon as this news came out, netizens expressed their blessings↓↓↓
In Tachibana's impression, the relationship between these two should not be a secret in the circle.
As early as 2016, the two confirmed their relationship.
In October 2022, Ma Dongxi attended the 12th Beautiful Artist Award as the winner of the Film Artist Award.
At the ceremony, Ma Dongxi called Yi Zhenghua "the wife who supports me the most", and said that the two had registered their marriage last year and are now legally husband and wife.
When it comes to Ma Dongxi, this uncle can be regarded as a late bloomer.
In 1990, 19-year-old Ma Dongxi immigrated to the United States with his family and studied at the Department of Physical Education at Columbus State University.
After graduation, he served as the personal trainer of American professional wrestler Mark Coleman, and at this time he weighed 240 pounds, presenting a proper "macho man" image to outsiders.
A chance audition made Ma Dong-seok interested in acting, and in 2002, he returned to South Korea for his dream of being an actor.
It is also strange to say that after changing careers to become an actor, Ma Dongxi, in order to maintain his chubby humorous image, contrary to most fitness enthusiasts, only lost muscle, not fat.
So the round belly has become many people's first impression of him.
What's more interesting is that he seems to be a "macho man", but he likes to pose very much when he takes pictures.
The image of "cute uncle" makes him very popular among women in the fitness circle, so after changing careers and becoming an actor, his popularity as a woman is naturally good.
At first, Ma Dongxi's "tough guy" image did not make him much popular, and it was not until 2008 that he played the role of a boatman in "Beastie Boy", which turned on the "drive low and go high" mode.
Since then, he has received a lot of crime-themed movies, such as "Improper Dealing", "War with Crime", "Neighbors" and so on.
His image in these films is much the same, the embodiment of justice and the terminator of evil.
In his films, even the audience feels that "the villain is a pitiful character".
But the most impressive thing for the audience has to be "Train to Busan" released in 2016, Ma Dong-seok became the first ruthless role in Korean films.
Wife protector madman, tearing zombies by hand, confirming his eyes, is a person who can't be provoked.
In the same year, 45-year-old Ma Dongxi admitted his relationship, and his girlfriend was a model Yi Zhenghua who was 17 years younger than him.
Before going public, both were very cautious, and even the agency didn't know about their previous relationship.
Speaking of this girlfriend who is 17 years younger than Ma Dongxi, she used to be a well-known Internet celebrity.
Yi Zhenghua, formerly known as Rui Chenghe, was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1988.
With a height of 170cm and a weight of 49kg, she has the perfect body to become a female supermodel.
In 2015, because of the circulation of her fitness videos, it became popular on the Internet, and everyone was fascinated by her "S-shaped" body curves for a while.
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She interacts with students in school and is also called "the most beautiful physical education teacher" by netizens.
Soon after graduating from college, with the face of an angel and the figure of a devil, Ye Zhenghua became a bodybuilding model.
The Pilates sport, which was loved by Korean ladies at that time, was also Ye Zhenghua's strength.
Not only is she perfectly shaped, but she is also a veritable all-round athlete, skiing, shooting, surfing, baseball, golf...... Proficient in almost everything.
This has made Yi Zhenghua popular with a large number of fans, and she has also been very active on social networks.
She often posts fitness videos on social networks, and has participated in sports and fitness variety shows many times, teaching the audience how to practice yoga by hand.
Coincidentally, Yi Zhenghua also signed a contract with South Korea's BigPunch Entertainment, so it seems reasonable for the two to spark love.
is different from Yi Zhenghua's "devil figure", Ma Dongxi's fierce facial features, rough lines, and strong arms are in stark contrast to it, and netizens have ridiculed the two as if they were "Beauty and the Beast" together.
From the end of an event in 2016 when the two met for the first time to the formal establishment of the relationship between the two parties, there were only three months in between.
However, the biggest controversy in this relationship is the age gap between the two parties, in South Korea, where cyberbullying is very serious, falling in love with an uncle who is 17 years older than himself will inevitably be criticized.
After 2017, Yi Zhenghua no longer participated in any variety shows, and even her personal social accounts stopped being updated, and slowly faded out of people's field of vision.
On the other hand, Ma Dongxi, who is at the peak of his career, not only will "Crime City 2" be a box office hit in 2022, but also break the record of the Korean box office in the past three years.
and joined the Marvel camp, and his value has risen steadily.
But the two did not have an estrangement because of the gap in age, identity, etc., and in the promotional interview of "Crime City 3", Ma Dongxi rarely mentioned his private affairs, saying that the two had a very happy married life.
Careful melon-eating netizens also found that Ma Dongxi's IG has always had only one follower in addition to the studio account, and that is his wife Yi Zhenghua.
Oh my God, "Spoiled Wife and Demon Literature" has come to life.
Last year, Ma Dongxi also followed the trend and posted a photo of "Beach Love".
In the picture, he shyly held his cheeks and showed a cute smile, and his girlish style made people laugh for a second.
This makes people sigh: The married Ma Dongxi is a man who is still in love at all!
Although the age difference is 17 years, the married life of the two is so sweet that even passers-by who don't know each other have to be sprinkled with a handful of dog food.
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I hope that the two will continue to shine in their respective fields~
I also wish the two of them more and more happiness!