Entertainment news from various sources…
Update – New music videos (dance version) for Korean girls group SNSD’s hit song “Gee”
Canada – Chinese star Edison Chen testified in Vancouver for sex scandal case [Cri]
Korea – Singer Lee Seung-ki graduates from Dongguk University [K-popped]
Korea – Jang Dong-gun plays president [Hanfever]
Korea – Yoon Eun-hye posed for Vogue [Kbites] and Marie Claire [Popseoul]
Korea – Flower boy Lee Min-ho (pic) [Stareastasia]
Taiwan – S.H.E member Hebe ready for solo debut [Stareastasia]
US – Rihanna’s swollen face after alleged attack by Chris Brown [TMZ]
Korea’s major school uniform makers have agreed to end all celebrity endorsements indefinitely before the new school term begins in March; the cost cutting decision was made following government’s demand to halt the rising prices of school uniforms.
It’s a good call from the government and manufacturers, but some fans might mourn that they won’t be seeing their favourite idols in cute uniforms in near future. Sharing here some star-studded Korean school uniform commercials to ease their pain lol…
SNSD & 2PM – Elite CF…
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Video of Korean pop star Rain’s martial art training for movie “Ninja Assassin” and other stunt choreographies arranged by action design studio 87eleven…
Rain is starring as a deadly assassin who was kidnapped and trained to be a killing machine since he was a kid, but later begun to question the organisation’s agenda and joined forces with an Interpol agent (starring Naomie Harris) to fight against the organisation. The movie is set to premier in June 2009.
[Check out some earlier pics of Rain training for his role]
Actress Kim Tae-hee (pic) is chosen as Korea’s most beautiful female celebrity in a recent KBS survey with 15,222 respondents.
The top 10 in sequence are… Kim Tae-hee, Lee Young-ae, Han Ga-in, Song Hye-kyo, Kim Hee-sun, Son Ye-jin, Han Ye-seul, Jun Ji-hyun, Kim Hye-soo and Shim Eun-ha.
Update – Found out from K-popped that there’s a poll for actors too, and the top 10 in sequence are Jang Dong-gun, Jo In-sung, Rain, Bae Yong-joon, Song Seung-hun, Won Bin, Jung Woo-sung, Hyun Bin, So Ji-sub and Lee Byung-hun.
Korean singer-actor Kim Hyun-joong modelled for fashion brand MVIO, his major apparel sponsor in popular drama “Boys Over Flowers”…
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Korean music video of “Vanilla Love” by Lee Hyun-ji, featuring Onew from boys group SHINee. The song didn’t make it big on the charts, but I think the song is kinda cute…
Korean boys Jang Dong-gun and Rain acting cute on Christmas themed TV commercials for SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile telecommunications operator…
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Korean pop star Rain has released a video clip of himself bare chested while rehearsing for the song “Only U”. The dance clip generates plenty of interest since it was first uploaded on Cyworld, one of Korea’s largest social networking sites.
Nice body shape and great flexibility; seems like his ninja training was working well…
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