<figure id="attachment_382006" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382006" style="width: 2918px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="f1437cb0"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/81db42fb7c55ca1c8155369c6bd13033.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382006" class="wp-caption-text">Choi Ji-woo at the premiere screening of &#8220;Star Lover&#8221; (April 3, &#8217;09)</figcaption></figure>
<p> The TBS Sunday theater &#8220;Blackpean Season 2&#8221; starring popular Korean actress Choi Ji-woo (49) has begun airing. Ji-woo plays Park So-hyun, a Korean doctor, hospital manager, and successful restaurateur who also runs a restaurant, and suddenly appeared in the first 30-second clip of the first episode.</p>
<p> This was his first appearance in a Japanese drama in 13 years, since &#8220;Winter Cherry Blossoms&#8221; in 2011. Ji-woo&#8217;s appearance was greeted on the Internet with comments such as, &#8220;What? She looks just like she did in Winter Sonata,&#8221; &#8220;She has an amazing presence,&#8221; and &#8220;She is still beautiful. She is still beautiful.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The &#8220;Winter Sonata,&#8221; which triggered the Korean boom, was broadcast on NHK from 2003 to 2004. Bae Yong-jun was called &#8220;Yong-sama&#8221; and Ji-woo &#8220;Princess Ji-woo&#8221; or &#8220;Queen of Tears. From that year, tours to see the location shooting of Winter Sonata were organized, and the number of Japanese tourists traveling to Korea increased rapidly.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In January 2006, she starred in her first Japanese drama with Yutaka Takenouchi in TBS Sunday Theater&#8217;s &#8220;Rinkyoku,&#8221; which was a big hit with an average viewer rating of 15.9%. Ryoma Takeuchi, who co-stars with Ji-woo for the first time in this drama, said of Ji-woo, &#8220;When he enters the scene, the color of the scene changes a little. I really felt Choi Ji-woo&#8217;s atmosphere and color come into the scene.</span></p>
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<p> FRIDAY&#8221; paid attention to Ji-woo in &#8220;Winter Sonata. FRIDAY&#8221; has reported on Ji-woo in various ways, including in a sexy dress at the &#8220;Tokyo International Film Festival,&#8221; at the launch of &#8220;Ring Dance,&#8221; and in a panic at the airport when he arrived in Japan at the same time as Yong-sama. Among them, the most impressive was Ji-woo&#8217;s &#8220;sexy&#8221; appearance in Japan right after she was reported to have a love affair with a Korean actor. Let us look back at the article we reported in the April 3, 2009 issue.</p>
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<h3>Ji-woo captivated in a see-through black dress, showing her mature sex appeal</h3>
<p> On March 12, 2009, four years after the Winter Sonata boom, Choi Ji-woo appeared at the premiere screening of the Korean drama &#8220;Star&#8217;s Lover&#8221; held at Ebisu, Tokyo. Dressed in a see-through black mini-skirt dress, her outstanding style and aura of adult sex appealed to the audience.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> About a month ago, Ji-woo&#8217;s relationship with Lee Jin-wook, a handsome actor six years younger than her co-star in the drama &#8220;Air City,&#8221; was reported in Japan and abroad, and the first reports of their love affair were a big topic of conversation in Japan. At the press conference on this day, questions about the relationship were also raised, but Ji-woo answered with a cute smile and a honeyed smile, &#8220;If I have anything to celebrate in the future, I will be the first to tell you all. This gap is what keeps fans glued to the screen&#8221; (editor of a movie magazine).</span></p>
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<p> At the stage greeting for &#8220;Blackpean Season 2&#8221; held in Tokyo on July 2,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I am still very excited to be a part of such a wonderful drama.</span></p>
<p> Ji-woo said humbly. For a while to come, Ji-woo&#8217;s performance is sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_382012" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382012" style="width: 1859px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="8421553d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/ce8da387aaf4f5b6c425b5f76b859b2a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382012" class="wp-caption-text">Choi Ji-woo as a guest performer in &#8220;Winter Sonata Classic Concert&#8221; (October 8, 2004 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_382018" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382018" style="width: 1725px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d62b4513"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/16585b785dae9c315cd73f5873448bc2.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382018" class="wp-caption-text"> Choi Ji-woo at the Tokyo International Film Festival (November 19, 2004 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_382023" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382023" style="width: 2731px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="10210afa"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/3278b8a0f52de0ff1c0d6cc1581ee50d.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382023" class="wp-caption-text"> Choi Ji-woo arrives at the press conference for TBS Sunday Theater&#8217;s &#8220;Rinkyaku&#8221; (Dec. 9, &#8217;05 issue)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_382025" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382025" style="width: 2000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="4820c691"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/55b09c233d0378868f720a9e0d60192b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382025" class="wp-caption-text"> Choi Ji-woo at the event to celebrate the release of his photo book and DVD ((August 19 &amp; 26, 2005)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_382031" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382031" style="width: 3060px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="843c08e6"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/33ead3e864c0bc0a7352eeb54c8645ad.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382031" class="wp-caption-text">Rare shot of Choi Ji-woo coming out of the launch site of TBS Sunday Theater&#8217;s &#8220;Ring Dance&#8221; at 5 a.m. (April 14, &#8217;06 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_382032" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382032" style="width: 2101px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="e2988f07"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/06c6ebb68de97762bbdd10bdc95d75cb.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382032" class="wp-caption-text"> Choi Ji-woo at the premiere screening of &#8220;Star Lover&#8221; (April 3, &#8217;09 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_382035" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382035" style="width: 800px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="035b30de"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/7e43a9cd5c9f0246324296d40c31110f.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382035" class="wp-caption-text"> The first simultaneous visit to Japan by Princess Ji-woo and Mr. Yeon, causing a panic at the airport (October 16, &#8217;09 issue)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_382037" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382037" style="width: 1190px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ad79cc6c"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/39ebcf7b8462fe69dc7357f5e786d921.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382037" class="wp-caption-text"> A close-up of Choi Ji-woo (from her Instagram @choijivvoo)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_382038" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-382038" style="width: 1186px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b00b1598"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/07/9cf4eff3cce7ddbb8c9a9d461a28e765.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-382038" class="wp-caption-text"> A close-up of Choi Ji-woo (from his Instagram @choijivvoo)</figcaption></figure>


 Takeshi Kinugawa (1st, 2nd, 8th), Kazuhiko Nakamura (3rd, 4th), Ai Takagi, Naomi Horikawa,

 Choi Ji-woo's first appearance in a Japanese drama in 13 years in TBS Sunday Theater's "Black Paean 2" has become a topic of conversation. We take a look back at her appearance in "Winter Sonata," which triggered a Korean drama boom, with a collection of images taken by this magazine.

The &#8220;sex appeal&#8221; of Choi Ji-woo&#8217;s visit to Japan immediately after her love affair in 2009&#8230; Choi Ji-woo&#8217;s first appearance in a Japanese TV drama in 13 years, &#8220;Princess Ji Woo&#8221; image collection.

The “sex appeal” of Choi Ji-woo’s visit to Japan immediately after her love affair in 2009… Choi Ji-woo’s first appearance in a Japanese TV drama in 13 years, “Princess Ji Woo” image collection.

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