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[News] Kim Yu Na to promote Seoul in documentary, 2NE1 to be featured



Kim Yu-na, who won the country's first Olympic figure skating gold in Vancouver last week with a near-perfect record-setting performance, will appear in a documentary to promote Seoul around the world.

Seoul Metropolitan Government said yesterday that 
the 60-minute documentary, titled "Seoul Spirit," will be aired by the Discovery Channel in about 20 Southeast Asian countries on March 19.

Using Seoul as a backdrop, the documentary will show how the 19-year-old Kim grew up to reach the top of figure skating. It will also showcase a variety of tourist attractions in Seoul, including the Han River and Gwanghwamun Square.
The documentary, which the city spent a year planning and producing, will also highlight "woman power" in Korea, featuring interviews with Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon and popular girl group 2NE1.

"Seoul Spirit" is the third installment of the documentary series, called "Hip Korea-Seoul," which Seoul City and Discovery Channel jointly planned and organized to promote the Korean capital.

The first two installments, featuring Korean stars Rain and Lee Byung-hyun, were aired last year in 20 Asian countries, including Japan.
The city seeks to air Kim's documentary in China and countries in Europe and America as well to promote the attractive aspects of Seoul, which was designated in 2007 as the 2010 World Design Capital by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.

"We anticipate that the documentary will grab the attention of people around the world as Kim won gold at the Vancouver Olympics. We will actively seek to promote the good image of Seoul around the world by capitalizing on it," said Yoon Young-seok, chief of the city's global marketing division.

Spurring publicity efforts, the city dramatically ramped up its annual marketing budget to 40.1 billion won ($35.05 million) in 2008, a substantial leap from 5.3 billion won in the previous year. Last year, the budget was at 34.1 billion won and has been set at 34.1 billion won for this year.

Source: 
The Korea Herald

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[News] A 4minute revolution in Japan



4Minute arrived in Japan this morning, on the 4th of March, beginning their 3D2N promotional trip in Tokyo.

Cube Entertainment expressed, other than being invited to radio shows, photo shoots, there are many interview requests from various media groups. They are looking forward to the activities in Japan.

Universal Music Japan, in charge of 4Minute's Japanese promotions, announced that as Big Bang's juniors 
(Big Bang is also under Universal Music Japan), 4Minute is a group with unique charisma on stage and will surely bring on a brand new revolution to the Japanese mainstream music industry.

4Minute's first showcase will be on the 5th of March, 7PM, at Shibuya AX hall. An estimated 1000 fans will attend the event.

Source: Joins Japan
Translated by: kueensora@4-minute.com
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[News] Beast's 'Bald Junhyung' is Only In the Music Video?


While preparing the comeback, the hairstyle of BEAST's Yong Junhyung is in various styles.

After the 1st mini album with 'Bad Girl' and 'Mystery', and until the featuring of the filming of 'Change' for the same family member, Hyuna, Yong Junhyung prepared symmetrical hairstyles and radiated polished charm.

While putting ahead the announcement of their 2nd mini album 'Shock of the New Era,' Yong Junhyung presented a nearly bald shocking hairstyle in the music video of the title song 'Shock', getting the nickname of 'Bald Junhyung.'

However, inside the album, Yong Junhyung's hairstyle is not bald. Regarding this, the different opinions of the fans include, "I can't tell if they filmed the music video first or took the album photos first" and "Now that I see, isn't he transforming with a wig?"

Regarding this, a BEAST representative explained, "Until we shot the album jacket, Yong Junhyung's concept wasn't bald" and "In order to give a powerful image as a rapper, the very day of the shooting, we urgently changed his hairstyle. By no means, because the bald cut emphasized power and matched the album well, we decided [upon this concept]."

Besides Yong Junhyung, Leader Yoon Doojoon revealed through his Cyworld, "Since I was born, this is the first time I dyed [my hair]." Even Yang Yoseob, who mastered the blonde hair, prepared a gray hairstyle, grabbing attention.

In the meantime, on March 5th on KBS 2TV 'Music Bank,' BEAST will start their comeback performance, and they are in the process of practicing since their last stage. Also, through their music video, BEAST has already set the trend of their VTach dance. Accordingly, attention is being attracted regarding their stage performance.



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[News] 2AM releases new image cuts, new song to be revealed on 15th March


Group 2AM starts their large scale project in revealing their new song with image cuts released.
On 2AM’s official homepage on 5th February, new image of the members were posted up at 2pm. The members were seen in various concepts like club DJ, ice hockey player, tough biker, basketballer etc, bringing much anticipation to the teaser for their new MV.
Meanwhile, the 10-minutes long MV will be released at 8pm in Seoul ApGooJung CGV on 15th March. On the same day, 2AM will also be doing a showcase in Seoul’s subway stations.
The management for 2AM Big Hit Entertainment said, “2AM will show a totally new music style. On 15th March, which will also be called ‘2AM day’, the new songs will be revealed online, through iPhone, and in subways.”
The new song will be released officially online on 16th March.

S: Osen
Credits: Kbites
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[Videos] 8 members SNSD won 5th Consecutive K Chart with "Oh!"!



SNSD performed "Oh!" and won the 5th consecutive K Chart on Music Bank today.

Unfortunately,member Yuri was not able to join the girls to have fun on the stage today as she was diagnosed with H1N1 earlier today.

Congratulations to the girls once again and let's wish Yuri for a speedy recovery!



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[Video] Brian Joo is back with "In My Head" on Music Bank!

Solo singer Brian Joo is back with a new song "In My Head" on Music Bank!

