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2PM on Ceci magazine

Yein Jee — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:55:07 +0000

Korean pop group 2PM on Ceci magazine… [via Kbites]

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Blue Dragon Awards 2008 – red carpet (3)

Yein Jee — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:06:43 +0000

A few more red carpet pics from the 29th Blue Dragon Film Awards which were presented on November 20 at KBS Hall in Seoul… [image from Newsen]

Kim Ha-neul and Kang Ji-hwan

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Hallyu stars dominate J-pop chart

Yein Jee — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:47:22 +0000

Hallyu stars are dominating the Japanese Oricon singles chart for the past two weeks. The Koreans claimed the top three spots at the singles’ sales chart last week, and keeping their momentum with three of the top four spots this week.

Pop group TVXQ (known as Tōhōshinki in Japan) tops the singles’ sales chart for two consecutive weeks with their 24th Japanese single “Jumon-Mirotic”. This is their 4th chart topping Japanese single in 2008.

Actor turn singer Lee Byung-hun claims the 2nd spot also for two weeks in a role with his debut single, “Itsuka”; while Ryu Si-won dropping from 3rd to 4th with his 8th single “Kimito Boku”.

To be frank, I’m quite puzzled how the songs managed to lead the charts. I can understand that Mirotic is appealing to some audiences (although not to my liking), but the other two are just so average. Anyhow, sharing all three music videos below…

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SM Entertainment Global Audition 2008 (US & Canada)

Yein Jee — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:48:50 +0000

SM Entertainment, the Korean talent agency that boost the likes of BoA, Kangta, TVXQ, Super Junior, SNSD, Ara and Lee Yeon-hee etc. will be holding the “08 SM Entertainment Global Audition” in Sept/Oct 2008.

The auditions will be held from September 19 to October 25 in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Orange County (CA), New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. Nationality doesn’t matters, but it seems like they are looking for Asian faces only.

It’s funny that SM is calling it a ‘global’ audition when in fact the locations are limited to US and Canada. Regardless, it’s a chance for young Asian talents to try their luck if they are interested with the entertainment business.

Set aside the publicity purpose, SM do mean business with the auditions. If not mistaken Tiffany from SNSD and Henry from Suju-M were discovered from previous auditions… there might be a few more that I’m not aware of.

Check SM’s website for details and updates. Good luck if there is any taker here.

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BoA, Xiah, Tablo & Bora – AnyBand commercial

Yein Jee — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:46:22 +0000

The latest Samsung AnyCall commercial (full 9 mins version), featuring Korean pop stars BoA, Xiah of TVXQ, Tablo of Epik High, and pianist prodigy Jin Bora…

AnyCall is famous for its CFs; its previous series featuring pop star Lee Hyori (AnyMotion, AnyClub etc.) were known globally via online video sharing sites.

With Hyori’s contract ending pretty soon, Samsung is trying to form a new hype with the quartet in AnyBand… obviously a worthy replacement.

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