Park Jinyoung (JYP; J.Y. Park) revealed on his Twitter account on October 29th the first air date for the second season of the popular idol/musical drama "Dream High." He wrote, "We are beginning the production for 'Dream High 2'! The first episode will air on KBS on January 30."
The first season of "Dream High" aired in early 2011 and was a hit among viewers. It featured T-ara's Eunjung, IU, 2PM's Wooyoung and Taecyeon, miss A's Suzy, and actor Kim Soohyun.
"Dream High 2" will be a joint production between JYP Entertainment and KEYEAST Entertainment, with casting set to be finalized in November and produced by Lee Eungbok.
Are you looking forward to the second season of "Dream High"? Who are you interested in seeing in the upcoming drama?
On October 29th at 9PM local time, JYJ had their first ever European solo concert in Barcelona, Spain. JYJ expanded their world tour to Europe this year, with another concert scheduled to be performed in Germany in November.
JYJ attracted and performed in front of 3,000 enthusiastic fans. The success of the concert further proved the spread of the K-Pop Hallyu Wave in Europe and JYJ's popularity among European fans.
The Spain concert hailed fans from throughout Europe including Italy, France, Switzerland, and Greece, in addition to local fans. During the concert, fans sang along with JYJ as they performed.
During their trip in Spain, JYJ shared photos of themselves enjoying the sights. They will visit Berlin, Germany on November 6th.
DJ: This week, in K-pop special, World Sonic have a special guest, CNBLUE. How are you? Nice to meet you.
CNBLUE: How are you? We are CNBLUE. Thanks for having us here.
Jungshin: I’m JungShin, bassist of CNBLUE.
DJ: Jung Shin-shi
Minhyuk: I’m MinHyuk, drummer. Thank you.
DJ: Min Hyuk-shi
Jonghyun: I’m JongHyun, guitarist & a vocalist. Thank you.
DJ: Jong Hyun-shi
Yonghwa:I’m YongHwa, a vocalist & a guitarist. Thank you.
DJ: Yes. Everyone, thank you for being here.
DJ: First I will explain the profile of CNBLUE to our audience. CNBLUE made their indies debut in 2009 in Japan, earlier than Korea.
CNBLUE:Yes.
DJ: After the debut in Korea in 2010, you recorded a smash hit. In addition, this year you released your first full album ‘First Step’ and made a big sale which is remarkably noticed by people.
Jungshin: We have a long way to go.
DJ: You are so humble. As the highly anticipated artists who made a smash hit in Korea, recently, you made long-waited major debut in Japan after Korea. You are a highly anticipated artist in Japan as well, aren’t you?
Jonghyun & Minhyuk: Thank you.
Jonghyun: I will work harder.
DJ: You speak Japanese very well?
CNBLUE: Not so much.
DJ: You don’t have to be that humble.
Yonghwa: We are studying very hard nowadays.
DJ: Your pronunciation is perfect.
Jonghyun: No. Not at all.
Jungshin: Not good enough, yet.
Yonghwa: You are right. Are we perfect?
DJ: Yes. You are perfect. I’m going to ask you some questions in Japanese. Yonghwa shi, pls explain about your major debut single in Japan.
Yonghwa: In My Head has a taste of rock. The lyrics of the song tells about dream and hope. Please listen to CNBLUE’s In My Head.
♫ [In My Head] ♫
DJ: We have listened to ‘In My Head’. This is Jena’s J-wave Saturday Sonic. And now it is World Sonic. This week, we are with Korea’s anticipated and popular band CNBLUE.
DJ: You stayed in Japan for half year of 2009. At that time I heard you performed live performances a lot. How was it? When you think about it now? Do you have any memorable place?
Jungshin: Shinjuku Station is the most memorable place.
Yonghwa: We performed our first street live in Shinjuku Station.
DJ: How was it at that time? How many audiences were there?
Jonghyun: Nobody.
Yonghwa: None at all.
DJ: At that time, were you living together?
CNBLUE: Yes.
DJ: How was it? Living together? When you think back?
Jonghyun: It was very hard.
Jungshin: Because we didn’t have any money.
Yonghwa Since then, we have been living together until now.
DJ: Are you living together till now? In Korea?
CNBLUE: Yes.
DJ: Really? Don’t you fight each other?
Yonghwa: It is fun.
Minhyuk: No (we don’t fight).
Jonghyun: No, not at all.
Yonghwa: Every day is fun.
DJ: You are very close to each other. You speak Japanese very well. Really! How did you study?
Yonghwa: Drama. Japanese drama.
Jungshin: Do you know the drama ‘Pride‘?
DJ: Pride? Kimura Takuya?
Jungshin: Yes. When I watched it for the first time, it was like a cultural shock. After that, I really like Kimura Takuya till now.
DJ: Do you respect him?
Jungshin: Yes. I like Takeuchi Yuko as well.
DJ: She is beautiful. “Love Story” is very good.
Jungshin: Yes.
DJ: Among the members, what is popular these days?
Jonghyun: It’s drama.
DJ: You really watch drama a lot.
Jonghyun: It is helpful for me to compose songs and to study Japanese. There are many good things in it.
DJ: Recent dramas?
Jonghyun: I watch both recent and old dramas.
DJ: Since you live together, do you watch it together?
Yonghwa: Individually.
