Stars of SKorean hit TV show marry in real life
SEOUL: Two South Korean stars who played lovers in a TV drama that took Asia by storm last year tied the knot in real life on Tuesday in a highly anticipated wedding.
Actress Song Hye-Kyo, 35, and actor Song JoongKi, 32, who played the two leads in the military romance “Descendants of the Sun,” married in a star-studded ceremony in Seoul.
The drama tells the story of an army captain sent country, Uruk, where he meets and falls in love
with a surgeon working with a medical NGO.
It enjoyed huge popularity at home and across Asia, garnering billions of views on Chinese video-streaming sites and winning a thumbs-up from Thailand’s junta chief, who praised the main characters’ sense of duty.
The 16-episode series was hailed as reviving the so-called “Hallyu,” or Korean Wave, of K- pop and K-dramas that spread across Asia and beyond since the early 2000s.
The show also spawned a miniindustry, with Chinese fans snapping up cosmetics, clothes and fashion accessories favored by the series’ stars and sold on online shopping sites.
Tuesday’s closed- door event featured a Who’s Who of the South Korean television industry as well as Zhang Ziyi, the award-winning Chinese actress who starred in Hidden Dragon.”