[News] ‘Nobody’ Picked Best Song by Filipino Fans

MANILA ― The Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” has been voted as the Song of the Year in an online poll by about 3,000 Filipino fans.

The results of the poll conducted in November were announced during the first Philippine K-Pop Convention on Dec. 5 in Muntinlupa City, Philippines.

Super Junior’s third album “Sorry, Sorry” claimed Album of the Year, and Girls Generation’s “Gee” won Music Video of the Year.

Kim Hyun-jung, leader of boy band SS501, was voted the Hottest Male K-pop Star for 2009 and 2NE1’s Park Bom as the Hottest Female K-pop Star.

The Best New Artist award went to all-girl pop group 2NE1 and Kang Dae-sung of Big Bang was voted as Best Variety Idol.

The K-pop Convention was the largest gathering of K-pop fans, with 13 Filipino fan clubs of K-pop idols participating in the event.

Source:KoreaTimes
By Jonathan Hicap
Korea Times Correspondent

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[News] Wonder Girls Launch Korean Music Invasion

The Wonder Girls, a five-member, all-girl band from South Korea, took the hit reality show “So You Think You Can Dance” by storm last night (Dec. 9) and may well launch the Korean invasion of U.S. pop music.

The oldest Yubin , 21, joined band in late-2007. Sunye (Sun), the leader of the group, and Ye-eun (Yenny) are 20 years old. At 17, Sunmi (Mimi) and Ahn So-Hee are the youngest members.

Kim Hyun-Ah left the group because of health problems in mid-2007 and was replaced by Yubin, making her the newest member. Hyun-Ah joined another girl-group, 4Minute, this year.

The band’s performance on last night’s show gave them their first exposure before a major U.S. audience, but they have already caught the attention of the music industry, including Dave Stewart, formerly of The Eurythmics.

Stewart is producing their first album, set for release in February. The group is also planning to launch a headlining U.S. tour in January.

The Wonder Girls became the first Korean singers to ever enter the U.S. singles charts in October, landing at 76 on Top-100 singles charts with virtually no promotion.

They performed the hit “Nobody,” with Kris Allen, the season eight “American Idol’ winner. Allen also performed his newest single “Live Like We’re Dying.”

The girls are already major pop stars on the Korean peninsula and were introduced as a “pop sensation” on the Fox program’s Web site.

“They are the striking chord with a young U.S. audience,” their producer and manager, singer-songwriter Park Jin-Young, said in a release.
The girls also have opened for the Jonas Brothers on the North American leg of the Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 and have two No. 1 hits in Korea, “Tell Me” and “So Hot.”

The Wonder Girls appeal to young tween fans because of their cute and easy-to-follow dance moves and lyrics.

In a testament to their potential, the group has signed a management contract with the Jonas Group and Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency (CAA) which will rep them in the United States.

Stewart announced his collaboration with the Wonder Girls on Twitter over the wekened along with a short demo of “Always Without Me,” which will be on the Girls’ new album.

The Eurythmics, which included Stewart and Annie Lennox, had a string of hits in the 1980s including “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and “Here Comes the Rain Again.”

credit : theimproper.com & mia_mia@soompi ; wgspectacle forums

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[News]Shindong's difficulty with kids

Super Junior Shindong has revealed his difficulty when doing the show for children of MBC “BoBoBo”.

On the show SBS “Quiz! Sixth sense”, there is a question “Which behavior of the children is not good ?”, Shindong said both angrily and jokingly “Everyday the kids who are on the show with me always make fun of me because I’m chubby”.

The show will be aired at 10.45AM on December 13th.

Original text : HERE
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[News] SS501 this weekend holding their concert in Hong Kong, will perform Leslie Cheung classic song

10 December, Korea popular group SS501 hold their Hong Concert press conference at Hong Kong SkyCity Marriott Hotel. SS501 will hold their concert at Hong Kong Asia World Arena at 12 December. This is the 1st official concert in Hong Kong.

5 of them happily cutting the cake which was sent with well wishes from fans

New album songs will be performed in the concert
5 of them appeared in dark stylish costume, looking extremely energetic and radiating vigour. From the start, they used very cute Cantonese to greet everybody: "Hi everybody, we are SS501." SS501 latest album upon released has received very good result, the members revealed they will perform many of their classic songs and also new songs from their latest album. They even performed a small section of 'Love Like This' in acapella style.

Will sing Leslie Cheung Senior's song
Holding concert in Hong Kong, so whether would they sing Cantonese song? About this, Park Jung Min revealed this time he will bring Leslie Cheung senior's '追' (Chase), immediately created much appraisals and anticipation on the spot. Their concert this time even invited American Dancer Guru AJ's assistance, to choreograph a completely new dance step and added in a lot of pop elements, hoping to give everybody a completely new feel. The stage design will be more glamorous and was designed in the unique shape of the word '田'. This will reduce their distance between fans and create even more dazzling stage effect. SS501 will word extra hard for their rehearsal, hoping that their fans will support them during the concert day to share the fruits of their hard work. Also, in order to celebrate SS501 1st time holding their concert in Hong Kong, their fans specially send them a cake to wish them success in their performance.

