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2AM - JYP - Bang Si Hyuk's triangular relationship

On MBC “Idol Athletic and Swimming Championship” to be aired on February 5 and 6, 2AM and Eight members will participate as a team. On the previous “Idol Athletic Championship” aired on Chuseok day, 2AM was on the L team against 2PM and Miss A who were on N team. It was easy to see that N team was JYPE and L team was Big Hit Entertainment. According to an official in music industry Big Hit Entertainment had been the company in charge of “all” activities done by 2AM ever since they released “Can’t Let You Go Even If I Die”. But on KBS “Win Win” Park Jin Young’s statement about 2AM’s future was neither a lie nor an interference. Strictly speaking, at the moment 2AM is under JYP by name but their actual agency is Big Hit. In other words, the situation is just like hiring out a baseball player.

2AM between Big Hit and JYP is a win-win situation

It is widely known that Big Hit Entertainment is set up by the JYPE’s influential composer, Producer Bang si Hyuk, where he made a hit song like Eight’s “Without a Heart” and became a company that especially produced and managed ballad singers. Because of Park Jin Young and Bang Si Hyuk’s closeness and trust, and considering Big Hit’s expertise, JYPE handed over all actual management claims of 2AM to Big Hit. In other words, the company who decides on 2AM’s album production, entertainment activities, and even overseas expansion strategy and everything in between is Big Hit Entertainment. In return, JYP as the original agency receive a part of the profits earned from 2AM’s activities. This is a unique system created by Big Hit, who has a talent in producing songs but has no big name therefore couldn’t get much further, and JYP, who wanted 2AM to have a more efficient activities.

After the hit song “Can’t Let You Go Even If I Die” in 2010, this relationship is cruising along without a hitch. This is not a matter only for both companies, but in the long run it may be a system that will be helpful for 2AM. Jo Kwon, who was a trainee in JYP for 8 years, and the other members were a team that had no power to be popular. But under the direction from Bang Si Hyuk, who thought about 2AM’s character, wrote and produced a song for them, 2AM did not become unique ballad idols, but they were reborn as the best ballad idols. This rare system is a definite win-win situation. Even though on the “Idol Athletic and Swimming Championship” Jo Kwon competed against 2PM, his participation eventually profit both teams.

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Entertainment-dol Gwang Hee “his close relationship with the originator of Kkap, Jo Kwon

ZE:A’s Hwang Gwang Hee revealed his closeness with the “original entertainment-dol” 2AM Jo Kwon. Jo Kwon caught attention earlier on with his kkap character, then behind him there is Hwang Gwang Hee. Although public consider them as secret rivals, Gwang Hee said, “I’m surprisingly close with Jo Kwon ssi.”

“When we first met, I actually found myself difficult to say anything. Jo Kwon ssi approached me first and said, ‘I enjoy watching your show. Let’s be friends’. On the last day of 2010 I met Jo Kwon ssi at MBC Music Festival. Jo Kwon ssi said, ‘Gwang Hee ssi, next year will be Gwang Hee ssi’s year. Gwang Hee ssi must win an award’ and patted my shoulder. And my colleagues who saw us were amazed.” (Jo Kwon got triple crown on 2010 MBC Entertainment Award and won New Star Award at SBS Entertainment Award, which made him the best entertainment-dol with 4 awards.)

Gwang Hee said, “Jo Kwon’s words made me felt warm and put me at ease.” Both of them received attention in entertainment program for something similar. “Jo Kwon ssi probably the person who understands my worries the best. He said, ‘When you start doing variety shows, it will get a bit difficult’. Now I understand. I think it’s not all about fun and game. I feel that Jo Kwon ssi has a deep sense of responsibility. A year ago I thought. ‘Why is it so hard?’, but then I prepared myself a lot. There will be a lot of things to do rather than focusing on your own weakness.”

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“I have to set foot more firmly in 2011. My dream is to appear in a sitcom just like Jo Kwon ssi. Of course I often have doubts and thought, ‘Will I be able to surpass Kkap Kwon?’. Jo Kwon ssi has made his debut first and secured himself. Now we have to go one step forward. Even now there are a lot of people who compare me with Jo Kwon ssi, who are concern whether I will be able to shake off the plastic-surgery-idol character. I must relax and just do it.”

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Kwon on IV treatment due to overwhelming schedule

2AM’s leader Jo Kwon recently shocked his fans with a picture of himself receiving an IV treatment.

On January 25th, Jo Kwon tweeted, “As a result”, and added a photo of an IV fluid-line injected in his arm.

Jo Kwon had an overflowing schedule this past week, as he attended the ‘Seoul Music Awards’, and filmed for the ‘Idol Atheltics & Swimming Championships”, “Inkigayo” and “All My Love”.

An hour after he uploaded the picture, Jo Kwon tweeted, “Thank you, I’m back to filming again. I’ll have to endure today with the IV treatment. Thank you.”

Back on January 23rd, he began to worry his fans with his deteriorating condition as he wrote, “I myself really don’t know how I endure my days. I’m always at the verge of fainting, but I endure with my mentality.”

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