Power couple Suzy and Lee Min Ho are two of the top celebrities of South Korea this year. If the latter decides to level up and conquer Hollywood, the proper time is now.
Suzy and Lee were among the winners of the 12th Annual Soompi Awards, which were announced on March 2, Thursday, by Soompi. With Fuse and ZANYBROS as partners, the United States-based online news provider specializing in Korean pop culture received almost 100 million votes from hallyu fans from 139 countries across the globe from Dec. 19, 2016 to Jan. 16.
In the music category, Zico and Red Velvet won the Best Hip-Hop/R&B Artist and Breakout Artist awards, respectively, while "Hard Carry" by GOT7 was FUSE Music Video of the Year, Best Choreography and "VERY NICE" by SEVENTEEN won the Best Stage Outfit award. As for Min Ho, he appears to be focusing on his acting career nowadays and has no time to revive his singing career unlike Suzy, who is a member of the K-Pop girl group miss A.
In 2015, it was rumored that Lee would star in a Hollywood film titled "Raid" with Pitt and Chinese actors Fan Bingbing and Zhang Hanwei. Lee's agency confirmed that they did receive a proposal but they turned it down, Drama Fever quoted the agency as saying to the media at the time.
If Lee finally decides to star in a Hollywood film, it will be interesting to co-star with his fellow South Korean actors who have starred in several Hollywood projects. Among them are "Mayhem" star Steven Yeun, "The Hangover" star Ken Jeong, "Fast and Furious" star Sung Kang, "The Magnificent Seven" star Byung Hun Lee, "Untamed" star Yohan Lee and "Maze Runner" star Ki Hong Lee.
Yeun is known for playing Glenn Rhee in "The Walking Dead" from 2010 to 2016 while Jeong has been playing the title role of "Dr. Ken" since 2015 and Kang currently plays John Mak in "Power." Byung Hun played Kim Hyun Jun in "Iris" in 2009, Yohan played Joshua in "Raymond and Lane" in 2015 and Ki Hong played Dong Nguyen in "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" from 2015 to 2016.
Watch Yeun jokingly replace Conan O'Brien on the TBS talk show of the latter here: