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‘Brown-eyed Brad Pitt’ attacks TV screen

November 24, 2005

As if one wasn’t enough, a second “Brad Pitt” with brown eyes and jet black hair has appeared without notice, luring viewers every Monday and Tuesday nights through the MBC primetime drama “Sweet Spy.”
Not only does this “new” heartthrob have everything of the original, he is younger, taller and broader.

For the 24-year-old Korean-American actor Dennis Joseph O’Neil, better known to viewers as Dennis O, his “predecessor” Daniel Henney’s overwhelming popularity was both a chance and a risk.

As a Korean actor carrying an exotic aura of the West, Henney, 26, had immediately grabbed the hearts of female viewers of the popular TV series “My Lovely Sam-soon,” which ended in July.

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Danniel Henney - From a TV doctor to a marketing idol

November 8, 2005

The “Henney effect” has become a buzzword in Korea’s advertising industry, as Daniel Henney, a Eurasian model-turned-actor, has helped to boost sales of whatever he advertises here, from cars to clothes.

Mr. Henney, who was born in the United States to a British father and Korean mother, was catapulted to stardom after he appeared in the local television show “My name is Kim Sam-soon.” In this hit show, which aired from May to July, Mr. Henney played a suave Korean-American doctor who came to Korea with the female patient he fell in love with.

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