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  1. 2008/12/17 Real Army Role for Actor Cho Seung-woo
  2. 2008/12/17 Super Junior-M Named Most Popular Group in China
  3. 2008/12/17 So Hot Is KTF Most Downloaded Song of 2008
  4. 2008/12/17 Aska Yang is setting off from the "stars", concert soldout and extra shows added
  5. 2008/12/17 David Tao and Anson Hu will perform together in Jiangsu TV's New Year Concert
  6. 2008/12/17 Rain, Wheesung and SG Wannabe At Lee Hyori Solo Concert
  7. 2008/12/17 You Are My Destiny Ratings Pass 41.5%
  8. 2008/12/17 NSD’s Grades as Editors? A-
  9. 2008/12/17 Jolin Tsai signs contract in Water Cube; Mentor Sam Chen gives paintings
  10. 2008/12/17 Park Shin Yang Excluded From 2008 SBS Drama Awards
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Real Army Role for Actor Cho Seung-woo

No category 2008/12/17 20:24
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Actor Cho Seung-woo, a musical star of "Jekyll and Hyde" and "Man of La Mancha" who also starred in a number of popular movies such as "War of Flowers" and "Running Boy," entered the Nonsan Training Center on Monday afternoon.
Cho kept the date secret because he "wanted to start his military duty quietly." Cho said he will be alright, waved and smiled at those who saw him off in front of the Training Center.

Cho is one of the most sought-after musical actors in Korea. After he finished shooting "Like Fire like Butterfly" at the end of November, Cho cut his hair short.

Those who bought tickets to Tuesday's show of musical "Jekyll and Hyde" at the LG Art Center in Seoul can still see him, as interviews of actors and actresses from the show will be screened as a celebration of the 300th rendition of the musical since 2004, when Cho first took up the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde role.

In an interview conducted before entering the army, Cho said, "I can't believe 'Jekyll and Hyde' is celebrating its 300th show already. It is all thanks to the support and love of the fans. I will probably be away for two years. I would still love to be part of 'Jekyll and Hyde' when I return."

Song Hye-sun, the head of Cho's agency PL Entertainment, said, "It seemed Cho didn't get any sleep last night. He probably spent the whole night talking with his mother. I got very emotional when I hugged him, because I have known him for 10 years since his screen debut with 'Chunhyang,' and he is like a son to me."
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Super Junior-M Named Most Popular Group in China

No category 2008/12/17 20:22
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Super Junior-M has won an award at the Chinese music award ceremony. The branch group of Super Junior targeting the Chinese audience has garnered the most popular group award at the 2008 Starlight Grand Ceremony held last Monday in Beijing. The Starlight Grand Ceremony is hosted by a well-known Chinese portal site (qq.com) and honors top celebrities in 30 categories spanning film, TV, music, and theater. The winners are selected through a poll conducted on 100 media companies and roughly 350 million members from all over China.

Upon receiving the award, Han-kyung of Super Junior-M said that the group is honored to win such a prestigious award and 2008 has been a very meaningful year for all the group members. Zhang Li Yin, another musician belonging to SM Entertainment, was honored at the ceremony with the top female artist award.
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So Hot Is KTF Most Downloaded Song of 2008

No category 2008/12/17 20:21
Nobody was placed 4th. Idol groups Big Bang and DBSK was placed 2nd and 3rd with Haru Haru and Mirotic respectively. Tae Yang’s Only Look At Me was placed 8th while Daesung’s Look At Me, Gwi-soon was ranked 68th. Big Bang had 8 songs that was ranked in the top 100 songs. Here are the top 10.

1. Wonder Girls - So Hot
2. Big Bang - Haru Haru
3. DBSK - Mirotic
4. Wonder Girls - Nobody
5. Lee Hyori - U-Go-Girl
6. Davichi - Love and War
7. Brown Eye - Don’t Go, Don’t Go
8. Tae Yang - Only Look At Me
9. SeeYa, Davichi, Black Pearl - Blue Moon
10. MC Mong - Circus
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Aska Yang is setting off from the "stars", concert soldout and extra shows added

No category 2008/12/17 20:20
Aska Yang is finally holding another concert! Under the warm support from fans, Aska Yang will be holding a small-scale concert at Singapore's Ark Cafe (新加坡民歌餐廳). Due to the dispute with his management company in October, this is the first time it was announced that Aska would be performing overseas so fans from everywhere were considerably excited and hence news [about this concert] was leaked. The tickets were immediately soldout so the hosts immediately announced additional shows.

Holding this concert, the hosting company has admitted that they are a little worried that they will receive a letter of warning from Aska's agent. However, they still remain committed to bring Aska's good voice to everyone.

Furthermore,the host expressed that before holding these two concerts, they had already discussed the matters with Aska's lawyer. His lawyer expressed that there should not be any problems. For the fans, besides fully satisfying his audience, Aska will only be accepting a price of friendship for his singing. Previously he took part in a "business" performance where one hour cost $NT1,000,000 but this time, he is only accepting $1 million yuan for a two-hour performance.

