Actress Han Ji Hye returns to the big screen in the upcoming dramatic love story Humming
as a mature, pure-hearted “romance queen” — the kind of woman with a
deep love for “only one man” who must prepare for their separation.

Her recent projects have mostly been in television dramas — she’s currently in the KBS daily drama Ugly or Beautiful [Miuna, gouna] — and this’ll mark her first film since she acted with now-ex-boyfriend Lee Dong Gun in the 2005 romantic comedy My Boyfriend is Type B.

In Humming, she stars with Lee Chun Hee,
as a devoted-in-love character, and describes the film as “a
heart-breaking love story and a mysterious fantasy [that] are brought
together in a fresh way to move hearts.”

The article — which reads like a press release — promises that “all
of Korea’s women will sympathize with Han Ji Hye’s character, who falls
deeply in love in this perfect romance.”

The movie opens on White Day (March 3) and, I dunno about you, but for me it contains every
element I heartily dislike in a film. Overly earnest once-in-a-lifetime
love story? Yep. Implied death by cancer or other tragically trite plot
device? All signs point to yes. No plot to speak of (merely placeholder
descriptors like “moving” and “deep” and “heartbreaking”)? Oh yeah.

Via CNB News

SONG OF THE DAY

Sang Sang Band - “가지마 가지마” (Don’t go, don’t go) [ zShare download ]

SO not cool. Allegedly.

January 26, 2008

Jumong and Lobbyist actor Song Il Kook is being charged with violent assault of a female reporter.

Denials and allegations have been flung back and forth — he hit her,
no he didn’t, he never laid a finger on her — and the actor’s side is
preparing to countersue.

The alleged incident occurred a week ago on the 17th, in front of
his home. According to the plaintiff Ms. Kim, a reporter for a monthly
magazine, she’d been waiting alone in her car near his home, intending
to request an interview about his upcoming wedding (which was announced
recently). She got out of the car while talking on her cell phone, and
reached out to hold the actor’s right arm. He shook her off, striking
her in the face, and broke one front tooth while shaking loose three
others.

Naturally, the actor is denying the charge. He claims to never have
touched her at all, breaking her tooth through sheer mindpower instead (kidding! — but you knew that). Song says the charges are groundless and intends to sue her back for libel.

The two sides tell such differing stories that a full police and
legal investigation is inevitable. At this point, more details aren’t
forthcoming, since both sides have lawyered up and are being careful
about answering questions.

It’s hard to tell what’s truth and what’s fiction — or, at the very
least, exaggeration — in cases like this. For instance, it’s possible
he hit her accidentally (as a few papers suggest), in which case I
doubt people would blame him — but then why say he never touched her?
And I doubt a reporter would deliberately break her own teeth, but just
because it’s improbable doesn’t make it impossible.

So I’ll stick to saying: Paparazzi suck. Reporters who harass suck. And men who hit women really suck.

Via Go News, Mk.co.kr

SONG OF THE DAY

Misty Rain - “Wanna Be” [ zShare download ]

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Reports that SG Wannabe’s Kim Jin-ho is dating his stylist
made headlines this morning, angering the reserved singer. Not only did
he correct the rumor before it got too big, but he announced that he’s
going to take legal measures to put the reporter in his/her place.

Obviously Kim Jinho can’t take the heat but its funnier to see his reaction to the scandal than the scandal itself.

Our advice - calm down boy.  A scandal with your stylist, who is seven years older than you isn’t the end of the world.

POPSEOUL! News Flash January 26-27th

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Da Vici debuts in Japan first

New singing duo Davici will debut at SG Wannabe’s concert in Tokyo on January 27th,
2008. They will perform their new single that roughly translates to
“Hate you even though I love you.” The duet will make their debut on
Mnet.

POPSEOUL! News Flash January 26-27th
Published January 26, 2008 Da vici , Jang Nara , Joo , Song Il-gook 37 Comments

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Da Vici debuts in Japan first

New singing duo Davici will debut at SG Wannabe’s concert in Tokyo on January 27th, 2008. They will perform their new single that roughly translates to “Hate you even though I love you.” The duet will make their debut on Mnet.

Are they or aren’t they?

