[VIDEO] 2NE1: I Don’t Care + Win on Music Bank (31 July)

[VIDEO] FT Island: I Hope on Music Bank (31 July)

[VIDEO] 4Minute: ‘Hot Issue’ Remix on Music Bank (31 July)

[VIDEO] SNSD: Tell Me Your Wish on Music Bank (31 July)

[VIDEO] KARA: Wanna and Mister on Music Bank (31 July)

Mister

Wanna

[VIDEO] Brown Eyed Girls: Abracadabra on Music Bank (31 July)

[VIDEO] T-ara: Wanna Play and Lies on Music Bank (31 July)

[NEWS] DBSK Junsu, Jaejoong & Yoochun for a Lawsuit Against SM? Worries For Group Disbanding

UPDATED!

One of Asia’s biggest group Dong Bang Shin Ki, has 3 of its members in a possible lawsuit against their own company SM Entertainment.

Dong Bang Shin Ki members Xiah JunSu, Micky YooChun and Hero JaeJoong had gone to Seoul Central District Court to hand in an application for provisional disposition to terminate all effects of their exclusive belonging rights contract with SM on 31st July.

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After they released their official stand about the contract exclusive right clause retractile application, SM Entertainment’s representative added about rumours to the band’s disbandment, “On SM’s side, we still have much love for Dong Bang Shin Ki. We do not want them to disband. Let’s resolve this peacefully seeing the long time we have worked together since their debut till now.”

[NEWS] 33 Members From Girl Groups for Music Bank on 31st July – It’s Showdown Time!

It’s showdown time for the girl groups this summer on KBS 2TV on 31st July.

On Music Bank today, there will be a total of 38 female singers performing, and of these 38, 33 are from 6 different female girl groups. All the hottest girl groups have finally come together on one stage this summer.

The 6 girl groups are So Nyeo Shi Dae, 2NE1, Brown Eyed Girls, 4Minute, and also KARA with their comeback stage with ‘Wanna’ and ‘Mister’, and debut stage for group T-ara on Music Bank performing ‘Lies’.

We’ve been talking about the ‘war of girlgroups’ this whole summer, now it is really playing in front of our eyes!

I’m watching KBS now, Kara is performing now 😀 Can’t wait for the results!

[NEWS] ‘Boys Over Flowers’ and ‘Girl Group Generation’ are #1 and #2 Top Searched Keywords by Young People In Their 20s

For the young people in their 20s, the top searched keywords for the year 2009 is ‘Boys Over Flowers’.

Coming 28th August will be the 3rd ‘Mnet 20’s Choice’, and it has been known the top searched keywords amongst the 20s is ‘Boys Over Flowers’, followed by ‘girl group generation’ at #2, and then ‘Kim YunA syndrome’ at #3.

A survey was done in June-July amongst 300 young people in their 20s online, another 200 offline and 40 trend leader groups.

Other hot keywords for this year for fashion are ‘bling bling’, ‘vivid’, ‘wavy perms’, and for societal issues, the top searched are ‘Michael Jaskon’, ‘Cho Shik Nam’, and ‘Youth unemployment’.

Other top searched for stars in yaer 2009 are 2PM, 2NE1, So Nyeo Shi Dae, TaeBongie (a role played by Yoon SangHyun), Park BoYoung, Lee Seung Gi etc.

Credits: Sookyeong

[PICS] Yunho For Evisu F/F 09

[PICS] SuJu Siwon for Elle Magazine

[PICS] Kim HyunJoong for MVIO

[VIDEO] Taemin Cut in THJ Episode 107 (Eng Subbed)

[NEWS] YG, “In 2NE1, the Member I Anticipate the Most is Gong MinJi”

Yang Hyun Seok of YG Entertainment, which recently debuted a new 4-member female group 2NE1, has revealed that the member in the group he most anticipated and expected to make it big is youngest member Gong MinJi.

Gong MinJi is born in 1994 and is currently at a tender age of 15 years old, and is the granddaughter of Korean cultural dancer Gong OkJin. And recently she has caused a topic after giving up on high school to focus on 2NE1’s activities.

Yang HyunSeok said in a recent interview, “Gong MinJi has been training under me since elementary school period. She is a kid who is born while I was doing ‘Dreaming of a BalHae’ as Seo Taiji and Boys.”

“When I look at Gong MinJi, I think about what I was doing when I was at that age. She danced really well just like her grandmother. She is the member who possessed infinite possibilities.”

Credits: Sookyeong

[VIDEO] Heading to the Ground Making/ Filming BTS

[NEWS] SNSD Jessica and SHINee Onew to Perform ‘After 1 Year’ for the First Time

So Nyeo Shi Dae Jessica and SHINee Onew will perform the number ‘After 1 Year’ off So Nyeo Shi Dae 2nd mini album for the first time on stage on MBC Music Core.

Even without their live performance, the duet of Jessica’s delicate and Onew’s warm vocals is already a popular hit amongst music fans with the mini album release.

They will be doing this special stage as fan service for their fans this summer school vacation.

Also on Music Core on 1st August, So Nyeo Shi Dae member Yuri, HyoYeon, Sunny, YoonA, SooYoung and SeoHyun will be performing ‘In Summer’ a remake of Deux’s song.

Credits: Sookyeong

[NEWS] Big Bang and Son DamBi To Be Featured For Brave Brothers’ New Album

The Brave Brothers (real name Kang Dong Chul) will be releasing his first single album ‘Attitude’ on 18th August. And there has been saying that Son DamBi and Big Bang, artistes who sang the songs he wrote, will be featured for this album.

From 2008 to 2009, Son DamBi has sung many hits written by the Brave Brothers like ‘Crazy’, ‘Saturday Night’; also there were Brown Eyed Girls with ‘What to do’, Big Bang with ‘Last Farewell’, After School with ‘Diva’. Brave Brothers have produced the many hits which took the Kpop zone by storm from 2008 to 2009. Not only did he write songs for the mainstream artistes, he has also worked on several underground artistes’ albums.

He said, “I am very thankful that the featured singers not only helped out with the songs, they even appeared for my MV. I am very thankful for these singers I have worked with this period of time. This album will bring good music with a new level of beat and sound.”

Credits: Sookyeong

[VIDEO] 2NE1 on Sukira KTR (30 July)

I Don’t Care

Stay Together

[VIDEO] 2NE1 on DongGoDongRak Radio Show (30 July)

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