YG will change ‘female Big Bang’ English name from To Anyone to 2NE1 ♥ 7:13 PM
YG clears up about the matter of ‘female Big Bang‘ group 21 having the same name as another singer
YG said, “It is such a shame that we didn’t thought of a singer with the same name. Even though we do not have any plans to change their name, we will change the English name of ‘To Anyone (투애니원)’ to 2NE1. “
“Though they have the same name, the meaning to the names are different. Hence we hope that fans will not misunderstand. Please continue to support the group.”
Meanwhile, 4-member group 21 prepares to debut in May.
SS501 to advance into the American market? ♥ 9:31 PM
It seems that SS501 will move into the plans of advancing into the American market with great cautions.
SS501 members Kim Kyu Jong and Heo Yeong Saeng recently took part in a concert performance and for an interview in LA. There they met up with famous producers Andrew Lane and Steven Lee on 21st March and discussed about music and advancing into the American market.
A DSP representative said, “When we were working on the album ‘U R Man’, we have also received some songs from Andrew Lane. Through this, we get to meet these people in America.”
“We did have talks about advancement into the American market. We do have plans on an American market advancement but we have yet to have solid plans laid down.”
SS501 will be releasing a special album in May and in summer they will release a new album.
Super Junior wins Mutizen while So Nyeo Shi Dae says goodbye on Inkigayo ♥ 9:23 PM
On Inkigayo today (29 March), Super Junior take their second win with a mutizen award for their comeback hit song ‘Sorry Sorry’. While fellow SM artiste group So Nyeo Shi Dae says goodbye with their goodbye stage with ‘Gee’ and ‘Let’s Talk About Love’.
This marks the end of the ‘Gee’ craze and the members will focus on their individual activities from here.
Netizens, “Oh no. ‘Female Big Bang’ to be called ‘21′, but isn’t there already a singer named 21?” ♥ 9:19 PM
2 days back, it has been decided that ‘female Big Bang‘, a upcoming YG female group, to be called ‘21′.
But netizens are now becoming concerned as there is already a singer with the name ‘21′, who debuted in the year 2005.
There is a 23-year-old singer by the name of ‘21(To Anyone)’ who debuted with a ballad album on 22nd May with the single album ‘My Soul’s Weight’. The name came from the theory by the American medical studies that a human’s spirit weighed about 21 grams.
Netizens, “There is a singer with the same name. YG don’t know about it?”
YG’s new group ‘21‘ was named that way to represent the fresh music that group will produce, just like the age of 21. Also it has representation of the number 21 in the game of Black Jack.
With members consisting of Sandara Park, Park Bom, CL and Gong Min Ji, the group will debut beginning of May.
The official name YG upcoming group, also known as Female Big Bang to netizens, has been revealed.
YG Entertainment revealed on 27th March, “The 4-member group, known as female Big Bang, will be named 21 (투 애니 원).”
The meaning to the name is that the group will produce music that is fresh like the age of 21. And like the number ‘21′ in a game of blackjack, it meant to never lose.
‘21′will consist of members Sandara Park, Park Bom, CL and Gong Min Ji. And the team leader will be CL.
The group has already made topic amongst netizens when they did a CF for LG CYON with group Big Bang. Their CF was also revealed on 27th March. The group will debut beginning of May.
Furthermore, their debut album will have Big Bang GDragon as one of their producers, making their debut an even more anticipating one for music fans.
SUPER JUNIOR: Interview: "Super Junior - get together again after one and half year" ♥ 11:26 PM
You've got together again after a long time Shiwon : It's one and half year. Last year we were all busy with the sub-group SJT, SJM, SJH and individual activities. Last year, the sub-groups' achievement are very dazzling. SJM has received so many awards in China as well as SJT got the No.2 on Japanese Oricon daily chart.
- When did you prepare for the 3rd album ? There was a lot of anxiety because you have to show your own style Leeteuk : We made it within 1 year beside keeping coming in and out Korea. Super Junior's music hasnt have its own color so this time we worked very hard to create a style for it. Many famous composers and sunbaenim like Yoo Youngjin, Kenzie, Lee Jaemyong, Park ChanHyung, Hwanhee, Yoo Youngseok have made a higher level album.