Kim Hyun Joong's smile radiantly

Kim Hyun Joong hope to return to Lan Kwai Fong
Kim Hyun Joong expressed this is his 4th visit to Hong Kong, also found out that it is the sales period of Hong Kong, therefore he was anticipating to go shopping, also heard that Lan Kwai Fong was Hong Kong most popular area. He also expressed that he visited Lan Kwai Fong during his last visit to Hong Kong but the timing was very short, this round he wish to go around. With regards to the incident happened during his previous trip to Hong Kong, Kim Hyun Joong jokingly expressed, if he was exposed agan, he hope that the published area will be bigger and if possible, placed it in the front page headline. His humour caused the on site reporter to convulse.

Good relationship Most happy when being together
5 of them have been seperated for most of the time during last year. Kim Hyun Joong went to film 'Boys over Flowers', while Jung Min performed in a musical, and also the rest of the 3 members formed a special unit to continue with their singing career and achieved very excellent results. They were asked about the period during the separate activities, who was the person that they missed most. Each of their answers were very interesting and also showed their good relationship. Kim Hyung Joon revealed the person he most missed was Park Jung Min and Hyun Joon, because he used to being bully by both of them, so when they were not beside him he felt very lonely. Heo Young Saeng mentioned he most missed Hyun Joong, because he was the special unit's leader, only then he felt actually it was very pressurized being a leader. Kim Hyun Joong mentioned he missed all of the members but he was very confident with their other developments. Kim Kyu Jong mentioned he most missed Jung Min, because usually Jung Min is most cheerful and can bring up the atmosphere, he is the cheerful giver. Once Jung Min heard about this, he immediately stood up and bow and waved to the reporters, to show the importance of his existence. Jung Min revealed he most miss Hyung Joon because he has a love-hate feeling of Hyung Joon, although always bickering was fun, but he also missed Kyu Jong who will always take care of everybody, and also Hyun Joong and Young Saeng, when the 5 members group together, it is the most happiest time for him.

SS501 during the interview

Getting Popularity Award, 2010 year sechdule are fully planned
Kim Hyun Joong and SS501 gain high popularity in the whole Asia, allowing them to win the grand award of 'Yahoo! Asia Buzz Award 2009'. Kim Hyun Joong won the popularity Award, and SS501 also won the group popularity award. They will attend the award ceremony in Hong Kong on the 14th. Towards this, they expressed that they were very happy and thankful for the support from their fans. As for their plan for next year, SS501 revealed they will release a new album and the members will have their solo activities, including acting and singing plans. Jung Min also revealed they will hold their concert at Seoul in February next year, he is anticipating everybody's attendance and hope everybody will visit Korea and try the famous mix rice (bimbimbap).

Credit: http://korea.sohu.com/20091211/n268875049.shtml + (English translation) SS501UFO.blogspot.com
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[News]Wonder Girls a hit in YouTube

The five-member Korean girl group Wonder Girls made another successful appearance on a mainstream U.S. main broadcast on Wednesday (Dec. 9). After their performance on FOX TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance: Season Six” the group came first in the Hottest Searches list on Google, the major Internet search engine.

So You Think Can Dance is a highly popular dance audition program in the United States that showcases various genres of dance. A kind of elimination game show, the idea is to choose the best performer or performing group each show. Wonder Girls danced to their U.S. debut song “Nobody” and shed tears of happiness after the performance, according to the news report.

The video clip showing their dancing on the show alone received over 100,000 hits on YouTube, the world famous video sharing website. “We hope this leads to more calls from other American shows and programs,” said JYP Entertainment, the agency for the Wonder Girls.

The five girls, Sun, Yenny, Mimi, Sohee and Yubin have been preparing for their U.S. debut since October 2008. After releasing their first digital single in both the United States and Korea in June 2009, the group joined the Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 Concert for two months. After their first official show in the United States, the group’s song “Nobody” made it to the Billboard Hot 100 in October, making Wonder Girls the first Asian group to realize the feat in 30 years.

Meanwhile back in Korea, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism selected Wonder Girls and Korean boy group Big Bang as the Artists of the Year. The two groups are scheduled to receive awards at the 2009 Korea Content Award for their contributions overseas. The boy group performed a similar feat with their hit shows in Japan.

Cr: Kim Hee-sung @Korea.net

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[News] Three Members At Fan Meeting State, “We Hope This Storm Passes Quickly”

The three members of TVXQ (Xiah Junsu, YoungWoong Jaejoong, Micky Yoochun) locked in a legal dispute with SM Entertainment held a charitable fanmeet and met with their fans.

The three presented themselves at 5 pm on the 12th the Seoul Koreyo University Hwajung Gymnasium at the ‘Smile Again’ love sharing event.

According to a representative, the event that was held for an hour had a ‘Q&A Corner’ where the three answered fans’ questions, ‘Tell Me Your Wish’ corner where the three granted fans’ wishes, and a corner where Micky Yoochun sang a song he composed.

