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Information Tohoshinki Release New Single “I Don’t Know” on May 11th – Limited Distribution

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I go dizzy trying to keep up with all of the albums, singles, etc. But they are worth the investment.
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[Info] Tohoshinki Release New Single “I Don’t Know” On May 11th – Limited Distribution

Tohoshinki’s new single “I Don’t Know” to be released on May 11th.
Limited distribution release! On May 11th Tohoshinki’s new single “I Don’t Know” (Japanese song) will be simultaneously released on all websites that will deliver.
In addition, Mu-mo and Rekuchyoku will include an “original standby picture”, available in 8 different versions, in their limited distribution period!

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Translation; 110429 K-Pop Charity Concert Part 2 Press Conference: Interview With TVXQ

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Translation:] 110429 K- POP Charity Concert Part 2 Press Conference : Interview with TVXQ

TVXQ! (Choi Kang Changmin and U-know Yunho)

Introduction:
YH: Hello I’m U-know Yunho. You’re beautiful [Thai]
CM: Helly My name is Changmin [Thai] We got the chance to be back again and when we arrived, we were surprised by so many reporters. We’re really glad to see you all today.

Q: How do you feel about participating in this concert?
YH: I feel very glad and honored to get chance to support the victims. We’ve prepared a special performance for you and we haven’t even had time to sleep. We want you to have fun with our performance. Please be strong, good things will come to you.

Q: What is the surprise for this concert?
YH: It was too bad that we could only perform WHY, How can I at our last concert so we didn’t have much time for our fanclubs at all. This time we’ve prepared to perform 4 songs with our new single ‘Before U go’. Please continue to support us.

Q: How do you feel when ‘Before U Go’ was at the no.1 spot in Korean chart
CM: I’ve never thought we’d reach to no.1; when they announced the list we were so surprised. We’d like to thank the fans. Without the fans, we wouldn’t come this far. I don’t mean just Korean fans. I mean thanks to fans all over the world that always support us and inspire us to continue our work and success now.

Q: Would DBSK plan to have a concert in Thailand?
YH: I’ve always thought about that, we’d like to have a concert in Thailand , all over Asia and around the world but we just had 4 new songs. We’d like to create more good songs, please be patient because we haven’t had any plans right now.

Q: What is your plan in Thailand this time?
CM: Too bad we haven’t had time to do anything. We’re here to only work but if we have a chance I’d like to go out and travel in Thailand and I hope I’d get a chance next time.

Q: Yunho got a chance to performance Michael Jackson ‘This Is It’ Tell us how you feel
YH: I felt very honored because MJ is my idol. I’m so glad to get to perform just like him in ‘This is it’. I got many support at that time. This is a very good experience, more than just a music activity and I’d like to get this chance again.

Q: Please speak Thai
YH: I already spoke Thai at the very beginning and now I don’t know what to say “Are you having fun? I’m having fun” [Thai]
CM: I learned the same phrase as Yunho and he already said it. Now I don’t know what to say.

Q: What Korean word would you like to teach to Thai fans?
CM: 잘자 (Chal-ja) Goodnight

Q: What is your cellphone wallies
YH: I’m not used to using electronic stuff so I just use whatever already set.
CM: I’m using the airplane view
YH: He’s a romantic guy

Q: What would you like to tell Thai fans?
YH: I’m glad to be back here. We’d try our best and give it 100% on stage. We don’t want any fans to be disappointed at the name of TVXQ. We’ll continue to create good work. Please don’t stop supporting us and keep on requesting to get us back here in Thailand. We love Thailand, we love all Thai fans.

T/N K-POP Charity is a Charity concert for Tsunami victims in Japan and the flood in the south of Thailand

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Letter of (Almost) Resignation: Final Confessions Part III