- How was the reaction after the first performance on Music bank ? Kangin : It's very good. I heard that Se7en, Boa, DBSG's Xiah Junsu.......liked the song "Sorry sorry". This time our image and vocal are matching with the trend of minimal funky genre. Many celebrities have put our music as their minihompy's background music. And I aslo heard that the pre-order of our album is more than 150.000
- There are so many incidents during 13 members' together activities, can you telll us some funny behind story ? Sungmin : We had to use 2 elevators to come here for the intervews quickly. We also have 2 apartments. Therefore, the noisy members live on upper floor and the quiet members live on lower floor so we dont interupt our neighborhood. In the morning, there will be one member having shower, one member washing face and one member doing his own bussiness at the smae time in just one bathroom. Because we have many members so it's quite hard to know if someone missing. Once time we came up to a local event and when we started to leave, it' was Shindong behind the bus. And we fight a lot but we're still friend anyhow.
- So do you practice together a lot ? KyuHyun : We made a group called "SM United" with DBSG, The TRAX, Shinee and practice together. We aslo played football and basketball together. Shinee's Minho even came to our dorm on vacation to sleep.
- You guys have influence on teenagers. Charity events are very meaningful. Ryeowook : About 1 year before debut, I had volunteered to offer meals to the homeless persons and I had learned a lot from doing that. We're always willing to do the charity events if we have time. Also there are fans who do the charity events every months under our name.
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Fahrenheit's Wu Zun, Jiro (Da Dong), Arron and Calvin went wandering around Japan. Wu Zun was armed and sent to a rural village, Jiro who loves the comic "Dragon Ball Z" became silly and all the time wanted to be a part of a fantasy book "Monkey King". Arron roasted octopus and Calvin went to a green park.
Wu Zun Became a Ninja, Jiro Became a Monkey King
Before becoming the ambassadors for Taiwan, Fahrenheit were tour guides in Japan. Last year, Wu Zun, Arron, Jiro and Calvin were invited by Japanese TV show C Pop World to record a show called "Fahren City Go! Go!", introducing Japan's many attractions. The four guys worked, had fun and took pictures. After 1 year of organisation these photos have been produced into the new Fahrenheit in Japan Photobook.
Jiro went to Otaku and found a shopper's paradise, where he visitied cosplay stores and saw all kinds of colourful wigs on display. Jiro couldn't resist dressing up as his favourite characters from "Dragon Ball Z" and "Monkey King". He couldn't help but assume a "Turtle of Deep Breathing" posture.
Arron Smokes Face, Roasts Octopus
Wu ZUn who loves to eat just eats wherever. He went to Kouka to learn how to be a ninja. The step was to get in the car to eat lunch, can only work after his stomach is full. Arron went to Freedom Hill for work experience. He worked as a newspaper boy, in a flower shop and roasted octopus. He nearly cut his hand with scissors int he flower shop and nearly burnt himself whilst cooking. Fortunately, everything was completed successfully.
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We’ll never know how tired Boys Over Flowers filming can get until we see the looks on JiHoo (Kim Hyun Joong) and JanDi (Goo Hye Sun)’s faces here.
Netizens called that an ‘anti-shot (photo shot by an anti)’. It is quite uncommon to see candid shots like these. Because the candid off-shot photos had all showed the cast’s bubbly side.
Newbie actress Kim Min Ji will be the last to catch the KBS2TV Boys Before Flowers bus before its finale next Tuesday. Kim Min Ji will be playing the role of Jung Yoo Mi who uses the excuse of helping Goo Joon Pyo to regain his memory to get close to him as her motive. And thus she will become the final obstacle that Joon Pyo and Jandi will have to face in their relationship. The original character's name is Nakashima Umi from the manga.
According to a production staff for Boys Before Flowers, "In the audition for the role of Jung Yoo Mi, Kim Min Ji's performance stood out the most and we felt that she was the most appropriate person for it." Kim Min Ji completed her first filming scene yesterday and will make her appearance next Monday, episode 24 on 30th March.
