Archive for October, 2009

The Wonder Girls held a press conference in Gangnam, Seoul to talk about their activities in the US. After being away from Korea for several months, the 5-member Korean idol group, Wonder Girls (Ye Eun, Yoobin, Sun Ye, Sunmi, and So Hee) told the press about the challenges they faced in the US and how much they had missed Korea. More »


On the first episode of MC Kang Ho Dong’s new variety show with Lee Seung Gi, a lot of celebrities including G-Dragon were present. However, they all had one complaint about the man who sang Heartbreaker. More »


You will be surprised to know he played the younger version of his boss’s character in the movie, Ninja Assasin. Well, if you are a current subscriber to Ningin, you should know that Rain is the main character of the new ninja moves-filled action movie, Ninja Assasin. The movie has scenes where they show the training from a boy to a man, and between those scenes, one of the boys from MBLAQ, who Rain is currently training and producing, played that role. More »


Double, double, toil and trouble! Fire burn and Ningin cauldron bubble! What have we in our cauldron, my pretties? Oh, nothing but the Ningin Halloween Special! (Insert sinister laugh here.) The Ningin ghouls and ghosts have put together a spooktacular special dedicated to one of our favorite holidays. More »


Ivy has been busy promoting her comeback, after 2 years on hiatus. Her album is already due in a few days. Typically, Ivy looks very beautiful in her photos shoots, candids and even live when I saw her in person. However I think this photo shoot does her a disservice. I don’t know if she’s just really tired, hung over or the lighting was pointing the wrong way.It looks like the dog woke her up by licking her hair. More »


Wow, two days ago I was talking about if Wonder Girls can get on the Billboard Chart, and now they have! Wonder Girls went back to Korea to visit, and during this time, a JYP representative released wonderful news that the Wonder Girl’s song Nobody, is ranked 76th place on the Billboard Top 100. More »


BoA, who is known for her kind heart and love for children will be taking part in the Happy Birthday Download project. It’s a fundraiser in that one artist per day sings a Happy Birthday song and is available for download purchase. All of the proceeds including taxes will go to UNICEF, who’ll support children around the globe. More »


With G-dragon’s first solo album, ‘Heartbreaker’ being released this year, G-Dragon is now on his way to his first solo concert! You know you won’t want to miss his first solo concert! Here are the details of the concert. More »


Finally, some good news to hear during all this boy group troubles in Kpop. Ahh. Fans can take one sigh of relief. After all this commotion because of boy groups, fans were looking forward to SS501 for some help. Luckily, they got what they wanted. More »


Ivy has been working hard on her comeback, and she has some up with teasers here and there. But now we finally have a full track. It’s a ballad, and one of those melancholic songs that you might hear in your favorite K-drama. Maybe Ivy will be get some tie-in to a K-drama in the future, or be IN the drama itself like Son Dam Bi? The possibilities are always so bright for musically talented, beautiful K-pop stars. More »


Sandara Park was first to do a solo side-project away from 2NE1, and now Park Bom follows her lead. From the producer’s mouths, we are notified that the song is an RnB flavored hit. I told you all, RnB doesn’t go out of style, it has some universal appeal to it. More »


A survey was conducted in Japan to see who they thought was the strongest anime/manga character and the winner isn’t too surprising. More »


This past Sunday night the new hit Taiwanese drama, Autumn’s Concerto, kept its ratings high, even against the premiere of a new drama titled Momo Love.The series’ third episode was able to garner a 3.59 rating on Sunday despite the presence of a new drama. That’s .34 up from last week although it didn’t reach Vanness Wu’s dream rating. More »


Ga-In gets hotter, seriously. I bet most of you don’t know, but the game called Starcraft is a widely known game in Korea. In fact, they have a channel dedicated to Starcraft games. Starcraft is game that came out about a decade ago, and it’s still the number 1 game in Korea. It requires fast reaction, thinking, strategy, timing and everything that requires skills. More »


Is K-pop making a “royal bloodline” or something? The past few news events surround singers inviting their brothers, sisters, moms, aunts, uncles, and ancestors to debut as singers. Hey can I hire my sisters cat? More »


The best things in life are for free. By “best things in life,” I mean a screening of John Woo’s Red Cliff movie in LA on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. Oh, but Jinra, nothing in life is for free! Wrong. If you’re in LA and want to watch Red Cliff before it officially hits theaters next month, you may want to consider the following details. More »


From Girlybubble: Life, why are you so hard sometimes? The chief of my morning was spent scouring every Internet corner for a cute boy with donuts. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate every hour, minute, second, nanosecond, giga second of work. It’s the daily torture that makes things hard: I’m not always eating donuts or cupcakes. Sad, but true. As a health nut with a waivering heart, I purposely make sources scarce. Now that South Korean actor Lee Min Ho is narrowed down as the Cute Boy of the Week, I’ve got a new problem. More »


The 5 member idol group SS501 will be having their comeback with the release of their new mini album this week, “Rebirth.” Kim Hyun Joong, Heo Young Saeng, Kim Kyu Jong, Park Jung Min and Kim Hyung Joon came together for their jacket cover photoshoot. More »


The Wonder Girls train is still rollin’. They have successfully broken through the teen market and has 17,000 reported units sold in a week’s time (since October 11) for their very first US single, Nobody. With this landmark, they remarked, “Who said CD sales are dead?” More »


Once again, my home country has been an embarrassment to myself, family and Girls’ Generation. The mega girl band landed for the Korea-Vietnam friendship, and it was epic. The crowd could not contain themselves, one bit. On top of a very rowdy crowd, the security guards seemed to be on lunch the whole time. Oh, and Yuri was nowhere in sight. Maybe she got the memo in History class that Vietnam was communist? More »


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