Minhyuk: As we watch individually, there are a variety of dramas that we saw and we could learn a lot from them.
DJ: Do you have any secret that only members know about it?
Yonghwa: Secret.
DJ: Please let me know.
Yonghwa: Jungshin is always the same. He is afraid of riding on the plane.
DJ: Who?
Jonghyun: Jungshin. And he sleeps with his eyes open.
DJ: Sleeps with eyes open? Are you scared?
Jonghyun: Yes, I am scared.
DJ: It ‘s funny.
Jungshin: Thank you.
DJ: How about Minhyuk? Please reveal any secret that you know.
Minhyuk: I can’t watch scary movies.
DJ: Horror movie?
Jungshin: Like ‘Saw‘
Minhyuk: I hate it.
DJ: I will give you the DVD of an American horror movie that I starred in. It’s a quite scary movie like ‘Saw’. How about Jonghyun? Don’t you have anything about him?
Minhyuk: Jonghyun Hyung has beard, plenty of beard.
DJ: He has a lot?
Minhyuk: Yes. At night, his beard grow so much.
DJ: He doesn’t look like (he has them).
Jonghyun: I shaved this morning.
DJ: You look clean now.
Jonghyun: I am fine now.
DJ: You are very manly. Your male hormone is strong. Next, please tell me Yonghwa’s secret.
Yonghwa: I don’t have any.
Jungshin: Yonghwa Hyung sleeps on his stomach.
Jonghyun: Right. He is not normal.
DJ: Like a baby? Cute.
DJ: There are 3 new songs in your major debut single. I will play one more song. Jonghyunm shi, please introduce it.
CNBLUE: This is CNBLUE’s Rain of Blessing, please have a listen.
♫ [Rain of Blessing] ♫
DJ: That was CNBLUE’s Rain of Blessing. This week we are with Korea’s anticipated and popular band CNBLUE. You have performed street live in Shinjuku. Recently you held free live performance in Shinjuku.
Yonghwa: At that time, I saw audience from stage and thought about how many they came. I heard that they were about 7,000 people.
DJ: 7,000 people? Awesome!
Yonghwa: Yes. I was really surprised.
DJ: When you performed there long ago, there was no audience. 2 years ago? 3 years ago? The time goes by and it became 7,000 people.
Jonghyun: It was the same place.
DJ: It’s such an amazing thing. Were you touched?
Yonghwa: Yes.
Jonghyun: I was surprised.
Yonghwa: So, next year it will be in Tokyo Dome.
DJ: 50,000 people? It will be increased a lot.
Yonghwa: I want to do that. Everyone please help us.
DJ: I think it will be possible? I think you can do it with this popularity, and with this force.
Yonghwa: Let’s keep it up.
Jonghyun: Let’s work hard.
DJ: Today, as a K-pop special. We have invited CNBLUE to our studio. Thank you so much.
CNBLUE: Thank you.
DJ: Don’t you think that the four members are so close to each other? Before the broadcast, while they were waiting, I saw them talking to each other happily and I thought they were cute. Before their (dream) Tokyo Dome’s concert, CNBLUE will hold a Japan tour in December. Tokyo concert will be on December 16, Friday, at Yoyogi National Stadium, the 1st hall. I want to go and see it. That’s all for this week with Korean popular band CNBLUE who released Japan major debut single “ In My Head”.
As we all know, CNBLUE will be performing in Kpop Music Fest at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on November 12th. The first Australian CNBLUE fanbase “CNBLUE Australia” has come up with a support project for the upcoming event. They are able to make contact with the concert organizer to hand over the gifts. You don’t need to be in Australia to join this project. Donations are welcome if you feel like giving them something.
The due date for this project is November 5th 011. For more details, please read below. Be sure to leave comment HERE if you have any suggestions. Alternatively, you can tweet ”CNBLUE Australia” admins @shazza83L and/or @blue_jus7 for more detailed explanations
Dear Fellow BOICE
We are at the 2/3 mark of October! That means, November is knocking on your door!
We have liaised with the concert organizer and they will help us in arranging the handover.
Given our group is only small AND GROWING, we have decided to do a smaller size of support project, it will be mainly gifts based. But we welcome all ideas!!!
Our budget is to achieve $500
10 CDs of local Australian Bands
5 DVDs of local Australian Bands’ Concerts
Heat bags
Jarrah Honey
Personalised Australian Stamps
Uggies (not included in the budget above, and ONLY IF WE HAVE SPARE FUNDS!!!!)
What we need you to do -
comment on this post with ideas: CDs and DVDs selctions, and any other non-material gift ideas
contribute to the support fund (Paypal – aussieboice@gmail.com ; discription – support project)
If you have sent your donation through, please kindly email us as well with the subject [Support Project]
Dateline: 31 October 2011 5pm AEST
Please contribute as much as you can!
Fed up with the constant breaches of privacy, actor Jang Geun Suk left multiple warnings to his sasaeng fans through Twitter. ‘Sasaeng‘ fans are often described as aggressive fans who follow their idol around 24/7 — in a word, they’re scarily obsessive.
