All about Kpop !: July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Sulli’s latest photo strongly resembles SHINee’s Taemin

f(x)‘s Sulli has been drawing attention for resembling SHINee‘s Taemin.

On July 31st, Sulli uploaded the picture on the left onto her personal me2day and along with it wrote, “As always, summer calls for short hair! Do you all want to cut your hair too?~ Please support ‘To the Beautiful You‘ and Goo Jaehee♥. This is the unrevealed cut from the Vogue Girl photo shoot from last time huhu.”

Sulli is sporting a short boyish haircut as well as androgynous clothing for her upcoming role as Goo Jaehee and

Should the voting for the Golden Disk Awards have happened today, and somehow I was a member of the voting committee, Ace of Angels would be my unquestioned vote for the female Newcomer Award. Usually I don’t muster myself to proclaiming such a bold statement shortly after any release, as I am generally one to never be completely satisfied with any musical or visual production. However, FNC Entertainment pulled all the right stops when it came to the creation, production, and distribution of their new rookie group’s release ‘Angels’ Story‘.

Do I think they are the most talented group to have hit the market in K-Pop recently? Absolutely not. Their vocal talent, rapping skills, composition originality, and choreography are far from the skills possessed among the

2PM member Wooyoung recently revealed the struggles he faced while preparing for his solo debut.

On the July 31st broadcast of KBS‘ ‘1 vs. 100‘, celebrity Hong Jin Kyung and Wooyoung made appearances on the show to go against the 100 competitors.

In regards to his hair color transformation, Wooyoung remarked, “I bleached my hair 15 times. I thought it would

Girls’ Generation member Sooyoung confessed she went into a state of panic when filming ‘Third Hospital‘ for the first time.

A press conference for tvN‘s ‘Third Hospital‘ was held on July 31st, and it was here that Sooyoung revealed, ”I panicked when I stepped in front of the camera for the first time to shoot the drama.”

Although she has been taking acting classes since she was a trainee, the singer will be making her official acting

With the controversy of Hwayoung and T-ara spreading and heating up the web, a witness has stepped forward to refute Core Contents Media‘s statement of Hwayoung’s “unacceptable behavior“.

According to a report released by OBS on July 31st, it was true that Hwayoung threw down her crutches at

The above collage of idol stars recently surfaced on an online community board, and is becoming a hot topic of conversation amongst netizens.

Seeing the post titled ‘Idol stars who are often mistaken for maknaes‘, fans began discussing the group members who look young for their age, sometimes even younger than their team’s actual maknaes.

The top choice was B2ST‘s Yoseob. The singer who turned 23 in Korea boasts a baby face and is often

After a teaser that was released last week, many fans were anticipating the new girl group from INFINITE‘s agency Woollim Entertainment. However, it seems that you will have to wait longer for the girl group. Instead, Woollim Entertainment will be debuting a new duo group named “Tasty (Tasty 2 Wins)“.

MBLAQ’s Lee Joon has been cast in the upcoming KBS drama ‘My Daughter Soyoung‘.

KBS’s new weekend drama for September has added Lee Joon to their cast, with the singer being given the role of the main character’s younger brother.

This will be the first actual drama as a fixed cast member for the young star. Having shown his impressive acting

Despite leader Jinon suffering from an ankle injury earlier on this month, it seems F.CUZ will be able to make their comeback as scheduled in August.

A few photos described to be the jacket photos from the upcoming album were revealed today showing off the

A photo captioned, ‘Hwayoung, Company’ is becoming a big issue.

On August 1st, the photo above was shared online and spread like wildfire, and even became one of the top searched topics on search portals.

An individual who took the photo claims that Hwayoung, who is still suffering from her leg injury, was seen

2NE1 has released their acoustic collaboration with popular Korean guitarist / YouTube sensation Jung Sung Ha!

