GOOD LUCK CRANES

Origami cranes are considered to be lucky by the Japanese.

According to Japanese legend, if one makes a thousand paper cranes, then he or she will get her wish. How did this legend start? Well it seems that after the bombing of Hiroshima, a little girl named Sadako Sasaki developed leukemia and, while in the hospital, decided to make a thousand paper cranes. Sadako did finish the thousand paper cranes, and, after her death, her classmates started a campaign to memorialize her and all the other children victims of the nuclear bombs. This created the Children's Peace Monument in Japan, and started a worldwide movement of paper cranes for peace, a symbol of the need to end and disarm all nuclear weapons.

Nowadays, people in Asia believe that folding such paper cranes and giving them to someone they like is like bringing them good luck. By folding each crane, the hopes and wishes of the folder will sort of be imbued in the crane.

One of my favourite actors, Lee Jun Ki, whose new drama, "Hero" will start airing shortly received 30,000 cranes from his overseas fans in a show of support for him.

Jun Ki received a truckload of 15 boxes of the cranes on November 17 which were sent to him at Hero’s Seoul filming location. Lee Junki had been taking a brief break from filming at the time of arrival, and on hearing that they’d come from his overseas fans, he opened the boxes himself to confirm the sight.

It seemed that he was so surprised and thankful on seeing what his fans had sent him. He said, "I want to hang them all up at home. The fans act without being bound to nationality and it seems like they have the ability to always surprise me. This time, I received a gift I couldn’t have even imagined receiving. Thinking of how long it must have taken them to fold all of this makes me even more moved.”



SOURCE: http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Overseas-fans-surprise-Lee-Junki-with-good-luck-cranes-talk698939.html