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LETTER OF (ALMOST) RESIGNATION: FINAL CONFESSIONS PART III

Posted on April 25, 2011 by The JYJ Files

Letter of (Almost) Resignation: Final Confessions, Part III

In any case, as a Korean Government employee and representative, my loyalty lies first and foremost to Korea before the Korean Wave. My responsibility is to serve Koreans—including the idol singers under SM—not the Korean Wave. JYJ’s fight and plight is clearly exposing that, under the circumstances engineered by companies like SM, the latter is destroying the former. The social context of the lawsuit and the certain characteristic elements of the Kpop fandom reveal that not everything associated with the Korean Wave is beneficial to Korea or Koreans. If anything, a great many aspects of the Korean idol boom and its internationalisation have left me deeply disturbed, if not downright afraid, on behalf of our singers and citizens. As attractive as the commercialised components of it are—the slick music videos, cool fashion and complex stage performances—it is ultimately disseminating the image of Koreans as disposable products or exotic performing circus monkeys. One only needs to peruse the comments on high-traffic English-language Kpop sites to understand that this way of marketing Korean artists does not necessarily garner respect for Koreans or genuine admiration for the country’s culture—a culture that survived its unfortunate geopolitical position, wars, neo-Confucian oppression/repression, annexation, division, extreme poverty and more to accomplish in 60 years what it took Western countries 200, a rare and unique example of economic development and citizenship empowerment. Surely such a culture and its descendants deserve far more than to be regarded as a disposable Internet byte.

Not too long ago, Korean netizens were fuming over articles, blog posts and/or cartoon strips originating from Japan that portrayed Korean girl groups as little more than sex objects[i]. Koreans attacked the Japanese for their racism and low regard for Koreans, but, in all seriousness, were they in a position to level such criticism? After all, it’s not as if girl groups or idols are regarded any differently in Korea—ultimately, they are all objects, sexual or otherwise. So, who can blame the Japanese, or any other non-Korean group of ‘fans’ for that matter, when they are simply acting on what they learned from the original source? Idol singers…written off as products in Korea…and thus treated as sexual objects everywhere else. If this is the face of the Korean Wave, I daresay it’s not worth preserving. For the security and moral integrity of our citizens, this kind of Korean Wave is best dismantled.

Without Korea there would be no Korean Wave, and without Koreans there would forcibly be no Korea. Therefore, I strongly believe that a sustainable Korean Wave will have at its centre talented Koreans (along with an accountable infrastructure that cultivates and supports their well-being and potential) NOT faceless, shameless entertainment companies.

Thus, inasmuch as SM needs JYJ to fail, Korea, and more specifically the Korean music industry, needs JYJ to succeed. Every stable, thriving and/or critically acclaimed music industry has artists occupying the middle ground between the commercialised pop idols and serious indie musicians, artists who act as the fulcrum, and buffer, harmonising the two extremes. Industry size ultimately doesn’t matter. This principle applies to the music market in the United States—where the likes of Madonna, Prince and Michael Jackson were allowed to grow from teen idols to music icons with merit in their own right—as well as the music markets of Iceland and South Africa, both of which have produced Grammy Award-winning artists[ii]. Korea needs artists like JYJ. The Korean Wave needs artists like JYJ, artists with pop idol roots but who grow to become acknowledged as artists in their own right, bringing stability to the entire industry by doing so and securing its future by sticking around to cultivate the next generation of pop singer-songwriters. And so I have always believed that not only JYJ fans but also those who truly value Korea, the Korean arts and the Korean Wave will support JYJ.

What the Korean Wave ultimately needs are leaders that, first of all, truly love Korea and also respect and understand the value of Art. Art is not a Slot Machine but a complex and capricious muse that will only play second-fiddle mistress to SadoMasochistic perverts for so long. By all indications, she has already grown tired of the game with said perverts and has found a new patron that truly appreciates her. The C’est si bon show, which gathered the artists of the Korean folk music movement of the 1960s and 70s for a studio concert that was broadcast live, garnered jaw-dropping ratings[iii], even among the young, and YG Entertainment is fast rising in prominence as a model for the future of Kpop business ethics and artistic success[iv] (though given its recent ill-judged dive into the cartel world through UAM, it remains to be seen if or, rather, how much, YG will sell out, since it will now have to harmonise its position with that of the likes of SM).

What the Korean Wave needs are more Seo Taijis and Yang Hyeonseoks (CEO of YG Entertainment) as opposed to Lee Soomans and Kim Youngmins, more DFSB Kollectives[v] as opposed to Melon or Dosirak, and an industry environment where the likes of Fluxus and C-JeS can compete alongside the likes of JYP and Cube.