Kim Min Ji last appeared in KBS2TV Empress Chun Chu playing the role of young Lady Kim (later Empress Moon Hwa) and was labeled by the media as a Shin Ae lookalike.
On this afternoon, Kim Hyun Joong (23) was being interviewed at an outdoor filming location for KBS2TV Boys Before Flowers. Seeing Hyun Joong, you can't help but feel that he looks a bit weak physically and mentally drained. When asked about what's the 3 most unbearable things he experienced while filming, Hyun Joong expressed without hesistation, "cold", "lack of sleep", "hunger", showing how much suffering he is going through.
Whilst filming in Macau, he lost about 8kg but has now regained 2kg back. Not long ago, he was even "scolded" as his legs turned to jelly while doing a dance.This prompted him to set a resolution to work himself even harder while exercising in future.
The continuous overnight filming sessions plus tight personal schedule has made Hyun Joong's lifestyle become rather irregular and making his fans really worried for his health. But with the drama coming to a conclusion next week, Hyun Joong only muttered "Not bad" to express his feelings. Having already adjusted to the tight and stressful schedule over the past few months, the drama conclusion is starting to make him feel kind of empty (lost)."
Kim HyunJoong, To Show Wholly-Edited Vid ♥ 6:25 AM
KBS 2TV ‘Boys Over Flowers’ Kim HyunJoong will reveal his solo song for the first time in the fan meeting on 31-Mar.
Kim HyunJoong will reveal his solo song included in the special album by SS501 to be released in June during the fan meeting held on 31-Mar at Seoul Olympic Park, Olympic Hall. On this day, the fan meeting will host about 4,000 fans free-of-charge, to watch the last espisode of ‘Boys Over Flowers’ together. Kim HyunJoong spent about 10million won out of his own pocket for this event.
On 23-Mar, we met Kim HyunJoong at Gyunggi-do InCheon Songdo filming set. “Filming this drama has made me receive a lot of love for my role. I want to return this favor to them.” He said expressing the purpose in preparing this event.
Kim HyunJoong added “My acting was not good enough during the initial episodes of ‘Boys Over Flowers’, so there are a lot of scenes that were being wholly edited out. If you put everything together, it is a little more than 1 episode’s air time. I want to show to fans these unseen videos and NG scenes which I’ve gotten from the production team. Even though Kim HyunJoong has hectic schedules with overnight filming, he will practice his solo song and dance in the waiting room, preparing for the event on 31-Mar.
Kim HyunJoong will have all members of SS501 to attend this event with him. Kim HyunJoong posted in their fanclub homepage on white day 14-Mar with photo of rings made from sweets and hinted on this fan meeting.
Wu Zun Practises the Drums: Bites Teeth and Trains Like a Man ♥ 6:17 AM
Eastern Net, March 24th. News: March 23rd 2009, Taipei. For Fahrenheit's Malaysia concert, Wu Zun practised the drums for three whole days and suffered from back strain and 11 wounds to his hands. However, he gritted his teeth and trained like a man.
During the Hong Kong concert, Wu Zun suffered from a fracture to his left foot as a result of an accident on the hanging wire. On the 28th for the Malaysia concert, he will show a very manly handling of the drums during his solo performance. He has only been practising for 3 days, yet he has already suffered 11 wounds to his hands.
Wu Zun grumbled: "There is non-stop irritation everyday and it's not convenient to do anything." He is still worried that his practice will not be enough to give him self confidence on the stage. Therefore, every evening he goes home and thinks about the music beats in his head. He then takes a pen and pretends to be playing the drums.
In addition to some bruising, Wu Zun laughed saying that the first day he watched the teacher demonstrate it was exceptionally vigorous and beautiful. He was thus very quick to copy him. However, he didn't expect a hard injury to his waist and because of the pain he couldn't sleep for two days and ended up having an X-ray at the emergency hospital. Together with his foot injury his whole body is now wounded. In order to protect his hands, the record company added NT$5,000,000 extra insurance cover.