January 25, 2008

Are Gong Yoo and Im Soo Jung dating? MBC every1’s news-entertainment show News Agency! Kura’s Desk thinks so; they’re reporting that the romance is on.

Last year, reports that the two were dating spread when Gong Yoo and
Im Soo Jung were seen together at the Jeju International Airport in
September. At the time, Gong Yoo issued a strong denial to quash the
rumors, saying, “Im Soo Jung and I are merely good friends, and a group
of our friends had met in Jeju Island.” Im Soo Jung, on the other hand,
had an indirect denial, saying, “I’m touched, since this is the first
time I’ve been involved in romance rumors in my career.”

Even amid heated interest from netizens, the two denied a
relationship; the topic gradually faded away. But as Gong Yoo’s
military enlistment neared (his service started on the 14th), producers
of the show began taking more of an active interest, keeping watch over
the star’s home and hinting that there’s proof of a relationship. But,
naturally, they’re keeping mum for the present until they reveal the
facts of the case (because it’s all about ratings!), in the January 25
episode of the program.

Via Newsen

SONG OF THE DAY

Rossy Punky Perfume - “Love Fixer” [ zShare download ]

News bites: January 21

January 25, 2008

News bites: January 21

  • Goong S’s Heo Yijae (”little Kim Tae Hee”) has been cast as Oh Ji Ho’s love interest in the upcoming drama Single Papa in Love. Yikes, that makes me nervous for both of them.
  • While doing press for her upcoming film The Chaser, actress Park Hyo Joo of the cable “Chosun CSI” show Chosun Police (and spunky agent Im Yewon from Air City)  admitted in an interview that she suffers from a rare spinal condition,
    congenital spondylolysis (a defect in the lower lumbar vertebra). She
    was diagnosed in high school and had to give up her lifelong dreams of
    being a ballerina. Thankfully her condition doesn’t get in the way of
    her current career; her film opens on Valentine’s Day.
  • Speaking of ballerinas, pop vocal group CSJH The Grace’s arguably most popular member, Stephanie, is dressing up as a ballerina (her previous artistic endeavor, prior to becoming a singer) in Project “S,”
    a mobile-content photo collection she shot in Singapore this past
    December. Already a two-minute video clip of Stephanie showing her
    ballet moves is available at the video portal tvpot.daum.net (or watch the video below):
  • And Lee Bo Young opens a new film and fights old rumors. She’s promoting her first starring film role in Once Upon a Time,
    which sounds like some kind of period crime caper hybrid (she’s in
    search of a stolen 3,000 carat diamond and teams with a master thief,
    played by Park Yong Woo), which opens at the end of
    January. Meanwhile, she’s still denying rumors that sprung up last year
    that she was seeing soccer star Park Ji Sung — gossip even placed her
    in England, supposedly visiting him there — but she insists they’ve
    never even met.

SONG OF THE DAY

CSJH The Grace - “Dancing Queen.” Because who couldn’t use a little ABBA on a Monday?
[ zShare download ]

Andy Releases 1st Album

January 20, 2008

             

             

               

             

             

               


Jang Dong Gun

This isn’t too different from the Hollywood system of things, if you
substitute “talk show circuit” for the Korean variety programming
mentioned below. You know, if an actor or personality appears on
Letterman, Conan, or any of the other late-night (or early-morning)
programs, chances are they’re hawking something, whether it’s a new
movie, new book, new fragrance, new vanity athletic shoe line, new
healthy-cooking meat griller, whatever. And similarly, in Hollywood,
the bigger the star, the rarer the appearances (and the bigger the deal
when they do appear). So to the following, I say, (1) makes sense, and
(2) DUH.

Active stars who don’t appear on variety shows…?

“I’m not close with Jang Dong Gun. Please talk with
his management.” “Please ask Mr. Jang Dong Gun and get him to appear.”
Those are the words of [host] Kang Ho Dong on MBC’s popular program Goldfish.
Kang Ho Dong never fails to ask for Jang Dong Gun to appear whenever
the opportunity arises or a star connected to him comes on the show. In
truth, he’s said that PD Lim Jung Ah is negotiating to get Jang Dong
Gun to appear.

