How popular is Andy Lau in Korea? Previously, Korean KBS TV's entertainment variety show "Artist Intermediary" featured 65,438+000 favorite Korean stars in YEATION once a week, among which Andy Lau, a famous Hong Kong star, was the 48th. He once recalled: I can still remember the enthusiasm of Busan fans beyond imagination. I expect that when I come here again after 50, they will still like me. ?

1982, Andy Lau graduated from TVB art training class with straight a, and signed his debut. In the same year, he became popular with Falcon. 1983 starred in "The Condor Heroes", setting a 62-point viewing record in Hong Kong. Later, he was hidden by TVB because he refused to sign it for five years. 65438-0982, a newcomer to the film industry, starred in films such as Going to a Furious Sea, Love Beyond the Law, Love in Heaven, Dark War, Infernal Affairs and Blind Detective. By 20 14, he won the Best Actor Award in the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards, the Best Actor Award in the 2nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, and won the Hong Kong Cinema in 2005. 1985-Hong Kong actor with the highest cumulative box office in 2005? In 2006, he was awarded the honorary academician of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

At the MAMA Awards Ceremony held in Hong Kong since 20 12, we can see that every year, in order to promote the contact between Korean organizers and Hong Kong, the organizers specially invite Hong Kong artists who once made Koreans love and be familiar with them to perform on stage as guests to increase the popularity of MAMA. Over the past few years, Chow Yun Fat, Liming, Aaron Kwok, Andy Lau and other Hong Kong stars have stood on MAMA's podium one after another, attracting screams and cheers. Not only the audience, but even Han Xing, who is very popular under the stage, has suddenly become a small fan, enthusiastically enjoying the performances of Hong Kong stars who grew up with them.

In the era when the Korean Wave did not stand and the local entertainment circle did not rise, they became the hottest and most admirable stars in Korea that year.

It is no different from the era when Chow Yun Fat and Leslie Cheung caused a craze in South Korea. According to the comments of online articles, South Korean audiences first knew the origin of Hong Kong star Andy Lau, starting with the export of their own TV series to South Korea by Hong Kong TVB TV. Later, the film "Tears Like Rain" directed by Wong Kar-wai in 1988 became the opportunity for Koreans to know Andy Lau for the first time and perform on the screen. With a certain popularity, Andy Lau and Alan Tam, who are deeply supported by local Korean fans, and their films "Supreme" and "Supreme Scholar" have achieved good results in the Korean market. Andy Lau also began to take advantage of this popularity and went to South Korea several times to personally promote his works and get in close contact with fans.

When he first arrived in Korea, Andy Lau's first local publicity job was to follow Leslie Cheung, who was very popular with the audience in Korea. He once endorsed the chocolate brand advertisement in Korea and became the second Hong Kong star to take over the brand advertisement. After Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau also sang his English version of the theme song "For You". Like previous works, advertisements also attract people with love stories. However, this time, the heroine of the advertisement chose Li Yingai, who was a college student at that time and has now become a Korean pop star. It is known that in order to enliven the scene atmosphere, Andy Lau performed some magic tricks at the shooting scene, which brought him closer to the photographer.

Driven by the upsurge of movies and advertisements, Andy Lau first arrived in Seoul, South Korea on 199 1, held a concert at the Seoul Sports Ground of Silkworm House, and sang his advertising song "To You" for the audience. In addition, he became the next spokesperson of the chocolate brand after receiving Andy Lau, and Korean star Jin Minzhong also attended as a guest. Sing his version of "To You" (this song "To You" later became the symbol of Jin Minzhong, just like in the TV series "Please Answer 1994", when Dong-ill Sung met Jin Minzhong in the barbecue shop, he also wrote "To You" on the signature paper for the other party. At that time, Jin Minzhong was deeply influenced by Andy Lau in modeling and dressing (similar to the movie If there is love in heaven).