Style cast member Lee Yong Woo and Boys Over Flowers‘ actress Gook Ji Yun are the “video couple” in Baek Ji Young and hip-hop group Mighty Mouth’s latest MV Will Love Come.
Nice to see Yong-woo’s background in dance (He won the Dong-A Dance Competition in 2002) is being put to good use.
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Epik High’s released a MV teaser for their new single Run from their latest album Epilogue. The album releases on March 9th.
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SS501 is expected to release a Korean album by May 1st. I’ll keep you posted when new details become available.
Lee Hyori announced to fans that she has finally completed recording her new album after eight long months of hard work. The title track has yet to be chosen. Expect the album to release later this year. I’ll definitely keep you posted folks.
Btw…
Mnet Media has invited 17 top artists from Korea to participate in a concert in Thailand next month. Confirmed acts includes 2AM , 2PM , 8eight, Brown Eyed Girls, CNBLUE , MBLAQ, KARA, Kim Tae Woo, SG Wannabe, T-ARA and many more.
Folks, you can NOT buy tickets. You will have to win a ticket from any of the following sponsors: www.clubadamas.com. , Wacoal, His & Her, Blisstel, IEC 3G, Siam Center, Siam Paragon, MCOT, MTV Thailand, Seed 97.5 FM, BangkokToday and Absolute Impact.
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I thought for sure Lee Byung Hyun or Rain would land the number one spot. Folks, the list below.
1. Kim Yuna
2. SNSD
3. Park Jisung
4. Lee Byung Hyun
5. Big Bang
6. Go Hyun Jung
7. Lee Seung Gi
8. Lee Hyori
9. Yoo Jae Suk
10. Kang Ho Dong
11. 2pm
12 Shin Ji Ae
13. Ha Ji won
14. Lee Seung up
15. Kim myung min
16. Rain
17. Ha Jung Woo
18. Lee Min ho
19. Hwang Jung Eom
20. Kim Hyun joong
21. Bae yong joon
22. Lee Yo won
23. Kim Tae hee
24. Kim Bum
25. Park Yejin
26. Choo Shin Soo
27. Park Misun
28. Shin Minah
29. Jung Suh hee
30. Park Bo young
31. Yang Yong eun
32. Lee Soon Jae
33. Seol Kyung Goo
34. Jang Dong gun
35. So Ji sup
36. Lee Kyung Kyu
37. Cha Tae Hyun
38. Park Joon Hoon
39. Lee Soo Geun
40. Yoon Sang Hyun
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For all you BoA fans listen up! The singer will release a full-length album in Korea on 25th August. SM Entertainment released the following statement:
“2010 is the 10th debut anniversary for BoA. She will release a new album and meet with fans after 5 years since her Girls On Top album. The comeback date will be symbolic 25th August.”
BoA released her seventh Japanese album Identity on February 10th.
F.cuz revealed they are prepping for their new album set to release next month. A rep announced,
“Recently the members are working on theirnew album and has been busy going various schedules. Their new song will be a trendy electronic song. As compared to the bright and cute image for ‘Jiggy’, their new song will have a sophisticated and strong feel. The boys will be back as ‘kanji’ guys.”
I like the MASCULINE look. Enough of this eyeliner stuff.
Rain’s peeps announced last week the singer will release a special album consisting of four to five tracks in April. A full-length album is coming this October. A rep from J. Tunes said,
“Recording has already been completed for some songs and we are still in the process of collecting songs. The title song will only be decided after we have finished recording all the songs.”
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Se7en is returning to the kpop scene with a new album this spring. No actual release date has been set. A rep for SM Entertainment said,
“The actual date of comeback will be decided upon after we consider the format of the album and its musical quality. We are expecting a comeback around May or June. So far, only 50% of the album has been recorded; however, it won’t take much longer.”
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2NE1’s latest endorsement for Bean Pole Jeans. Individual pics of the ladies below.
Behind-the-scene photo shoot vid.
2NE1’s latest Samsung CF.
Make that paper ladies.
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On February 27th 2PM, JYP Entertainment reps and representatives of Korean and international 2PM fan clubs met in Seoul to discuss the sudden dismissal of Park Jaebum and the future of the kpop group. Folks, I’m not gonna waste your time with the minute-by-minute details. In a nutshell, the remaining 2PM members agreed with JYP to say adieu to Jay on January 6th.
My take: Folks, do you honestly (I mean deep, deep down in your heart) believe the remaining six guys in the kpop group are going against their bread and butter?!? Junsu, Junho, Nichkhun, Taecyeon, Wooyoung and Chansung are under contract. They do and say what they are told by upper management. If JYP tells them to jump the group’s only response is, ‘How high?’. I cannot think of a single legitimate reason why Jaeboem was fired. Unless he murdered, raped or turned out to be some freakin’ terrorist Jay should be reinstated. Period. End of discussion.
