Shinhwa released a limited ‘White Edition‘ repackaged album along with the music video for their new song, “Destiny of Love,” on July 4. The ‘White Edition‘ is a repackaged version of Shinhwa’s 9th album, which ranked 1st in album sales for 2008, surpassing the 100,000 mark in a little over 1 month after its release (all without promotions!).
Their new song “Destiny of Love” is about a sad farewell, alluding to Shinhwa’s own departure from their fans as members will start to leave for military service by the end of this year. The song was written by Shin Hye Sung and composed by Lee Minwoo. The music video was made in commemoration of their 10th Anniversary Concert as a reminder to their loyal fans of their everlasting love.
[MV] Shinhwa- Destiny of Love
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SHINee of SM entertainment only debuted over a month or two ago and they’ve already got their batch of dedicated fans. In the form of noonas. This is old news and not unexpected since of course their first single is titled, “Noona is so pretty”.
They consist of leader Onew (19), Junghyun (18), Minhoo (17), Key (17) and Taemin (15). *Korean age*. The 5 boy idol group were originally aimed at the 20-30 ‘noona’ market and its obvious that its hard for the older women to resist their appeal. With plenty of noona fans found hanging around after performances to catch a glimpse of the cute younger men, I mean boys.
“over 90% of our fans are noonas.” Leader Onew mentioned. “The age gap is large, but the fans mostly see us as younger siblings.”
Since of course they are ‘noona’ fans, (which are basically older female fans as opposed to the younger girl fans, who are busy supporting groups like DBSK, Super Junior and Big Bang),
SHINee benefits from them more, as they are more likely financially independent.
Apparently the current Korean craze of younger men liking older women, goes the other way round.
Good for them. I see more fans coming in the future. But first they need to get plenty of rest or more pictures like these will surface. (It’s the 15 year old btw)(Our readers have confirmed Minho is the one in the below picture) Thanks for the correction
Poor little one, this noona will send you plenty of healthy delicious food, and will tell off your manager for making you work so much.
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In other news… The 40 year old DBSK are slowly gaining popularity.
Those of you who have watched the ‘Star King’ episode with DBSK, will know who they are. Who ever said that boybands end at 30?!
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Popdiva Uhm Jung Hwa released her 10th album (wow!) today, making a comeback after a 2 year hiatus. Her mini-album “D.I.S.C.O.” will defintely be blasting in clubs all summer long, causing ‘panic at the disco.’ I didn’t know Jung Hwa could pull off her ‘Korean Madonna’ concept, but she did with outlandish colors. Lee Hyori must be biting her fingernails because her “leaked” teaser is no match against Jung Hwa. All Lee Hyori has achieved so far is to package herself into a pop icon but end up putting Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein to shame by looking kitsch. Both popdivas will be fighting ferociously for the Pop Queen throne. This will be interesting to see, but I think I already know who won.
Uhm Jung Hwa brings a trendy, disco song as her title track, aptly named “DISCO.” The music video features Big Bang’s T.O.P., who looks hotter than ever with his tantalizing smile. Choreographer Shaun Evaristo, who also chreographed Taeyang’s MVs, worked on Jung Hwa’s MV. Here’s his comment on his experience:
“getting to work with uhm has been really fun. there’s this energy about her that i love and she brings the room up when she’s in it. she works hard and her new music is dope! i mean i’ve never heard it before this but the new sound they got going for her is tight!!! i wish i understood korean man, cuz making things up would be soo much easier. hahah oh and her dog is really cool, makes me miss my dog:(.” Read more HERE>>>
The album contains 6 tracks, produced by the Teddy-Kush combo, who have also worked on Big Bang Taeyang’s solo album. All the songs are surprisingly hip and makes you want to take your dance shoes out and groove to the music. Besides composing, Perry and G-Dragon also featured in two songs, “Shake It” and “Party”, respectively. The song “Party”, in which G-dragon featured, showcases a sweet piano arrangement, and of course, GD’s power rap. But my personal favorite has to go to “DJ”, featuring YG trainee female rapper CL. Hey, “Mr. DJ Turn it up!” because this song is the bomb - its resonating vibrations envelop your senses. I could dance till I drop to this album.
