Recent photos of JYJ‘s Jaejoong have surfaced on an online community board, and is causing quite the buzz among netizens.
The photos were snapped of Jaejoong while on set for a photo shoot, and he is looking off into the distance, seemingly deep in thought.
Dressed in black skinny jeans and a warm violet sweater, he looked the part of a camper, fitting right in with the camping gear surrounding him.
Netizens who saw the photo remarked, “He’s such a man“, “He’s so handsome and so built too. He looks so buff here“, “Such a masculine shot“, and “He has such broad shoulders“.
In related news, Jaejoong was recently compared to actor Robert Pattinson in an Italian magazine.
Source & Image: FinancialNews via Nate
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Translation 111101 TVXQ’s Unseen Style Film Is Revealed and Instantly Becomes a Hot Topic…
Going from good-looking boys to chic men, TVXQ recently released a never-before-seen style film online which instantly became a hot topic amongst netizens.
TVXQ, who are renowned fashionistas of the entertainment industry with their airport fashion constantly in the limelight, recently released a style film online that had never been seen before, and it immediately began spreading at a rapid pace, clocking in a high number of views.
The video, entitled ‘All About Outer’, includes a section that shows TVXQ’s personal ‘outer style’ for this season as well as an interview with them. With a high number of views, the video has been receiving comments from fans all over the world, proving TVXQ’s immense popularity overseas as well.
As honorary ambassadors of Lacoste, TVXQ have been participating in photoshoots and style books for the brand. The style video that was released was also filmed as a part of the group’s activities as honorary ambassadors. The video can be watched on Youtube or any other portal sites.
TRANS] 111108 TVXQ, SNSD Etc. Idol Movie To Be Made? SMTOWN
New York Concert To Appear On The Big Screen
Posted on November 9th, 2011
A luxurious stage featuring Kang Ta, BoA, TVXQ. Super Junior, SNSD, SHINee, F(x) and other idols, as well as previously unreleased off-stage clips will be shown in the form of a movie.
On 23 October, at Madison Square Garden, the “SMTOWN LIVE WORLD TOUR in New York” was successfully held. A leader in K-pop, SM Entertainment’s artists were the first Asian musicians to hold a concert in the center of American pop culture, Madison Square Garden.
At the press conference for the above event, aside from the NY Times, Billboard, Village Voice and MTV and other local media being present, Japan’s Sankei News, Nikkan Sports, China’s Mingbao and other foreign media were also present in this press conference battle.
Titled “I am: SMTOWN LIVE WORLD TOUR in Madison Square Garden (tentative title)” (Produced by CJ Entertainment in collaboration with SM Entertainment, distributed by CJ Entertainment,) (this movie is) centered around the SM Entertainment artists performing in this historic event , and their intensive training process in preparation for a emotionally charged stage, as well as their real, everyday lives, honest feelings and others will all be shown on camera.
Also, videos of the SMTOWN artists and their journey from their trainee days to their current position, how they are now, as well as their hopes for the future will all be revealed via interviews. This movie will be aired in the first half of 2012.
[TRANS] 111108 Football Signed By Kim Junsu To Be Given Away At Suwon Top 6 Playoffs
(All irrelevant parts omitted)
In the top 6 playoffs between Suwon and Busan on 20 November, the Suwon Stadium will be allowing college exam takers to enter the stadium for free. Students with the right identification will each be allowed to get one ticket. Furthermore, college exam takers will be eligible to win a football signed by Suwon FC MEN captain Kim Junsu as a prize.
Entrance tickets for the top 6 playoffs will start from the Seoul vs Ulsan game, and will be on sale from 9 November. The first 500 people to purchase tickets will also get vouchers for the family restaurant VIPS Steak.
[TRANS] 111101 Black Smith’s Launching To Be Graced By Three Top Stars ‘Kim Tae Hee, Song Seung Hun, Park Yoochun’
Kim Tae Hee, Song Seung Hun and Park Yoochun have come together to model for the Italian restaurant ‘Black Smith’.
‘Black Smith’ is the second brand to be launched by the domestic coffee brand Cafe Bene and the first branch will open at Gangnam Station on the 17th.
Cafe Bene, which is known for its success in star marketing, has teamed up with Kim Tae Hee, Song Seung Hun and Park Yoochun on the 24th as top class models for their new sophisticated Italian restaurant Black Smith.
The focal point of the advertisement is to showcase Song Seung Hun, Park Yoochun and Kim Tae Hee’s charm as black smiths, and as friends and lovers enjoying Italian food.
The name of the store is ‘Black Smith’, which is inspired by the craftmanship of black smiths, and holds the meaning of providing true Italian food to customers.