On October 30th, Jang Geun Suk tweeted, “Saseng fan kids. You guys are probably deceiving yourselves, following me and talking about how you guys know my every move. But you know what? By doing so, you guys are becoming that much more distant from me. Laugh while you can ^^ I’m a scary guy when I’m angry~”
He also tweeted, “I remember your faces clearly. Sasaeng kids would love it when I say that I remember them, right? Like I said before, laugh while you can~ You guys are out now!”
Jang Geun Suk also revealed that ‘Sasaeng’ fans weren’t just found in Korea, but in China and Japan as well. “I don’t mind people following me, but there is a certain ‘limit’“. “I like Japan and the Japanese people^^ I just don’t like sasaeng fans~ I like China and the Chinese people, [it's] just that I don’t like sasaeng fans~ Now, if I say don’t follow me~ Just stop then. That’s what you call a ‘limit’~“.
He concluded, “By stressing this ‘limit’, I’m leaving this message in the hopes that the excessive affection doesn’t become obnoxious.”
Let’s hope his ‘fans’ get the message and give him some room to breathe.
A huge billboard of singer Kim Hyun Joong will be installed in one of the biggest downtown China.
On the 31st, the Seoul government said they will install a billboard, which is 20 centimeters across and 14.8 centimeters long, to promote Seoul in China. On the billboard, the Korean Wave star Kim is holding shopping bags with Han River, 63 Building, and Namsan N Tower.
Shin Myeon Ho, head of economy development division, says, “We expect many Chinese people to visit Seoul after they see the billboard of Kim. We will try to promote Seoul to the world with a variety of promotions.”
Mnet’s “M! Countdown” is back with another episode of great performances!
Competing for the #1 spot, it was a hot battle between SNSD, Kim Hyun Joong, and SECRET, but in the end, it was SNSD who clinched a win with “The Boys“!
Congratulations to SNSD!
Other performers tonight included INFINITE, U-KISS, F.T. Island, Kim Kyu Jong, Kim Bo Kyung, B1A4, M.I.B, MYNAME, Orange Caramel Kim Wan Sun, Huh Gak and Davichi.
2NE1‘s first concert in Thailand, ‘NOLZA in BANGKOK‘, has been canceled due to the severe flooding in the country.
2NE1 was originally scheduled to expand their activities in Asia with a concert in Thailand for October 29th. Unfortunately, the country’s been suffering from major damages caused by heavy rain and flooding, which began in July. 2NE1′s concert hall was recently declared to be in a critical situation.
YG Entertainment stated, “We recently canceled our concert in Thailand because of the flooding there. On the 29th, 2NE1 will be filming postponed endorsement photoshoots in addition to rehearsing for their YG Family concert in December. 2NE1 is disappointed, but they’re more concerned for their Thai fans. Recovering Thailand is the biggest priority at the moment.”
The YG Family concert will be held on December 3rd and 4th
믿기지 않아
My love
잔인하게 날 못 본 척 하고 돌아서니
흩날리는 머릿결에 절망으로
떨리는 눈동자를
감춰도 훤히 보이네 거짓말처럼
너 땜에 이렇게 돼버렸고
지옥 같아 매일매일 하루하루
그리워 너무나 그리워
아무리 아니라 해도
그게 안 돼
I can’t stand it anymore
내 삶이 망가져도
어제 보다 슬픈 오늘에 비어있는
내 안 네 자리에
하염없이 눈물이 나오는 걸까
애타게 널 불러 봐도
보이지가 않는 너인데
영원히 돌아보지 않을래
yesterday
나난나난나난나난나
yesterday
나난나난나난나난나
돌아와 줘
끝내 넌 돌아오질 않아
우리 사랑은 어제까지 영원히
돌아보지 않을래
yesterday
네가 그리워 너무나 그리워
마음을 굳게 먹어도
어제 보다 슬픈 오늘에 비어있는
내 안 네 자리에
하염없이 눈물이 나오는 걸까
애타게 널 불러 봐도
보이지가 않는 너인데
영원히 돌아보지 않을래
yesterday
나난나난나난나난나
yesterday
나난나난나난나난나
돌아와 줘
끝내 넌 돌아오질 않아
우리 사랑은 어제까지 영원히
돌아보지 않을래
어제 보다 슬픈 오늘에 비어있는
내안 네 자리에 네 빈자리에
하염없이 눈물이 나오는 걸까
그리운 걸까 애타게 널 불러 봐도
애타게 널 불러 봐도
보이지가 않는 너인데
영원히 돌아보지 않을래
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Solo artist G.NA attended the NetKAL (Network of Korean American Leaders) conference in L.A. at USC Davidson Conference Center as a representative of Korean singers.
G.NA was introduced as “K-POP’s NO.1 Artist”, and after receiving a warm welcome from the audience, she gave a heartfelt speech about her road to becoming a singer.
When asked “How popular is K-Pop right now?”, she answered, “I went to many different Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan, and learned that so many people have love for Korean singers. Recently, I’ve been able to experience realtime feedback from countries I’ve never been to before in Europe and South America through SNS.”
She continued, “Recently, when I was on MTV in New York with 4minute and B2ST, I was really surprised. Seeing all the fans gathered at Times Square, I thought that this demonstrated the [international] reaction to K-Pop and felt a sense of responsibility.”
Reflecting on the “future of K-Pop”, G.NA said, “Starting with something small, as Korean culture spreads little by little, I think it’s important for it to seep into people all over the world so that they can gradually get used to it.”
