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[news] UPDATED: Super Junior's official fanclub E.L.F. Releases a Fan Album


Took about 1 year to prepare, they have prepared “Super Junior the First Fan Album Project Team E.L.F. Zone” for Super Junior.
There are 6 songs in total. They were all written and composed by E.L.Fs.

UPDATE WITH AUDIO TRACK:
EverLastingfriends


SJ 13


Sapphire Blue



The names of the 6 songs are:
- “Pearl Sapphire Blue”,
- “S.J.13”,
- "Everlasting Friends”,
- "Pearl Sapphire Blue (Instrumental),
- "S.J.13 (Instrumental), and
- "Everlasting Friends (Instrumental).

The songs are available on: Bugs, Mnet, Dosirak and Cyworld.


Original article here.
Translated by julzzzz @ sj-world.net
DO NOT TAKE OUT WITHOUT FULL CREDITS.

cr: randomRinnie @ youtube
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[news] Get to Know Dok2


19-year-old Dok2, pronounced "Doki," is the newest member of Map The Soul. On November 25th, he will release his first album, Thunderground EP and to hype fans up, he did an album interview explaining his music and introducing himself to those who don't know him.

In this interview, he explained the meaning behind his album title stating that it represents his musical style and also that he is "not aiming for 'under' or 'over'... always reaching for the highest ground."

This album contains 8 tracks with a title single called "It's Me." Snatch a copy fast, because Thunderground EP is a limited edition. There will only be 10,000 copies sold worldwide and the only place to buy your limited edition CD is at MapTheSoul. If not, opt to get a digital copy of it through iTunes when it releases.

Although Dok2 is a new member of Map The Soul, it does not mean that he is new to the scene. He debuted back in 2005 in a duo group called All Black. Later, he joined the Movement Crew, hip hop collective formed by Drunken Tiger, as the youngest member. In the past, he has also been featured on several artists' album as well as co-produced.

Dok2 also announced that he will have a solo concert called "2009, It's Me Concert." Special guests that will be supporting him are Supreme Team, Epik High, MYK, and Planet Shiver.


Thunderground EP Tracklist
1. I'm Back
2. You Don't Know 

3. It's Me (feat. 주영)
4. Beyond 
5. 훔쳐 (feat. Double K)

6. 64% (feat. Beatbox DG)
7. 마지막 (feat. Mr Gordo)
8. It's Me (Map the Soul Version feat. Epik High & MYK)

Preorder your copy at MapTheSoul

Dok2's Interview


Thunderground EP Preview Tracks


cr: mapthesoul @ youtube; omgkpop
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[news] SNSD Yuri Falls Asleep While Making Kimchi



On ‘Invincible Youth’ November 20th, SNSD Yuri, Sunny, Brown Eyed Girls Narsha, 4Minute Hyuna, T-Ara Hyomin, Secret Sunhwa and Kara Goo Hara started to make Kimchi.

On this cold day, while sleepily rubbing their eyes the G7 began making Kimchi. In the midst of this, Yuri dozed off.

People began to say “how can you fall asleep while making Kimchi?” then the comments turned around to “she must have been very tired to have fallen alseep while making Kimchi.” Yuri woke up to say “I fall asleep if I work sitting down,” so the G7 shouted out “then stand up and do it.”

So Yuri stood up and made Kimchi, and started to dance. The other G7 members who were hard at work yelled out “you’re flying dust around the place!!” Yuri was shocked.




Source: Newsen
Translations: Just Love~! @ Soshified
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[news] SNSD SooYoung Congratulates Her Sister’s Debut


[Translation of text on flowers: "SNSD Choi Sooyoung, Choi Soojin Unni Fighting"]

Sooyoung congratulated her sister for her musical debut by sending her a huge garland of flowers. (It is Korean tradition to send flowers in this way, which is given on special occasions; weddings, funerals, birthdays)

On the 20th at Seoul KwangJinKu Universal Art Centre a press call was opened for the musical ‘Jack The Ripper’ which Choi SooJin is being casted in. At the event centre, fans of Ahn JaeWook and Kim WonJoon sent around ten garlands of flowers gaining a lot of attention. The garland that gained the most attention were the flowers sentby Sooyoung congratulating her sister. It reads ‘Choi SooJin Unni fighting.’

