There are many blogs on the internet providing fans and spectators alike with juicy gossip and news updates on the Asian Entertainment Industry. They range from obsessive fan clubs, gossip portals, and dignified news/review sites. But what is the art of blogging? There are so many different styles, all providing a multi-faceted perspective on how we view and consume entertainment.

ShenYuePop! has stood out from the myriad blogs as a site that exhibits up-to-date news in a bold, often humourous critique. This is only possible through the hard work and passion of the writers on ShenYuePop! staff and other amateur bloggers who contribute to this site. Not to mention, other bloggers who graciously allow us to share their news and insight from their personal blogs on our site. And of course, the readers who post comments and interact with the ShenYuePop community make this site dynamic and all the more worthwhile to read and write for. Lastly, we can’t forget the founder and brainchild of this site, ShenYue, who have gone through sunshine and rain to keep this site running. She has sacraficed a lot overcome the language barrier and provide news in other Asian countries to foreigners. Thank you all for making ShenYuePop! your #1 source for Asian Entertainment.

ShenYuePop recently made #4 on the chart for blog juice by London Korean Links.
(The listing of some of the key blogs ranked by their “blog juice”, a score which combines data related to readership and number of sites linking to them.)

Check out the article by London Korean Links on Who’s Who in the Korean Blogosphere
to learn about the art of blogging and a blogger’s review of other blogs.

I warn you this is more of me ranting about my cyber-love in the first sight! LOL
I tell you about all of it .. the initial excitement .. development of love .. the attachment struggles and the last stage of any love life the sadden disappointment! Hahahaha!

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We are honored to announce that Ampedasia.com has listed us under their “10 Asian Sites You Can’t Miss in 2007″ break down and we are one of their ten favorites Asian entertainment sites!
Our sister blog AllKpop is also listed ^^! Check’t Out!

I would say that this blog has the best news all around. They cover the most interesting Asian pop culture news out there, and the author seems to really dedicate himself/herself to writing these articles in a very interesting manner. The new layout they have is also very hot.

So when we finished school couple days ago we felt like we are a human once again … and to celebrate our new finding, got our nails done! Aigoo, now the only convenient button on the keyboard to press is the “Space” bar!

But I decided to endure all the pain of typing with these long nails and on the behalf of all staff of ShenYuePop thank you all for the support and constant love …
It seems like we got our own little community back together ^^

-lOve
ShenYue! & Staff!

As the first post of the holy jolly month of December, I would like to introduce our sister site, ALLKPOP.com. AllKpop is currently operated by Johnny, and has overwhelmingly been attracting Kpop lovers ever since it went live a month ago. The title AllKpop is pretty much self-explanatory and it promises to be the source for all things related to Kpop.

Why we need a sister site
By partnering with AllKpop, we are able to offer more features which are going to benefit both ShenYuePop and AllKpop readers.

How it benefits AllKpop readers
Most AllKpop readers are not aware of ShenYuePop’s existence, with the launch of the partnership, they will benefit from the in-depth coverage of Kpop news and gossip from ShenYuePop.

How it benefits ShenYuePop readers
In the past, we received many emails asking us to put up a forum for the blog, but we couldn’t manage to fulfill that. With the help from AllKpop, the dream has come true, we now have our own forum. ShenYuePop readers can now access to the forum located on AllKpop as a new venue for communication and interaction. Share your points of view or raise your questions in ShenYuePop’s forum and have it attended by the community members. Don’t you love it?

To allow our readers to stay up to date with the discussion topics in the forum, we have also incorporated a list of the latest topics from the forum into the sidebar, the list will be updated immediately as soon as a new topic is created in the forum.

Last but not least, we hope you, our beloved and loyal readers are going to benefit from this special arrangement. Now let’s welcome AllKpop and make sure you head over to the forum today. Support! Support! Support!

Summary:
AllKpop is located at http://www.allkpop.com/

ShenYuePop’s forum is located at http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/forums/

Dear readers,

It is with great sorrow that I have to announce the retirement of our core author – Shen Yue.

Shen Yue is the founder and the creator of this wonderful blog, ShenYuePop.com which was first started in November 2006. Ever since then, she has always been the great source of the latest Korean entertainment news. She has her own style of writing the news and most importantly she speaks out what she thinks, she writes what’s on her mind. I strongly believe most of you love who Shen Yue is as much as I do, however, some people just don’t appreciate it. The crazy bunch of azumas are constantly bashing and defaming her. This leaves Shen Yue no choice but to retire from the blog. Instead of feeling hurt and stressful with the disrespectful emails and comments, it would be best for her to get away and have more time for her studies and most importantly, to get back to her own life, to be the real her.

