Rookie girl group AOA‘s member Yuna has been cast to play the lead female role in musical “Summer Snow.” This musical production is based on a popular Japanese drama with the same title. Yuna is one of the vocals and plays the keyboard in AOA. Previously, she garnered much attention online with her own ballad rendition of CN Blue‘s “I’m Sorry.” She partici...
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Following the popular rankings of the average weights of boy groups, a new chart was revealed: “Comparing Male Idol Group’s Average Heights.” The post showed a bar graph of the average heights of Korean male singer groups. The graph was divided into five sections with colors representing differing heights. X5 emerged as the tallest group in average height standing at a whoppin...
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Just when you thought Leeteuk was gone for two years, he makes headlines again with his new musical casting. According to multiple reports, Super Junior’s leader has been confirmed to join the cast of the new musical, “The Promise,” which will be produced by the Ministry of National Defense. Alongside Leeteuk, actors Kim Moo Yeol and Ji Hyun Woo, who are also currently enlisted in Korean army, wil...
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On September 19, Kara member Kang Ji Young’s song “Rainbow Rose,” which is the theme song for the drama, was released on major online music sites. “Rainbow Rose” is a cheerful dance song produced by Casker member Lee Joon Oh. The drama “Rainbow Rose” follows the ups and downs of students from different countries living in a boarding house in Korea. Kang Ji Young plays the role of Yuri who is the...
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Super Junior member Kangin finished a successful musical comeback with musical “Princess Hours” (also known as “Goong” which translates to “Palace”) with a final performance on September 13 in Tokyo, Japan. The 2006 MBC drama “Princess Hours” which starred Yoon Eun Hye, Joo Ji Hoon (currently starring in SBS drama “Five Fingers”), Kim Jung Hoon, and Song Ji Hyo (currently a regular on SBS variety...
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On September 5, Japanese newspaper Asahi reported that the popularity of K-pop in Japan is declining this year. Their analysis pointed out that Japanese fans are not sick of monotonously identical styles of K-pop artists and various political controversies between Korea and Japan have affected general attitude towards anything Korea-related. Asahi’s report said that while 15 K-pop artist ma...
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Today on Inkigayo IU returns to her hosting duties on the show. With Kara making their comeback this week, Nicole and Hara will not be MCing this week. For Kara’s comeback today, they performed their title track” Pandora” and “Miss U.” SM Entertainment‘s J-Min made her live broadcast debut today with her song “Stand Up” featuring TRAX‘s Jung Mo...
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A blast from the past on tonight’s M! Countdown! The show Reply 1997 has been bringing back old memories of the 90′s with the Korean crowd and today’s episode was dedicated to the nostalgia that was H.O.T‘s and Sechs Kies‘ prime era. The song “Promise’” by H.O.T was also played in the end as the viewers and M! Countdown bid farewell to Tony Ahn who s...
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Today’s special Music Core MCs were SISTAR‘s Bora along with BEAST‘s Doojoon and Yoseob. J.Tune Camp’s new girl group TWO X had their debut performance on the show with “Double Up.” Comeback stages were by VIXX, EXID and Phantom. SISTAR had their goodbye stage for “Loving U” while Boyfriend also said goodbye with “Love Style.” Hot Debut T...
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Today on M!Countdown BEAST‘s “Beautiful Night” took the win for the third week in a row! Congratulations to them on their triple crown win. Today’s Winner Debut stages today were by girl group EvoL performing “We Are a Bit Different,” and Phantom performing “Burning.” Comeback stages were by rookie group VIXX with their song “Rock Ur Body̶...
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