As Chen Qiao En’s popularity increases, her love life is becoming more and more hidden. Yesterday, during the SETTV press conference for the Golden Bell Awards, she joked and said that earlier she did invite her boyfriend to attend the GBA celebration, but she was worried that he didn’t have any suitable clothes to wear, so gave up this idea. A management worker on the side also added, “We don’t really approve la.”

Yesterday, someone suggested that she should bring a red bag with her or wear red underwear to bring good luck on the day, however Qiao En replied, “I can’t wear red underwear, because I’ve already chosen a special pair of underwear.” So how special is it? She embarrassedly replied, “Because I need to make my figure look better, so it’s… very big underwear.”

source: UDN
translated by: x-WISHFULthinking @ http://asianfanatics.net

Good news for all Youtube users around the world, two separate concerts in San Francisco and Tokyo will be held on the 23 November 2008! BoA, the main star of the event, will be the MC, and will be in charge of connecting the two concerts.

Held from 9AM to 8:30 PM Korea Time, singers and musicians such as Akon, Will.I.AM, Esmee Denters will be starting the concert at the San Francisco Port Main Center. Then from 3 to 8:30 pm, Japanese artists such as BLUE MAN GROUP, KREVA will be ending the concert at the Tokyo Shinkiba Studio. BoA will be the first to perform in Japan, showing the world who she is. She will also be performing her US debut song, “Eat You Up”.

To commemorate this event, BoA has thus opened her own Youtube channel! (username: BoAmusicUSA) All BoA fans can feel free to drop by and leave a fan message to our dearest BoA. ^^

In addition, SM clarified today that they will be using both versions of the “Eat You Up” music videos to promote BoA. However, with BoA’s Official site only allowing the Korean version to watch, it seems that Cha Eun Taek’s version will be used the most for promotion purposes.

Credits: BoA’s House - www.boashouse.com + BoAvrilrock @ AF

Popular group Dong Bang Shin Ki new album has not only proves itself in Korea and Japan but also in Taiwan.

Their 4th album ‘MIROTIC’ was released in Taiwan on the 17th, and in one week’s time, the album went up to #1 positions on various popular music chartslike G Music Chart, Vibe music and CC Record etc.

The album was #1 for the 3rd week of October (17th - 23rd Oct) on GMusic Asian album chart, the album sales also hit the record high of 57.98% in contributing to the total album sales change. And for Vibe music chart, they were also #1 on the same week with contribution album sales of 50.95%.

Not only also, the title song to the album, ‘MIROTIC’ was #1 on Taiwanese radio ‘Hito FM’ music chart for ther period of 13th to 19th October. The criteria for judgement on the chart stands 50% for listeners’ and internet poll and 50% on the album sales.

With their long awaited comeback, Dong Bang Shin Ki has sold a total of 200,000 copies in Korea for the album, and achieved 3 consecutive #1 on SBS Inkigayo and 2 consecutive #1 on Mnet M!Countdown, not only so, the album also did well on Japan Oricon charts.

source: kbites + v i t a ✖ d o l c e @ AF

MBC Beethoven Virus starring Kim Myung Min, Jang Geun Suk and Lee Ji Ah has been extended by 2 more episodes and will end it’s run on 13th November.

According to the production company, “We have recently decided on extending the drama by 2 episodes. This means that the drama will now end at Episode 18 instead of 16. With the additional 2 episodes plus the special, the original end date for the series on 5th November will now become 13th November.

With the extension, the follow-up drama The Return of Iljimae will now have more time to prepare itself. Starring Jung Il Woo, The Return of Iljimae will now be delayed for broadcast to December or January next year.

credits: coolsmurf

Male Artist Group SHINee was ‘lead by the hand’ by the same person who was in charge of the choreography for famous american popstar, Justin Timberlake.

While making preparations for SHINee’s 1st Album Repacked Edition , SHINee received guidance from American Choreographer Misha Gabriel.

Misha Gabriel is the talented individual who was put in charge of the choreography for singers like
American Pop Stars like Justin Timberlake and Hilary Duff.
Misha became known to korean fans when BoA* announced on the 22nd of her aim for the US music market with her debut single –as the main Choreographer. Misha also appears in BoA*’s MV, showcasing his brilliant dancing skills.

SHINee’s leader Onew, “Postponed the promotion of SHINee’s first album and received guidance from Misha Gabriel for 2 weeks”. To korean choreography instructers, Misha gave other methods of expressing emotion in dance. They claimed it was a whole different experience.