During the concert, besides singing his new songs, Aska will perform "Cun Ai" from his album for the first time, and will also bring many songs by other singers including Jacky Cheung's "Forgot To Cry" (忘了哭), Lin Yi Lian's (林億蓮) "Shadow of a Lover" (影子情人), Chen Xiao Juan's (陳曉娟) "Admiration" (羨慕) as well as Andy Lau's "A Home To Return To" (歸宿), etc. adding up to 13 songs.
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David Tao and Anson Hu will perform together in Jiangsu TV's New Year Concert

No category 2008/12/17 20:19
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David Tao (陶喆) and Anson Hu (胡彦斌) will perform together in Jiangsu Satellite TV's New Year Concert. Regarding this arrangement, the both of them feel it will be extremely interesting. "I've known Anson for very long, but we haven't got the chance to perform together on the same stage. This time it has finally come true, and I am very happy." David expressed that even though Anson is the 'after 80' new generation, he has already achieved success in the music industry, even David himself admires this.

The both of them are originally artistes under EMI, and the number of times they bump into each other is not small. David had already heard earlier that there is a junior whose music style is very similar to his own. Until a few years later they were at the same performance venue and met each other backstage. David was surprised and said: "Such a young singer, and he can already mix with R&B with such ease, the younger generation can surpass the older!" At that time, when Anson Hu heard that, he couldn't help but feel pleased with himself, giving a feel copies of his album to David and hoping that he would give him some tips and advice. This time they were invited to attend the New Year Concert, and when he got to know that he was to be performing together with Anson, David felt that that was certainly something to remember. "To be able to sing from 2008 to 2009, this honour is not something just any other singer can get. Especially since for me, Nanjing is where I was from, hence I am anticipating this!"

Workers revealed that when Anson knew he was going to perform with David on the same stage, he was delighted for very long. He made use of time to practice furiously, as he is scared that in the concert he would lose to David. "To me, this New Year concert is a very rare opportunity. Actually I don't really care about PK-ing with big brother David, the most important thing is that I must learn from him, as he has always been a role model to me!"
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Rain, Wheesung and SG Wannabe At Lee Hyori Solo Concert

No category 2008/12/17 20:18
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Korea’s top singers have come together for Lee Hyori’s solo concert.

Lee Hyori first solo concert, Invincible Lee Hyori will be held on 19th and 20th December with confirmed guests Big Bang and Fin.K.L as reported earlier. But hold on, there’s more good news for those lucky fans who managed to get their tickets. Rain, Wheesung and SG Wannabe will also be performing.

Off-screen, Hyori are known to be on very good terms with Rain, Wheesung and SG Wannabe. As seniors and juniors, they have had numerous collaborations for their albums and on stage and thus have a good relationship.

According to Mnet Media, “Hyori’s friends wanted to celebrate and cheer on her for her solo concert. Despite it being the end of the year and with their own tight schedules, they still managed to squeeze out some time for her concert. I believe this will be one of the best concerts in recent memory.”

It has been 10 years since Hyori debuted as Fin.K.L and this will be her first-ever solo concert. For this meaningful first time, Hyori has been putting in 12 hours of practise daily for a perfect show. It’s understood that Hyori’s fans had asked her to stop recording Family Outing since her concert will be 3 days later and she might hurt her vocals. But Hyori still went ahead and fulfilled her schedule like a professional since it was already fixed.
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You Are My Destiny Ratings Pass 41.5%

No category 2008/12/17 20:16
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KBS 1TV’s daily drama “You Are My Destiny” has passed the 40% ratings mark.

According to AGB Nielson Media Research, on the December 15th, YAMD reached a national viewer rating of 41.5%. This was 9.1% higher than last week’s highest rating of 32.4%.

For the last five months, YAMD has been under high scrutiny to see if it could pass the highest ratings of “Miuna Gouna” which had reached 44.4%. However, with the story and conflicts shown in its 159th episode, it was able to bring together an immense audience, and was able to release alot of the pressure put upon the production crew.

Viewer Lim Youngsoo said “There was never such an invigorating episode as there was today.” and another viewer Lim Kwonchul said “YAMD can try to pass the 50% national viewer rating”.

Conversely, the other daily drama that is aired at the same time, MBC’s “I Love You Don’t Cry”, had a rating of 5.8%.
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NSD’s Grades as Editors? A-

No category 2008/12/17 20:15
After airing since October, MNet’s “Factory Girl” will be showing its last episode on the 17th of December.

On this episode, viewers will be able to hear the true feelings of SNSD as they experienced life as editors for the past five months.

SNSD said “At first, we were afraid that they would try to avoid giving us hard assignments.” and “It was a meaningful experience and more than anything, it was so fascinating to see the results of our hard works in the monthly issues.”

They also shared their shocking memories from the show. SNSD said “When the managing editor visited our apartment, you could see pictures of us posted on the refrigerator” adding that “Those pictures shown on the refrigerator were such silly pictures but they all came out on the broadcast”, as they laughed shyly.

Among them, Sooyoung had an especially touching experience. She said “”Since being an editor was something that I really wanted to try, it was that much more of a special experience for me. And so I decided to work even harder and after watching the first episode, I’ve done alot of reflection” and “But I’ve worked hard through the support and worries of my sunbaenims and I think I’ve come away with a good result after putting in alot of hard efforts.”

