Overseas work has its benefits

We?re up to our armpits in South Korean pop stars, so it?s only fair that we export some homeboys there. And Thanayong ?Kradum? Wongtrakul ? not a huge name here but well known from TV period dramas ? has scored big with a key role in the Korean blockbuster film ?The Man from Nowhere?.

Kradum got the part through the director, his friend Lee Jeong-beom.

The movie stars heartthrob Won Bin, and Kradum?s turn as a villain earned him a nomination as best supporting actor at the Korean Film Awards last weekend.

Even though he didn?t win, insiders say it was quite an honour for a foreigner to be nominated, and meanwhile he?s picked up loads of Korean fans and the picture has made the film-festival rounds, including London.

None of this is going to hurt his career.

Anyway, it?s just a matter of time before Kradum brings home a Korean award: His biography on many websites lists him as a Korean actor!

Passports ready?

Thailand has actors to spare ? and anti-ageing remedies too. We?re a global hub for health care, or at least we will be one day, so the government keeps telling us.

Somsak Chalachol, hairdresser to the stars, begs to differ. He?s just come back from Germany, where he received about a dozen injections of ?fresh cells?. And you know what? He looks great!

A gossipy columnist in Thai Rath kids Somsak that he?s trying to ?invert? his age ? the 52-year-old wants to look 25.

If Somsak?s cell therapy takes hold and he doesn?t turn into the picture of Dorian Gray, count on all flights to Germany being fully booked with folks whose hearts are young but whose skin insists on wrinkling ?prematurely?.

Here?s the rundown on the funds down: The treatment costs Bt500,000. Add a round-trip ticket and other expenses and you?re nearing Bt1 million.

You?ll just have to find a way to work that into your sufficiency economy.