Beating drums has produced a lot of interest for him and he wants to take a set back to Brunei with him. "In the future beat the drums and call children to get out of bed."
Kim Hyun Joong’s manager suspected of assault on high school girls ♥ 6:04 AM
News have it that Kim Hyun Joong’s manager was involved in an assault cast with a high school girl near the filming set of drama Boys Over Flowers.
It was said that Kim Hyun Joong’s manager had tried to stop a high school girl who spotted his car and came running after it on 23rd March in Seoul KangDongGoo.
The high school girl had provided for the police investigation, “I was on my way home and I saw what looked like a car of an entertainer and went forward to see. But the manager had caught me by my collar and started hitting on my head.”
While from Kim Hyun Joong side, it was said that, “The kids had approached the car and started swearing but we have no intention for assault. Everything went back to normal after we went to the police station for investigation.”
Boys Over Flowers main cast to head to the hospital after filming ends ♥ 4:40 AM
After the filming for KBS drama Boys Over Flowers ends, the main cast for the drama will all make a visit to the hospital.
The first one will be ‘Korea’s Sunbae’ Kim Hyun Joong. During the first half the drama’s filming, Kim Hyun Joong has met with an car accident, but because the filming schedule was tight back then, he had refused the complete treatment, so after the filming ends, he will have complete treatment for his injuries.
His representative said,”He will be hospitalised from beginning of April. He will undergo treatment and close examination for his accident back then, and also have enough rest from the busy filming. He may be hospitalised for as long as a month.”
“He complaint that discomfort at his waist area and he couldn’t walk properly after the accident. He will undergo complete treatment so that the injury will not hinder his promotional activities as a singer.”
While for Lee Min Ho, he will also be hospitalised mid-May to undergo a surgery to remove the metal support frame in his leg.
His representative said, “After his London photoshoot and Japanese activities end, he will be hospitalised to undergo the surgery. And then he will hold a birthday party cum fanmeeting in June.”
There are also plans for a full-body examination for Goo Hye Sun, who had her lips sewed after a car accident during filming.
Her representative said, “Her lips had swelled a lot. And with the accumulation of fatigue from her previous activities in the past years and also the car accident this time during filming, this will be a good chance for her to go for a full-body check up. We will want to check if there is anything not right about her healthy at all.”
SS501 Heo YoungSaeng, Kim HyungJoon & Kim KyuJong left for USA in order to prepare for their official album to be released in July.
SS501’s company DSP Media representative said “They left on 21-Mar for 4days-3nights trip to USA. After their performance to support the Korean athlete representatives at WBC semifinals, SS501 will meet with the American dance team and go for a (dance) potential test.”
SS501 will learn dancing with the America chorographer, and has plans to meet with producers and other related personnel for their official album. Although they are not advancing into USA, SS501 will still get appraised fairly by the famous American dance team and producers on their abilities.
Company’s representative said “We plan to finish 70% of the official album in USA. This USA trip will be a check on SS501’s current condition before making the album.”
He explained, denying their advance into USA “We are not at that stage yet. While their albums are released, the members would have more expectations about perfecting their music and we will then plan for that.”
SS501 had their individual activities in drama, musical and unit (music), gaining their position in these fields. They will release an official album with all 5 members in July.
Huh. Boys Before Flowers star Lee Min-ho is pairing with well-known songwriter Park Geun-tae to release a digital single. A “famous female rapper” is also reportedly featured on the track.
Guess he’s not about to let his co-star Gu Hye-sun have all the fun packing her resumé with other activities. Not only will a single be sold, an accompanying music video will be shot (it’s still being cast, but the director has been selected).
Although Lee will be singing the track, don’t consider it a foray into a kpop career; it’s more like a fancy CF. This comes as part of an ad campaign for Cass beer, for which Lee is brand model.
As we know, Korea’s got a pretty good track record in the branded entertainment field. The people behind this project express hope of creating another sensation like the uber-popular series of Anymotion/Anyclub cell phone adverts a few years ago that starred Lee Hyori and Eric. Those were more like mini-movies than commercials in scope, and also released digital singles.
