So, let’s get it on!~

We all know Kim Bum’s latest action drama, DREAM, started airing a couple of days ago.  And while our resident ex-BOF playboy/hottie seems to have channeled a Goo Joon Pyo during this drama (who knew he had that MUCH hair!), it seems that his acting skills still left little to be desired.

A half naked Kim Bum? Sure why not. But what the heck was that kiss supposed be?? At least Son Dambi managed to pucker up… a bit. Too bad all she got was a smiley-faced, closed mouth, carcass. And to top it all off, the director decided to go in for a closer shot, leaving viewers with a WTF? expression on their faces afterwards.

Makes one wonder how he does it in real life. Or maybe, after 21 years and 6 dramas, he has yet to learn the art of acting kissing? Hmmm…

UEE Of After School

Son DamBi

(And whats with Pledis giving everyone the same nose job?)

Kim Byul (Real name: Kim Misun)

Professional help can really turn a plain girl into a beauty.

Too bad that isn’t the case for everybody…

Ajumma perm?

LOL

Check out Dambis hump! It wasn’t there before…

I’ve affectionately created the couple name for Pledis and SamSung, anyone creating fanfics of their lovechildren, let me take a gander. PlamSung for life, baby Gurl!

“Amoled” is the new cult created by SamSung for Pledis. It’s a new lovechild phone and the soundtrack for that sweet baby is a collabo by After School and Son Dambi.

But do we like it?

Nyeh. AMOLED sounds weird and I checked, it’s not a word of the English language, and nor do I care. I’ve already created my own meaning, it’s the beauty application of a mole, it’s something they used to do a long time ago, also known as “beauty-spotted”.

It could be the Korean word for “secretly” with a little “ed” at the end, but that’s no fun.

Although it doesn’t really matter, I prefer the use of numbers in my phone titles, so much tech-sexier.

Listen to it and let me know what you think. And to be honest, the more I hear it, the more fun it sounds.

I do like Son Dambi, she’s sweet and a little bit of a quiet hush hush girl, but she’s got a fierce stage persona. The After School girls on the other hand are fun and lively on stage, but I don’t really dig the leader.

I don’t get it to be honest, she kinda…freaks me out, and I prefer the other members… Bekha is so my home girl, we should get together and I’ll teach her Korean.

And Fabio would so have a piece of JungAh….REEAOOOOOOOW. She’s the sexiest one for sure. The others kinda are phased out for me, UEE is awkward and has only two expressions, the doe eyed ulzzang look where she’s like semi-surprised and a “sweet smile”. But the one with a bob, she’s cute, the bigger bowlcut, yeah if anyone knows who I’m talking about, let me know what name she goes by. Its better than, that-one-with-the-ugly-hair-that-looks-like-it-may-eat-her.

Their shoot for it looked majorly unprofessional, they took “candid” shots that were so-not flattering…(This pic made me laugh cos UEE looks constipated in it! Lol!)

And don’t even get me started on the individual shots!

It’s become a running theme now with the big handphone companies, hiring a bunch of people from one company, I guess it’s a package deal. Much cheaper than your average, If only they let us get package deals with their phones…

Son Dambi was concentrating on getting her ass to look good in this pic that her face ended up looking amusingly dopey.

She’s endorsing some Jeans I won’t ever be buying, cos if they let their spokesperson end up looking that stupid, I’m not too eager to walk around with such a dopey face. They must have something itchy inside… or ticklish…

It makes her cuter to me honestly, since she probably snorts when she laughs and hides thick black rimmed spectacles in her bag..(yay stereotypes!)

It must be quite a work to raise a teenager these days in Korea!
You are constantly in fear of every new trend those God damn money maker ajusshis are making!

In the picture you have a student with Seo In Young’s mushroom haircut performing Son Dambi’s chair number in SCHOOL! Wonder how imitation of Rain’s Magic stick for male students is going on for the parents and teachers!

If you have no idea what we are talking about ..
Watch the performance of this woman and her chair!

[Perf] 081109 Son Dam Bi – Crazy – The Love Concert

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. However, I think these incidents might have been prevented if these celebrities engaged in yoga and other relaxation activities.

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.

Credit:Cindyphantom

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.

It’s also great news that Epik High are preparing a new single for this coming Autumn.

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