KIM NAM GIL UPDATED : INTO THE WILD

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He has longer hair now, and look at that chubby cheeks^^…. suitable for a melow drama character, I guess.

This last one is from his University Cyber University of Foreign Study

Our dear friend BELVA @soompi forum traslated KNG’s pictorial INTO THE WILD, and proudly I’d share with you guys here. All are credited to her here : http://community.liv…_gil/20206.html

For now, here’s the foreword and content:

Kim Nam Gil, journey and record Into the Wild

For my beloved fans

I took a break for about two months after filming Queen Seon Deok. Usually I would just stay at home to sleep, not stepping out of my house at all. But I’m unable to do so this time round. I will have to temporarily leave all of you after filming my new drama. Even with my optimistic personality, I still feel vexed when I think of having to be away from you all for some time. During the past two months when I’m away from home and went to travel, I produced a thin book. My current appearance as well as the diary I’ve written for a long time will be included in it. Viewing it once in a while so as to not forget each other, my life’s record.

Sincerely yours,
actor Kim Nam Gil

contents

006 Prologue
016 Actor, Kim Nam Gil
018 Hello, sweety!
020 Goodbye Solo
022 The Morning I Wish Everything was Back to Normal
026 Habit
028 Type AB + Pisces
030 Quietly Listening Attentively
034 Just, a Record
038 If One can be Full Without Eating
040 Breathing of a Flower Pot
042 Mom
044 Bath House and Billiard Hall
046 World’s End Girlfriend
048 My First Train Travel
052 Style
054 Las Vegas
056 Cigarettes and Baseball
058 Back View
066 Valentine’s Day
068 Beeper
070 Not Gaining Weight
072 Newspaper Delivery
074 Passport Number
076 Between Afternoon 5 O’clock to 6 O’clock
080 Justice
082 The Karaoke Room that I go alone
084 Jae Young Hyung
086 How are People Beautiful like this
088 Into the Wild
094 Smallest Status
096 Rebuilding
098 Reason to Live
100 Once Upon a Time
102 Epilogue

Here’s the prologue from his book:

Prologue

#1
Going unnoticed, water vapor filled the window rear.
Since when did it start flowing down silently.
The window froze, the ground soaked, even the wind was moist.
The whole world was wet after the rain.

People asked what is my name.
Even though I have said it loudly many times
yet all the time, like it was the first, my name was asked.
Indistinct face, even the name is forgotten.

Facing the sky, calling out my own name countless times.
That rumbling sound dispersed, once again forming rain, dripping down.
That is already a story from long ago.

#2
There is a doll with two heads.
Though there is only one heart, the doll has two faces.
Only one body, but two faces
living is twice as strenuous.

But the doll is very happy.
Because it can use two different faces
living a life different from all others.

#3
The teenager placed a notebook by his pillow.
Because he came down with an illness
an illness that has to be remembered no matter what.

87 thousand 6 hundred hours of records
his sorrowful notebook.
Never once had he shown anybody records of his innermost thoughts.

Now he very carefully opens up the notebook.
People start reading his notebook.
It includes both the story of the rain and the doll, the old and worn notebook

Notice:
I think most of you remember that he once mentioned in an interview that people don’t remember him, that there’s once when 3 movies he was in was showing but most people don’t know it’s the same guy. Looks like he’s writing from experience.

Here are more translation from the book:

Actor,
Kim Nam Gil

I feel vexed.
I want to transform into a mountain,
or into a tree.
I, being a human
hope people will remember my words,
only when living as a lonely wanderer
will I be able to persist
the only life I lead.
That is to say, actor Kim Nam Gil
if I give up trying to surpass “me”,
once again returning to that place
and living like I used to
might be thought of as
an impossible task.

*This work is inspired by Susan Sontag’s
“I, etcetera”

____________________________________________________________________

While crossing the desert at Las Vegas
I saw this cute little guy.

“Where did you come from?”

“From the earth.”

“Why did you come here?”

“I’m taking a trip.”

“Why the trip?”

“To look at different places.”

“Important things cannot be seen with the eyes.
They can only be seen clearly with the heart.”

“Hello, sweety! In this way
I’ll then be able to see you.”

Hello,
sweety!

____________________________________________________________________

Whenever filming wraps
I feel exhausted and might fall sick too.

After concluding <Goodbye Solo>
departing from the character Ji An
my heart aches so bad.

I went to see a psychiatrist
did not feel like meeting anyone.

In that period of time
my height increased by a palm’s length
even the accumulated snow has melted.

Concealed poverty
betrayed friends
healing the wounds alone
Ji An who is always lonely.

After taking Soo Hee away from Min Ho
Ji An said
“If only there’s one person in this world
who understand me, that would be great.”

After saying that line
I cried for three days.

However Min Ho said
“If the time comes when you want to discard, you can
but stop at love, try it.”

If not for that sentence through Ji An
I might have given up on life.

Goodbye Solo

____________________________________________________________________

“only when living as a lonely wanderer
will I be able to persist
the only life I lead.
That is to say, actor Kim Nam Gil”