She also stated, “I believe that in the future, as I keep singing on stage, even more opportunities will present themselves. I want to provide good songs for you wherever I am in the world.”
G.NA’s speech at the summit received loud applause from 200 media and entertainment representatives. She later peformed her hit songs, “Top Girl” and “Black & White”, and spoke with local record label representatives, hinting at a possibility of a U.S. debut.
After successfully concluding their epic concert along with the rest of SMTOWN at New York’s Madison Square Garden, SNSD returned to home soil at dawn on the 27th via Incheon International Airport, feeling re-inspired to take Korea by storm once again.
The girls will be immediately jumping right back into their Korean promotions for “The Boys” with an appearance on ‘M! Countdown‘ on the day of their return, followed by the prerequisite rounds on the three major music programs, ‘Inkigayo‘, ‘Show! Music Core‘, and ‘Music Bank‘.
They made a record of 100,000 sales in Korea, on the other hand they had knight-errant and indie activities since 2009 here in Japan. The “YOUNG ELITE = CNBLUE” finally had their major debut in Japan. They graced splendidly the one-man live concert at Yokohama Arena.
The musicality of the members is a mixture of American-style rock and pop music are crystallized in their debut single “In My Head”. Now we approach them on what they are looking for in the future.
-Your last indie live concert at Yokohama Arena was successful.
JongHyun (Guitar & Vocal): “Yes. Firstly, I’d like to thank our fans who have supported us for the last 2 years of indie days to build up our experiences.”
JungShin (Bass): “Although it was also a large venue, we would feel the unity with the audiences. I was so pleased”
YongHwa (Vocal & Guitar): “We performed at arena this time…It made me realise that our music and live performance at arena were the one we make up with our fans. We have already major debuted in Korea, we couldn’t really say we were indie…. When we had our fist live performance in Japan, there were only 4 audiences (laugh). But 2,000 audiences came to our live in 6 months. I never forget about it. I’d like to make live concerts with everyone in many places.”
MinHyuk (Drum): “Although it’s important that we enjoy performing, it’s important more we make our audiences enjoy a lot too. We could do that at arena and I really enjoyed the live concert.”
-When you started the band activity, did you have the vision what you want to be, like “we want to do this kind of music” or “we want to be like this”?
MinHyuk: “What we talked from the beginning was ‘We don’t want to stick to a particular genre. We want to be a durable even we get older.’ We also want to have a lot of live concerts and release many albums.”
JongHyun: “We don’t want to decide the direction where we are heading for, we’d like to have diversity and we want to make it with our fans as well”
YongHwa: “When I compose, I think it’s important when someone listens to my song and say ‘wow, this is a good piece’, rather than ‘I want to compose this’. I always try to compose pieces that make listeners fell good and pleased.”
-Who are your admired bands or musicians?
JungShin: “It’s MR.BIG.”
YongHwa: “I like Bon Jovi a lot. Also I’m currently into MGMT and SOULWAX, I like their electronic element. I’d like to produce such element in our band and I’m searching for it”
JongHyun: “I like Bon Jovi as a band, too. I also like Eric Clapton and John Mayer as solo artists. But the music we pursue is like flumpool, BUMP OF CHICKEN, Mr. Children, or B’z from Japanese artists, the music that is loved by a lot of people.”
MinHyuk: “I like MAROON5 and LINKIN PARK. I like the refined music like band music with synthesizer’s sound. I want to be like Roger Taylor who can play drum and sing.”
-While I was listening to your talks, four of you have multicolored music preferences.
It’s not like ‘We want to play punk rock.’ or ‘We want to play hard rock.’, but I can see that ‘We want to play the rock that can reach to a lot of people, and we want to create a huge energy from it.”
YongHwa: “Yes, indeed. To encourage a lot of people with the music– I think it’s the power of music and the meaning of playing the music.”
-The major debut single “In My Head” is the exact piece the that showed such ambitions in crystal clear. All of three tracks have different directions, but what you want to achieve is ‘the unity through the music’.
YongHwa: “Yes, I think it’s important. But this time, we put a strong meaning to introduce ‘We are the band like this’. We put more effort to express our own colour. In the past, we discussed ‘what is our own colour’….but our music have the tune of various genres (laugh). We ended up saying ‘The tune of various genres is our own colour’. It’s a pity to decide it right now, as we have a lot of musical genres that we have yet to try.”
-You all are still young, yet you’ve already found out your own way ahead through your live performances both in Korea and Japan. I can see you are stepping forward by major debut that is said as your ‘pass point’, and it’s included in “In My Head”.
YongHwa: “Yes, it’s true. We saw LINKIN PARK’s live performance the other day (CNBLUE was chosen to perform as the opening act for LINKIN PARK’s live concerts at Makuhari Messe on 10th September), I thought ‘Wow. They are very cool’, ‘Can we be like them someday.’ We want to be the band that everyone aspires for. We know we still have to grow up. We’d like to perform perfectly and be a cool band steadily.”
JongHyun: “We’d like to perform at many of rock festivals. We want a lot of rock fans to know us. It’d be great if we can perform the opening act for B’z.”
YongHwa: “Wow, Super!!” (laugh)
JongHyun: “I’d like to say ‘B’z coming next.” (laugh)
Hallyu star band CNBLUE has released their first Japanese single album which ranked at high position in Japanese music chart.