Choi Soojin is taking up the role of a prostitute who goes to work for the first time and meets Daniel to fall in love with him.In 1888 ‘Jack the Ripper’ murdered at least five prostitutes using hideous methods, this was investigated by serious crime detectives and took up front pages on the ‘London Times.’

The first musical takes place between November 13th to December 13th, and the second will take place between January 8th to January 31st in 2010.

Choi Soojin was already quite well known to be the beautiful sister of Sooyoung, topping most celebrities in glamour.

Source: Star MT
Translations: Just Love~! @ Soshified
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[news] 2AM SeulOng Confesses That His Ideal Girl is UEE In Front of ‘Hubby’ Park JaeJung


On the episode of MBC We Got Married aired on 21st November, the “husbands” Kim YoungJoon, Jo Kwon and Park JaeJung have come together to make kimchi, wanting to understand their wives more. It was their first time making kimchi.

Jo Kwon invited fellow 2AM member Im SeulOng over, and he helped with looking up on the internet on how to make kimchi.

During the process, SeulOng was asked who his ideal girl is and he answered, “My ideal girl is UEE, from long before.” This immediately got Park JaeJung’s attention. Park JaeJung continued to show signs of jealousy after knowing from Jo Kwon that SeulOng has also boasted his close friendship with UEE since their trainee days.





Source: Sookyeong
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[Charts] Weekly Album Chart: Nov 9-15/Weekly Singles Chart: Nov 9-15



Jessica Kim jesskim@asiae.co.kr
<ⓒ10Asia All rights reserved>

Weekly Charts for Albums and singles are out for Nov 9-15.

2PM's Album is selling really well and SS501's Love like this is still topping the charts along with SHINee's Ring Ding Dong and 2NE1's Park Bom, You and I.
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[NEWS] Fighting, YG Family?


Popular girl group 2NE1’s CL and Gong Minzy has recently released their digital single, “Please Don’t Go.” With the release of the song, they will now be competing with fellow 2NE1 member, Park Bom and her single, “You and I”, and fellow YG family member, TaeYang and his song, “Wedding Dress.”



So when they say, “YG family, fighting!” they do mean it literally.



“Please Don’t Go,” produced by composer and producer, Teddy, is a fast dance song, with a hip-hop rhythm, strong rap style, and lively melodies.



Monkey Music, an online chart site, has revealed that “Please Don’t Go” has already outranked Park Bom’s “You and I” for the number one spot, which was occupied by the latter for two weeks already. This brings to mind a similar incident of Sandara Park’s single, “Kiss” (sorta) beating G-Dragon’s “Heartbreaker” a few months ago.



However, this competition is all healthy for the 2NE1 girls, as they are consistently still supporting each other and their solo careers. For the past days, Bom’s “You and I” and TaeYang’s “Wedding Dress” are competing in the real-time charts, with Bom topping Cyworld and Mnet. Both songs have good reviews from music lovers and listeners.



“Wedding Dress” has been getting good feedback even without the release of his solo album. The music video has also received much love from music lovers who say that the song has good choreography and beat. His previous songs, “Look only at me” has also received similar good reviews.



On November 21, the Mnet Asian Music Awards would show the girls’ singles, along with the musical-style of “I Don’t Care.”



cr: Newsen

Translated by: Belle@21evo
Credits:21Evo.com
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[NEWS] Daul Kim mentioned 2NE1 & BB in an old post


Posted by Daul Kim
say hi to xin&danny's styling for 2NE1

So this is a female version of bigbang…

2NE1

my friends xin and danny are styling them!
im so proud of them!!!!! <3

korea is really…super conservative country
were the most… taoist out of i guess..all of north east asia

although south korea is capitalist country,
we had dictatorship in the 70's so our parents like grew up with no…
rock music (one time they put all the rock musicians in jail)
and when my dad was going to college they did this thing where
men's hair is longer than a certain length under ear, they get fined or
cops come and shave their hair…

also curfew for everyone after 11:30pm u cant be on the street or something

extreme right?

so even when dictatorship was gone,
for koreans ALOT of things can offend alot of people so…easily

people get offended when they see tattoo bleach hair….etc (i got both:P)
so all the celebrities/actors/musicians end up always playing things safe
and they all look the same… so boring!!!!!!






go xin and danny~!!!<3



Plus:

Her post on 2009/05/06

"say hi to paris life"



Xin and jiyong came couple days ago and it was so fun

i am alone in my apartment in i guess.. le halles???? area
i make big salads everyday

i kinda changed…i used to shop everyweek but nowdays i just…didnt go at all
i kinda lost … drive to shop…until
i went to Jean paul gaultier and bought this tattoo top
i really love it but its kinda cold to wear it

uhhh i really miss my mom, mom's house and friends back home and my guineapig
tiger……..