His performance for "In My Head" is a good one,watch his performance here,love it or not??

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[Video] KARA & T-ara performed on Music Bank!



KARA and T-ara just made their comeback through various music shows last week and they are promorting their new song "Lupin" and "Crazy Because Of You" respectively!

Both groups transformed into a sexy concept in their new song,which group do you think is more successful to go with the sexy concept??

Anyway,watch their performances here!



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[Videos] CN Blue said goodbye with "I'm A Loner" & "Now or Never' on Music Bank!

These boys have gained much fame since debuting as rookies!

But now they are going to say goodbye already,the boys prepared 2 songs for their goodbye stage,they are "I'm A Loner" and "Now Or Never",watch their performance here!

 

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[Video] BEAST's "Shock"ing comeback on Music Bank!

BEAST made their first comeback stage on Music Bank aired today.

The boys become hotter promoting their new song "Shock".I can see a huge change from member Yo Seob,from a cute boy to a muscular bad boy.

Jun Hyung and Doo Joon's hairstlye change is also something that you should not miss,watch their comeback stage here!

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[Video] Dae Guk Nam Ah debuted with "Tokyo Boy" on Music Bank!

These boys are known by many fans as the new version of DBSK.

Well,after watching their MV for "Tokyo Boy" ,i have to say that these boys show some similarities with DBSK,maybe it is because of the concept of their song as well as the MV.

The boys can sing LIVE pretty well too,watch their performance here!

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[News] SeoHyun and SooYoung to take Yuri’s place as hosts on Music Core


So Nyeo Shi Dae members SeoHyun and SooYoung will replace Yuri as hosts MBC Music Core as Yuri is down with swine flu.

SM Entertainment revealed on 5th March, “In Yuri’s place, we will have Sooyoung and SeoHyun as hosts on MBC Music Core. Together with Tiffany, they will be hosting the show as 3 members.”

It is known that Yuri was down with fever on 4th March and went to the hospital for health examination. After which on 5th March, it was confirmed that she is down with swine flu. She is currently resting at home.

A rep said, “All activities will be put on hold until Yuri recovers completely. So the girls will perform as 8 members for their performance on KBS Music Bank on 5th March.”

S:Newsen

Credits:Kbites
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[NEWS]Korean Cafe representative asks for international fans' understanding !

**This cafe is one of the fancafe for 2PM/Jay. The following message/account is written by the fancafe Representative present at the 27th conference. Thank you!

I have heard that the international fans are bashing the Korean fans. I tried to ignore it at first but I think as time goes on, the severity is getting grave.

What I'm writing... Please help us in making them understand. I know it must be hard but please help. I am sorry.

I think that they are going too far. The rage amongst the Korean fans are so great that it is hard to even control it, but to think that we have to even help the international fans understand now?...

I told you that I attended the conference. I did not ever think that anyone would look upon the fans as the attackers. However, I have listened to the voice recordings and I do think I can understand somewhat why the international fans are reacting this way.

Now, let's think about it. The 2PM boys spoke through a mic. The fans did not have a mic except when given one to ask a question. So for example, when Chansung compared Jaebum to a thief and the fans spoke amongst themselves saying, "Jaebum is a thief?" there is no way that Chansung could have heard them, given the location and volume of voice. We would have had to spoken loudly and clearly in order for that to be heard because the fans did not have any mics. Through the recording, the international fans might have thought that we raised our voices. However, the fans have never treated the 2PM members with disrespect.

Another thing is that the 2PM members are all in their early 20's. The people that attended the conference were all older than them. Especially the bigger community admins, they were all in their mid to late 30's. Even if we were to meet them as human to human, those in their 20's should have definitely kept their respect. That is Korean culture. However, what the 2PM members stated at the conference does not fall in line with the norm of Korean society. But did the fans treat 2PM with disrespect because of their age? No... where did you ever see that?

And are these fans Jaebum's personal fans? The people that attended the conference are people that JYPE has chosen themselves. You can think of it as only the people that JYPE thought fit to be in the conference were present. Why are international fans accusing us of 'going for a fan meeting,' or 'Why are Jaebum's personal fans making it harder for the rest of our 2PM oppas?'

Then are the international representatives also in the same league as us?

I'm having a hard time understanding why the fans must be the bad boys here. I understand that you would want to reject reality. You must realize, though, that Jaebum and JYPE are now two separate entities. Please, let's not rip at each other anymore.

Those in Korea will calm down the fans filled with rage and anger in Korea. But for those in the international, please don't do that. I don't understand why fans must fight amongst each other. This is not going to help any of the 7 members. It's not nice to see such images for fans in Korea or for international fans.

Let's just calm ourselves down.

I will apologize for what I have to say next but I feel that it must be said.

Koreans are the only people that best understand the Korean language. The message is sent more clearly to those that sit in front of one another while seeing their faces than just through the ears or through words.

Please, stop looking at the situation as only how you want to.

Please, don't bash the translators. They are volunteering their time to help you better understand. And as Koreans, they are the ones that know best the meaning behind 2PM's words. Even if you study the same word, the translated meaning between a foreigner that studies Korean and a Korean is vastly different.

Just trust the translators. They know what the intentions are and they know what the situation is. They understanding everything in their translations.

If you really love the 6 members of 2PM, please express that when they release their next album in April.

I hope that all of this ends - yesterday's friend becoming today's enemy.

Whenever and wherever, let's uphold LOVE & RESPECT.


Thank you.

( My opinion is not representative of the Korean fans. But as a person living in Korea, I could not just pass this by. )

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