Does Xi Jinping look like South Korean TV star? Chinese first lady makes allusion on Seoul visit
China’s first lady has compared the looks of her husband – President Xi Jinping in his younger years to that of popular South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun.
China’s first lady has compared the looks of her husband – President Xi Jinping in his younger years to that of popular South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun.
First lady Peng Liyuan, who accompanied her husband on his first visit to South Korea as China’s leader, made the comment on Thursday afternoon during a discussion about the popular TV drama My Love from the Star.
She was touring the Changdeokgung Palace Complex, the second royal villa built in 1405. Peng said that when she and her daughter were looking at photos of a much younger Xi, they agreed he resembled the show’s leading man, Do Minjoon, played by Kim.
The conversation started when Peng received two bottle openers – printed with the Korean characters for “star” and “flower” – as gifts from Cho Yoon-sun, secretary of political affairs for President Park Geun-hye, according to the Korean Yonhap News Agency.
In the show, Kim, now in his mid-20s, plays a 400-year-old alien called Do Minjoon who finds his true love on earth. My Love from the Star started airing in South Korea last year and reached transnational fame.