T-ara WILL advance overseas for 2nd album promotion

[retrobabies.livejournal.com]

T-ara talks about making their overseas expansion and main focuses for album activities in 2010.

T-ara's agency said on the 19th, "We've had love calls from 8 different countries including Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, but we've refused them all. Although T-ara members were busy acting in Korea during last years album and currently are, when the new album is released during the second half of the year we expected to advance overseas but stick mainly to Korean promotions for the time being," he said.

T-ara's former songs were popular with all kinds of audiences (ages, races). Boram, the current leader of T-ara recently appeared in "Purple Heeled Grim Reaper is Coming," Eunjung in the drama "Coffee House" and the movie "White", Jiyeon in the dramas "Soul", "God of Study" and the upcoming "Jungle Fish 2" along with the movie "Death Bell 2", Hyomin in the drama "My Girlfriend is a Gumiho" and Qri in the drama special "Spy Trader Kim Chulsoo". The member Soyeon is expected to debut in an upcoming movie.

Meanwhile, T-ara's 2nd album will be released in October.

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source: nate
translated by: nathaniel @ diadem

the akp/other article posted here is inaccurate and incorrect. :|
they WILL head overseas this year. they're planned to go to japan in october, singapore in december and also plan to go to taiwan sometime this year for album promotions. those are the only 3 countries announced but they'll probably head to more since their fanbase in china is really, really big.
also, soyeon's role in the movie hasn't been announced, so it's not a lead role like akp said, most likely a secondary character.

Comments

[i-n-o-j.livejournal.com]

shouldn't they strengthen their fanbase in Korea before trying to go other places...? I mean it just makes sense to get famous there first.

[lopezfitzgerald.livejournal.com]

they're already famous, sorry

[i-n-o-j.livejournal.com]

starring in the Korean equivalent of Lifetime tv movies is not famous, sorry. I like these girls kind of, but they're not ready to advance when they haven't even been around a year..

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

soooo they're going to be running between china/japan/korea?

same same as snsd.

[lopezfitzgerald.livejournal.com]

nope, they'll probably just do fanmeetings and stuff if they're still going to focus on korea

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

thats basically what snsd is doing LOL.

snsd still going to be doing variety shows but on a lesser scale
and doing fanmeetings and going on radio shows, but on alesser scale than say, 2009


t-ara is spreading themselves awfully thin

[i-n-o-j.livejournal.com]

this is what I'm thinking. and they're gonna have a hard time when people like KARA and SNSD are all over Asia too..

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

ia. but kara and snsd already have strong fanbases

[retrobabies.livejournal.com]

their japanese cf company asked them to do another concert in japan so they have to~
they're going to an event for k-pop artists in singapore in december
their fanbase in china is super big, so it's probable they'll go there
and bpbp just recently hit #1 in taiwan and was released there so yeah

they're only going to promote where they're already popular i think

[faister.livejournal.com]

ot=ish but what happened to the soyeon article?

[wendybaconator.livejournal.com]

Who?

[lopezfitzgerald.livejournal.com]

you were just in the post talking about her, don't even

[faister.livejournal.com]

a member of t-ara

[i-n-o-j.livejournal.com]

mte lmao... I was like 'Sohyun'?

[ninaray.livejournal.com]

Why are you even in a T-ARA post if you don't even know who the lead vocalist is? :)

[lopezfitzgerald.livejournal.com]

it got deleted because AKP mistranslated things

[faister.livejournal.com]

oh wait. same article was posted twice?

[junhos-butt.livejournal.com]

lol i said this on the other post but i'll do it again:

YESSS!!!!! EXCITED! LOVE THEM!

i wonder what concept they'll have...

and good luck to the new member! and congrats Soyeon!

[wendybaconator.livejournal.com]

Yay!
Maybe they'll have Choshinsei level success in Japan.

[siha.livejournal.com]

QUEENS

omfg just comeback already

[imyoona.livejournal.com]

this post lmfao

[greenteafroyo.livejournal.com]

trollfights are always fun (:

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

well, good luck to them, but what with everybody overseas, i was hoping they would stick in korea and build a stronger fanbase while everyone is away.

hope the new album is actually an album too, and not a mini because their first album was really good.

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

Yeah I said this before but I feel sorry for any group debuting in Sept or October.

Early-Sept SNE1
Late-Sept KARA
Oct T-ARA

what fun #3,4,5(? prob 6 after BEG) girl groups back to back

[albeitalways.livejournal.com]

interesting.

but anyway, accdg to the latest rankings in daum café, t-ara has 28,448 ↑607 and 4-minute has 24,870 ↑2186
which surprises me bc back then, i remember when t-ara only had 10k fans and 4minute had 16k.

but good luck to t-ara anyway, with everybody else going overseas (mainly: japan), if they stayed instead they'd have a better shot reclaiming their bo-peep-bo success.