A live performance clip of 2NE1 and Jung Sung Ha’s collaboration was revealed via YG Family‘s channel on Naver‘s tvcast today. The talented guitarist was noticed for his cover of 2NE1′s “Lonely” and met up with the

T-ara‘s Eunjung broke her silence for the first time since the Hwayoung controversy began.

On July 30th, the singer took to her fan café and wrote, “Thank you so much.. and I’m sorry.”

Her few words seem directed towards her fans, to whom she is apologetic that the controversy caused

miss A Suzy‘s simple airport fashion has gained attention.

Suzy’s care-free style has caught the eyes of many fans. Though the young star has risen to the heights of fame, her airport style was very casual and normal.

The miss A member was seen in a baby pink shirt with a ribbon-shirring accent at her waistline, matched with

Former T-ara member Hwayoung just tweeted a message for her fans.

She posted to Twitter on July 31 at 10:33PM KST, “To my fans, you’ve loved me until now, and I’m sorry that I’ve only given you disappointment. Please stop now, and look forward to our more mature and improved selves in the

On July 31st, TEEN TOP revealed their new ‘traffic light’ hairstyles on their me2day account, attracting attention for the colorful new look.

In the picture, members Changjo, Chunji, and Ricky have their backs turned to the camera, showing off their red, yellow, and blue hair. Niel left a cute quiz for fans along with the picture: “What did Changjo, Chunji hyung,

The B1A4 members went on their very first vacation in three years.

Fans reported sighting the members in their hometowns of Cheongju, Chungju, Busan, and Suncheon starting on July 28th.

According to WM Entertainment, B1A4 never got a day to rest since their trainee days because of their busy

5dolls‘ Hyoyoung recently updated her twitter photo with a picture of her and her twin sister Hwayoung.

In light of recent events, it seems Hyoyoung wanted to further show her support for her twin as she has changed

TEEN TOP has released the second video teaser for “Be Ma Girl” from their upcoming special summer album!

They’re making a comeback in less than a month after promotions for “To You” have ended. “Be Ma Girl” (titled

The largest online fan community for T-ara, t-arafan.com, announced that it will be shutting down their site on August 15th KST.

The fan cafe has received over 4 million cumulative visitors, and is the largest gathering of T-ara fans in the world.

The cafe operator posted: “I have decided to shut down the fan site. Since it was my first time running a fan cafe,

New girl group AOA has released their first greeting clip for fans, “AOA 1st Greeting to You!!”

The members state that their title track “Elvis” will come in two versions, a dance version and a band version, and

Following the success of 2011’s ‘SMTown Live’ in NYC and the ‘New York Korea Festival’, the Korean Cultural Service New York will be holding ‘2012 New York K-Pop Festival’, an event that all K-pop fans in New York and the surrounding area can participate in with their covers of one of three artists.

From July 23rd 9AM through August 10th 5PM is the entry submission period for the online preliminary to choose teams that will advance into the finals.

The categories for the contestants will be singing, dancing, or both singing and dancing. The teams will be

Hip hop girl group D-Unit is set to debut on August 1st and after releasing numerous short teasers, they’ve now released an extended 1 minute teaser for their upcoming track, “I’m Missin’ You“.

The teaser gives you an extended listen to their track and it sounds like a pretty

INFINITE reveals teaser for their upcoming Summer Concert

After the announcement of their upcoming summer concert, ‘That Summer‘, INFINITE has revealed a teaser.

The concert is a hot item as within 15 minutes of going on sale, a total of 10,000 tickets for all five days were sold out.

Woollim Entertainment commented, “We thank all the fans for their interest in INFINITE… The INFINITE

Girls’ Generation recently held an Olympic-themed photo shoot with ‘High Cut’ and earlier today a behind the scenes video from the shoot was revealed.

Throughout the pictorial, the “Nation’s Girl Group” additionally displays their great fashion sense and flaunt their

Made up of Seolhyun, ChoA, Hyejung, Chanmi, Yoo-Na, MinAh, Jimin, and Yookyung, rookie girl group AOA (Ace of Angels) lavishly kicked off their debut with a showcase at AX KOREA on July 30th.