Reporter:
Recently, Hallyu band CNBLUE who is very popular in Japan released their major debut single ‘In My Head’ in Japan that was sold more than 70,000 copies in a week and ranked fourth in the Oricon weekly chart.
On the day of their major debut single release, CNBLUE held a guerrila concert in front of Shinjuku Station, Tokyo and about 7,000 fans gathered. The situation made the Japanese police authority concerned about the safety so their concert has been cancelled within 3 minutes.
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It was reported that actor Jang Geun Suk presented the entire staff of ‘You’re My Pet‘ with t-shirts and 80 whole chickens.
Jang Geun Suk, who is known for his overflowing energy even during tiring all-night filming, secured his position as the favorite pet, not only to actress Kim Ha Neul, but also amongst the staff members. Not only did he play the guitar to brighten the mood on set, but, through his actions, he also played the role of a big energizer on set. It’s reported that he even shuffle danced on set, sending a shuffle ‘wind’ during the downtime in shooting.
On top of all of this, Jang Geun Suk prepared t-shirts for all the staff members, who put their hard work and sweat for the movie throughout the hot summer. When they had an film an all-nighter, it was reported that he ordered 80 whole chickens, one for each member of the staff, garnering more popularity on set.
Meanwhile, ‘You’re My Pet’ is set to premiere in theaters next month, it’s a love story about a woman, Eunee (played by Kim Ha Neul), who has the beauty and brains but lacks in the love department along with her human ‘pet’ (Jang Geun Suk) who suddenly falls into her life. It’s based on the popular manga series by Yayoi Ogawa.
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On October 26th, a popular entertainment program on SBS got to sit down with actress Ha Ji Won for an interview. Considering her A-list status now, they asked if she was ever criticized during her rookie days.
“People told me that I had no talent, that I had no social skills, and that they didn’t like to associate themselves with me,” she admitted.
“Celebrities have informal social events quite often, but I was so reserved that they thought I was lame. When I heard things like that, I doubted myself as a celebrity.”
But once the actress performed a cover of Wax‘s “Oppa“, and the naysayers never uttered the same words again.
“They began to say that I knew how to have a good time,” she said with a laugh.
KBS‘s highly-anticipated drama, ‘Love Rain‘, is experiencing some turbulence due to Jang Geun Suk‘s busy overseas schedules.
According to an insider related to the issue, shooting for the drama came to an ‘all-stop’ for two weeks because of the male lead’s Japanese activities. “Director Yoon Suk Ho recently brought all the managers together to go over schedules.” he said. “Because Jang Geun Suk paid attention only to his foreign schedules, the director had to step up to the plate. It’s a rare case for the director to personally meet with the managers.”
Jang Geun Suk recently kicked off his Japanese Arena Tour, and also has his first Chinese album to promote as well. In short, his schedule is packed.
“The shooting schedule is considerably backed up,” the insider revealed. “We were supposed to have completed five episodes by now, but only got through one. Jang Geun Suk keeps leaving in the middle of this situation, so the directors and the other cast members are having a hard time.”
Jang Geun Suk also raised eyebrows by bringing his own filming crew on-set, purportedly to film footage for a making-of video. “It’s not enough to harm the production, but since it’s Director Yoon’s first time dealing with it, he doesn’t know what to think of it.”
‘Love Rain’, which also stars SNSD‘s YoonA as the female lead, is scheduled to be broadcast in early 2012.
After releasing the preview to their promotional video for their 2nd Japanese single "Yayaya" a few days ago, the full video has been released to the public and has already begun airing Japanese television.
Unlike its Korean counterpart, the Japanese "Yayaya" PV does not have a "storyline" to be followed. Instead, group and solo shots are seen, and no one is taken by T-ara as hostage. There are, however, additional scenes in which the members of T-ara are playing around with boxing gloves and bow and arrows.
T-ara's 2nd single "Yayaya" is set to be released on November 30th. In addition to gearing up for promotions in Japan, T-ara is also preparing for their return to South Korea in November.
SHINee is set to visit London again as they have been invited to the upcoming film festival in London this November. On the 25th of October, the official website for the annual London Korean Film Festival confirmed that SHINee will perform for the opening gala presentation.
Meanwhile, on the London Korean Film Festival's Facebook page, they also revealed details of the upcoming performance by announcing, "2011 London Korean Film Festival Opening Gala Concert: SHINee in London. To open the 2011 London Korean Film Festival, it is our very great pleasure to announce that Korean pop sensation SHINee will be performing the first K-pop concert on the afternoon of 3rd November 2011 at the Odeon West End."
Tickets, worth £20 and £30, are said to be released through the Odeon website.
The film festival will kick off on the same day with the opening film "Arrow The Ultimate Weapon" and will end with the action film "The Unjust."
This won't be the first time that SHINee paid a visit to London as they previously held their Japanese debut showcase at Abbey Road Studios last June.
On October 27th, Nongshim‘s Sharing Love Volunteer Association visited the ‘Green Umbrella Children’s Foundation’ to help children with disabilities.
The ‘Sharing Love Volunteer Association’ was joined by 40 volunteers, including popular idol groups INFINITE and T-ara. In addition to a magic show and various games put on for the children, volunteers also presented the facility with 100 boxes of Nongshim’s Shin Ramyun.