Btw, at the meeting JYPE made clear Jay will not be required to pay damages to the company despite the termination of his contract. *rolls eyes* Oh goody Mr. Park Jin Young. You just wait and see how this absurd dismissal affects your 2010 profits. To be continued….
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(photos: sports chosun, chosun, newsen)As expected 2PM fans went completely off on JYP after the entertainment company announced Jay was terminated. Fans trashed the JYPE building, ripped up pictures and CDs and left chrysanthemum flowers at the entrance (Chrysanthemums = death in Korea).
Folks, I’m not sure if the kpop group can survive without their beloved leader. This ish is about to be on and poppin’. Stay tuned.
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T-ara’s repackaged album Breaking Heart is #1 on Bugs music realtime top 100 chart, Soribada joint chart and Monkey 3 real time chart. You can check out their Feb. 25th comeback performance on Mnet M!Countdown below.
No doubt the song is FIRE but…
I wish T-ARA could have come back with something a little more original. The song sounds just like another Britney Spears track and the shiny robot glove in their performance was a rip-off from Beyonce.
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So it looks like Jaeboem is NEVER EVA EVA coming back to Korea…
…or at least to JYP Entertainment. JYP posted the following letter on its website.
Hello, this is JYP Entertainment.
Last September, 2PM’s member Park Jaebeom announced his withdrawal from the group and returned to Seattle after a message he wrote on the internet during his trainee days caused backlash. We will now reveal what course of action will be taken.
Although the message that became an issue last September upset many people, it was written during Jaebeom’s tough trainee days on his personal page. At the time, the company agreed with Jaebeom when he asked to take some time for self-reflection. We did not think that this meant that he would stop all activities in the entertainment industry or that he would leave 2PM.
The company had the option of forcing Park Jaebeom to stay and continue promoting with a 7 member 2PM. However, although netizens exaggerated Jaebeom’s words through mistranslations, his words still had the potential to hurt many people. Because of this, we did not want to endorse Jaebeom and force him to continue promotions because it might have damaged his image permanently in the public eye, and so we agreed with his decision to return to the States.
When a celebrity makes a mistake and does not apologize for his / her mistake or if the company endorses that celebrity, the public view of that celebrity becomes more negative and it was in the company’s thoughts that letting Jaebeom withdraw from the group for self-discipline would be good.
Thankfully, after Park Jaebeom left the country, an outpour of support gave him another chance.
After Jaebeom’s leave, we did not release any additional information because we did not want the public to be influenced by malicious sources. Since Park Jaebeom’s return to Seattle, the company has searched for vocal, dance, and acrobatics teachers, and the company producer JYP went personally to Seattle to talk to these teachers and formulate a program.
All recent CF’s, performances, promotions and contracts that have involved 2PM have been made with the mindset that the group would eventually have all 7 members present after Park Jaebeom’s return and so we waited for his comeback.
In November, 2009, the company proposed that Park Jaebeom make his comeback through an album that would have been released this year in April, and Park Jaebeom had agreed to these plans. The plans called for Jaebeom’s return to Korea on the third week of February and a press conference would have been held before promotions as a 7 member 2PM began.
Because of the support he received from the public after his withdrawal from 2PM, Park Jaebeom’s return would have improved 2PM’s efforts and most importantly we would have been able to receive the complete support of the fans once again. The company and the group had high hopes.
However, if the news of Jaebeom’s comeback were revealed too quickly, we felt that the public would once again be negative. Although the fans criticized the lack of information from us, we did not reveal any plans for the comeback.
On December 22nd, 2009, Jaebeom confessed to Jung Wook, a representative, that he had done something wrong during the Again and Again promotions. Apparently, it was far more serious than his MySpace controversy.
The six other members were not notified then as they were busy with year-end activities. On January 3rd, 2010, we all sat down for a discussion and came to an agreement 3 days later that it was no longer possible for Park Jaebeom to continue activities along with 2PM.
We thus decided to terminate our exclusive contract with Jaebeom.
Although we wanted to release this information as soon as possible, Park Jaebeom’s personal situation prevented us from revealing this information until now and we hope you understand.
We would like to emphasize that all the information above is true in its entirety.
We are revealing these details through this message now because if we had lied and gave false information, we would have lost any trust that we held with the fans.
To 2PM and all the people who waited for Park Jaebeom’s return, we apologize deeply and are sorry to have to reveal this sad news to everyone.
The company and the remaining 6 members will prepare even harder and greet you with a better image.
Thank you.
So now the million dollar question EVERYONE wants to know is: What on earth did Jay confess to on December 22nd???
I have a feeling the “confession” will leak sooner rather than later. I’ll keep you posted folks.
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