And so, in the end, in attempting to leave my last words on JYJ, I have strayed far from our favourite trio and have ended up on policy recommendations for the sustainability of the Korean Wave. Nonetheless, I hope my readers can see the logical connections between all the points that got me here. Also, I hope that the readers of The JYJ Files can now see why I never considered JYJ’s plight to be a question of Kpop or fandoms but rather one of justice and State sovereignty. In fact, I believe SM has been trying for a long time to trivialise the matter into a conflict between fandoms, pitting in its discourse the JYJ fandom against either the HoMin fandom or the fandoms of other SM artists. In my view, it is so much bigger than that, and it is my wish that the international JYJ fandom does not fall to the trivialisation ruse. As I have said above, SM—in drafting and enforcing the kind of contracts that it did, in continually disobeying the mouthpiece of the Korean State, and in defrauding Korean taxpayers—has meddled in the one area the Korean State cannot tolerate—its exclusive sovereign authority—and consequently has come to symbolise the antithesis of post-G20 Korea and a force that hates the Republic of Korea and her citizens.

More than anything, I would like the international JYJ fandom to be a fandom that truly loves Korea and Koreans…that cares enough about Korea to have high expectations of it and hold it accountable to those expectations…a fandom that loves the members of JYJ as Koreans and human beings with talent. I don’t know how much I’ve convinced you that to love Korea in practicality means hating SM, but the only effective response will be to NOT get bogged down in fights with either the HoMin fandom or the fandom of other SM idols. At the most fundamental level, this is not a fight between SM fans and JYJ fans. It is not even a fight between SM and JYJ. It is a fight between the SM system and the Korean State. Therefore, I am convinced that the only effective response is to pressure the Korean Government. Continue writing and emailing relevant ministries and communicating with them through projects like the international fans’ petition. As international consumers of the Korean Wave who are fully aware of the prevailing conditions, you have immense potential to influence policy on the labour standards in the Korean entertainment industry and to effectively protect the artists you love.

In many ways, you boast a power Korean fans cannot even dream of, as the ripple effects of the international fans’ petition have already shown. I remember on the day of the interview I gave to the Chosun Ilbo, I told an impressed reporter that there were an unimaginable number of people outside of Korea who have never been to Korea before but who loved Korean culture. “Korean culture no longer belongs solely to Koreans,” I said, and this part made it to the actual article. What didn’t make it into the article is that I went on to say, “Now that Korean pop has garnered an audience beyond Korea and has gone truly global, it must meet the international expectations of its international audience. If only to retain the economic prowess and global appeal of Korean music, we cannot afford to ignore the opinions and demands of the international consumers.” These standards and expectations, being international, are ultimately yours to define, not Koreans’. Your mobilisation will thus benefit not only Kim Jaejoong, Park Yoochun and Kim Junsu, but future ambassadors of the Korean arts, music and pop culture as well. Ultimately, your voice will prove the most effective in realising positive change in the Korean pop music industry. As such, I consider you all (including all those who participated in the international fans’ petition) as true Friends of Korea and decent human beings. JYJ could not ask for better admirers, and Korea could not ask for better supporters. I thank you all immensely from the bottom of my heart. Please don’t change, and may your numbers grow.

Be encouraged! Be empowered!

Yours Sincerely,

Jimmie Kim

[i] http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110113000615

[ii] http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=319769. See also, http://www.timeslive.co.za/entertainment/article795444.ece/Soweto-Gospel-Choir-gets-a-Grammy-nod

[iii] http://www.allkpop.com/2011/03/yges-yang-hyun-suk-talks-about-the-changes-in-the-music-industry

[iv] http://www.allkpop.com/2011/01/yg-entertainment-attracts-the-attention-of-musicians-known-worldwide. See also, http://www.allkpop.com/2011/01/is-yg-entertainment-the-solution-to-the-korean-music-industry

[v] http://www.dfsb.kr/ . The company is better known as the distributor of Korean music for Apple’s iTunes in North America. Unlike the Korean Internet music download distributors, DFSB does not slash prices at the artists’ expense and invests a chunk of their profit into promoting a new Korean indie or underground musician each year. This year, it’s Seoulsonic.