Credits:21Evo.com
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[Picture] After School released D4 photo!


I think many of you have been informed that After School will make their comeback on 25th November.Their latest teaser picture 5 members including UEE,Jung Ah,Joo Yeon,Bekah and new girl NANA has been released!!

The other two members remaining are leader Ga Ki and new girl Nana,they will make their comeback on Music Bank,Music Core and Inkigayo next week,please remember to visit Daily K Pop News for more updates on their comeback!
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[news] Davichi will be hollding first concert after 2 years of debut


Even though they’re not everyone’s cup of populari-tea, and I feel like I have to inject 1,000,000 CCs stat! of Zoloft straight into my heart after listening to one of their songs, this vocally dazzling duo has got me hooked 4 life.

After having been in the KPop scene for almost 2 years now, Davichi is finally getting their moment in the sun by holding their first ever concert, “The Premiere.” on December 24th, at AX Hall located in Seoul. Lee Hae-Ri and Kang Min-Kyung have been working diligently and putting in their personal touches in nearly every aspect of the concert (stage sets, costumes, performance details).

What a great way to ring in Christmas of ‘09. I desperately want to be there and cry my eyeballs out along with a bunch of other sappy, broken-hearted ladies, but I guess I’ll just have to add my wish to attend one of their future concerts (fingers crossed) to my “Dear Santa” letter.



cr: Seoulbeats
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[News] Plantiff’s reasons for suing DBSK/THSK/TVXQ Jaechunsu


Recently, a Chinese company in Beijing filed a lawsuit against the trio and Crebeau. The three pages above contains the reasons the company sent to the trio explaining why they sued.

Here is a rough translation (certain parts are summarized to keep it comprehensible):

Regarding the use of DBSK group name or the members, Crebeau (Beijing), and the tort committed to our company:

January 6th, 2009, three members participated in Crebeau China investment orientation. Because they guys are popular, a lot of fans were present.

May 6th, 2009, Crebeau had informed our company that had invited DBSK as Crebeau product representative, the three members joined as company shareholder (director), and express that the trio will participate in a large promotion, seeing how DBSK have a huge fan base in China, with strong appeals, plus their participation in the promotion activities that Crebeau had promised, thus our company signed the contract with Crebeau.

June 8th, 2009, “Crebeau’s Korean branch WE# PLUS Co.,LTD signed contract, agreeing to become crebeau’s surety (view contract). Thus, our company invested nearly 300,000 yuan (Chinese currency) for renting room, renovating, finding staff, and other preparational work.

In June of 2009, the three of them along with Crebeau newly registered a Crebeau in Beijing. Using the name of Crebeau to contact our company and getting us to purchase more Crebeau products.

June 26th, 2009, after all the preparation work, our company signed a formal contract with Crebeau. We spent about 700,000 yuan to import Creabeau products and started the promotion.

Jun 22, 2009, as Crebeau promised and schedule, the three of them will attend July 16th, 2009 for Shanghai press conference under the title as director of Crebea, with a fan meet, allowing our company to start promoting. Our company spent 200,000 yuan on promotions.


July 8th, 2009, Crebeau (including Crebeau Beijing) have problems regarding the schedule, and informed our company that the three members will not attend the press conference and promised they will pay for all the damages, and apologized on the behave of the three members.

July 14th, 16th of 2009, trio’s family members represented them in Beijing and Shanghai and apologized for their inability to attend.

July 11th, after DBSK’s Beijing concert, Crebeau lawyer notified us of a conference, in which Kim Junsu and Park Yoochun expressed their apologies to us.

Middle of July 2009, our company were notified of the lawsuit between Korea’s SM entertainment and the members of DBSK, and we were asked to cooperate in provide information.

July 24th, 2009, we became worried about Crebeau and the three members. We tried to contact Crebeau to ask whether they will pay us for the damages, but received no response to this day.

Regarding their actions, there have been lots of disappointment for fans, and with the lawsuit going on, Crebeau products are nearly impossible to sale, which created a large financial lose for our company, until now, our company accumulated to up to 1,200,000 yuan in loses.