The girls put on their very first “ELVIS” stage, and label mates Lee Jonghyun and Kang Minhyuk of CNBLUE as well as JUNIEL dropped by the showcase to show their support.

AOA is being labeled as a ‘transformer’ girl group. Not only do they have a unique ‘angel’ concept, AOA is set

With Hwayoung‘s controversy with T-ara coming to public light, the K-Pop industry is now attempting to take a closer look as to where these issues could be stemming from. Unsurprisingly, Hwayoung isn’t the only one suffering, as other groups came forward with their own concerns.

Reporters were able to find that the issue of bullying already has strong roots within idol groups, especially with the growth K-Pop has been seeing lately. There’s a correlation between the level of an individual member’s star

Among the many that are stepping forward to offer some more insight on the T-ara controversy, is a netizen who claims to be a former T-ara back-up dancer.

The post is going viral online, and in it, the dancer describes in detail of a time Jiyeon had slapped Hwayoung

Korean group 2NE1 recently announced on their official Japanese site that they will be releasing their new Japanese single on September 12th. The single was scheduled to be released earlier but was pushed back.

The song is currently untitled but member Park Bom was in Tokyo last month attending the ‘Maybelline New

After Core Contents Media CEO Kim Kwang Soo announced that T-ara member Hwayoung had acted in an ‘unacceptable’ manner on a number of occasions, an incident that took place between Hwayoung and Jiyeon has also been revealed.

According to an industry insider, there was an incident that took place back in 2010 where Hwayoung did not

World Vision recently appointed 2PM‘s Junho as an honorary ambassador to help promote ‘Famine 24‘.

‘Famine 24′ is one of the main representative programs of World Vision, where for 24 hours, individuals can experience the lives of those around the world who are suffering from poverty, disease, and warfare.

This is a generation where one child dies from malnutrition every 4 seconds, and countries such as Korea, New

A recent photo taken of Wonder Girls Sun and her boyfriend has surfaced on the web.

The photograph showed the leader of popular girl group standing next to her boyfriend in casual clothing, glowing with a smile on her beautiful makeup-less face, bringing the green-monster of envy out of many netizens. Although her boyfriend’s face is blurred out, one can only sense good vibes from the picture of the happy couple.

Earlier on the 9th of this month, Sun made an appearance on MBC‘s ‘Come to Play‘ where she revealed details

Super Junior‘s Yesung revealed that his road to becoming a singer was influenced by his crush.

On the July 30th broadcast of Mnet‘s ‘Beatles Code 2‘, Yesung shared a memory about his first major crush and music when he began, ”When I was in junior high, I went on a school trip… I got on the bus, and there was a really pretty girl that caught my eye.”

“For the first time in my life, I had thoughts like ‘Wow, she is so pretty’ and ‘I want to see her again’ running

For the first time ever, a miss A branded theater has opened in Shenyang, China. JYP Entertainmenthas sent allkpop pictures and details from the press conference held in commemoration of the opening.

According to the agency, on July 28th several officials from the press attended the event along with miss A, who performed their hit tracks like “Touch“, “Good Bye Baby“, and “Bad Girl Good Girl” for the fans who had shown

B2ST will be making their debut as mahnhwa characters through the work of artist Jena!

Scheduled for release on August 22nd, the members will be the leading characters in Jena’s upcoming mahnhwa series, ‘The Beast‘. The action fantasy series, which took three years of preparation, will focus on the boys

It has been revealed that INFINITE‘s performances will be recreated into a 3D movie.

Produced by director Son Suk, The movie ‘2012 INFINITE Concert 3D‘ will showcase the boy group’s various performances from their concerts. Through the 3D film, viewers will be able to experience the effect of being at an actual INFINITE concert.

Production of the film has been completed and it is currently awaiting examination by the ‘Korea Media Rating

Musicians Lee Juk and John Park will be performing together at the ‘Expo Pop Festival‘ in Yeosu!