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Back again this week with an update on the past weeks’ news, events and gossip. This week in terms of news was somewhat slow, but keeps us anticipated for what’s to come. Check out our own news compilation:
Kim JangHoon still in Hospital
The gold hearted legend that is Kim JangHoon, has been admitted to hospital and is there to this day. On the 28th he was performing in his “SoHaean Festival” which was in support of the West Coast Oil Spill residents in Taean, which is till plaguing them to this day. While performing in the middle of the stage, it started to rain and Mr. JangHoon slipped. He couldn’t get up again, and it was later revealed that he had fainted and was sent to the emergency room in a nearby hospital. Kim JangHoon has been in the business for years, donating a percentage of his profits through out his career to innumerable charities and graced the stage with plenty of the new generations best loved stars. We hope he gets better and takes a good rest.
It’s starting to get frustrating the amount of celebrities weekly being admitted to hospital due to exhaustion. He joins this weeks other exhauastee Micky Yoochun of DBSK. I’m thinking of dedicating an entire section of this weekly segment just for this. It is after all a recurring theme.
WonderBang
A lot of this week’s news surrounds teen idol groups, Wonder Girls and Big Bang.
Two of the Wonder Girls girls are proving that they can multi task like no other. As well as promoting their own group Single “So Hot”, SunYe and YeEun are featuring on Mighty Mouth’s “Energy” and OneTwos “Bad Girl” respectively. They’re also riding high in the charts, in their 4th consecutive week as Number 1. JYP must be dancing the “Tell Me” in celebration. Here’s the Singles Chart for this week. Credits go to edward1849 of Soompi.
-June Week 4-
1. Wonder Girls - So Hot.
2. Tae Yang - 나만 바라봐 (Watching Only You)
3. SHINee - 누난 너무 예뻐 (Noona’s Pretty (Replay))
4. V.O.S - Beautiful Life
5. SG Wannabe - 라라라 (LaLaLa)
6. Gavy NJ - Lie
7. Jewelry - 모두 다 쉿! (Everybody Shhh!)
8. MC Mong - 서커스 (Circus)
9. Kim Jong Wook - 그대만이 (My Only)
10.Super Junior Happy - 요리왕 (Cooking? Cooking!)
Big Bang has also been riding high in the news, not to be outdone by their female counterparts.
T.O.P is accepting acting gigs.
It seems he’s been cast in the Drama “I.R.I.S“, set in the states where T.O.P is an undercover detective hunting an assassin. Besides the plot being very ambitious and the production costs being over 20 million Dollars, it shocks me that they would cast such an inexperienced actor in a lead role. But it seems that talent is never really an issue nowadays. T.O.P was previously cast in the mini-drama ‘I am Sam‘ with Yang DongGun. His acting was somewhat bland in that, let’s hope he does a better job this time.
DaeSung cast in world famous musical.
‘Cats‘ the well loved musical has been translated in to Korean and will start its rounds in Seoul in September. DaeSung of Big Bang was cast as Rum Tum Tugger, the ladies man of ‘Cats’. For some reason I really doubt that DaeSung knew what he was getting in to. For one, he needs to wear LYCRA, get face painted to death and shake his pelvis like no other. If you guys don’t know the Rum Tum Tugger, check out this youtube clip and get well acquainted.
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Now I cant wait to see that performance. I wonder if the V.I.Ps are eager to see it too.
You don’t have to be seen to be Number 1
Brown Eyes have made their comeback in the form of a new album. The management companies that use the “spread your artists around real thin” for publicity angle must be angry, since Brown Eyes are nowhere to be seen and their album sold a respectable 15,000 copies since its release the previous Thursday to the last. Its bizarre to me how a number 1 spot in singles goes to a group like the Wonder Girls and the album top spot goes to Brown Eyes, they just seem like polar opposites to me. The Korean Music Industry is ever surprising.