Written by: Jimmie of TheJYJFiles
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News: 110428 TVXQ Sold the Most Albums in the First Quarter of 2011

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Proud of you HoMin and Co. You worked hard.
JYJ was not included in this one-sided mix but we all know how successful their album sales and personal project sales were for the first quarter. Omittance does not change facts. Momma Cha

News: 110428 TVXQ sold the most albums in the first quarter of 2011

TVXQ has been crowned as the artists with the most album sales for the first quarter of 2011!

On April 28th, Gaon Chart released the album sales figuresfrom January through March of 2011. Results showed that TVXQ placed first with over 200,000 in total sales. Gaon’s representatives stated, “The first quarter of 2011 met with the album releases of TVXQ and Big Bang, both of whom have been away from the industry for a long time.”

The rankings and the number of album copies sold are as follows:

1. TVXQ – “Keep Your Head Down” (236,669)
2. Big Bang – “Fourth Mini-album” (139,104)
3. TVXQ – “Keep Your Head Down, Repackaged” (51,354)
4. CNBLUE – “First Step” (44,414)
5. Seungri – “V.V.I.P.” (41,302)
6. Various Artists – “Park Colleen’s Selections” (35,831)
7. Super Junior-M – “Too Perfect” (35,000)
8. Various Artists – “Secret Garden OST Special” (30,278)
9. MBLAQ – “BLAQ Style” (27,702)
10. GD&TOP – “First Official Album” (23,004)

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110415 Yunho Talks Of the Split “I’ve Protected TVXQ Till Now and I Will Keep Protecting TVXQ

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[Translation] 110415 Yunho Talks Of The Split– “I’ve Protected TVXQ Till Now And I Will Keep Protecting TVXQ”

HoMin talked about the emotions they felt when the split between the group happened.

TVXQ appeared as the first guest stars on tvN’s ‘Taxi’ on April 14th and took time out our their schedule to talk about work, love and family.

Regarding the split, U-Know Yunho said, “It would be lie to say that it didn’t hurt to have to stand on stage as a duo,” and “We know so well that our three friends are talented and kind people, but it hurt because we were met by worried gazes when we said that we’d be making a comeback as a duo and there were even a lot of people who criticized our actions and said, ‘Do you really think you could succeed as a duo?’”

He continued to say, “That was what was most upsetting because I’ve always believed that protecting TVXQ is the priority,” and “I’ve protected TVXQ till now and I will keep protecting TVXQ.”

Choikang Changmin said, “It’s true that I felt a little hurt because the split came regardless of the fact that there was no change in our opinions and the two of us weren’t standing on a split path,” and “It’s true that I felt sad and worried (about our new album) because we have always been standing in the same place, doing the same things and preparing, just like we’ve always been doing.”

He also said, “But because you can’t turn back time and undo the things that have happened, I like to think more about accepting what has happened and working hard to show everyone how much we’ve evolved.”

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Video: 110412 HoMin message for K-pop CHARITY PART 2 in Bangkok

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Yunho, Changmin, This has always been a part of your heart. Love you, Momma Cha.

Vid] 110412 Homin message for K-pop CHARITY PART 2 in Bangkok


Homin confirmed to attend K-pop CHARITY PART 2 in Bangkok on 29April

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News: 110407 SM, YG, JYP and More Form One Massive Global Agency, “United Asia Management”

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[News] 110407 SM, YG, JYP And More Form One Massive Global Agency, “United Asia Management”

The biggest entertainment companies in Korea have joined together to create one massive management agency known as “United Asia Management.”

All of the artists under SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, KeyEast, Star J Entertainment and AMENT will now be managed under the company in their endeavors including movies, dramas and all other entertainment content production.

The six companies came together to share their business know-how and network so that they can advance the Hallyu wave into an Asian Pop Music wave all around the world.

It’s still unclear as to whether the artists will be both under UAM along with their respective companies.

What is clear is that this is essentially a monopoly that could crush smaller companies and their artists…

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It seems as if SM and Co. have once again undererestimated the intelligence of the K-Pop fanbase.
First-of-all, the Hallyu Wave is of interest to me personally because I support JYJ, HoMin, SuJu, and Shinee. I have no interest in any other groups and while I can say that at present I would support those SM artists of my own choosing–if it came to supporting them as part of a giant machine aimed at complete world domination through the entertainment industry, I would have to say that i would have to back out of the system. I love K-Pop, but it is not the only musical genre worth listening to out there nor should these artists be used to keep money constantly flowing into these moguls hands, and receiving very little for themselves.

