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Kara singing & dancing in the rain

Yein Jee — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:07:32 +0000

Photos of Korean pop group Kara performing at Wonkwang University in May. The rain poured in the middle of their Lupin performance, but the show must go on…

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SNSD – Show! Show! Show! live

Yein Jee — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:05:52 +0000

Korean pop group SNSD performing Show Show Show (from their Oh! album) at Live Power Music concert on April 18…

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Wonder Girls World Tour 2010

Yein Jee — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:38:10 +0000

Korean pop group Wonder Girls have announced the schedule for their 2010 World Tour (more like a US tour to be precise)…

Fri, 04-June-2010: Washington DC / Warner Theater
Sat,05-June-2010: Atlanta / Tabernacle
Sun,06-June-2010: New York / Hammerstein
Tue, 08-June-2010: Chicago / House of Blues
Wed, 09-June-2010: Houston / House of Blues
Thr, 10-June-2010: Dallas / House of Blues
Fri, 11-June-2010: Los Angeles / Palladium
Sat, 12-June-2010: Anaheim, CA / House of Blues
Sun, 13-June-2010: San Francisco / The Fillmore

Check their official website for updates and ticketing details.

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KARA’s first Japan showcase

Yein Jee — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:16:21 +0000

Korean pop group KARA made their first official performance in Japan on Feb 7…

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SNSD 1st Asian concert tour

Yein Jee — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:38:25 +0000

Arirang World reports on Korean pop group SNSD’s 1st Asian tour which kicked off in Seoul, and is set to be held in a few other Asian cities…

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Snippet: SM Entertainment to sue cartoonist for sexually harassing the girls.

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AKB48 US debut concert in NYC

Yein Jee — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:37:10 +0000

Japanese pop group AKB48 will made their US debut with a full concert at Webster Hall in New York City on September 27.

Only a handful of the 48 members will be performing though; AFAIK the group rarely perform in full squad in Japan as well, so it’s not something unusual. Besides, entrance is free with RVSP, so there’s nothing to complain about.

Kindly refer to Newyork-tokyo for more concert details.

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Kara – Mister live mixed

Yein Jee — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:35:07 +0000

Korean pop group Kara’s live performances of “Mister” (미스터) from their latest album “Revolution Vol.2″ on three major weekly music shows; hip-swaying and booty-shaking FTW…

[video mixed by CodeMonmon, reuploaded by RWLeader @Youtube]

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Wonder Girls live at Jonas Brothers’ New York concert

Yein Jee — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:05:37 +0000

Video from Korean pop group Wonder Girls’ official Youtube channel, a mash-up of their performances as opening act for the Jonas Brothers’ concert at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on July 19-21…

Seems like the Wonder Girls are performing Nobody, Nobody and Nobody besides Nobody throughout the tour so far. Seriously, aren’t they going to sing another song? An English version of Tell Me perhaps?

The girls are obviously getting noticed, for good or bad, among Jonas fans. But if they want to get bigger publicity in the US, they need something more than just singing the same old song with the same old look for two long months.

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After School AH! at PCD concert fancam

Yein Jee — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:16:49 +0000

Fancam of Korean pop group After School performing as special guest at American pop group Pussycat Doll’s Seoul concert. The girls performed AH and Diva (not fully recorded because the fan was caught by security lol)…

[Video by Femmefataleartemis@Youtube]

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Charice’s Note to God live

Yein Jee — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:15:03 +0000

Video of Filipina starlet Charice singing her debut English single Note to God on TLUC2, an Italian show if not mistaken. Great performance!

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Tokyo Decadance – wild Japanese club event

Yein Jee — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:14:44 +0000

Eating beer cans, swallowing swords, wielding light saber, lesbian kiss, fire show, wacky performance, loud music, booze, dance, girls… that’s what you are going to see from the below video… [by ronindave@youtube, via Japundit]

Founded in October 2005 by ex-French drag queen Adrien Le Danois, Tokyo Decadance had the goal to mix all the most creative, flashy, crazy, exaggerated, extreme, bizarre styles of the Tokyo streets.

The event is now the rendezvous of gothic, cyberpunk, fetish, manga heroine, lolitas, yamanbas, ko gyaru, drag queen, punk, Tokyo jet-set, partymonsters, and also salaryman and ‘normal people’.

The wild party is occasionally on tour in some European cities beside the monthly show in Japan [check out Decadance' Myspace]

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Jackie Chan to hold concert at Bird’s Nest

Yein Jee — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:30:30 +0000

International Chinese star Jackie Chan is going to hold a charity concert at Beijing National Stadium, the main Beijing Olympic venue which is popularly known as the Bird’s Nest.

Jackie Chan at the press conference (Image from Baidu (Cn))

Jackie and the concert promoter held a press conference on April 1st to announce the news; the concert is scheduled to run on May 1st and would be the first major non-sport event to be held at the stadium.

Themed as “Descendant of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and Friends”, it’s expected that a few big names will be invited for the concert, with Jackie Chan taking the lead.

[Update] Among the confirmed invited guests are Korean star Rain, pop group Suju-M and Zhang Liyin. Other

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Rain’s legal battle continues

Yein Jee — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:41:23 +0000

Korean pop star Rain and his former employee JYP Entertainment have made an appeal to overturn the Hawaiian court verdict in which they were ordered to pay USD8.1 million to a Honolulu based promoter for cancelling a concert in June 2007.

Their legal team is sending in evidences that the concert venue in Hawaii was unsafe for performance; it’s said that the equipments were not properly installed and the stage was in danger of collapsing. Sounds like a reasonable reason to cancel the show; but I wonder why they didn’t show those ‘evidences’ at the first place.

