Hope you guys enjoyed your week as some of us here at Ningin were able to meet Apop princess BoA Kwon. If you’ve haven’t been here with us this week, we interview her in addition to dedicating the majority of the blog posts this week to her.

Go to boa.ningin.com to watch the interview and view the gallery photos.

Here’s this week’s wrap up:
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Tags: boa kwon, december, interview, ningin, wrap up

Check out Ningin’s exclusive coverage of the BoA Interview on our BoA microsite now!

http://boa.ningin.com

Click on the third video in the “BoA Player” and then the play button.

Thanks for being patient! Let us know what you think about the video in this post =)

Part 2 is being encoded now.
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Tags: BoA, crossover, eat you up, exclusive, interview, ningin

In the spirit of the BoA Event, I’ve decided to do a Round Up featuring some of my favorite BoA singles and performances. While there are many to be listed, I’ve narrowed down the list to ten. Hopefully when she makes it in the US, there will be a lot more!

As always enjoy!
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Tags: BoA, boa event, debut, jpop, kpop, ningin, us, weekly music round up

Today my role was Ningin’s third cameramen during our interview with the Apop superstar, BoA Kwon. I basically just walked around with a Flip video camera taking candid videos of BoA and her staff/entourage to possibly add a behind the scenes type angle if needed. We brought a pretty big crew in total, two photographers, three cameramen, one audio guy, and of course the interviewer, Jeannette Eng. Seeing how this was BoA, we brought in all seasoned professionals including Eddie Lebron, director of the Megaman Movie that we’ve been helping to promote.

I think we were the 5th or 6th interview of the day for BoA having already met with the likes of Seventeen Magazine, Nylon, and others mostly American media sites. By far we were the biggest production crew, though I thought this was standard for someone of BoA’s caliber. I don’t know how many chances I’ll get to spend time with BoA, so I made sure to get squeeze as much as content as I could with the multiple photographers and cameramen.
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Tags: amy cheng, apop, BoA, david hou, eddie lebron, exclusive, interview, jeanette eng, new york city, ningin, peter chin, sm town, umg

Jinra Ilustrisimo is your average 20-something based in Southern California. Although just average, she likes to experience life beyond the average in her forever on-going pursuit for new sights, sounds and tastes. Ilustrisimo is a walking contradiction in her love for both high and low brow culture. It’s common to spot her at an art gallery or local cafe participating in something seemingly pretentious, but don’t be surprised at the ease in which she’ll speak about the latest Britney album, Gossip Girl episode or Twilight book she’s reading.

Her past professional lives include time as a PR specialist for a boutique PR agency and event coordinator for the 2007 Newport Beach Film Festival’s Asian Spotlight event. Currently, she’s on a break to explore other professional life directions.

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It’s great to see so many enthusiast Megaman movie fans here on Ningin. We had way more entries than we expected and so it took us a bit to sort them out. I think next time we’ll do an automated form or something.

Without further ado here are the winners and their prizes:

Rawr – Megaman 9 video game for Wii
Zeno – Megaman Movie DVD
Joderb - DVD
Tsanguan - DVD
TKM – DVD

None of the winners were from the NYC area thus no movie premiere tickets were given out.
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Tags: contest, megaman, ningin

Hope you guys enjoyed your Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Now we’re in the last stretch of the 2008 year. Are you prepared for 2009? Well I’m not. I’m still surprised it’s 2008! When did time pass by so fast?

Well for those of you taking it week by week, here’s your wrap up.
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My name is Jessica Wen Shin Hsiung. I am 25 years old, and I am “Made in Taiwan.” I graduated from the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan with a major in modern dance. My dancing performance experience included Chinese Culture theater showcase from 2002 to 2005, APDT dance theater showcase from 2000 to 2002 and Iji dance theater showcase from 1999 to 2002. Additionally, I have choreography experience from 2001 to 2006 in the New York Institute of Culture and the Arts, University Annual Dance Showcase, Dance Tutoring School, Taipei Taiwan and Special Events and Shows.
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Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you caught the Youtube Live event last night. I’m really disappointed with the false advertisement of BoA but such is life. Regardless, it was cool to see all familiar Youtube faces perform. If you haven’t seen it, you can still watch the performances on Youtube.

Here’s this week’s wrap up:
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Happy Sunday everyone! It’s been a really long week as we prepared for the new forum design. It’s now up so go take a look. We hope that this new design will be easier for you to search through and participate in our forums. You can read more about the redesign here.

Getting down to business, here’s this week’s wrap up:
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Tags: News, ningin, redesign, weekly, wrap up