As the second challenge of Cafe Bene, the leading domestic coffee brand in Korea, the Italian restaurant ‘Black Smith’ is expected to kick up a new storm in the industry.
[TRANS] 111102 JYJ’s Concert Organizer Apologizes, “We’re Sorry… JYJ’s Dance Moves Were Too Intense”
After the end of JYJ’s Europe Tour in Barcelona concert on the 29th, the concert’s organizer left the reporters with an interesting apology. It was regarding the fact that it was hard to find photos of all three members together in one cut. The only group shots were two photos of the members standing still and singing a ballad and there were no shots of the members dancing together.
The organizer stated, “It seems that the members danced with more intensity than usual. We tried to get more group shots by editing the photos but we couldn’t get a single one. Even the professional photographers who worked with JYJ on their North American tour were taken aback.“
What was so different about the performance that it was almost impossible to get a group shot of JYJ? The members showed fierce determination before the concert began as they repeated that they had decided to start off with a small-scale concert (3,000 seats) to go back to their roots as rookies. True to their word, the members didn’t hold back as they ran around and danced for their fans.
Kim Jaejoong said, “Although this stage is smaller than previous ones, it bears a totally different meaning. In Korea and Japan, we started from small stages, and slowly gained the love of our fans. Therefore, although this European concert stage is small, it still feels like a very good starting point. Instead of creating an overly exaggerated large-scale concert in Europe, beginning with a small-scale stage with the mindset of starting afresh seems like a better idea.”
The concert we watched that day was far from extravagant. There was no thrust stage or LED screens and the fireworks were absent as well. All that was used was the occasional burst of CO2 and the spotlight that shined at the old castle in the distance added to the scenery of the concert.
However, the concert was no shabby event. Even the fans seemed different from those in other concerts as they screamed and shouted to help JYJ’s new beginning in Europe. JYJ gave such an energetic performance that even professional photographers found it hard to get a shot of them on their cameras. Heo In Won, a student who studies abroad in France and who was visiting Spain to watch the concert, stated, “I think this is the first time I’ve seen the members work so hard on their singing and dancing during a performance. The fans were moved by their concert, regardless of the size of the concert venue.“
[Trans] 111107 U-Know Yunho To Make Cameo Appearance In Kim Hye Ja’s First Sitcom “Living In Cheongdam-Dong
TVXQ’s U-Know Yunho will be making a special appearance in the sitcom “Living in Cheongdam-dong” starring Kim Hye Ja.
Sources from the TV drama industry told Newsen that it has been decided that U-Know Yunho will be making an appearance in the jTBC sitcom “Living in Cheongdam-dong,” and started filming on the afternoon of 7 November. For this shoot, U-Know Yunho will be working with Kim Hye Ja, which will present a unique form of pleasure. This is the second time he is appearing in a sitcom after MBC’s “Rainbow Romance” in 2006.
“Living in Cheongdam-dong,” is the “Nation’s Mother” Kim Hye Ja’s first time challenging a sitcom.
Prior to “Living in Cheongdam-dong,”, U-Know Yunho made a special appearance in KBS 2TV’s Monday-Tuesday drama “Poseidon,” and made his mark. Despite his guest appearance in only 4 episodes, he was burdened with the great task of being responsible for the early development of “Poseidon’s” (plot).
Also, TVXQ is currently active in Japan, and will be releasing their 33rd Japanese single “Winter～Winter Rose / Duet -winter ver.-“ on 30 November.
Source : [BaiduTVXQ + Newsen via Nate]
Translated & Shared by : dongbangdata.net
This is the 「TONE」Buyers’ Event that was held on 1 & 3 November in Osaka and Tokyo. There were live performances, member talks, as well as secret videos, it was an hour packed with lots (of activities)♪ It was an event where you could feel really close to the two members, so it was really enjoyable!
[OPINION] 111105 Anti Fans And Their Power In The Music Industry
I remember that one of the things that caught my curiosity while falling into the arms of K-Pop was the idols and their anti-fans. I started reading story after story and when I read about DBSK‘s Yunho and the incident of the juice with glue in it, I asked myself, “Why do these people have so much power over the artists they hate?” It is something that up to this day I don’t understand clearly.
First, these people waste time hating K-Pop groups without even having a reasonable argument for that. Secondly, they elaborate plans, websites, manipulate pictures and even gather in groups secretly, to attack the person they hate when their anger towards said artist grows even more. I have seen plenty of websites and even groups on Facebook or Twitter, recalling “Anti SNSD”, “Anti 2NE1″, “Anti Kim Hyun Joong” and even “Anti DBSK”.
Why does this happen? Why so much anger towards a group or person? Just because a group does really well in the industry, it doesn’t mean that you have to hate it and become part of some sort of evil sect to attempt or to even destroy it. Sometimes, fans themselves create these evil monsters. I have read comments in which people get actually sick of X or Y artist just because of their fandom.