The two will be collaborating on stage with a live band for a 90 minute concert that will surely heat up a crowd of 20,000 fans on the night of August 2nd.

Lee Juk and John Park had previously performed for a crowd of 30,000 fans at the Jisan Valley Rock Festival

After making a grand entrance to the cheers of 3,000 fans on their first visit to Thailand, EXO has been enjoying widespread popularity and support as they finish up their promotional activities in the country.

Their four day stay made it hard for anyone to believe that the group was just four months into their debut, as every place the boys stepped in, fans swarmed in to catch a glimpse. EXO managed to meet with about 10,000

Block B has released ‘Morning Call’, the fourth teaser for ‘Play! BBC World Camp‘!

‘Play! BBC World Camp’, which will be held on August 25-26th at Bokwang Phoenix Park, is an event where

Girls’ Generation‘s YoonA recently lit up the airport with her sweet and sensible fashion.

On July 29th, YoonA was spotted at the airport as she was getting ready to go off to New Zealand to film an advertisement for the outdoor clothing brand, Eider.

On this day, YoonA looked lively and adorable in her striped t-shirt and blue mini-skirt, which was a perfect

Girl group Dal Shabet has concluded their two months of promotion for their 1st full length album, ‘Bang Bang‘.

The girls held their good-bye stage on the July 28th broadcast of MBC‘s 2012 London Olympics Speical of ‘Music Core‘ with “Mr. Bang Bang“.

Their promotions for this album were more significant as it included their new member Woohee, who filled the spot of departed member Viki. Born in 1991, Woohee was introduced earlier this year and also received much

Super Junior‘s Eunhyuk sweated hard after the members revealed that he brought a girl over to their dorm.

Super Junior members including Eunhyuk and Ryeowook guest starred on Mnet‘s ‘Beatles Code 2‘, set to air on July 30th. MC Tak Jae Hoon made the others curious as he said to Eunhyuk, “I heard you brought a girl

With the controversy surrounding the bullying scandal of T-ara and Hwayoung heating up, netizens have been claiming to discover more and more proof shots that supposedly prove the bullying rumors to be true.

Recently, online community boards have been posting such screencaps of various moments throughout the girls’

T-ara‘s parent company Core Contents Media announced today that one of its members, Hwayoung, will be leaving the group.

CCM’s CEO, Kim Kwang Soo, announced the departure in a press release written by the president himself. “In deference to the complaints by T-ara’s staff of 19 people (5 stylists, 7 hair & makeup, 5 on-site managers, 2

Following recent breaking news of Hwayoung‘s contract termination with both T-ara, and Core Contents Media, sister Hyoyoung expressed her feelings of shock, with a vague tweet on Twitter.

It’s very unfortunate that Hwayoung’s contract termination was so sudden, and it seems that her sister is in a

Following Core Contents Media‘s announcement of Hwayoung leaving the group T-ara, Hwayoung posted a quick sentence on Twitter that seemed to summarize her thoughts on the matter.

With the news of Hwayoung’s departure from the agency still hot, Core Contents Media, has shocked many fans and the like, by revealing that T-ara’s impending schedule will follow through as planned without any delays.

A representative of Core Contents Media told OSEN news that T-ara will “resume as a seven-

Following their announcement regarding the termination of Hwayoung‘s contract, Core Contents Media recently revealed some of Hwayoung’s unacceptable behavior in the past, furthering themudslinging.

According to CCM, after their Budokan concert and return to Korea on July 27th, T-ara was

On July 28th, 2NE1‘s Dara drove her fans wild after planting a kiss on a fanboy’s cheek during the group’s latest concert.

Held at the Seoul Olympic Park Gynmastics Stadium, 2NE1 opened their ‘New Evolution‘ World

Super Junior‘s Donghae has caught the attention of fans with a new photo taken with fellow group member Yesung.

On July 29th, Donghae tweeted the photo above along with a short message that read, “Right

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