Recently, we have received some information. We think there as a tort of fraud committed against us. We believe it’s not hard to see, the trio along with Crebeau’s close relations, creating a wronged believe of there was an implied warranty of authority for Crebeau, to make us enter into this. They lured our company into this, then did not attend the press conference and repeatedly apologizing, and at the same time started a lawsuit with another company, their actions created many loses for our company.

To protect us, we hope their will pay for our financial loses, or our company will take legal action, finding theirs and Crebeau’s responsibility and reveal related things.

We hope to receive a reply by November 7th 2009, or they can be prepared to face consequences.

credit: baidu
trans+shared by: sharingyoochun@wordress

In my opinion, they should sue Crebeau not the 3 members as they are merely investors.The amount of $ they invested was not even enough to be share holders or directors.Why only now they wanna sue? after so many months? lol..

Oh well,I doubt fans will just buy the beauty product just because their favorite artist is promoting them without checking the quality of it.

Always Keep The Faith !!!!!
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[news] BEAST Bust Out the Album Sales + Doo joon Interview



Party up in Cube Ent.! It looks like Beast may have won the boyband wars (for now). Recent tallies have shown their debut album selling exceptionally well.

CUBE Entertainment representative Hong Seung Sung announced, “We examined the album sales up till last week and found that almost 20,000 albums have been sold.”
Apparently 10,000 albums for a rookie group is pretty darn good, and the boys have done twice that, with the album still selling.--unnecessary comment omitted--



Speaking of singling members out, it took a few glances, but I think I’m about to add Doojoon to my harem (that’s really the only thing I can call it at this point). Those eyes! Plus according to this interview with the group leader, he’s confidant, candid and has a photographic memory. Get in the back of the line girls!

My name is Yoon Doo Joon.

I was born on July 4, 1989. I might not be the oldest, but I’m the team’s leader.
Recently fans have revealed pictures from my past, but I’m afraid of my past, though there isn’t a reason to avoid it. Now everything is out, but the present is more important so it’s okay. However, when I was young, I was a cute kid.

Though Yo Seob shows many different dance adlibs, in fact, he just watches videos and tries to do them. For one month, we would be on 4 different music shows, and I feel as though the audience would get bored watching the same thing over and over. So, we are going to try to make an effort to show something different.

When we first filmed MTV BEAST, we decided to set our characters based on our image or features. But when, little by little, the cameras came over to me, and I think up words I want to say, in the end, I noticed the others showing their natural side. In my case, I was supposed to have the calm yet charismatic image……it makes no sense. Haha.

If MBC
asks me to be a cameo, I’m ready at any time! I would love to be one of the students who pick on Seo Ho. And especially Yo Seob who can be the exchange student.

Honestly, even though I’m not the oldest, being a leader is burdensome. Though it’s a difficult and embarrassing situation, what can we do, someone has to do it. Whether it be talking to adults or convincing others, it’s better to place myself out there than having another member do it, only because it didn’t fit their individual character.

My training period was really short. Because I started this when I was a senior in high school. I wanted to do music, but I could only do songs that I already knew. During my life as a trainee, even though I could mimic dance moves and liked decorating my face, if only I concentrated more on my singing I think I would sing a bit more better than now. When I was in middle school, I loved black people’s music and since then i mainly listened to soul music. And so, I follow the features of the music and tend to sing along. I would try to find my own color.

I taught myself piano. I don’t learn classical music or play very well, but by myself, I can play while singing. When attending my first music academy, my first practice song was Richard Marx’s “Now and Forever”, but since I didn’t have the MR, I learned the piano code myself. At first I practiced that song to death.
Even though Dong Woon looks like that, he’s really the maknae. When we’re at home, he would come to me using his cute act and say “Hyung~~”.

Without writing, I can remember trivial things really well. Like, when, where I met them, and the clothes they wore. And that’s why I’m the best at rock-paper-scissors. Because usually, I can see who is going to put down what first. Scientifically proven, because the law is, I am invincible.

Ki Kwang’s first stage as AJ? Of course I remember. April 2 Music Bank! (Yo Seob: No. That day was M Countdown!)



CREDITS: edaily spn (SOURCE), illuminate.@B2ST Rising (TRANS)
CREDITS: 10ASIA (SOURCE), heejin-ssi(TRANS)



cr: Seoulbeats
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