Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Kpop news 24th Dec

Rain to start work on American album next February

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Rain will start work on his American album next February.

Rain said during the press conference to his brand ‘Six to Five’ launching show on 23rd December, “I will finish my activities and promotion in Korea by 2008. Then I will do promotion for my Asian album in end-January.”

“From next February, I will be working on my American album. After which, from March I will be promoting for Hollywood film ‘Ninja Assassin’. There will also be a new concert tour next year.”

by sookyeong

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Solbi and Andy First TV Reunion After We Got Married

Solbi and Andy met for the first time since their last appearance on MBC star wedding variety We Got Married and checked on feelings for each other.

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Having “divorced” on MBC We Got Married 2 months ago after playing as a make-believe married couple, Andy and Solbi reunited during a recent recording of SBS Love Generation which will be broadcasted on Christmas Day.

Solbi caught the fans attention when she said during recording that even after We Got Married, she still gets nervous when Andy appears in front of her.

Andy expressed during the day of recording, “This is the first time I am seeing Solbi after we broke up”. And as a form of greeting, he gave Solbi a hug and that’s when Solbi said, “I still get nervous in front of Andy oppa”.

Solbi expressed afterwards, “After our pretend marriage had ended, I felt empty and lonely inside. And as I watch the last scene where the two of us broke up, I cried.” In the aftermath after leaving We got Married, they both confessed that they had to sort out their feelings from their pretend marriage life.

The event that Solbi remembers most from We Got Married was when Andy did the mission event for her at one of the 2008 Shinhwa 10th Anniversary Concert. “I was so happy that he did the mission event for me while I was in the audience. But I was afraid that the Shinhwa fans would glare at me.”

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Even as she reveals that, she said with lots of laughs, “It’s an important memory for me because it was an special event whereby the significant party of that person for whom he is performing can only get.”

Besides Andy and Solbi, Yoon Jong Shin, Kim Young Ho, Kim Ji Suk, Yoo Chae Young, Lee Chae Young and Seo Mi Young also appeared on the Christmas Special of Love Generation and revealed the know-hows about proposing and their honest stories. This will air on the 25th at 11.05pm (KST).

credit: gomdorii (translation)
by coolsmurf

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Checking out Rain’s ‘Six to Five’ brand launching show

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Rain’s fashion line ‘Six to Five’ launching show took place on 23rd December at GyeongGiDo Kintex.

A press conference was held at 5pm before the show itself at 7pm. There was also a red carpet for the singers and actors who turned up for the show.

The launching show was done in a fashion concert style, something never tried before, and Rain performed some of his never-performed-remix songs while the fashion show takes place. Also the show itself was divided into different colour concepts - red, blue, white and black.

Pop diva Lee Hyori also personally turned up in ‘Six to Five’ clothes on the red carpet.

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Other celebrities who turned up for the show.

Seo In Young - man, fierce!

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Kim Seon Ah and Chae Rim

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Han Eun Jung, Byung Jung Soo and Park Ji Yoon

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Go Eun Ah

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Some of my favourite shots from the show

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by sookyeong

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DaeSung, “There are still awkward moments between me and Hyori”

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DaeSung was recently on KBS 2TV ‘Sang Sang Plus Season 2′ with the other Big Bang members when he said, “Lee Hyori is like a real noona to me. But when we meet as singers on stage, there are still awkward moments between us.”

There has been many times when DaeSung and Lee Hyori had met as singers on music programmes this summer.

During broadcast programmes, DaeSung would go up to Hyori and greet her by “noona~”. But when Hyori ‘transformed’ into ’singer Hyori’, DaeSung expressed when he goes up to her, he could only give a formal greeting.

Hyori, without her makeup on ‘Family Outing’ would give a more comfortable image than the ’sexy Hyori‘ with makeup on stage. DaeSung expressed that he sometimes cannot adapt to such different images and feels that Hyori gives.

by sookyeong

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One additional show for ‘Big Show’

I WANT TO GO BIG SHOW BADLY :(

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It has been decided that there will be one additional show for Big Bang’s ‘Big Show’ next year.

YG Entertainment announced that there will be an additional show on 30th January at 7.30pm to the original shows on 31st January and 1st February at the Seoul Olympic Stadium. Now with a total of 4 show, the number of fans estimated at the show will be 52,000 from the previous 40,000.

Big Bang’s concert soldout condition has been the topic recently. The 40,ooo tickets available was sought after by 600,000 over fans. About 100% of the tickets are sold-out, this is something that no other singer has achieved for their ticket reservation sales in Korea.

YG Entertainment said, “This additional show is for those who failed to get their hands on the tickets the previous 3 sales windows. People has been requesting for tickets and for additional show even after the reservation sales have ended. The Big Bang members also felt that this will be the great chance to those who did not managed to get the tickets to get their tickets again.”

by sookyeong