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Hot Stage
- 2PM『Heartbeat』
- SHINee『Ring Ding Dong』
- SS501『Love Like This』

♬ Sound-Holic
- Brown Eyed Girls『Sign』
- See Ya『His Voice』
- f(x)『Chu~♡』

♬ 시.선.집.중
- MBLAQ『Oh Yeah』
- BEAST『Bad Girl』
- FT.triple『Love Letter』

♬ 화.제.집.중
- RUN『Strong Girl』
- A-Force『Wonder Woman』
- Lee Na Young『Planting Flowers』

♬ 이별 男女
- K.Will『Miss, Miss, and Miss』
- Secret『I Want You Back』
- Kang Hani『I Love That Stuff』

♬ New Song
- H-Eugene (feat. Sunday)『Love Alarm』
- Yurisangja『Bad Guy』
- DECEMBER『True Love…』

http://www.ytv.co.jp/besthits/enquete/index.html


2009 Best Hits Kayousai
The 2009 Best Hits Kayousai will be held on November 26 (Thurs), from 19:00, a live broadcast. The music festival will be held at Kobe International House.

[Brief trans from the HP]
We will start the voting for the awards from now on.
Please select one for each groups, for “Gold Artists’ Awards” (T/N: ゴールドアーティスト賞) and “Rookie Artists’ Awards”(T/N: 新人アーティスト賞),
and check the button underneath the artist.
(T/N: if you have any comments, please fill in the blank wide white space. I assume they can understand English. And then, please click on “投票する”.)

The voting results will be reflected for the decision for the awards.
Only one vote for one person, please.
Period: Until Nov 25 (Wed) 18:00
(You cannot vote on Nov 24 10:00-12:00 regarding server maintenance.)

(T/N : Two wonderful news in a row on the same day, that the boys will participate in Japan’s music festivals.
I am in tears, I can hardly believe these good news. This is definitely the happiest day for me in months!)

source: Yomiuri TV 2009 Best Hits Music Festival
translation: smiley @ OneTVXQ.com
credits: OneTVXQ.com { One World. One Red Ocean. One TVXQ! }
Feel free to repost, but please leave the full credits intact. Thanks!

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Here’s our chance!! It has been confirmed today that TVXQ will attend FNS Music Festival on December 2nd!


credit: canon525@baidu
shared by: sharingyoochun@wordpress

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edited with translation

FNS Song Festival Producers
Kikuchi Producer Written →　http://otogumi.fujitv.co.jp/lovekp/E20091121001.html

↓Translated

Thank you for waiting a long time!
『FNS Song Festival』
TVXQ made the decision!
They will be singing a few songs live

thanks to: Co.U
credit: sharingyoochun@wordpress


:) 5 of them performing together in Japan ! Looks like the boys will be in Japan for the end year music festivals like FNS and NHK kohaku !

Always Keep The Faith !!!!!

Group 2PM members Wooyoung and Chansungs CF pictures were releases and has caught fans attention.

Wooyoung and Chansung were in the Mojaekwa brand Cf filming and showed a caring and looking after one another which showed the teamwork of eachother. The sheep hats that the two were wearing made fans think they looked like cute little boys.

Netizens have said 'The way Wooyoung is looking at Chansung is very caring' 'the grumpy look Chansung has is very cute'.

Credit: TVDaily(SOURCE) + Baby♥ANGANG@2ONEDAY.COM (Trans)

Short article on Ceci website

Chansung's comment on how idols and presidents are just like everyone else -- that they date, do lotto, fight, and get divorced -- seemed to hold a deeper meaning.

'I want to try 'love.' Maybe it's because I haven't had a girlfriend yet. >.< I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing. TT_TT' (Wooyoung)

'For sure, it's travelling. Ah, I want to try sky diving. ^^' (Junsu)

'Watch a movie, and drink coffee at Apgujeong keke, watch a musical, travel to a different country. Though, I don't want to go alone, I want to go with people I like.' (Junho)

'I want to be successful and love before my 20's passes. Because I need to marry after my 20's!!' (Nichkhun)

'I think I've heard that in your 20's you do not get worn out or tired. So I need to work with a body and mind that will not tire out. kekeke' (Chansung)

'In my 20's I want to work as much as possible. It doesn't matter if I'm crazy busy, I just want to try fainting due to fatigue.' (Taecyeon)

These answers are to the question of what they want to do if they were given free time, and what they want to do before their 20's passes. If you asked any 6 people in their 20's off the street, you'd probably get similar responses. If you look back, 2PM has a side of them that's full of passion and energy on stage, but they also have a side of them that's not very idol-like -- messy dorm rooms, sleeping with only their wifebeaters on and their bare faces, foot odor contests, crazy and ridiculous disguise shows, etc -- they are like your funny friends who would show these sides of themselves freely. They are guys who would cheer you up with lame jokes when you're tired, and make you laugh with shocking events when you're bored. It's finally 6pm, and after the long ad photoshoot, we said our goodbyes to the 2PM members who were heading to the recording studio. "Let's share more stories that we couldn't share today later." We don't know when that 'later' would be, and we don't know if we will be seeing a 7 member 2PM then or a 6 member 2PM. But we are certain that we will always have a good time with our friends, and that those friends are now waiting with an anxious heart for our support.

Credits: Ceci (Source); saradah@2oneday (Trans); jayna@2oneday for finding this ^^

For those who missed T-ara's Lies performance,then you should not miss this video above.

Lies is their debut song and they ended the promotional activities of Lies a few months ago to promote TTL with Supernova.Besides,they will release their first ever mini album soon,please visit us regularly to be updated with latest T-ara's news!

