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TWICE  performed at Japan's popular year-end music festival,  NHK 's ' Kohaku Uta Gassen '! This was the first time in 6 years that a K-Pop artist was invited to 'Kohaku Uta Gassen', since 2011 when  KARA ,  Girls' Generation , and  TVXQ  performed for the music festival.  TWICE was part of the Red Team and performed the Japanese version of their hit track " TT ". [embedded content] In the end, it was the White Team that won Kohaku as they received 2,237,644 votes compared to the Red Team's 1,432,371 votes. Let's block ads! (Why?) https://www.allkpop.com/article/2017/12/twice-is-the-first-k-pop-artist-to-perform-at-japanese-year-end-music-festival-kohaku-uta-gassen-in-6-years

TWICE  performed at Japan's popular year-end music festival,  NHK 's ' Kohaku Uta Gassen '! This was the first time in 6 years that a K-Pop artist was invited to 'Kohaku Uta Gassen', since 2011 when  KARA ,  Girls' Generation , and  TVXQ  performed for the music festival.  TWICE was part of the Red Team and performed the Japanese version of their hit track " TT ". [embedded content] In the end, it was the White Team that won Kohaku as they received 2,237,644 votes compared to the Red Team's 1,432,371 votes. Let's block ads! (Why?) https://www.allkpop.com/article/2017/12/twice-is-the-first-k-pop-artist-to-perform-at-japanese-year-end-music-festival-kohaku-uta-gassen-in-6-years

by Brandon Voss 4h ago South Korean girl group Loona (stylized as LOOΠΔ) has released a cutesy new video featuring an overt lesbian love story. “’Heart Attack’ does not interpret the feelings of being in love in a serious way, but with Chuu’s own adorable emoticon-like ways,” reads an official description of the K-pop bop. “The music video has references to historical and fictional figures such as the artist René Magritte, Hans Christian Andersen’s short story The Little Match Girl , and John Appleby’s novel Aphrodite Means Death .” Okay, sure, but the video, packed with sexy symbolism like ripe Edenic apples, also focuses on singer Chuu’s stalker-level crush on fellow Loona member Yves. “The fact that I took a step towards you first / It lets me find myself that I didn’t even know,” reads a translation of the Korean lyrics, which include a reference to “hidden secrets that only I knew.” “Heart Attack” is particularly notable because while homosexuality is legal in South Korea,...

Up-and-coming K-pop stars LOONA have released a new song celebrating same-sex love. The video from the stars gained more than 300,000 views in two days and is for the song ‘Heart Attack’.  It features two women in love despite same-sex relationships still being stigmatised in South Korea. The song also features lyrics suggesting it is a love song. The lyrics include: “This is what ‘fall in love’ is / Dipped you inside my white heart, and made it red.” The group has released songs since October 2016. Each song introduces a new member of the group. The latest single ‘Heart Attack’ introduces the member Chuu. The group plans to debut in 2018 unveiling all 12 members. Check out the video for Heart Attack below: [embedded content] Let's block ads! (Why?) http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/12/30/k-pop-stars-loona-release-song-celebrating-same-sex-love/

North Korea has been using its well-oiled propaganda machine to keep a firm grip on the minds of the citizens. But Dr Kim suggested the growing popularity of South Korean dramas could affect the power leader Kim Jong-un has over the country. Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, he said: "Anything can happen in politics, either global or domestic. "Something might happen soon because, the thing is, North Korean people like the soap operas and popular music – and even music videos – from South Korea which can reach North Korea through mobile phones." Catching the trend, South Korea repeatedly blasted K-pop songs to get under the skin of its trigger-happy neighbour following repeated missile tests threatening the stability of world peace. Dr Kim added that Pyongyang "punishes dearly" anyone caught with popular dramas or music but in time mass consumption could "mellow" the regime. He continued: "They like it very much. The North Korean leader kn...