The T-ara girls stated, “While spending time with the children as participants of the Sharing Love Volunteer Association, we learned that love becomes more beautiful when it’s expressed and shared with others.”
Nongshim will also be sponsoring a ‘Sharing Love Concert’ on November 6th, featuring artists such as SNSD, Brown Eyed Girls, T-ara, Teen Top, MBLAQ, Davichi, and Kim Hyun Joong.
Kim Hyun Joong revealed his reasoning for buying thirty of the same pair of pants on the recent episode of ‘Strong Heart‘.
Host Lee Seung Gi commented, “I heard that you bought 30 of the same gray pants.” Kim Hyung Joong explained, “I only wear one of those pairs. I even wore them when I was coming here. I wear them every day.” Apparently, the star has similarities to famous designer Andre Kim, was known to only wear white outfits in public.
He continued, “The pants are no longer made so I even personally made some. They’re so comfortable that I gave them to everyone around me, and I only have four pairs left.” Kim Hyun Joong also brought one of his gray pants to gift to Lee Seung Gi, which the host then wore and posed in. The pants looked like simple gray sweat pants.
Super Junior‘s Eunhyuk commented, “They look like monk pants,” causing laughter among the guests.
Singer, actor, international star Rain has updated his fans on his current situation by writing them a letter by hand.
He wanted to thank his many fans that have continually sent him letters through an online community site. He wrote, “I have some time right now so I thought I would jot down a few words… I am receiving all of your letters and am reading them thoroughly. Letters are my biggest source of strength.”
He continued, “I am getting along well with the other soldiers. I’m learning new things here that I’ve never come across in society, and for that I’m thankful. I’m a lot older than the other soldiers here. They are at least seven years my junior, and some are up to eleven years younger than I am. I think they like asking me for advice in life.”
“Sometimes I get lonely and tired, cold and hungry,” he said in regards to military life and concluded, “But I’m learning to enjoy myself in a new environment. I have to go now, I’m going into training.”
Fans who saw his letter remarked, “I’m so relieved that you’re doing well“, “I’ll write you too“, and “Soldier Jung Ji Hoon fighting!”
Rain became an official active duty soldier for the 306 reserves in GyungGido Uijeongboo on October 11th.
Last month, it was reported that JYJ was appointed as the endorsement models for Chong Geun Dang Pharmaceutical‘s new painkiller brand, ‘Penzal Q’. The score for the commercial song for the advertisements, “Don’t Be Sick”, was revealed at the end of September, and the song was aired through television advertisements beginning on October 1st.
As soon as the ads started airing, requests for the release of the full song flooded in. Chong Geun Dang, in response to the requests, revealed that they will distribute the song for free starting on October 25th through the official ‘Penzal Q’ website (www.penzalq.com) as well as their facebook page (www.facebook.com/penzalQ).
“Don’t Be Sick” is a ballad about caring for a sick girlfriend, and sung by the crooners of JYJ.
Chong Geun Dang stated, “With the popularity of JYJ, many have expressed interest in the background song for the advertisement sung by JYJ themselves… We have decided to start this service [of providing free downloads] to help ease the pain that people suffer from due to stress of everyday life through the mellow music.”
Check out the CF below and :35 second version of the song below.
Unfortunately, as Chong Geun Dang led us to believe, the song available for download doesn’t seem to match up with the one in the CF above.
JongHyun: Actually we studied music in Japan at 2009, (for) 6 months.
YongHwa: But our Japanese is still not good yet, so we’ll study harder.
Fernandez(cat): What’s your favorite Japanese food?
JongHyun: i like Hitsumabushi.*
JungShin: At Nagoya(’s specialty food)?
JongHyun: Yes.
Fernandez(cat): Then who’s your favorite japanese actress?
JungShin: I really like Yuko Takeuchi.**
JongHyun: I’m a big fan of Yui Aragaki.***
JungShin: Neko san mo kawaii desu.(You, cat is cute too).
JongHyun: Kawaii.
Fernandez(cat): I’m a guy..
YongHwa: (to MC) We work hard at major debut, please cheer on us. Please listen to our In My Head.
MinHyuk: We will hold live tour on December, please coming.
YongHwa: Please invite us at this program’s studio.
Well, we were CNBLUE, thank u.
if u don't know who is Yuko Takeuchi and Yui Aragaki,check this photos :
The four-member band CNBLUE from Korea made their Japanese major debut with the single “In My Head” on Wednesday, 19th October. As a privilege to those who purchased their CD, they held the live and talk event on Saturday, October 22 at the Osaka Dojima River Forum and on Sunday, October 23 at Tokyo Yomiuri Land EAST Open Theatre.
Ayugai was appointed as the MC for both events and greatly acquainted with the members. Altogether, around 14,000 audiences gathered for the events in those two days!
He exchanged e-mail address with MinHyuk (drum) during break time.
He gave each member a TOBYAS CD and they promised to have a reunion during the tour in December!
