{"id":7718,"date":"2015-10-06T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=7718"},"modified":"2022-10-22T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T20:48:14","slug":"when-worlds-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/outsidechocolate\/chocolateroundtheworld\/koreanchocolate\/when-worlds-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"When worlds collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7727\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7727\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/LeeMinHowithchocolates.png\" alt=\"Lee Min Ho with chocolates\" width=\"320\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/LeeMinHowithchocolates.png 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/LeeMinHowithchocolates-279x400.png 279w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/LeeMinHowithchocolates-200x287.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Min Ho makes a good case for chocolates being the international language of love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today my life-long obsession with chocolate and my recent obsession with K-dramas collided when I read that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kdramastars.com\/articles\/99533\/20151002\/lee-min-ho-is-the-spokesmodel-for-global-chocolatier-ferrero-rocher.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ferrero Rocher has hired Hallyu star Lee Min Ho<\/a> as their spokesmodel.<\/p>\n<p>According to Adrienne Stanley, contributing editor at KDramaStars, Lee Min Ho will star in Ferrero Rocher\u2019s Christmas and Valentine\u2019s Day commercials. The first ad in the \u201cItalian Flair\u201d campaign shows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kdramastars.com\/articles\/99774\/20151005\/lee-min-ho-takes-on-italy-in-latest-photos-from-ferrero-rocher.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular actor preparing for a date in Rome<\/a> that includes a box of chocolates.<\/p>\n<p>Most chocolate lovers are probably already familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferrerorocher.com\/us\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ferrero-Rocher<\/a>\u2019s ubiquitous holiday commercials, if not with the chocolates themselves. And if you know who Lee Min Ho is, you probably can\u2019t wait for the ads to air on a TV station near you. It\u2019s not clear from the news reports however, if the ads are strictly for the Asian market or will air worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t know who this Korean Wave actor is, I\u2019d like to suggest a couple of his TV dramas as introduction: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faith_(South_Korean_TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faith<\/a>, 2012, an action\/supernatural thriller in which he plays a time-traveling warrior from 1300s Korea; and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/City_Hunter_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City Hunter<\/a>, 2011, a revenge drama in which he plays an assassin-by-upbringing with an over-the-top wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget the bonbons!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: Starhaus Entertainment<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrero-Rocher is speaking to me in at least 2 languages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,49],"tags":[819,820],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-koreanchocolate","category-chocolate-news","tag-ferrero-rocher","tag-lee-min-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35803,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions\/35803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}