Shen Yue said:
“I just want them to know that I hope that people had a good time reading my posts for over a year and I was able to relieve the stress of their entire day! Meanwhile hopefully no one was ever hurt because of how I expressed my opinions!

This past year of experience of living closely with Kpop and blogging was so much fun. I learned a lot and made great friends! Hopefully with all the love that I have received I am now ready to study hard for the MCAT (medical entrance examination test) that I will be taking on Spring!

I hope people give our staff and new authors encouragement and have good time together! and make ShenYuepop stays as always strong and establish as we were the “FIRST” Korean-entertainment NEWS blog for the mass in English!

Let them know that we would be happy to have new active and cool staff added to our lovely community all the time ^^ and together let’s make this place GROW MORE AND MORE each day!”

At the same time, as many of you may notice the new design of the blog, I would like to take this opportunity to launch the new facelift of ShenYuePop as my way to say “THANK YOU & WE LOVE YOU” to Shen Yue. Although Shen Yue physically retires from the blog, we will always have her in our heart and mind, I believe she will continue visiting us and be our advisor for many more years to come. Not only we should continue making this the best Korean-entertainment news blog for the mass in English, let’s also make it a fun Korean entertainment community for all Kpop lovers around the world.

Goodbye, Shen Yue! Take very good care of yourself and all the best in your studies and future undertakings.

If you want to bid farewell to Shen Yue, leave it in comments, I will make sure Shen Yue read it.

i don’t blame them tho..i was too busy doing other things to be able to catch up with the project..*sigh*..sorry guys for not being any help…*but glancing cruelly at Se7enFan and Jennifer who said it frankly to me*

anyway, where’s the Birthday Girl??? You’ve got one message! and this is really nothing compared to what the other guys did for you…*embarassed*

ps. i do speak fast, not only because my digicam was running out of battery and i tried to use the last drop of it. i won’t give you the sub, you have to watch it all over and over again till you get what i said HUAHAHAHAHAHA….Love You!!

Thank you everyone for your lovely birthday message!
Especially staff … with all their surprise gifts all over the net!
I made this post cuz I promised everyone that I will share my gifts …


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When Chris and I been welcoming my new Fan BB to my blog on one of the post
(check here-go on the comment part)

I made a comment “It’s funny how in the search engines people type in my name more than all those Celebrity’s names! What’s going on!”

Okay to prove the point to all you people out there, here is the statistic right from my blogstat! Only if my mom knew one day her daughter would have more fans than top notch Korean celebrities she writes about *giggling*

If you know me in real life, you’d know that I can’t stand a single Xmass song!
With having a sister in varsity choir, and a horrible work experience during holidays, no need to question me any further on that!
All i remember from Xmass is that being forced to listen to the exact same only-8-track xmass CD 10 hours a day for a month at work and then bear with the long ass practices of my sister at one-story house till the concert nights, and of course I had to attend the concert nights, duh!!! Not to mention the holiday nights while sitting with the family to regain all the lost strength after being constantly yelled at by bunch of rude customers during the day, Mimi not only fixes the TV channel on the choir performances and wont let go of the remote control in place of her life, but also sings along with the THEM! HOW CEAZY is THAT?

So now after all those years of physical/emotional abusements there is not a single piece of me that can stand the holiday spirit! Though this year I made a revolution! HA! Not only I didn’t work to add more delightful memories to my already disastrous holiday experiences, but also I enforced the hush-hush rule at home! That is no Xmass song whatsoever was allowed under any circumstances to be heard by my ears or else I would teach a lesson to the accuser that won’t forget for any of the up coming holidays! ERRRRRRR!

Having said all that, all these Grinchy attitudes of mine vanished the second I saw bunch of my favorite kpop singers singing the Jingle Bell song! As cheesy as it sounds that angelic voice of that se7en guy himself melted all those frozen tissues in my heart and formed a welcoming spirit for only that JINGLE BELL song!!! YOU HEARD ME? ONLY THAT ONE SONG!

Jingle Bell Rock- Se7en.BigBang.Suju KRY.Brian.SS501.MCMong
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