These little antis, can be divided in three categories. The first category is the “regular anti.” These anti-fans just comment or say they don’t like certain groups and that’s all. Their intention is to actually hurt the group’s fandom and not to hurt the artist itself. The second category is the “stalker or sasaeng anti-fan.” Here, some fans of a group are actually sasaengs without even hating the group, but why are they considered antis? Because they stalk their artist and cross the limits of a person’s privacy.
There have been cases in which stalkers follow an artist every single day. They spend too much time following them around, getting information of their schedule, and also there have been cases in which they trespass illegally into their dorms, as it happened to JYJ, or writing on their dorm’s walls such it happened on BEAST‘s dorm and Yoseob himself had to clean up the walls, or the case of Super Junior‘s Yesung who caught a fan writing on their dorm’s wall and had to tell her to stop
[Yoseob cleaning BEAST’s dorm wall]
Also, this category of stalkers, tend to check out their idol’s garbage. Some of them are so extreme that they get their idol’s phone number and call them several times at day. This last case happened to DBSK‘s Yunho and it was so stressful that he had to change his number. When he did, the same fan who was calling him non-stop obtained his new number in just five minutes and argued: “Why did you change your number?, that’s not good for you” and hung up.
Some of them, post very disgusting pictures declaring their obsessive love towards their idol without even realizing that it actually is a very sick kind of way to declare their love. One of these crazy girls actually wrote a love letter with the blood from her menstruation, and to prove that it was real, she even sent her panties. This happened to 2PM‘s Taecyeon. Other idols who have received bloody letters are, MBLAQ‘s Lee Joon, FT Island‘s Lee Hongki, Big Bang‘s Taeyang and G-Dragon.
[Taecyeon’s disgusting love letter]
Love letter to Lee Joon: ” Lee Chang sun (Lee Joon’s real name) don’t forget about me. You are everything to me. I love you. Remember that. Soojin”]
[3rd victim of the bloody letters: Lee Hongki. “Lee Hongki, do you know that I love you right?”]
[Letter addressed to Taeyang, scary uh?]
[The last victim of the letters, G-Dragon]
Some others stalkers follow the idol 24/7 and even videotape them. Honestly, the following video made me feel uncomfortable even to watch, in the case of SHINee‘s Jonghyun. He was feeling really awkward, surrounded and being videotaped when he clearly asked them to give him some space.
When these kind of fans break the boundaries imposed by the group’s manager, it gets until the point in which the manager has to react violently. This last happened when CN BLUE‘s manager got into a controversy for being accused of violence against a fan. A similar thing also happened to SHINee’s manager as he was recorded hitting the back of a fan’s head. Some of the group members looked surprised by the violent gesture.
[CNBlue’s manager incident]
[SHINee’s manager incident]
The third category is the dangerous one. These people are so full of nonsensical anger and hate that they actually attempt against the life of the idol they want to destroy. There have been really serious issues of attempting and almost killing an idol. I’m pretty sure that all Cassiopeias remember when Yunho got poisoned with a juice spiked with adhesive glue. After he drank it, he started vomiting blood and had a stomach washout done immediately. After the incident, he dropped all the charges against the person who caused that. Even Kim Heechul, who was really angry about the incident, got threats from Yunho’s antis so he had to stop tweeting about the issue.
This makes me wonder, why are they so afraid of these people? Why are they so afraid of filing charges against their attackers? Shouldn’t they be punished? These anti-fans have gained such a power in the music industry that they can decide or control a person’s destiny. Remember the issue of Jay Park who decided to leave 2PM due to his accusations of being anti-Korean despite the fact that he apologized for it and went back to Seattle? Or the case of Tablo and his Stanford issue in which people were demanding the truth from him? Isn’t that too much?
They have acquired so much power and control over the artists they hate, that it is almost normal for the idols to have antis. They don’t even date and if they do, they date secretly in order to stay safe and away from stalkers and antis. When is this going to stop? Aren’t agencies supposed to do something against these people? To suffer harm from an anti-fan is not nice and we surely don’t want to see our beloved idols being hurt and suffering as it happened to Yoon Eun Hye when she got shot in her eyes by an anti-fan who was holding a water gun full of soy sauce and vinegar
The latest case was of Super Junior‘s Kyuhyun who was threatened while being on vacation in Spain by, what SM Entertainment said, “strange guy” who had a knife in his hands. Kyuhyun reacted quickly and was able to run.
I honestly think that this anti-fan thing should stop. There’s no reason to harm another person or to make them impossible to lead a normal life. They already have too many things and schedules to deal with so I think there’s no need of another living terror called “antis.”
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