While Misha was preparing for BoA’s US debut, it seemed by fate that he became SHINee’s dance instructor.After watching SHINee’s past released music videos, “Love Like Oxygen” and “Nuna You’re so Pretty”, Misha has choreographed the dance moves to SHINee’s ‘Amigo’ to attract just as much attention.

With Misha’s participation, SHINee’s recent performance was able to accomplish a sensual dance feel in its entirety.

source; Sports Korea’s Kim Sung Han Article; wing@sportshankook.co.kr

credit; shinee-ing.com + SHIneee.net
translation credit; in.blingblinglove @ SHINee.net

The Wonder Girls have achieved the same success they got with So Hot in June by notching their 4th consecutive K-Chart No.1 with Nobody last October 25. They were up against Brown Eyed Girls (again) and new entrant, Rain this time but still managed to pick up the win with a total of 5,884 points.

credits: Wonderland + 이반네♥재 @ AF

Seems like the grand come back surprises for TVXQ is not yet over as they have the highest online votes so far for the 10th MKMF Music Video Awards which will be held at 7 PM on November 15, 2008 at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul.

Super Junior Happy is at second place having 1,476 votes (0.98%) against 164,977 votes (97%) for TVXQ while the other nominees have less than a thousand votes.

It has been a year since Super Junior launched “A Man In Love” on their MKMF 2007 performance and it was Kyu Hyun’s first big come back after his accident recovery.

The said event will be aired four hours to live and will be on different channels like Arirang TV with different airing times for cable subscribers, Mnet, KM, tvN, and O’Live in Korea. It will also be on a live streaming thru mnet.com and gomtv.net, and a live broadcast via satellite DMB My tvN channel.

The online voting will close on November 14, 2008 at 6 PM. Visit arirang.co.kr to be able to vote for your favorite KPop star.

The Candidates of The 2008 MKMF are:

1. Big Bang - Day By Day
2. Epik High - One
3. Girls’ Generation - Kissing You
4. Lee Hyo Ri - U Go Girl
5. MC Mong - Circus
6. SG Wannabe - LaLaLa
7. SS501 - A Song Calling For You
8. Super Junior Happy - Cooking? Cooking!
9. TVXQ - Mirotic
10. Wonder Girls - So Hot

source: ELF Philippines Korean Cyworld (cyworld.com/elfphilippines) + Extrovert @ AF

Source : Libertytimes
translation by Kassy @ http://asianfanatics.net
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Joe Cheng has promotional tour while Aaron Yan sits on the bench
[Xiao Zhong] Zheng Yuan Chang and Aaron Yan come into an unavoidable confrontation; GTV is suffering from the clash between their 2 male leads of its own idol series. Clashing on the premiere location and the date, Zheng Yuan Chang gets the privileges and [Love or Bread]’s events will kick off as planned. Aaron Yan automatically takes a step back, nobody will promote [PiLi Mit], can only rely on its own!

Xiao Zhong and Lin Yi Chen promoting around Taiwan
Last time, both Zheng Yuan Chang and Aaron Yan have take part in the filming of [They Kiss Again] and next month they will be promoting against each other, Xiao Zhong’s series [Love or Bread] is going against Aaron Yan’s [PiLi MIT] because both series are from GTV and are about to air, so just by arranging for the promotional events and artists’ schedules are enough to make GTV to have a big headache about it.

Xiao Zhong who has just finished filming [Love or Bread], has attended his own sister’s engagement party yesterday and then later he will be going to have rehearsal for his stage play. As for Lin Yi Chen, she is going to film another new series [Skip Beat] starting in November, so she won’t have much time to do promotions either. Since GTV is highly concern about this series so they still arrange the both of them to have 8 signing sessions all around Taiwan and attending 7 to 8 entertainment shows.

The cast of PiLi MIT don’t have many promotional events
While [PiLi MIT] as Aaron Yan’s first series as the leading male, it’s going to be aired on every Friday on FTV. Other than the premiere, the cast will be in GTV’s [100% Entertainment Show], STARTV [Wo Ai He Se Hui] and FTV [United Nation]. Their promotional events are not many and even though Aaron Yan is busy doing preparation for [Fahrenheit]’s concert but he still tries to arrange his time to cooperate with the promotions, trying to support the promotions on his own.

