When it comes to the online novels that are popular among the post-80s, it is indispensable not to mention the Korean female writer Cute Tao, her "That Boy Is Really Handsome" and "The Temptation of the Wolf" were also made into movies that year, and Jiang Dongyuan, who was still a newcomer at the time, was popular.
Jiang Dongyuan's classic scene in "The Temptation of the Wolf":
The day before yesterday, the female writer born in 1985 got married, and Cute Tao's friend sent a wedding photo of Cute Tao on Instagram:
For the majority of post-80s and post-90s, this news has successfully evoked the memories of many people's youth:
Cute Tao, whose original name was Lee Yoon-se, graduated from Sungkyunkwan University, and "That Boy Is Really Handsome" that she wrote when she was 17 years old made her famous overnight.
In August 2001, "That Kid Is Really Handsome" was serialized on the humor bbs of the South Korean daum website for two consecutive months, with an average of 80,000 hits per article, and the sales volume of physical books exceeded 2 million, becoming the best-selling book in large bookstores. There are more than 180 fan clubs of fiction in Daum, the author's personal website has more than 3 million members, and the large-scale capture of female readers in the 20-30 age group, more and more people are suffering from the so-called "that kid syndrome".
After the novel was published in China, the sales volume of "That Boy Is Really Handsome" ranked in the top five in the same year, competing with "Little Times" and "Wolf Totem".
Cute Tao
While sweeping the book market, cute novels have also been put on the movie screen in batches.
In June 2004, the film of the same name adapted from "That Boy Is Really Handsome" was released in South Korea, starring Song Chengxian and Zheng Duobin. This film was the most eagerly anticipated and pre-sold youth film in the history of Korean cinema.
After the release of the movie, the box office soared, higher than the box office of "Harry Potter 3" and "Shrek 2" released at the same time.
The film occupied the Southeast Asian film market in the summer of that year, and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and other places all snapped up the film rights at the fastest speed, which greatly surpassed the momentum of "My Savage Girlfriend" compared with it.
The success of this film at that time also made fans look forward to the sequel, and it is sad that the heroine of the film, Zheng Duobin, committed suicide in February 2007, and the movie "That Boy Is Really Handsome" has not made a sequel.
Another of Cute Tao's novels, The Temptation of the Wolf, was also adapted into a movie and released in South Korea in July 2004.
The momentum before the release of this movie was not as big as that of "That Boy Is Really Handsome", because the three leading actors Jiang Dongyuan, Zhao Hanshan, and Li Qing'e were all making movies for the first time, and there was no popular star starring Song Chengxian, but after the release, it unexpectedly responded well.
Kang Dong-won, who was still a newcomer at the time, became a hit with his performance in this movie and won the first film award of his acting career: the Popular Star Award at the 25th Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards... He has also won several newcomer awards in other films.
The picture of Jiang Dongyuan using an umbrella to seduce his sister in the film has also become a classic scene of the korean film and television drama that later "pays tribute", and he enjoys it.
In "Descendants of the Sun", Song Joong-ki once "paid tribute" to this scene:
In "Please Answer 1988", there is also such a "tribute" scene:
And lee chyeong-eun, the heroine of the movie "The Temptation of the Wolf", also won the Best Female Newcomer Award at the 42nd Korean Film Grand Bell Awards:
Born in 1985, cute Tao also came to China to sign and sell, known as a "beautiful writer", she once frankly admitted to her plastic surgery: "My face has been shaped, my nose has also been injected, which is normal in South Korea, and my mother is also very supportive of me to go to plastic surgery." 」 I don't think it's bad to increase my confidence. ”
After Cute Tao went to college, she studied film and television screenwriting, and when she was interviewed by the media in China that year, she revealed that she admired Han Han and talked to Han Han on the phone.
"I spoke to him on the phone many times in private, and his personality and cognition were amazing. We had an appointment to meet in Shanghai, but we missed it. However, when I talk on the phone, I will be shy to the point of blushing, but there is an interpreter at the time, and I can only say something very formal. I feel the best about Chinese men is Han Han, and if you want to marry him, you have to marry a Chinese man like him. After saying that, Cute Tao added: "I really can't wait to see him." ”
Cute Tao also said that he is very fond of Chinese boys. "I find that Chinese boys are very caring, caring for girls, very considerate, and very respectful of their girlfriends. My mother very much hoped that I would be able to marry into China, because that would be a blessing. ”
Han
And now, although the 33-year-old Cute Tao did not succeed in marrying a Chinese man, in 2016 her novel copyright "married" to China.
It seems that the fans of the cute tao book at that time are likely to see the Chinese version of "That Boy Is Really Handsome" on the screen.