Meanwhile, Rain and JYPE are facing another lawsuit in South Korea. StarM, the Korean promoter for Rain’s world tour has filed a lawsuit seeking 4.5 billion Korean Won (USD3.4 million) of compensation from the party for cancelling 16 out of the 35 scheduled concerts (including the Hawaiian one) for the world tour.

Most of the US concerts were cancelled mainly because of a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Rain Corporation which runs a Beatles tribute show (known as RAIN) across the States. StarM claimed that they weren’t informed on time by JYPE about the lawsuit which led to the concert cancellations and financial damages.

Ironically JYPE has always been blaming the incapability of StarM for causing all the messes. Unfortunately for Rain, despite his claims that he was not directly involved with the cancellations, will have to bear with the possible consequences once again.

And it’s not the end of the story; some promoters from US and Canada could be seeking legal action, particularly the one from Los Angeles where the concert was cancelled just hours before the show. Those peeps are probably still thinking on how to hand the legal papers to Rain to bring him to court.

Lesson of the day… be careful with who you are associated with.

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Rain ordered to pay USD8mil for cancelled concert

Yein Jee — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:13:05 +0000

Korean pop star Rain and his former agency JYP Entertainment were ordered to pay ~USD8.1 million in damages to a Hawaiian event promoter for cancelling a concert in June 2007.

The judgement was made by a federal court on March 19th in Honolulu; both Rain and JYPE have stated their intention to appeal against the decision.

Rain’s Hawaiian concert at Aloha Stadium was cancelled a few days before the scheduled date; he is facing another lawsuit in LA for cancelling a concert just hours before the show (same tour as the Hawaii concert).

Rain’s spokesperson and JYPE’s representative have expressed their surprise with the verdict, saying that they expected themselves to win the case.

Frankly speaking, it would be very naive if they thought they could win… a concert was cancelled, and they don’t have a really good reason not to compensate, or at least share the damages with the concert promoter.

Asian fans might be shocked with the sum though; in Asian cases the compensations would normally for direct financial loses while neglecting other intangible aspects (e.g. punitive, reputation damage)… obviously it doesn’t work that way in the States.

[update] Rain and JYPE reached agreed on a settlement with Click Entertainment; the amount was not disclosed, but it’s expected to be much lower than the initial compensation [via KBS]

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Korean Music Festival 2009 in Los Angeles

Yein Jee — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:57:43 +0000

The 7th Annual Korea Times Music Festival (2009) will be held on May 9th at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles. Arguably the largest K-pop concert in America, the concert tickets are selling like hotcakes.

[Updated] The confirmed performers for this year’s concert include SS501, Girls’ Generation, SHInee, Baek Ji-young, Kim Tae-woo, Lena Park, Tae Jin-ah and Son Ho-young (emcee) etc. Check the event website for updates.

Sharing some 2008 pics below of TVXQ, Chae Yeon, SG Wannabe and Girls’ Generation; image via its official website…

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After School official live debut

Yein Jee — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:36:08 +0000

Korean all-girls pop group After School made their first official live performance on January 17 at MBC Music Core, performing Play Girlz (intro) and Ah!.

I think they did pretty well as newcomers; steady and commanding. Their live performance was certainly more eye-catching than their dull music video; and it’s a bit closer to their Korea’s Pussycat Dolls branding.

Still a poor song though; doubt that they could make it big this time.

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Rihanna to cover up for Malaysian concert

Yein Jee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:45:34 +0000

Barbadian R&B star Rihanna has promised to cover up for her Kuala Lumpur concert on February 13th to adhere to the Malaysian on-stage dress code, of which a female performer must be covered from shoulders to knees.

Taking lesson from last year’s Avril Lavigne’s concert which was almost cancelled because her show was deemed too sexy for Malaysian culture (and the fact that Avril is like an angel to Rihanna’s sexiness), the organiser of Rihanna’s concert is fast to act on the issue before the protests from conservative religious groups could heat up.

Rihanna’s KL concert, which is part of the Good Girl Gone Bad world tour, will be held at Putra Stadium, Bukit Jalil, on Feb 13. Refer to the above poster for ticketing details.

Update – The concert is postponed following reports that she was assaulted by her boyfriend Chris Brown.

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BoA at YouTube Live Tokyo

Yein Jee — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:15:29 +0000

Korean pop star BoA at Youtube Live TOKYO, a concert which was streamed live (supposedly) on Youtube on November 23. A 20-minutes long video below, which includes her American debut song Eat You Up and her J-pop hits.

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Mnet KM Music Festival 2008

Yein Jee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:45:16 +0000

The 10th Mnet Korean Music Festival (MKMF) was held on Saturday (Nov 15) at Jamsil Olympic Stadium in Seoul.

The talk of the town goes to Lee Hyori and Big Bang’s special stage, where Hyori and TOP shared a little smooches… [more kissing pics on Kbites and K-popped]

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Taichung attempt for saxophone record

Yein Jee — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:12:55 +0000

A total of 918 saxophone players performed simultaneously at the Taichung City Plaza in the city of Taichung, Taiwan, on October 18 in a bid to break the world record for the largest saxophone ensemble.

The attempt was held in conjunction with the 6th annual Taichung Jazz Festival. The oldest saxophonists involved was 72 of age, while the youngest just three; Taichung deputy mayor Hsiao Jia Qi also took part in the event.

918 saxophonists in their new world record attempt (Image from Udn)

The current world record for the largest saxophone ensemble was set by Toronto in 2004 with 900 players.

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