The Pursuit of Happiness MV + Leessang dominates charts with 'Unplugged'

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As expected, Leessang has completely taken over the digital charts with their eighth comeback album, ‘Unplugged‘!

According to results revealed by iChart for May 28th, Leessang’s “Someday” topped the weekly charts for Melon, Mnet, Olleh Music, and Bugs, while “My Love” is at the top of real time charts.

A majority of the tracks off of their album have managed to take over the top 10 rankings on most digital charts, demonstrating the duo’s dominance in the digital music market.

( charts )

Source: AsianDreamAudio@YT + akp + gif

FT Island Engrish with Crystal Kay and Beni!

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Fuju TV's Sakigake Ongaku Banzuke Eight! with best friends Crystal Kay and Beni giving English lessons for FT Island

I love seeing all of them together LOL 

Sources: ayamama614a@youtube 1

FT Island's acoustic performances on Space Shower TV

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They performed the song Stay from their latest Japanese album and a few of their earlier Japanese releases.

Stay (Written & composed by Jonghun)

( + Venus, Soyogi, Flower Rock )

Sources: maitamFT3@youtube 1, 2, 3, 4

So beautiful.

2NE1 & Intel release the final round of the ‘Make Thumb Noise’ project

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As previously reported, 2NE1 and Teddy Park have partnered with Intel Korea for the “Make Thumb Noise” project!
2NE1 and Teddy Park will collaborate with Intel to create an “Ultrabook Song“. Teddy Park will be producing the song while the girls of 2NE1 will be lending their vocals for it. 

During Round 1 fans were asked to choose their favorite instrumental. Round 2 had fans pick the best song title and Round 3 gave fans the the chance to choose the song’s arrangement style . Now, in the final round, fans will pick which version of the song’s bridge they prefer. Check out the 2 clips for ‘Make Thumb Noise Round 4′ and the Making Film released today! Then go to Intel’s Facebook Page to vote for your favorite clip.

Bridge 1

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Source: Allkpop
2NE1@youtube 1, 2, 3

JYJ’s Junsu wraps a successful concert in Thailand

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JYJ‘s Junsu recently wrapped up his first solo Asian concert in Thailand, and according to reports, it was a success!

On May 27th at 6PM (Local time), Junsu held his ‘XIA 1st Asia Tour in Bangkok‘ at the Royal Paragon Hall in Bangkok, Thailand. 4,000 fans attended the event to be serenaded by Junsu and his amazing performances.

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Source : Allkpop
Osen

VIXX’s “Super Hero” debut ranks at the top of search portals

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Rookie boy group VIXX recently had their debut stage on MBC‘s ‘Music Core‘ and are quickly rising to become the next hottest rookies of the year.

Viewers were impressed with the level of expertise they showed in their vocals and performance, and quickly exclaimed that they had the potential to become big stars. Search portal rankings reflected the same interest, as immediately after their debut, VIXX ranked at the top of live search charts.

The group aims to become a combination of the best voices and visuals as a team of great heroic value to the industry.

Source - AKP & Nate

omg!!!!!! Value in excelsis, Aoooowww Uh Brand Nu Boyz is in da buildin tbh!!

check out taecyeon's self-composed track as OP cries ugly tears

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Back on May 25th, 2PM‘s Taecyeon tweeted, “Hello everyone, how did you like the songs that I wrote? ‘Kiss‘ and ‘After you Left Me‘?? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I sang my first songs that I wrote on stage for the very first time. As I promised, I will upload them on the official cafe if these songs aren’t released as a digital single or on an album.”

He performed the track “After You Left Me” at the Six Beautiful Days concert in Japan and it was captured on fancam. It seems the song has a feature from Wonder Girls member Yenny and he performed the track admirably even though his arm was in a cast.

Fans who saw the video commented, “You’re So Cool“, “I Love You Taecyeon“, and “This song is awesome“.

Source: AKP (Daum TV | Taec's Twitter)
Fancam: tbaecoom

Here's another fancam [w/ youtube link] with slightly better quality not included in the article, but the uploader doesn't allow it to be taken out of her site. And if anyone is interested, you can find a fancam of his other self-composed track, "Kiss" here, but you need an account on her site. :'D PROUD OF MY OPPA. Also, it just kills me to see him still performing in that cast ;____;

MYNAME Reveals 2nd Hello and Goodbye Teaser

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Source: H2Media2011@YouTube

Eric Expresses Pride At A Fan's Accomplishment + Other FB Updates

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[12.05.28] Eric’s Facebook Update #1: "You made my day"

Just a while ago I met a pretty flight attendant on the plane. I have a bit of a cold so I asked for some ginseng tea and I said to Dongwan, “Isn’t that flight attendant pretty?”. When we landed, she said she was a Shinhwa fan and she even came to our dorm at Jinheung Villa before… I know our fans have all reached the age when they enter society and start working but now that I’ve actually encountered an example, I’m feeling amazed and proud. Pretty Asiana Airlines flight attendant Miss Lee Se-*** ~ You made my day



( These are the random things Eric spends his time on )

Source: Eric's Facebook (is set on private)
Translation: absolutshinhwa

If this dork ever learned how to make his own screencaps, he would probably spend days at a time just trolling the members and sending them embarrassing pictures of themselves :P

Kpop world advancement hastened as popularity in Japan stalls

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On May 21, Shojojidai, Kara, Tohoshinki, Super Junior and other K-POP artists held a concert in coordination with Google, in part of their advancement into the global market.

In addition to those mentioned, artists like Wonder Girls, MBLAQ, SISTAR, BEAST and f(x) joined as well, totaling 9 groups. The concert was shown on MBC in Korea and through Google worldwide.