Newspapers all over the world write up stories when celebrities commit suicide. We can’t help wondering why those we idolize most — the world’s wealthiest, most beautiful, most talented — would take their own lives. Don’t they have it all? Don’t we want to be them? And won’t we show up anyway tomorrow to audition for JYP – the Korean management firm that trains and manages K-Pop bands, Korean TV stars, and even models?


Though it is not uncommon for celebrities to take their own lives, in South Korea more than anywhere else it has become a trend, and the blogs are buzzing at the recent death of a Korean runway model. Is caused by the country’s demanding entertainment industry, the voracious appetite of its fans, or the plain truth that Korea’s stars face the pressure of also being their country’s ambassadors — as the small country has had so many entertainers reach the international spotlight?


Yesterday, model Daul Kim was found hanged in her Paris apartment.


A 5′10″ statuesque beauty who had modeled for Chanel and Topshop and had traveled the world, she found herself gradually becoming an icon for her country, the ambassador for the beauty of Korean women. According to the AP:

In an Oct. 30 entry on her blog, Kim wrote she was “mad depressed and overworked,” and in another entry said “the more i gain the more lonely it is … i know i’m like a ghost.” … Bloggers in South Korea mourned her death, speculating she felt the pressure of high-fashion modeling and a loss of identity.


Kim is also the ninth Korean celebrity to commit suicide over the past two years — joining a list that includes actors, actresses, and even the country’s past president. But though many reasons can lead one to feel desperate enough to take one’s own life, in suicide notes, many of these celebrities cited the pressure of the spotlight.

Last September, TV star Ahn Jae-hwan killed himself, supposedly after rising debts, and soon afterward Korea’s “national sweetheart” Choi Jin-sil committed suicide.



According to Korean entertainment columnist Park Soo Na, one of the reasons could be Jin-sil’s status as a single mother, a woman forging her own path. “Korean society does not like strong women, and thinks single moms have a personality disorder,” she said.

On March 7th this year, soap star Jang Ja-yeon left a seven-page suicide letter behind at her death, accusing 10 TV producers, newspaper CEOs, her talent agent and other entertainment execs of sexual exploitation.



The Guardian mused about whether the source of her struggle wasn’t the “slave contracts” Korea’s celebrities are subjected to.

Whereas some garage bands can have a year of sloppy practice sessions and get signed to Virgin records, Korea’s pop and film stars are intensely trained, supervised, and toured around to celeb functions by a coordinated network of agents, managers, publicists and execs.

In his special behind-the-scenes feature on the world of K-Pop, Edward Chun explained how Korea’s music stars go through intense training. “Ten to 12-hour work days, seven days a week – that is the life of a K-pop star-in-training,” he wrote ...

I asked the group to describe a typical day, and Kevin(UKISS)...filled me in: two hours of exercise in the morning, four hours of dance and choreography classes, two hours of vocal training, and two additional hours for review and language studies. This was their 24-7 schedule – and is in addition to busy days on the road touring, appearing on television programs, or recording music….I asked them if they felt that their company controlled their private lives. “Being an entertainer, to be honest, especially teenagers who think it’s a glamorous thing – it’s only on-stage or on television,” said Alexander. “Behind the scenes, we put in lot of effort. We are also worried and get stressed about how we can keep being popular, and how to keep our fame and be a successful star.”


K-Pop Star Isak told Chun every detail of her training regimen, including how the management kept tabs on the talent’s love life:

“[T]hey were afraid that we would sneak out. They would put in a house phone for us, and we couldn’t call from our cell phones. We had to call from our house phone to our manager as soon as we walk[ed] in the door [to inform them] that we came in.” Isak also recalled the strict no-dating policy at the time: “No dating,” she said. “You get caught, you pay consequences.” I asked her what the consequences were. “I was threatened that if I didn’t break up with my boyfriend then I would be either cut from SM or not [be] able to debut.”


But it isn’t only the management that doesn’t allow South Korean celebrities to have complete, happy lives. It’s also (gulp!) the fans. In the West, stars that do few interviews with the media and try their best to lead completely private lives are thought of as artistic savants who need their space. Think of Daniel Day Lewis, the American actor who at the height of his career moved to Florence to learn the practice of cobbling shoes, and returned five years later, telling reporters he wouldn’t speak of it: “It was a period of my life that I had a right to without any intervention of that kind.” He went on to win multiple Academy Awards.

In Korea, the lead band-member of pop group 2PM is on hiatus — whether at the bidding of the management or his own inclination — and the fans won’t stop their protests, going so far as to boycott the record and broadcast a sign to the singer via low-flying airplane. That’s a tough crowd to face.



With the eleventh highest suicide rate in the world, Korea’s rate could also, of course, be linked to the country’s averse relationship with psychiatry. “Koreans are very secretive about psychiatric problems,” Lee Myung Soo, a psychiatrist at the Seoul Metropolitan Mental Health Centre, told Time Magazine

If you or anyone you know is suffering from depression, please reach out. Call LifeLine, where operators are standing by to talk to you about whatever you need to talk about. It works in whatever country you are in, and is completely free and confidential. The phone numbers are available HERE

source: MTV IGGY

Get ready for some new T-ara action.

After the successful promotion with boy group, Supernova, it’s time for these girls to snag some spotlight for just themselves.

Photos from their upcoming new mini-album have been released, although not much else is known about the album at the moment. --unnecessary comment omitted--

Meet the girls with a new concept, more mature, sexy t-ara!

Leader Eun Jung





Main Vocals So Yeon





Rapper Hyo Min





Maknae Ji Yeon





The cute One Bo Ram





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