Who's Ken Ayugai ??read text below :
About Ken & Grind Organization
Ken Ayugai was born 1970 to a Japanese father and German mother, near the fish market in down town Tokyo. Soon after birth, his parents took him to be raised in Riverdale, N.Y. until the age of 9. Thereafter he spent most of his youth in Tokyo, except for one year in 1986 when he returned to New York and started his first band at the age of 16. After his return to Tokyo he entered the prestigious Gakushuin University, the designate university for the Emperorﾕs family, where he studied law while playing in a Heavy Metal band. His band “Bump’n Grind” released two albums before their split up in 1999. During his University years, Ken also made his TV debut in 1993 as one of the first VJs of the newly established MTV Japan. He has been an active player in the Japanese entertainment industry ever since as Musician, Actor, Radio DJ and TV personality, etc.
Artist : Girls' Generation 소녀시대
Title Album : 3rd Album "The Boys"
Release date : 2011.10.19
Label : SM Entertainment
HANGUL
겁이 나서 시작조차 안 해 봤다면
그댄 투덜대지 마라 좀
주저하면 기회는 모두 너를 비켜가
가슴 펴고 나와봐라 좀
Bring the boys out
Bring the boys out
We bring the boys out
We bring the boys out
Bring the boys out
순리에 맞춰 사는 것
넌 길들여져 버렸니
괜찮니 get up
암담한 세상이 그댈 주눅들게
만드니 that’s funny 괜찮니
그냥 볼 수가 없어 난
부딪히고 깨져도 몇 번이고 일어나
날카롭게 멋지게 일을 내고야
말던 네 야성을 보여줘
My boy Bring the boys out
Girls’ generation make you feel the heat
전 세계가 너를 주목해
Bring the boys out
위풍도 당당하지 뼛속부터
넌 원래 멋졌어
You know the girls
Bring the boys out
흔들리지 말고 그댄 자릴 지켜
원래 전쟁 같은 삶을 사는 인간인걸
너는 왜 yes fly high
벌써 왜 you fly high 포기해
Oh 넌 멀었잖아
너의 집념을 보여줘 지구를 좀
흔들어줘 모두가 널 볼 수 있게
역사는 새롭게 쓰여지게 될 걸
주인공은 바로 너 바로 너
Bring the boys out
Girls’ generation make you feel the heat
전 세계가 너를 주목해
Bring the boys out
위풍도 당당하지 뼛속부터
넌 원래 멋졌어
You know the girls
Bring the boys out
Girls bring the boys out
I wanna dance right now
내가 이끌어 줄게 come out
세상 남자들이여 난
No.1 지혜를 주는
Athena Check this out
즐겨봐라, 도전의 설레임
이미 모두 가진 세상의 남자
그대로 쭉 가는 거야 keep up
Girls’ generation, We don’t stop
Bring the boys out
막혀버렸던 미래가 안보였던
미래가 네 눈앞에 펼쳐져
점점 더 완벽한 네 모습에
마치 난 빨려들 것 같아 My heart
겁이 나서 시작조차 안 해 봤다면
그댄 투덜대지 마라 좀
Bring the boys out
주저하면 기회는 모두 너를 비켜가
가슴 펴고 나와 봐라 좀
Bring the boys out
cause the girls bring the boys out
Girls bring the boys out
Girls bring the boys out Girls bring the boys out
Girls’ generation make’em feel the heat
전 세계가 우릴 주목해
Bring the boys out
세상을 이끌 남자
멋진 여자들 여기 모여라
You know the girls
Bring the boys out
ROMANIZATION
the boys.. the boys..
the boys.. the boys..
geobi naseo sijakjocha an hae bwatdamyeon
geudaen tudeoldaeji mara jom
jujeohamyeon gihoeneun modu neoreul bikyeoga
gaseum pyeogo nawabwara jom
Bring the boys out
Bring the boys out
We bring the boys out
We bring the boys out
Bring the boys out
sullie matchwo saneun geot
neon gildeullyeojyeo beoryeonni
gwaenchannni get up
amdamhan sesangi geudael junukdeulge
mandeuni that's funny gwaenchannni
geunyang bol suga eobseo nan
budichigo kkaejyeodo myeot beonigo ireona
nalkaropge meotjige ireul naegoya
maldeon ne yaseongeul boyeojwo
My boy Bring the boys out
Girls’ generation make you feel the heat
jeon segyega neoreul jumokhae
Bring the boys out
wipungdo dangdanghaji ppyeossokbuteo
neon wollae meotjyeosseo
You know the girls
Bring the boys out
heundeulliji malgo geudaen jaril jikyeo
wollae jeonjaeng gateun sarmeul saneun inganingeol
neoneun wae yes fly high
beolsseo wae you fly high pogihae
Oh neon meoreotjanha
neoui jimnyeomeul boyeojwo jigureul jom
heundeureojwo moduga neol bol su itge
yeoksaneun saeropge sseuyeojige doel geol
juingongeun baro neo baro neo
Bring the boys out
Girls’ generation make you feel the heat
jeon segyega neoreul jumokhae
Bring the boys out
wipungdo dangdanghaji ppyeossokbuteo
neon wollae meotjyeosseo
You know the girls
Bring the boys out
Girls bring the boys out
I wanna dance right now
naega ikkeureo julge come out
sesang namjadeuriyeo nan
No.1 jihyereul juneun
Athena Check this out
jeulgyeobwara, dojeonui seolleim
imi modu gajin sesangui namja
geudaero jjuk ganeun geoya keep up
Girls’ generation, We don’t stop
Bring the boys out
makhyeobeoryeotdeon miraega anboyeotdeon
miraega ne nunape pyeolchyeojyeo
jeomjeom deo wanbyeokhan ne moseube
machi nan ppallyeodeul geot gata My heart
geobi naseo sijakjocha an hae bwatdamyeon
geudaen tudeoldaeji mara jom
Bring the boys out
jujeohamyeon gihoeneun modu neoreul bikyeoga
gaseum pyeogo nawa bwara jom
Bring the boys out
cause the girls bring the boys out
Girls bring the boys out
Girls bring the boys out Girls bring the boys out
Girls’ generation make’em feel the heat
jeon segyega uril jumokhae
Bring the boys out
sesangeul ikkeul namja
meotjin yeojadeul yeogi moyeora
You know the girls
Bring the boys out
Source: mfound.jp Translated by: CNBLove @ cnbluestorm
CNBLUE held release event at Yomiuri Land East Open Theater!