It is not a foregone conclusion that we little sheep would all go Baaaa…and allow our hard-earned cash to be sucked into the vacuum of what appears to be an Asian mafia base. At present I am going to keep my eyes and ears open and support only who I choose to support and, let’s face it, concentrate my energies and resources predominately on JYJ and HoMin. Prsyerfully, HoMin can continue to benefit. We all know that this is just one more ploy to control everyone and their money. Shame on you all, SM and Co.

Editors Note My Perspective on the FanWars I…

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Editors Note: My Perspective on the FanWars

I have been reading articles that attempt to explain the fanwars that have been raging for some time between Cassies over DBSK, now JYJ and HoMin. Black and white lines drawn down the middle of this enormous, emotional debacle that really do not define the true nature of the wars or the source. Human beings being held up as standards–immoveable, immutable standards

Why are there idols? Idols exist because we make them, not necessarily because they choose to be made. These are people who go to sleep at night; rise up and go about their day just like the rest of us. They get thirsty; they get hungry; they have spiritual, emotional and physical needs–just like the rest of us. Somehow, these needs get overlooked and we turn them into a production machine, designed to make us feel good and fulfilled. What about them?

Everyone is looking for someone to fufill those inner longings that are a part of each of us. We usually tend to choose those who represent who we would like to be–famous people; talented people; people of influence. Their sacrifice to complete our desires is enormous–hours and hours of work geared to pleasing us–sometimes pleasing them.

In the case of DBSK we have a much deeper situation than normal. The Internet has allowed many to view Jaejoong, Yunho, Yoochun, Junsu, and Changmin on stage and off stage. Candid shots and canned shots of the members laughing, singing, working, playing, vacationing… All designed to endear them to us, and so well-designed that it works. The objective of SM and others like them has been to sell the artists much like livestock in order to reap a profit. In return, we receive great music, artists to love, and somehow in the midst of it all–they love us. Theoretically, it works. In reality it is abusive.

So how does this relate to fan wars? When you have placed people on pedestals, and have not allowed them room to waver, or fail–you have created a situation that will eventually explode because there is no such person or personages. No one is capable of being on top indefinitely, nor of pleasing everybody all of the time. DBSK simply grew up. The babies that we all fell in love with became young men with their own identities, desires, and aspirations. By their very nature they are all competitive–both on stage and off. Ideally we want to see them smiling at each other constantly–in reality I am sure that tempers and tears flow abundantly.

Even being blessed with nuturing leaders such as Yunho and Jaejoong–it was inevitable for the tower to fall. Outside forces and inside forces drove the nails from the supports, and what was left was disappointment and disillusionment on all sides, including the fandom.

To keep ourselves healthy and stable–we cling to the hope that all will be healed. It is possible. Pray without ceasing. However, at present, with all of the discord among the fandom, it makes that goal even harder to reach. Misplaced emotions are being directed at each other–not at the system that fostered the illusion.

Or is it illusion? I don’t believe that it is. I believe that these young men never planned to deceive us or to disappoint us. The company did–not them. I believe that we also did some of that to ourselves, so I guess it is natural to now turn and rend our fan brothers and sisters? That is happening–but it doesn’t make it right.

So–where do we go from here? We have choices. We can love or hate; support or neglect each other or JYJCY. Our mancubs still need our love, more now than ever. They need to be seen and emoted to as fallible human beings. They also need our stability because this war has just begun. The enemy is still outside the camp. Are they happy that everyone is taking sides except for those of us who refuse to see things purely as black and white? I guarantee you they are not happy with this turn of events. Either we make the committment to love each other as much as we love our guys–or we fold up our campstools and exit the arena. All of them deserve our love; all are human as we are; and all of us can accomplish great things together if we but try. Momma Cha

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Editors Note It is always so exciting to…

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Editors Note:

It is always so exciting to see our mancubs working hard at what they love best–music and dancing. The mancub’s reference btw is from Junglebook. I have always loved the character of Mowgli. He is strong and resourceful, and willing to learn new things. That is how I see our guys.
Even though they also act in dramas and do photoshoots and etc, I believe that their hearts are always in their music and dance, and that is where they feel most fulfilled. I am the same.
I am looking forward to more years with these wonderful young men. Momma Cha