BeritaMU.co.id – Dunia hiburan Korea Selatan baik kpop maupun kdrama erat kaitannya dengan iklan. Jika kiprah karir di dunia hiburan bagus, maka tawaran iklan yang datang akan semakin banyak. Seperti biasa, akan ada penilaian tentang siapa saja yang memiliki reputasi brand terbesar setiap bulannya. Di bulan Desember ini The Business Research Institute kembali merilis hasil riset dengan total 15.621.606 lembar data. Data tersebut dikumpulkan sepanjang 23 November hingga 24 Desember 2017. Jika dilihat, perubahan banyak terjadi untuk posisi teratas reputasu brand pria bulan Desember. Posisi puncak ditempati oleh presenter sekaligus komedian Kim Saeng Min dengan total 2.077.028 lembar data. Proporsi yang didapatkan Kim Saeng Min ini naik sebanyak 457,54% dari bulan November lalu. Belakangan ini Kim Saeng Min memang mendapatkan popularitasnya akibat jargon ‘bodoh’ dan ‘bagus’ yang sering ia celetukkan. Jargon tersebut diketahui masuk ke dalam 5 iklan yang dibintanginya. Di posisi kedua ad...

BeritaMU.co.id – Dunia hiburan Korea Selatan baik kpop maupun kdrama erat kaitannya dengan iklan. Jika kiprah karir di dunia hiburan bagus, maka tawaran iklan yang datang akan semakin banyak. Seperti biasa, akan ada penilaian tentang siapa saja yang memiliki reputasi brand terbesar setiap bulannya. Di bulan Desember ini The Business Research Institute kembali merilis hasil riset dengan total 15.621.606 lembar data. Data tersebut dikumpulkan sepanjang 23 November hingga 24 Desember 2017. Jika dilihat, perubahan banyak terjadi untuk posisi teratas reputasu brand pria bulan Desember. Posisi puncak ditempati oleh presenter sekaligus komedian Kim Saeng Min dengan total 2.077.028 lembar data. Proporsi yang didapatkan Kim Saeng Min ini naik sebanyak 457,54% dari bulan November lalu. Belakangan ini Kim Saeng Min memang mendapatkan popularitasnya akibat jargon ‘bodoh’ dan ‘bagus’ yang sering ia celetukkan. Jargon tersebut diketahui masuk ke dalam 5 iklan yang dibintanginya. Di posisi kedua ad...

To be honest, I had never heard of Kim Jong-hyun until the recent media coverage of his suicide snapped me out of blissful ignorance. Blame my cluelessness on the fact that, to the untrained eye, all of South Korea’s prettiest and shiniest humanoid cultural exports look and sound exactly the same. I can’t tell them apart. Kim, better known by his stage name, Jonghyun , was one of the original luminaries of K-pop, the beloved lead singer of boy band SHINee and one of the most bankable stars of the so-called Korean Wave or Hallyu brand of entertainment that has colonised the known world. Hong Kong fans flood Twitter in outpouring of grief over death of SHINee lead singer Jonghyun The circumstances of the 27-year-old pop idol’s tragic death have put the spotlight on the sheer pressures and shameful exploitation that young people like him in the entertainment industry have to face. “I am broken from inside. The depression that gnawed on me slowly has finally engulfed me entirely,” the har...

Soundtrack dalam sebuah drama Korea merupakan salah satu unsur penting yang mendukung drama tersebut. Banyak penyanyi Korea berbakat pun turut mengisi sejumlah soundtrack dari KDrama. Tidak hanya dari penyanyi, sang aktor dan aktris pemeran drama tersebut pun juga tak mau ketinggalan menunjukkan kemampuan menyanyi mereka dengan mengisi soundtrack drama yang dibintanginya, seperti yang dilakukan layaknya 5 pemeran utama dalam drama Korea tahun 2017 ini. Mau tahu siapa sajakah mereka? Yuk, simak di bawah ini! 1. Park Seo Joon - "Our Tears" (Hwarang: the Poet Warrior Youth) Loading video... Aktor yang mulai dikenal baik melalui penampilannya dalam drama Kill Me Heal Me ini ternyata tidak hanya jago akting, namun juga bernyanyi. Penampilan Park Seo Joon yang terakhir dilihat tahun ini melalui film layar lebarnya Midnight Runners , ternyata juga ikut menyanyikan OST Drama Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth dengan lagu berjudul "Our Tears". Tidak disangka ternyata sebelu...