Counter to Lee’s arrogant onscreen image from BBF — or even his shy offscreen one — the song is being described as “exuberant club dance music.” The gist of the song lyrics paints Lee as an innocent guy who gets seduced by a woman (they’re currently casting for his female partner). The director, Cha Eun-taek, was also the man behind Hyori’s “Anymotion” and “U Go Girl” videos.
Um. Lee Min-ho, love ya dude, and I think you’re a great budding actor, but I may just have to draw the line at exuberant club dance music. Don’t let them Jang Geun-seok you into a career of funny-but-meaningless glorified commercial
Arashi's latest single, "Believe/Kumori Nochi, Kaisei," dominated the charts this past week. With roughly 502,000 copies sold, it has become the best-selling single of 2009 so far. It is also the first to break half a million in its opening week since KAT-TUN's "Real Face" (754,000) in April 2006. Arashi achieved the same feat once before with their debut single "A-RA-SHI" (557,000) in 1999.
New singles flooded the top ten, occupying the next seven spots behind Arashi. The releases came from GLAY, AKB48, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, Yuna Ito, YUKI, Ken (of L'Arc~en~Ciel), and ROCK'A'TRENCH.
On the album rankings, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS edged out a win with their aptly named third album, "FUNKY MONKEY BABYS 3." The album sold 80,000 copies, only 2,000 more than Chatmonchy's "Kokuhaku." Also in the top ten were JUJU, supercell, Mika Nakashima, Dragon Ash, Kalafina, and AI.
Arashi's Sho Sakurai has been chosen to star in the NTV drama series "The Quiz Show." The show is a prime time version of last summer's late night drama "The Quiz Show," which starred Jin Katagiri and Shigeyuki Totsugi.
In the new version, Sakurai plays the host of a live TV quiz program. On the show, contestants who achieve 7 correct answers win 10 million yen, and those who get 8 correct answers will have one of their wishes granted by the TV network. But while the questions start off innocently enough, as the game progresses, the questions gradually delve into the contestants' past crimes or indiscretions, presenting them with the dilemma of having to confess their guilt in order to win.
Sakurai's character also has a mysterious past. Before becoming the show's host, an accident had left him in a vegetative state for six years, which also resulted in him losing most of his memories.
The supporting cast includes Kanjani8's Yu Yokoyama as the show's director, Aya Matsuura as a rookie assistant director, and Miki Maya as the producer. Broadcast begins on April 18 in NTV's Saturday 9pm time slot.
Helmet worn by Kim Hyun Joong in Boys Over Flowers costs 15 million KRW ♥ 8:37 AM
Helmet worn by Kim Hyun Joong in Boys Over Flowers costs 15 million KRW
You will never guess how much this helmet cost.
The price of the helmet that Yoon Ji Hoon, played by Kim Hyun Joong, wear while he rides on the motorbike in the drama Boys Over Flowers was revealed. The price of the helmet is 15 million KRW.
This was revealed by one of Kim Hyun Joong’s representative, “The helmet that he wore in the show costs 15 million KRW. It is really expensive.”
With regard to the recent heated discussion by netizens when they found it funny that Hyun Joong would talk on the phone with the phone outside the helmet, the representative responded, “Actually you can talk on the phone with the helmet on. This has been a great curiosity for those viewers who are not familiar motorbike equipment.”
Boys Over Flowers main cast to sing in a band? ♥ 8:19 AM
‘Boys Over Flowers’ main cast to sing in a band?
It has been revealed that there are plans for the main cast of KBS 2TV ongoing drama ‘Boys Over Flowers‘ to come together to sing. But the possibility of that coming true is still unknown.
A representative said, “Recently we came up with a plan to release a special edition of the OST with the cast will come to sing together. We are still working on the plan.”
It has also been revealed that the BOF cast will appear in a music drama for a particular mobile phone brand. 3 of the cast will be selected and the other 2 can take the time to rest.
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