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Korean girls group – battle of chicken CF

Yein Jee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:48:37 +0000

Fried/roasted chicken must be a huge biz in Korea, or perhaps it’s cheap to hire Korean celebs to endorse their product, or probably a bit of both.

Sharing here some Korean commercials featuring popular girls groups SNSD, Wonder Girls, Kara and 4minutes for different chicken restaurant chains…

SNSD – Goobne Chicken

SNSD has been endorsing Goobne Chicken for almost two years; video below is their third CF edition for the brand… [check out their previous dance battle CF]

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Mighty Mouth ft. Insooni – Laugh music video

Yein Jee — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:48:43 +0000

English subbed MV of Laugh (웃어) by Korean hip hop duo Mighty Mouth, featuring R&B diva Insooni. The song is the first track from the duo’s Smile mini-album…

The song is just ok for me, but I like its a-laughter-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away theme. Another attraction of the video is the cameos from host of Korean stars, i.e. 4minute, Kara, After School, 2am, Epik High, Lee Seung-gi, Baek Ji-young, Taegoon, Kim Jong-kook, Kim Tae-woo, Jung Juri and Jewelry S etc.

[video subbed by TwirlyBox@Youtube]

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SNSD’s SPAO photoshoot

Yein Jee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:20:17 +0000

Korean pop group SNSD posing for SPAO [Kr], a new fashion line partly owned by the girls’ management agency SM Entertainment. Click image for larger pic…

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Youtube – best of China

Yein Jee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:30:40 +0000

Best of Youtube series: China & Chinese
Methodology: Just search for specific keyword on Youtube and share some of the most viewed videos here; limited to one video per channel.

Chinese Backstreet Boys – That Way [by ewo]

Two of the earliest Youtube celebrities, which shows the website’s power of creating instant fame out of ordinary folks…

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Paula Taylor on Lisa Weekly in Denim

Yein Jee — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:16:26 +0000

Thai actress-model Paula Taylor featured on a September issue of Lisa Weekly Magazine in Denim jeans…

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Asian music video collection (8)

Yein Jee — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:07:45 +0000

Songs by Japanese girls group AKB48; Korean pop groups Tiara+Supernova and singer Ivy; and Taiwanese artist Angela Chang.

AKB48 – River

New song by AKB48, the group’s first Oricon weekly chart topper. And in case you missed my very old post, there’s 48 members in the group indeed… amazed lol?

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Go Soo & Son Ye-jin, White Night & Cosmopolitan

Yein Jee — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:02:02 +0000

Korean stars Go Soo and Son Ye-jin posed for November issue of Cosmopolitan magazine [Kr]; the duo is starring in Into the White Night which is screening next month. The film is Go Soo’s first movie since his enlistment in 2006; the hype is further sparkled with news that Son is going nude for the love scene.

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Chinese paper cutting art

Yein Jee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:42:22 +0000

Chinese paper cutting is a folk art with close to 2000 years of history. Below are some amazing samples of great craftsmanship; most of the graphics are symbols of luck and prosperity, animals & pets, as well as reflections of daily folk lives…

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Li Bingbing on L’Officiel magazine

Yein Jee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:38:06 +0000

Chinese actress Li Bingbing will feature on November issue of L’Officiel…

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Kara wanna be your maid

Yein Jee — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:30:09 +0000

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…

Order Queen Hara

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Tokyo Girls Collection 2009 Autumn & Winter

Yein Jee — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:01:31 +0000

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…

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BoA ft. Verbal – Bump Bump music video and pics

Yein Jee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:51:48 +0000

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…

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Baek Ji-young – Don’t Forget MV – IRIS OST

Yein Jee — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:15:14 +0000

Korean drama IRIS’s OST, titled Don’t Forget, sung by Baek Ji-young. The MV only focused on the love triangle between the three main characters in the spy-action thriller, played by Lee Byung-hun, Kim Tae-hee and Jung Jun-ho…

Nice song; Baek Ji-young did well to bring out the sorrow and emotions. Would be great to have a clean (without conversation) version.

IRIS is one of the most anticipated Korean dramas of the year. The star-studded show opened strongly on October 14; its English subbed episodes are scheduled to start showing on KBS World channel (lucky me lol) on Nov 11.

Other co-stars include Kim Seung-woo, Kim So-yeon and Choi Seung-hyeon.

[video via moonml@Youtube]

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Ex Japanese Prime Minister to voice Ultraman movie

Yein Jee — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:44:49 +0000

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has found himself a new job… as a voice actor for an upcoming live-action Ultraman movie.

The full title of the film is Giant Monster Battle: Ultra Galactic Legend The Movie, to be precise lol.

Koizumi will lend his voice as the Ultraman King, an ancient Legendary Hero in the Ultra family. The film will open in Japan on December 12.

Koizumi is one of the most of popular postwar Prime Ministers in Japan. He retired in 2006, and the political arena has been in chaos ever since. The current PM Yukio Hatoyama, amazingly, is Koizumi’s 4th successor in just over three years.

[via Animenewsnetwork and Japanprobe]

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Bijin Tokei = cute Japanese girls + clock = win

Yein Jee — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:13:49 +0000

Introducing the prettiest digital clock ever.

Bijin Tokei (literally beauty clock) is a web application with cute Japanese girls showing you the time on your PC, iPhone, gadget, website etc., which refreshed automatically with a new image every minute.

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Taiwan’s armed force use Transformers for recruitment

Yein Jee — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:08:00 +0000

A Transfomers lookalike TV commercial by Taiwan’s Recruitment Center of National Armed Force. Thought that it was a prank at first glance, but it’s real, and the video could be found from its official website [Cn]…

I think the recruitment would fare better if they feature Megan Fox instead lol.

[video via Ecafniar@Youtube]

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