Saturday, October 16, 2010

Kim Hee Chul: South Korea’s Justin Bieber?

Kim Hee Chul is being called the Justin Bieber of South Korea. He has been a trending topic on Twitter for two days straight, and October 10 was even declared Kim Heechul’s Day.

Kim Hee Chul is a lot like Justin Beiber. He has similar hair, is a musical heartthrob, and his fans have certainly boosted him up on Twitter.

Bieber (@justinbieber) has a ton more Twitter followers — with 5.6 million while Heechul has 245,000, but his fans are just as dedicated.

Mashable’s Associate Features Editor Matt Silverman even tweeted, “It’s official: Kim Hee Chul is the Korean Justin Bieber.”

Heechul has been trending on Twitter for 2 days, 19 hours and 45 minutes as of the time I wrote this post! Quite impressive!

Here is a bit of a biography on him. Kim Hee-chul was born on July 10, 1983. He is also called Heechul,. He is a member of the boy band Super Junior. He is a Singer, dancer, actor, television host, radio host, MC, model and spends so much time on the internet that he is called a netizen by his fans. His recent popularity on twitter shows quite a following, and his recently created Facebook page received over 5,000 fans in five minutes!

If you remember, last year Twitter had to adjust their algorithm because Justin Bieber was a constant trending topic. Now it only picks up spikes in topics. Craziness.

What do you think? Is this a silly trend or is Kim Hee Chul really the Justin Bieber of South Korea?

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