In Korea, people are singing their own praises, saying, "A concert headed by a broadcasting company from our nation and hooked up to a global portal like Google to be broadcast across the world is a first. And this is further proof of K-Pop's position in the world is rising."

"The phrases 'Broadcast to the world' and 'At Google headquarters' are being thrown around trying to make them look important. If something is broadcast on Google's channel, the chance existing of people seeing and hearing it is natural. They're acting incredibly proud of this simple thing. MBC holding their concert at Google's headquarters is just a matter of getting enough money behind them to rent out the place," said one K-Pop magazine reporter.

The usual "Number one in Asia!" and "K-Pop boom in France!" falsehoods have been used to broaden their worldwide activities, and there is a reason for that.

"Recently, a big topic on the net and other places has been the fact that K-Pop is showing symptoms of shrinking popularity in Japan. Reports coming from Korea have shown that in 2012, ticket sales to K-Pop events have fallen sharply and it seems that some companies have actually gone into the red. Certainly artists like Shojojidai or KARA and other top idols haven't shown these signs yet, but the groups that suddenly sprung up one after the other in Japan have encountered a harsh environment. This accompanies the failure that Korean idols like Brown Eyed Girls and 4minute have experienced when trying to enter the Japanese market. In short, the gloating that surrounds K-Pop is without merit as its popularity disappears," said the industry insider.

The bigger the lies get, the more obvious the cracks in the facade become. It is possible to say that the recent concert at Google is just part of the signs of desperation shown by K-Pop as its demise nears closer and closer.

Source - Cyzo
Translation - qummydino

omg not my b1a4 boys!

As One releases their 2012 version of "Day By Day" (feat. Verbal Jint)

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Source: AsianDreamAudio@YT 

OMG, this is even better than the old version! Anyone remember the weird bunny? I do, I kinda miss that bunny... Thanks to Verbal Jint for making this awesome song more awesome!

Big Bang’s T.O.P looks like a young Magneto from X-Men

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Five-member idol group Big Bang is getting a lot of attention from recently-released pictures that remind people of the movie X-Men.

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Source: star.mt.co.kr
Translation: en.korea.com

BIRTH OF VENUS EP 1 (SUBBED)

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source: BirthofVenusSubs

BIGBANG - MONSTER M/V Teaser (T.O.P)

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Source: BB@youtube

Bondage Idols A-Jax release the teaser for their Debut song "1.4.U" feat. T-Pain

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dspAJAX

M.I.B. releases comeback music video teaser “Only Hard For Me”

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After announcing that they’d be coming back with their new album, ‘Illusion‘, M.I.B. has returned today with new pictures from their comeback pictorial as well as their comeback MV teaser!

The pictures were taken from the set of their music video filming for their title track, “Only Hard For Me“, which was recorded in Los Angeles. Boasting impressive sets of the city and its desert, M.I.B. is sure that the music video will do justice to their growth and improvement.

Stepping away from their previous hip hop heavy image, the boys are seen sporting a more modern and serious look that lends a hint to their comeback song.

( one more photo + video teaser )

source: akp + junglent8950

Naver music interview with Sunggyu

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Infinite’s reliable leader, Kim Sunggyu

‘Music that you wish would be played somewhere’

We will be viewing the music recommendations from Kim Sunggyu, the leader and main vocal of Infinite, who are currently rising as ‘group choreography-dols’.

‘Music That You Wish Would Be Played Somewhere’

In the idol group market, where everything is neck-to-neck, Infinite rose up immediately as the ‘trend’. They are a 7 membered group who shows the positive points of ‘group choreography’ with their slender bodies. Since there are a lot of members, it seems like it would be easy to forget them, but they are at the top with female fans in their 10’s and are also capturing the hearts of women in their 20~30’s. This group’s leader and main vocal, Kim Sunggyu (23), picked the two words of ‘diversity’ and ‘teamwork’ as the secret behind the team’s popularity.

“We don’t stick to one type of music color. We work hard to always use different genre’s colors in singles or mini albums. Since all 7 of us have our own distinct color, that point allows us to not be boring. When we sing, each of our parts aren’t set in stone, so we don’t hold back on different vocals trying out singing with a different feel.”

The phrase ‘group choreography-dols’ has been attached to them. The prefix of Shin (新), which was used a lot among early idol groups such as Shinhwa, is a word that is used often when explaining the idol group’s ‘teamwork’. He, who said their teamwork was created through being group choreography-dols, said, “We practice dancing a lot with each other, so we’re the happiest when we hear things like that.”

( rest of the article + song recommendations )

source: naver, translations by hyejin @ infiniteupdates

This was a really interesting read

'Hallyu' fans invited to travel around nation

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By Yun Suh-young

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) is hosting “Touch Korea Tour,” a campaign to invite 15 “hallyu” (Korean wave) fans from around the world to tour the nation, starting next month. The KTO said Monday out of 2,000 candidates who submitted user created content (UCC) from over 100 countries, seven were selected as winners, while the remaining eight were chosen by regional KTO offices overseas. 

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Source: koreatimes

Boa reveals the reasons why she chose not to attend college

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As a guest on the upcoming episode of ‘Win Win‘, BoA will be revealing the stories behind her success as a Hallyu star as well as her hopes and dreams.

One story she revealed was about her school days and her life as a student. She immediately received much attention from the MCs and the audience as she revealed, “I entered middle school as the top ranked student in the class.” However, despite her achievement as a student, she was unable to continue with her schooling.

( clicky )

Source: AKP

Photo: TVdaily via Nate

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