Soundtrack dalam sebuah drama Korea merupakan salah satu unsur penting yang mendukung drama tersebut. Banyak penyanyi Korea berbakat pun turut mengisi sejumlah soundtrack dari KDrama. Tidak hanya dari penyanyi, sang aktor dan aktris pemeran drama tersebut pun juga tak mau ketinggalan menunjukkan kemampuan menyanyi mereka dengan mengisi soundtrack drama yang dibintanginya, seperti yang dilakukan layaknya 5 pemeran utama dalam drama Korea tahun 2017 ini. Mau tahu siapa sajakah mereka? Yuk, simak di bawah ini! 1. Park Seo Joon - "Our Tears" (Hwarang: the Poet Warrior Youth) Loading video... Aktor yang mulai dikenal baik melalui penampilannya dalam drama Kill Me Heal Me ini ternyata tidak hanya jago akting, namun juga bernyanyi. Penampilan Park Seo Joon yang terakhir dilihat tahun ini melalui film layar lebarnya Midnight Runners , ternyata juga ikut menyanyikan OST Drama Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth dengan lagu berjudul "Our Tears". Tidak disangka ternyata sebelu...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Enslaved to the rhythm: why K-Pop is struggling to hide its darker side    Telegraph.co.uk Full coverage http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/enslaved-rhythm-k-pop-struggling-hide-darker-side/

New Year’s 2018 is just a few days away, and it will be greeting a very different K-pop than its predecessor did at the start of 2017, coming after these past 12 months saw the waning of an older generation of Korean acts and the rise of younger groups to the top tiers of the music scene. The changeover is only natural, but at a time when some K-pop acts have proved able to exceed expectations and maintain their careers longer than ever, the shock to the system that was 2017 will resonate with the industry for quite a while moving forward. The earliest loss of 2017 was one of the most shocking, when Wonder Girls , a group that had seen major successes in the late ‘00s and was the first K-pop act to break into the Hot 100, called it quits. The team, then a quartet, had reinvented itself in 2015 with the band-focused Reboot , and had similarly impressed in 2016 with their single “Why So Lonely?” One of a handful of K-pop girl groups to reach the 10-year mark, the breakup ca...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ha Ji Won And Jo In Sung's Drama “What Happened In Bali” To Be Remade After 14 Years    soompi Full coverage https://www.soompi.com/2017/12/28/ha-ji-won-jo-sungs-drama-happened-bali-remade-14-years/

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Ha Ji Won And Jo In Sung's Drama “What Happened In Bali” To Be Remade After 14 Years    soompi Full coverage https://www.soompi.com/2017/12/28/ha-ji-won-jo-sungs-drama-happened-bali-remade-14-years/

If you are into web-comics, then you should know one of the industry’s biggest titles is getting adapted. According to new reports, Something About Us will be getting a live-action series in 2018. As reported by Soompi , a source working in the South Korean entertainment industry revealed the popular web-comic will head to TV next year. Right now, there are no details about which studio is shopping the adaptation, but reports have revealed one actor who is being eyed to star. Seo Kang Joon has reportedly received an offer for the show, and fans can only assume it is for a leading role. If you are not familiar with Something About Us , the title is one of the most popular web-comics out there. The romantic series is hosted on Lezhin Comics and tells a college love story between two childhood friends. The series began in October 2014 under creator Lee Yunji and wrapped earlier this year in April. So far, the web-comic has amassed over 100 million views and become one of the industry’s ...

[embedded content] 13 Days 22 Hours 45 Minutes 45 Seconds Title: 연남동 539 / Yeonnam-dong 539 Chinese Title: 延南洞539 Genre: Comedy Episode: 12 Broadcast network: MBN Broadcast period: 2018-Jan-10 to 2018-March-28 Air time: Wednesdays 23:00 Synopsis This drama about a group of people from diverse backgrounds who live together in a share house in Yeonnam-dong. Cast Lee Jong Hyuk as Sang Bong Tae Oh Yoon Ah as Yoon Yi Na Lee Moon Sik as Jo Dan Brian as Lion Go Woo Ri as Seok Do Hee Yang Jung Won as Yang Soo Ri Choi Woo Hyuk as Goo Tae Young Chunji as Jo Da Woon Production Credits Director: Kang Hoon, Han Yool ScriptWriter: Kim Jin Kyung, Lee Ji Hyun Poster Related Photo Official Site Trailer:- – Trailer I – Trailer II Watch Online in Viki.com (Coming Soon) Let's block ads! (Why?) http://www.koreandrama.org/yeonnam-dong-539/

If you are into web-comics, then you should know one of the industry’s biggest titles is getting adapted. According to new reports, Something About Us will be getting a live-action series in 2018. As reported by Soompi , a source working in the South Korean entertainment industry revealed the popular web-comic will head to TV next year. Right now, there are no details about which studio is shopping the adaptation, but reports have revealed one actor who is being eyed to star. Seo Kang Joon has reportedly received an offer for the show, and fans can only assume it is for a leading role. If you are not familiar with Something About Us , the title is one of the most popular web-comics out there. The romantic series is hosted on Lezhin Comics and tells a college love story between two childhood friends. The series began in October 2014 under creator Lee Yunji and wrapped earlier this year in April. So far, the web-comic has amassed over 100 million views and become one of the industry’s ...

