SBS Sunday music program “Inkigayo” has explained the reason behind legendary artist Cho Yong Pil‘s zero SNS (social networking site) votes. “Inkigayo” director Kim Yong Kwon spoke with Star News through a phone interview on April 29, clarifying the matter. Cho Yong Pil’s ”Bounce” was nominated for the last week of April, but received zero SNS votes,...
Singer Kim Tae Woo is cast in the global musical “The Lost Garden.” According to reports in local news agencies, Kim Tae Woo stars in the musical set for a world premiere at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China in June. Kim Tae Woo will draw a character who is consumed by loneliness. In this work, he would be portraying the difficulty of living in a world that prejudices, thus t...
Top star Jang Dong Gun is set to create excitement in the film industry again with his new project. According to a report from Star News, the A-list actor has joined forces with “The Man from Nowhere” (also known as “Ahjusshi”) director Lim Jung Bum for a new film. Jang Dong Gun is said to play a killer in the tentatively titled “Crying Man.” Reports further sai...
SHINee proves once again how much their popularity has been spreading all across Asia. Their latest release, “Chapter 2 – The Misconceptions of Me” showed fighting form in the charts not only domestically but abroad. According to reports in local news agencies, the title track “Why So Serious?” from “The Misconceptions of Me” made it to the top spot of the...
BEAST‘s Yang Yoseob conducted a series of promotional activities in Japan in anticipation of the mid-May release of his first solo album, “The First Collage.” As in the Korean version released in 2012, the Japan release of “The First Collage” will also carry “Caffeine” as title track, featuring the rap of fellow member Yong Jun Hyung. To ramp up the excite...
CNBlue‘s charismatic frontman Jung Yong Hwa and “Untouchable” bassist Lee Jung Shin may seem invincible but they revealed a phobia of airplanes. During the fan meeting in Tokyo that doubled as the release event for CNBlue’s fifth major Japan single “Blind Love” held on April 26, the band came out with an impromptu and self-composed song which spoke of these fear...
CNBlue leader, vocalist and guitarist Jung Yong Hwa is no longer taking on a role in the new SBS drama “Heirs.” According to reports in local news agencies, his management, FNC Entertainment has respectfully pulled him out of the drama, which has already announced Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye in starring roles. The statement from FNC Entertainment said, “Jung Yong Hwa examined hi...
Coming off a successful Japan arena concert tour, Girls’ Generation gears up for another challenge and is set to take their concert series to the world stage. According to reports in local news agencies, the group will kick off the “2013 Girls’ Generation World Tour – Girls & Peace” with two concerts in Seoul in June. Girls’ Generation has had a successful c...
T-ara showcases the worldwide appeal of their hit song “Bo Peep Bo Peep” when they performed it alongside Taiwanese idol group Dream Girls for the Mnet “M! Countdown Ni Hao Taiwan” on April 24. A statement from Mnet said, “T-ara’s special performance with Dream Girls presents T-ara’s representative song ‘Bo Peep Bo Peep’ for this first tour abr...
Seo In Guk recently opened up on his feelings about the ongoing talk about him and his “Answer Me 1997″ co-star, A-Pink’s Jung Eunji. The singer participated in the KBS Tuesday evening game show “1 vs. 100,” in which he also revealed some of his thoughts. “Jung Eunji and I finished filming the series last year,” he said. “At first, I thought the rumo...
