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Update | When Barbie Hsu marrying her old flame soon after divorce lit up social media in China

The Taiwanese actress had not long divorced Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei when she and Korean singer and DJ Koo Jun-yup reconnected

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Koo Jun-yup and Barbie Hsu, who married in South Korea 24 years after they began a brief romance. Hsu’s family has announced her death from pneumonia at the age of 48. Photo: courtesy of Instagram
Yingjie Wangin Beijing

The news that Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, better known as Big S, had remarried has set Chinese social media ablaze in 2022.

The hashtag #BigS and Koo Jun-yup got married garnered over 1.4 billion views on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform.

Hsu’s second husband, Korean singer and DJ Koo Jun-yup, 53, a member of the electronic duo Clon, confirmed the marriage on Instagram, and the actress, 46, reposted the message.

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“I got bonded to the person I fell in love with over 20 years ago; we want to continue this precious love,” Koo wrote.

As soon as I heard her voice, I felt transported back in time 20 years
Koo Jun-yup

Hsu, who starred in Taiwanese drama Meteor Garden in 2001 and who has died suddenly after catching flu, quickly became a household name in mainland China after the series premiered.

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