The below entry was posted on the official webpage of Protect the Boss by a purported stylist of Jaejoong. In Korea, both Boss and Jaejoong are being met with very favorable reviews. However, no drama is perfect. Jaejoong’s skin tone, artificially toned town, and his clothes and hair color, also uniformly black, have generated some comment (see here). In particular, Jaejoong’s facial skin is noticeably of a different color than the rest of his body, such as his neck and his hands, and this has also prompted some viewers to wish for correction.
To this, a stylist replied on the official homepage. To summarize, she wrote that Jaejoong is too beautiful and therefore, in her opinion, his looks must be suppressed.
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I believe that to the fans who have much interest and expectations with regards to the drama and also who are fond of and likes Mr. Kim Jaejoong, when thinking of the time when he was a singer when he was always light, shining, and splendid, the current form of Muwon may seem drab, novel, and have many complaints. It may be just a difference in belief, but if you had thought of Muwon to be a splendid person in the role of the Prince of the Financial World, (your belief was wrong). For instance, the form of Lee Minho and Kim Hyunjoong in Flower Men are supposed to be not of reality but of the fantasy of a manga. Muwon of Protect the Boss is a regular man, who is just simple, sharp, realistic, clean-cut.
Mr. Jaejoong’s (real) appearance is not normal and he is too splendid-looking and sticks out too much in his handsomeness—the more a person is like this, the more we must suppress everything else about this person, and that is how he shines more as an actor.
It is definitely not that we are trying to kill his beauty purposefully.
But it is true that we make him look less splendid in order so that by not making him sticking out or adorning him too much, he will meld into the drama with the many sunbae actors and be seen as an actor who is not awkward.
We also need reality… (because Mr. Jaejoong looks a bit different from regular male actors in that he is as pale and lovely as a prince in a fairy tale and has clean lines and sticks out in appearance…) Read More →