South Korea’s famous news announcer Lim Kyeong-jin has quit hosting MBC’s sport news on Feb 1 following his gaffe while under influence of alcohol.
Lim couldn’t follow his script properly and was slurring his words when reporting the news on Jan 31. TV audiences were fast to suspect that he was drunk while reporting the news, which he admitted later on.
According to Lim, he drank a bit during lunch to celebrate the Korean handball team’s victory against Japan… and couldn’t recover from the hangover in the evening.
The production team has also apologised for failing to notice Lim’s drunken condition before allowing his to report the news.
This is the 2nd high profile blunder from MBC’s news announcer in a month. News anchor Moon Ji-ae was replaced in early January for giggling at the end of a live broadcast.
Chinese New Year started on Feb 7 this year (normally celebrated for 15-days), and people from all over the world, not just Chinese, are celebrating the festival…
Villagers in Tianxin Village, Jiangxi Province, China dressed up in full gear to light the firecrackers
Today is the first day of Chinese New Year (2008). However, it’s not just the Chinese that are celebrating the new year… other ethnic like Koreans and Vietnamese are celebrating new year too, based on the lunisolar calendar.
Below is a music video of some Chinese New Year songs compilation, featuring celebs from Taiwan’s J-star agency; including members from popular boy-band 5566 and 183 Club etc…
A 2006 Chinese New Year music video, with New Year greetings in various languages
Malaysian police have arrested a thief who fell asleep after broking into a house.
The burglar helped himself to some homemade cookies and promptly dozed off on a bed, scaring the occupants when they returned home from weekend shopping.
V. Sathya, 39, and his family had gone shopping for Chinese New Year goods. His 9-year-old son was shocked when he entered his room to see a man sleeping in his bed.
“He shouted and ran out of his room. Even then the burglar did not wake up and carried on sleeping while holding on to one of my wife’s purses,” said Sathya. [Thestar]
The family then called the police, who shook the burglar from his slumber and took him away.
Japanese toy maker Sanrio unveiled the world’s largest Hello Kitty statue (2.5 metres tall) at its flagship store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district on Feb 1… [Mainichi]
Japanese pop diva Kumi Koda has found herself in trouble after making a careless remark on a radio show earlier this week.
The comment came on Tuesday night (Jan 29) while Koda was hosting “All Night Nippon”; the topic of her manager’s marriage came up, and Koda was asked about when her manager was planning to have children…
She made a seemingly light-hearted reply that “when women turn 35, their amniotic fluid goes rotten, so I’d like them to have a child by 35.”
The inaccurate statement sparked a lot of criticism among listeners, particularly on the internet. Koda has issued a public apology on Friday through the websites of Nippon Broadcasting System and Avex, but the damage had already been done.
Cosmetics firm KOSE has halted online advertisements for its Visee brand (feat. Koda) and promotional events for her new album “Kingdom” have all been canceled. [Tokyograph]
Amniotic fluid is the liquid surrounding and cushioning a growing fetus during pregnancy.
Korean pop group Big Bang with their “Last Farewell” music video, starring actor Lee Dong-gun…
Big Bang - Last Farewell MV
Big Bang was named the Artist of The Year at the 17th Seoul Music Awards on Jan 31. Last Farewell is a song from their mini-album “Hot Issue” which was released in Nov 2007.
