Noh Hong-cheol

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Roh(or Noh).

Noh Hong-cheol (Korean: 노홍철, Hanja: 盧弘喆; born 31 March 1979) is a South Korean Comedian and entertainer.

[edit] History

Noh Hong-cheol studied mechanics from the Hongik University (currently in senior year). After finishing Korean military service for 2 years, he created his online fashion mall Nohongchul.com, and Dream and Adventurous Hongchul-Land Corporation to sell a wide range of party supplies. Also, he had his business (called Hongchul Tour) well with reasonable-cost trip service to China^[1].

His television debut was on M-net in early 2004, with hosting his own popular cable TV show called "Dr. No's pleasure street" (닥터 노의 KIN길거리)^[2] After its huge success, he officially entered into the free-to-air network program Come to play (놀러와) of MBC, as a joint-panel. Since April 2005, he has been participating as a founding member of Korea's top comedy program, Muhan Dojeon.

Furthermore, since December 2005, he is a founding member of DY Entertainment.^[3] He also has sponsored the brand-new car Matiz of GM Daewoo; which included some caricatures and photos of himself which were inserted in his red car's bonnet and doors^[4].

Recently, On August 17, 2007, he has been co-hosted a regional live TV broadcast, Today Jeonbuk(투데이 전북) of KBS Jeonju, accidentally, as a part of schedule of filming the adventurous journey of 2 days, 1 night. During the broadcast, he presented calmly and normally-just as a professional journalist, so that everyone was shocked for a while and went a huge sensation on the Korean public, especially the group of beloved viewers of Muhan Dojeon who knows what his original character('Dol+I') it was. He said, "It was a nervous moment that my very-first challenge to appear a whole live broadcast, and now I'm worried about my mistakes a lot."^[5]

[edit] Characters on Muhan Dojeon

Statue honouring 'Carlos "el pibe" Valderrama' in Santa Marta, Colombia. This scene is fairly similar with Roh Hong-cheol's trademark; "Lewd Dance"(저질댄스).

On Muhan Dojeon he shows a truly fast speed of speech. For this reason, his nickname on the programme was "Quickmouth". However, during the episode of Season 3 Episode 22(Muhan News Hangawi Special), Host-in-chief Yu Jae-seok suggested to change his nickname as "Stone-Kid" (Korean: Dol+I '돌+아이', It has similar meaning of Blockhead) star, due to the rising popularity(especially from the teenage girls that he strongly proclaimes) as an 'Idol' star, which based on his ridiculous performances on this programme. During 2008 episodes of Muhan Dojeon(Infinite Challenge), he gained a new nick-name; 뉴뚱. Which means he's the "New Pig". He is often considered part of the 뚱보's. Which consists of Jeong Joon-Ha(뚱뚱보) and Jung Hyung-Don(뚱보). He has a pot-belly which prompts the rest of the members to call him this nick name. His body fat was shown excessively on the 2nd part of the 100th episode of Muhan Dojeon(Episode 101).

Recently (Season 3 Episode 62), he made a song called "So-nyeo" (Hangul: 소녀, meaning "Girl"), to tribute his fans (as proposed).

[edit] Television/Radio appearances

• MBC's Muhan Dojeon (Infinite Challenge, 무한도전) (Since 2005)
• MBC's Come to play'(놀러와) Joint Panel
• MBC's 7 Octaves(7옥타브) Joint Panel
• MBC's The lord of Study(공부의 신, special coverage for 2007 Hangawi holidays) Co-Host
• KBS2's Happy Sunday-2 days, 1 night with Kang Ho Dong (해피 선데이-강호동의 1박2일) Joint Panel
• KBS2's Emergency Escape Number One! (위기탈출 넘버원!) Co-Host
• SBS Power FM's Roh Hong Cheol's Happy Our Young Day Host (노홍철의 기쁜 우리 젊은날, from May 1 to November 6 of 2006)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Homepage (Korean)
• Commercial Homepage(Korean)(Shopping Mall which he created)
• 'Muhan Dojeon' official Homepage (Korean)
• Noh Hong Cheol's Corporate Homepage (Korean) (from DY Entertainment)