Tribute to Jewelry
Son DamBi, Bae SeulGi, Brown eyed girls’ GaIn and Joo
Besides this quartet being the most random group of all time, the ridiculousness doesn’t end there. They will be laying tribute to Jewelry this coming week on Music Bank. Why they’ve picked this particular four I do not know, but apparently the higher ups at Music Bank think Jewelry are more worthy of a cover than perhaps, Fin.K.L, Baby V.O.X (without the bloody ReV) and S.E.S. Worse yet, they’re covering “One More Time”. So please don’t make any plans this Friday, make sure you catch Music Bank, if you’re not wowed by the performances I’m sure you’ll be laughing. Son DamBi is getting busy lately with anything and everything under the sun, besides living up to her ‘Female Rain’ hype. She’s featuring on Sung SiKyung new music video as his love interest and heats it up with a kiss scene. A hard day’s work for Son DamBi.
Channel S
It’s difficult enough in South Korea to download music, search for pictures and view videos, and for that reason, the new technology saviours that are Channel SBSi and SM Entertainment have concocted a new revolutionary service called ‘Channel S’. Yes, of course this is not another ploy to get money; it’s a gift to the unresourceful public. I’m being sarcastic of course. This is a new system for mobile phone users that provides them with pictures, videos, ring tones, shows and all the other things you don’t need on your mobile, strictly SM and SBS related. The commencement ceremony took place on the 25th June and SHINee and Super Junior Happy were present. It’s available now and I’m sure it’s going to be insanely popular.
Dongducheon Rock Festival
We gave you news last week of the Seo Taiji’s comeback Rock festival, but now there seems to be competition. Dongducheon Rock Festival is taking place on August 15th to 17th, which is the same time ETPfest is supposed to be taking place; both are annual summer rock festivals. International as well as national stars will be contributing to this festival as well. The line-up includes artists such as Moon HeeJun, N.EX.T, Guyz, Crying Nut, Dr Core 911, Vanilla Unity, Cherry Filter, Boohwal, Transfixion, Maya, Super Kidd and many more. The only downside to this is picking which festival to attend.
^ Take a close look at the picture above - that could be your next favorite artist. (Isn’t that an eerie picture?)
At first I thought that singer Kim Jang Hoon slipped on the wet stage due to the rain falling during the concert. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Kim Jang Hoon collapsed due to overwork and exhaustion. He got only 1 hour of sleep the night before because of his intense preparation for the upcoming “West Coast Festival” concert to help victims of the oil spill that happened last year.
Kim Jang Hoon was immediately taken to the emergency room. The concert continued with performances from other artists - Yoon Do Hyun, No Brain, DJ Doc, Super Junior, and Jang Nara.
Singer Kim Jang Hoon had a special concert to help out and encourage volunteers and workers cleaning out at oil spill in the west coast called “West Coast Festival” on 28th June. The concert started at 7.30 pm and at about 9.35pm when he was performing the song “Champion”, he fell down in the middle of the stage.
Staff had ran up the stage to help him up as he was unable to get up on his own. He was immediately sent to the neighbourhood hospital in an ambulance, and had only recovered consciousness in the ambulance on the way. He is right now resting in the hospital.
A phone interview done with Kim Jang Hoon’s representative on 29th June morning, it was said that Kim Jang Hoon had fell due to exhaustion from overwork - he had not more than 1 hour of sleep in the preparation of his concert.
Fortunately, he did not suffer from any major injury in this incident.
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After the concert, the rest of the performers rushed to the hospital to visit Kim Jang Hoon, including members of Super Junior.
Whether this incident is due to Jang Hoon’s selfless ambition to help the needy or to a ridiculously busy schedule, this is yet another case of overwork and exploitation of a star. Korean pop stars are dropping like flies and no one seems to care that this hazardous situation needs to be rectified. Will it take some star’s life to end this madness? I hope not. But I sure don’t want to see anyone, especially my favorite artists, collapse on stage due to exhaustion. Get better, Kim Jang Hoon.
Fancam of the incident:
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