Many say that the three were bright and cheerful regardless of the legal dispute.

YoungWoong Jaejoong said, “We’ve changed but our fans have stayed the same. I like that,” and showed how thankful they were to the fans and how bad he felt about the group’s current situation.

Xiah Junsu said, “This is more meaningful as it is the first time we’re doing this just the three of us.”

The two other members prepared a surprise birthday party for Xiah Junsu for his birthday, and showed their brotherly love and affection. As a toast for his birthday, Xiah Junsu said, “I hope that this storm will pass quickly,” and showed that he wanted this lawsuit to end quickly.

Micky Yoochun revealed that he was studying composing and sang one of his compositions and gained great reactions from his fans.

Regardless of the cold weather, thousands of Korean and Japanese fans stood in line to enter two hours before the event. Some fans were seen standing near the entrance without tickets and looked quite disheartening.

Some fans who were not able to enter sat outside and supported the three and showed their love for the three.

The event that was held for free was sold out 8 minutes after ticket reservations were open at 8 pm on the 8th. All the donations collected on this day will be given to a children’s organization.

source: [asiae+DNBN]
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[News] SS501 arrived in Hong Kong, 500 fans crowded the airport

Led by Korean Drama 'Boys Over Flowers' main lead Kim Hyun Joong, Group SS501 arrived in Hong Kong yesterday, attracted about 500 fans to pick up their flight. Kim Hyun Joong gain popularity around Asia region by his 'Hanazawa Rui' character in 'Boys over flowers', it also caused his group SS501's popularity to increase tremendously. After he was contracted with H1N1 during September, his looked has difference from when he was acting in 'Boys over Flowers'. SS501 yesterday returned to Hong Kong to prepare for the concert in Asia World Expo. When 5 of them stepped out from the restricted area, around 500 fans crowded over them. Kim Hyun Joong who was wearing dark glasses was uper cool and he even stopped to received gifts. After that, they were sent to their hotel with escort of 20 over body guards.

They held their press conference in the hotel after that. As they were late for 25mins, upon arrival, they used contonese to greet: "Sorry! We are late!". Kim Hyung Joon during the self introduction pronounce his name as '金坑鑽'

Repeating old news of Lan Kwai Fong
Earlier being photographed going to Lan Kwai Fong together with friends' Kim Hyun Jong smile and said: "This time I also wanted to go to Lan Kwai Fong, hope the reports will be larger!" While Hong Kong video addict Park Jung Min revealed he will perform Leslie Cheung's song '追' (Chase)

Also, during the press conference, 5 of them cut cake to wish for the success of their concert, in between some of them use their fingers to taste the cake. Park Jung Min even took his name tag to take photograph together. During the interview Kim Hyun Joong mentioned he grew thinner after contracted with H1N1, so once he return to Korea, he had been doing exercise diligently.


Credit: the-sun.on.cc + HKTripleS.com + (English translation) SS501UFO.blogspot.com 
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[News]Singer Ma Rui was mistaken for actress Park Shin Hye

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Ma Rui:

Recently, Chinese singer Ma Rui performed a concert in Shandong. The day after the concert, the neutrally dressed Ma Rui was stopped by many fans asking for her autograph. However, the fans thought she was Park Shin Hye! Ever since You’re Beautiful aired in South Korea, it has become a huge hit and it’s cultural impact on music and fashion cannot be ignored. When a reporter asked Ma Rui how she felt about being mistaken for Park Shin Hye, Ma Rui humorously replied, “I love Korean dramas and neutral [androgynous] clothes but I dare not cut my hair for fear of being mistaken as Go Minam!”

Source: 022.net || trans: gems@soompi

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[Video] Where in the World are the Wonder Girls? #6

You all have watched the girls on "So You Think You Can Dance" did you not? Now, watch the Wonder Girls' reaction when they saw themselves on national tv. It's so cute from their intense staring to the emotional tears they were fighting back. I'm so proud of the girls, aren't you?

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[NEWS] Davichi's Kang Ming Kyung looks old?

Davichi's Kang Ming Kyung was present on KBS show Star Golden Bell that was aired earlier today.

Guests on the show voted for Ming Kyung as the artists who has the face that looks old.

Kang Ming Kyung was borned in 1989 and she is just one year older than,i thought that she has already reached her mid twenties when i first saw her singing "Love and War",anyway she looks cute despite her not too young face.

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[Video] MBLAQ's G.O VS SHINee's Jong Hyun!

MBLAQ's G.O and SHINee's Jong Hyun appeared on Suju Miracle and had an arm wrestling on the show!

I have not watched the video yet as the loading of Youtube videos is sloe nowadays in my country!

Would you mind telling me the result of the wrestling.Just watch the video below to find out the answer!

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[Pictures]Big Bang for HITE BEER

Just some pictures to share. Here are some of the promotional pictures of Big Bang for Hite Beer, excluding Seungri because he is still too young to drink. And i just notice, no over-done make up and too much colored clothes for GD in this pictures.ENJOY! XD

Cr: stardaisy212@soompi

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