GTV: Aaron Yan has in store something good at the end
About the privileges between these 2 series, GTV said they are not favoring Xiao Zhong. Originally they were planning to move forward the premiere date for [Love or Bread] but because the location is not available during that time so they will have to move [PiLi MIT] instead. Later [PiLi MIT] will still have Christine Fan as the house tutor and Aaron Yan’s bicycle ride event; the fans still have the chance to have close interaction with their idol.

Newly wedded Kwon Sang-woo (Fate, Bad Love) has dropped out at the last minute of what would have been his next film project, My Love By My Side, and criticism is building.

Apparently Kwon had made every commitment to appear in the project save for putting his seal on the contract (which often doesn’t happen until the last minute).The film, which was set to begin filming next month, now struggles in the wake of this unforeseen hurdle. The production company said that they received word suddenly over the weekend, after the terms of the contract, fees, and other details had been worked out: “He didn’t even explain his reasons for quitting. We’re all bewildered.”

Kwon Sang-woo was to have played a sufferer of Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative illness), and had been cast opposite Ha Ji-won, who is still cast in the film. He held a fanmeeting in Japan just yesterday, on the 25th, where he announced, “Contrary to reports, my next project will be a drama series.”

The production is currently looking for a new lead actor.

source: dramabeans + v i t a ✖ d o l c e @ AF

Super-Popular Drama Full House Invites One of the Members of F4 To Participate In Sequel
Date: October 26, 2008
News Source: Yahoo! Taiwan, http://asianfanatics.net/forum/
Translation Credit: tammiest @ http://asianfanatics.net/

A sequel to the super-popular Korean drama Full House is currently in the works; it will be a joint production by the Chinese, Japanese, and the Koreans. A few days ago, the production company revealed that they would choose either Rain (Bi) or Song HyeKyo to continue on as the main lead for the sequel. They also hope to invite one of the members of the red-hot Asian superstar boyband F4 to take part.

Full House is adapted from a Korean manhwa of the same name; the 2004 drama adaptation made main leads Rain (Bi) and Song HyeKyo into “household names” all over Asia. Rain has even said in the past that the success of Full House was a crucial part of his own launch and success in Asia.

Full House’s production company explained that they had actually begun preparing for a sequel two years ago; thus far, four episodes or so of the script have been completed (written). If all goes smoothly and according to plan, the sequel will begin airing in Korea in August of next year.

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Translator’s Comments: It’s extremely important to take this news with a grain of salt. First off, whichever member of F4 it is… HASN’T agreed yet. Secondly, it will most likely be a guest appearance… say, for one or two episodes. It seems pretty unlikely that they’d ask him to be one of the main stars.

And yes, the article/production staff implied that ONLY one of EITHER Rain or Song HyeKyo would be the main lead.

Does that mean they won’t be reunited on-screen? Possibly. Or maybe one of them will just be a lot more “important” and central to the plot? Hope so… I can see a lot of fans getting upset otherwise…

DBSK, Super Junior Happy, JunJin and Min Kyung Hoon were scheduled to perform at Super Concert on Saturday but the sudden cancellation of the event just a day before left fans stunned! It was not just the Korean fans who were left disappointed, hundreds of overseas fans from Taiwan for example had already bought their air tickets, applied for leave and were already in Seoul. But they never would have thought that the concert would become a non-event.

Super Concert was scheduled to take place at the Bucheon Stadium on the 25th. But on the afternoon of 24th, a notice came out saying that it was cancelled. This was followed by a representative of S.M FanClub posting a notice on the website to say sorry and expressed that because the organizers failed to adhere to stipulations stated on the contract, so they had no choice but to pull DBSK and Super Junior Happy away. They sincerely apologize to all the fans who have been anticipating and waiting to see the concert.

According to sources, the main reason for the Super Concert cancellation was because the sponsors ran into some financial problems and couldn’t pay up the appearance fees for the performers. Up till the day before the concert, the performers had no choice but to pull out after not receiving any payment. The performers no-show also meant that the concert had to be cancelled.

Korean entertainment companies who are already suffering severe cashflow problems because of the rapidly shrinking music industry in Korea, has been hit even harder by the economic crisis currrently affecting the world.

The MBC Big Music Fiesta in Ulsan scheduled for 11th October earlier this month was also cancelled because of the same reason. This is the second time that Super Concert has been cancelled, causing some inconveniences to fans. Refunds and complaints lodged with the organizers are still unresolved.

credits: coolsmurf