SONG OF THE DAY

Rocket Diary - “What You Want” [ zShare download ]


January 18, 2008

The 5 Worst Names of KPOP

Worst Names of Kpop

You thought listening to KPOP artists trying to sing an American song with their Fobby Engrish accents was bad, but what about their Fobby Engrish Names?
A Name is important, if Hyori named herself SuperSlut (which she is) do
you think she would be where she is today? Actually, nevermind, she’s
so freaking hot that no matter what name she chose, she would’ve been a
slut star.

But for the unfortunate 5 below, that is not the case - get ready for the 5 worst names of KPOP!

5. H.O.T., aka High Five of Teenager
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The acronym H.O.T. is actually pretty bad ass, but ‘High Five of
Teenager’ sure isn’t. Think about of it for a second, ‘HIGH FIVE OF
TEENAGER’, that should say enough. What’s sad however, is that a better
fit would’ve been ‘Homosexual Oriental Teenagers’, now that hits the
spot!

4. DBSK, aka TVXQ, aka DBSG, aka DONG BANG SHIN KI, aka DONG BANG SHIN GI, aka TOHOSHINKI
dbsk, dbsg, dong bang shin ki, dong bang shin gi, tohoshinki
Wow, make up your damn minds will ya? DBSK or TVXQ would’ve been fine
but they had to come up with all these stupid variations. We know about
the country variations, TVXQ in China, Tohoshinki in Japan, but why not
just stick to one name? You don’t see Hyori using another name, such as
the Japanese word for slut in Japan, do you? "Look at us guys, we’re so
unique! We have special names depending on the country!" Well Guys,
we’re sorry to break it to you, in America we would call you DBSK. But
here’s the catch, the acronym wouldn’t stand for ‘Dong Bang Shin Ki’
instead you’d be known as the ‘Douche Bag Stupid Koreans’.

3. F.T. Island, aka Five Treasures Island
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ARRRRR… ‘Five Treasure Island’, these fruitcakes should take their
gay treasure seeking asses and head on over to Michael Jackson’s
fantasy world, "Neverland," where they can throw a pre-pubescent bash
and MJ can sexually molest them all play with their treasures.

2. SG Wannabe, aka Simon and Garfunkel Wannabe
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"Don’t judge a book by it’s cover." That’s what these boys pledged
their entire existence upon, that they can sing and be superstars
eventhough they are ugly. Well, throw all of that out the window, these
young lads are definitely as dumb as they look, their lack of brain
cells and creativity just seeps out onto their faces.

1. Rain, aka Bi
Rain
What happens when one party looks like a retard and the other one is
straight up mentally retarded? With these powers combined, there’s only
one outcome, the creation of Rain. Rain in Korean is Bi, only a true
pea-brain would agree to this catastrophe.

It’s honestly hard to take this artist seriously, not only does he have
a name like Bi, his super chinky eyes doesn’t really help the cause.
But the disaster doesn’t end there, Rain had the opportunity to change
his name during his U.S. debut plans when he ran into a little bit of
legal trouble.

Rain Corporation is a music company located in Nevada, Las Vegas, that
also manages a band called Rain (stupidity knows no bounds), when they
found out about KPOP’s Rain, they asked him to change his name. As you
can see nothing ever happened. It was the perfect opportunity for this
bi-sexual to redeem himself, but on second thought, it’s a good thing
he kept the name, it’s a perfect fit! Rain is a stupid name, and who
better to represent than the perfect dumbass?

If you liked this, check out my other master piece: The Top 10 Ho Ho Hoes of KPOP!

Note: All opinions expressed in this article are those of the
individual authors and do not necessarily represent the opinion of
allkpop.com or its management. This is a satirical article, therefore
most of the content is invented, please be advised that this article is
intended to be funny & not to be taken seriously.

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January 18, 2008

FT Island shows love for underprivileged teens

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The five young talents of FT Island made an impressive
gesture when they personally requested that teens from underprivileged
families be invited to concerts on their first tour, “First Island.” In
each of the 10 cities on the tour route, FT Island members will
distribute 500 lunch boxes to teens from low income families, inviting
them to their concert. Whether or not this is a publicity stunt, we’re
happy to know that this gesture will benefit fans who are otherwise
unable to see their idols in real life.