Gathered around 14,000 audiences, exceptional as new artists!
CNBLUE released their debut single “In My Head” on Wednesday 19th October. And on Sunday 23rd October, they held a live event at Yomiuri Land East Open Theater.
This event, in which only the fortunate fans could participate as they were chosen out of all the CD buyers by lottery (lucky draw). The events was held in four sessions in two days. The previous day, Saturday 22nd October, two events were held in Osaka. For those two days in total, they have gathered about 14,000 fans to all four events.
The live concert started with “Man in Front of the Mirror” at the venue packed with lucky fans that were chosen through the lottery.
YongHwa (vocal & guitar): “(Finally) we could have our major debut, thanks to you all! We want you to listen to our new song!”
He greeted the fans and unveiled “Mr.KIA (Know It All)” and “Rain of Blessing” for the first time, those tracks are included in the major debut single album.
“Mr.KIA (Know It All)” is a cynical track, written and composed by YongHwa.
“Rain of Blessing” is a lyrical ballad track, composed by JongHyun (guitar & vocal).
The venue gradually got heated up.
Then as soon as the intro of the long-awaited debut single “In My Head” started, the fans cheer reached the maximum!! It was wrapped in such a large chorus in the fine weather of autumn sky.
After finishing their live performance of all the 6 tracks (excluding the encore), including three new tracks in their major debut single “In My Head”, the talk session gave the audience the glimpse of CNBLUE members’ real face and they also talked about the roots of music for each member’s music life.
Their roots of the music life are:
JungShin (Bass): MR.BIG, JongHyun (Guitar & Vocal): Eric Clapton, YongHwa (Vocal & Guitar): BON JOVI, and MinHyuk (Drums): Maroon 5. Each member’s personality can be seen in their choice of music.
When the MC asked them further about their enthusiasm for major debut,each member replied;
JungShin: “I’m filled with deep emotion.”
JongHyun: “Without being different from what we have done so far, we will become a band which can respond by our music.”
YongHwa: “We’ll do our best! Please keep supporting us!!”
MinHyuk: “It’s the day of our new departure, and also it’s the prologue of us. We’ll do our best!!”
The messages from CNBLUE unified audiences at the venue. At the end of the live & talk show, there was a lottery of signed posters from CNBLUE. The event ended very successfully.
Set List
1. Man in front of the Mirror
2. Coward
3. Illusion
4. Mr.KIA(Know It All)
5. Rain of Blessing
6. In My Head
（encore）
1. Try again, Smile again
SHINee's Japanese website has just revealed that the group's first Japanese album, "THE FIRST," will be postponed. The original release was set for November 23rd, but due to problems during its production, the album won't be released until December 7th
"THE FIRST" will include 12 songs from which 5 will be entirely new, and will be released in a regular version, a limited, and a special limited box version.
December 7th, on the other hand, is packed with Korean releases as not only SHINee will be releasing their first full album, but other Korean artists are also set on releasing singles, collaborations, DVDs, or albums. Super Junior will be releasing their second single "Mr. Simple" in Japan, while BoA is set to release her first DVD single "Milestone." Code-V just recently revealed their debut Japanese single "Addiction ~I can't live without you~" will be released on the same day and boy group SHU-I will be unveiling their 3rd Japanese single "Never Give Up Yeah!" on December 7th as well. Next to IU's compilation release, MBLAQ's DVD release and 4minute's next single, U-Kiss members Kevin and Eli are also set to reveal their collaboration with Japanese single JAMOSA.
Which artist's music will you be purchasing on December 7th?
The producers of "Full House 2" announced the final cast earlier today and confirmed that Hwang Jungeum and No Minwoo, who were originally tapped for the roles, will be participating in the production.
Casting came to a halt a few weeks ago after Hwang Jungeum and No MInwoo temporarily withheld their decision their decision to appear in the project, which led the production to offer the possible roles to Min Hyorin and BEAST's Doojoon.
A press release from Core Contents Media revealed today that Hwang Jungeum and No Minwoo signed on as the main characters of "Full House 2," after discussions were held between the agency and the drama's producers. Both have been in talks to star in the sequel but called off their participation due to opinion differences with the producers.
"Full House 2" is set to focus on the fake marriage between a top star and aspiring reporter. It will make its premiere on Japanese broadcasting channel TBS in March next year, before beginning its run in South Korea.