If you are into web-comics, then you should know one of the industry’s biggest titles is getting adapted. According to new reports, Something About Us will be getting a live-action series in 2018. As reported by Soompi , a source working in the South Korean entertainment industry revealed the popular web-comic will head to TV next year. Right now, there are no details about which studio is shopping the adaptation, but reports have revealed one actor who is being eyed to star. Seo Kang Joon has reportedly received an offer for the show, and fans can only assume it is for a leading role. If you are not familiar with Something About Us , the title is one of the most popular web-comics out there. The romantic series is hosted on Lezhin Comics and tells a college love story between two childhood friends. The series began in October 2014 under creator Lee Yunji and wrapped earlier this year in April. So far, the web-comic has amassed over 100 million views and become one of the industry’s ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] K-Pop rapper Heize needs throat surgery after being rushed to hospital following collapse on stage at Christmas Day ...    Mirror.co.uk K-Pop rapper Heize rushed to hospital for throat surgery after collapsing on stage at Christmas Day music festival    The Sun K-Pop singer Heize Rushed To Hospital After Collapsing At An Event    Marie Claire Full coverage http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/k-pop-rapper-heize-needs-11759151

Dibintangi oleh Lee Seung Gi yang baru saja menyelesaikan wajib militer, Hwayugi yang tayang perdana pada 23 Desember lalu ini mengangkat cerita dari novel klasik “Journey to the West”. Sebelumnya pernah diadaptasi menjadi serial “Sun Go Kong, the Monkey King” atau yang lebih kita kenal sebagai “Kera Sakti”. Menariknya, aktor Lee Seung Gi berkesempatan memerankan Sohn Oh Gong, Sun Wu Kong/Sun Go Kong versi Korea. Sebelum menonton kelanjutan kisah Sohn Oh Gong pada episode selanjutnya, simak yuk fakta drama Korea teranyar, Hwayugi yang dihimpun dari berbagai sumber. 1. Dibintangi deretan bintang ternama Soompi.com Hwayugi (a Korean Odyssey) dibintangi oleh deretan artis dan aktor ternama seperti Lee Seung Gi (Sohn Oh Gong), Cha Seung Won (Woo Hwi Chul), Oh Yeon Seo (Jin Sun Mi), Lee Hong Gi (P.K/Jeo Pal Ke) dan Jang Gwang (Yoon Dae Sik). Drama ini juga melibatkan Lee El (Ma Ji Young), Sung Hyuk (Dong Jang Goon), Kim Sung Oh (Lee Han Joo), dan Sung Ji Ru (Soon Bo Ri). 2. Drama pertama Le...

Dibintangi oleh Lee Seung Gi yang baru saja menyelesaikan wajib militer, Hwayugi yang tayang perdana pada 23 Desember lalu ini mengangkat cerita dari novel klasik “Journey to the West”. Sebelumnya pernah diadaptasi menjadi serial “Sun Go Kong, the Monkey King” atau yang lebih kita kenal sebagai “Kera Sakti”. Menariknya, aktor Lee Seung Gi berkesempatan memerankan Sohn Oh Gong, Sun Wu Kong/Sun Go Kong versi Korea. Sebelum menonton kelanjutan kisah Sohn Oh Gong pada episode selanjutnya, simak yuk fakta drama Korea teranyar, Hwayugi yang dihimpun dari berbagai sumber. 1. Dibintangi deretan bintang ternama Soompi.com Hwayugi (a Korean Odyssey) dibintangi oleh deretan artis dan aktor ternama seperti Lee Seung Gi (Sohn Oh Gong), Cha Seung Won (Woo Hwi Chul), Oh Yeon Seo (Jin Sun Mi), Lee Hong Gi (P.K/Jeo Pal Ke) dan Jang Gwang (Yoon Dae Sik). Drama ini juga melibatkan Lee El (Ma Ji Young), Sung Hyuk (Dong Jang Goon), Kim Sung Oh (Lee Han Joo), dan Sung Ji Ru (Soon Bo Ri). 2. Drama pertama Le...