Korean online games portal HanGame [Kr] has created a cafe game featuring Korean pop group KARA; below are the girls’ commercials, dressing in maid-cafe-kinda-cosplay-costumes to endorse the game…
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Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC) is one of the world’s largest fashion festival, held twice annually in Japan since 2005, and is opened to public with affordable price.
The event showcases real cloths, street fashion and casual brands. The show is streamed live on mobile and internet; people can buy their favourite products on the spot or almost real time online.
Below are some videos from the 2009 Autumn-Winter show on September 5; fashion, girls, or music, it seems fun whichever you preferred…
Random food from my Langkawi holiday in August 2009…
Nasi Pattaya (Pattaya rice) @ Oriental Village
Fried rice wrapped in an omelette, a common dish in Malaysia; in fact pretty common in East Asia with slight variances. The Malaysian version, I assumed, was originated from Thailand with its namesake popular beach-resort-city.
Korean pop star BoA is taking a break from her American activities to release a Japanese single, Bump Bump, featuring Verbal from M-flo. Music video, and some black & white promotional pics further below…
Entertainment snippets from various sources…
China – Fan Bingbing on Fashion Weekly [Cfensi]
China – Zhou Xun on Bazaar (pic) [Stareastasia]
Japan – Top 10 Gravure Models; NSFW [RCA]
Korea – Kang Yui at Korea Electronics Show [RCA]
Korea – Idols turn Invincible Youth [Stareastasia]
Korea – Here comes another boyband [Kbites]
Korea+Malaysia – Lee Minho is coming to town [K-popped]
Canada – Avirl Lavigne filed for divorce from Deryck Whibley [AP@Youtube]
Korean teenage girls group f(x) will feature on November issue of Korean Cosmopolitan magazine [Kr] as models for cosmetic brand Chanel.
From top to bottom – Luna, Amber, Sulli, Krystal and Victoria…
Japanese actress Keiko Kitagawa is playing a swordswoman in her new movie After the Flowers, which is scheduled to show in March 2010. Don’t have much clue what the film is about; love its promotional pics for Keiko though…
Korea Tourism Organisation is running series of online contests via its Korea 100 Sparkles campaign, with USD30,000 prizes to give away, and opportunities to meet some of the top Korean celebrities.
The big prizes require some creativity and work. Sharing here the easier one… watch the video below, The 5 Most Popular Tourist Destinations in Korea, and leave a comment on Youtube telling which place is your favourite and why.
Main prize is two round trip airline tickets to South Korea; contest ends on November 10. Check out the video even if you are not interested with the opportunity; pretty nice stuff…