She cried as she thought of the short filming time that they had for the show.

The managing editor Nam Yoonhee said that the grade for SNSD as they were editors for the last five months was an A-, saying “It was good to see them trying and doing their best,” and “I hope that with this experience, SNSD will come out as best dressers from now on.”

The last episode will air on the 17th on MNet at 6PM
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Jolin Tsai signs contract in Water Cube; Mentor Sam Chen gives paintings

No category 2008/12/17 20:15
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Yesterday night, at 9.10pm in Beijing’s Water Cube stadium, Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) officially announced that she was entering Warner Music. There are rumours that the sum Jolin will be getting for transferring contract is 30,000,000 yuan. However in yesterday’s event, being the first person to hold a press conference in the Water Cube, Jolin repeatedly emphasized that the numbers are not important. The fact that Warner is spending money so recklessly surprised many, because other than the fact that there is an increasing financial turmoil, the album business is not doing well. The biggest winner in all is Jolin’s management company, Mars Entertainment Co. Ltd.

Sam Chen gives painting

For the signing of the contract, her company specially chose the time 9.10 to start the ceremony. The main reason for that is ‘Jiu’ (9) stands for ‘Jolin’, while ‘Yi Lin’ (10) stands for her Chinese name ‘Yi Lin’. Even Jolin laughed saying that this is the first time. It was held at the Water Cube, where the Olympics was held earlier. Because the rent was extremely expensive, for a single day the rent is as high as 700, 000yuan. The workers in charge of setting up the stage came at dawn yesterday for work; they were very scared that if they came a few hours earlier they would have to pay for another whole extra day. When her mother and sister heard that it was going to be held in the Water Cube, they immediately put down their work and flew with Jolin together to Beijing.

Yesterday Jolin was wearing jewelry costing tens of millions, hinting at the 30 million sum she got for transferring to Warner. To that, Jolin expressed that numbers are not important, but rather they cooperate happily. She also said that the main reason why she transferred to Warner was that she saw that their music quality is very high.

Sam Chen (陈泽杉), the current president of Warner’s China district and who worked together with Jolin many times, gave her a painting done by a famous French artist, Edward Degas. The painting shows a ballerina jumping, which symbolises Jolin’s requests for perfection in her singing and dancing. When she saw the painting, she was surprised and delighted: “I know the road before me poses greater challenges, with beautiful responsibility. Thank you all who gave me all this, I can’t wait to get to work again.”

Show Luo will not follow Jolin

During the event, all Warner artistes sent VCRs to congratulate her, hoping that Jolin would go up a whole new different level in Warner. Mainland China’s big sister Natasha Na (那英) specially came to support the event. The words of Stanley Huang (黄立行), who is in the same management company as Jolin, made the audience laugh. He said: “In EMI last time, you went in earlier than me; you were the senior, I was the junior, so you were on top, I was at the bottom. Now I am in Warner, and went in earlier than you. I am the senior, you are the junior, so I am at the top, you at the bottom. Don’t worry, I will treat you well.” Added on to the fact that before, the two had dance intimately together at a concert, the ambiguous feelings went up high.

Another thing worth mentioning is that the outside world is guessing that other than Stanley Huang and Jolin Tsai who left Gold Typhoon, there would be another one joining them – Show Luo (罗志祥), who shares the same management company as Jolin. The relationship between Show and Jolin has always been good, and the last time he followed Jolin to EMI as well. This year his contract with Gold Typhoon will expire, hence there are rumours that he will transfer together with Jolin. However, in yesterday’s press conference, a reporter found out from an insider that Show will be continuing his contract with Gold Typhoon, and the conditions were as good as the time he transferred from AVEX.

The album business is not doing well, added to the increasing economic turmoil; many artistes lower their prices to earn money. However this record company still spent money recklessly at this point. People like Show Luo, Jolin Tsai and Stanley Huang are still firmly in the hands of their management company, Mars Entertainment Co. Ltd, so you can say that no matter which record company these artistes decide to go to, the real winner at the end is still the management company.
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Park Shin Yang Excluded From 2008 SBS Drama Awards

No category 2008/12/17 20:13
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The backlash against Park Shin Yang continues to sting. Despite acting in SBS Painter of Wind which just concluded its run recently and also being his first-ever saeguk drama, there was no sighting of his name anywhere on the nomination list for the various awards at the 2008 SBS Drama Awards.

Park Shin Yang was awarded the Daesang award in 2004 and 2007 for his excellent acting in Lovers in Paris and War of Money respectively. But with his role in Painter of Wind a big contrast from his usual roles, it was not well-liked by many. His co-star, Moon Geun Young was however nominated.

According to the higher-ups in SBS, “Park Shin Yang came in for some flak in the earlier part of the drama (Painter of the Wind) for his acting. In addition, his performance was pretty lacklustre compared with Moon Geun Young. Then, you have the pending case where he had asked for high appearance fees which got him banned indefinitely by the Korea Television Drama Production Company Association recently. He has lost the trust of the production staff. Even if you do act very well, it’s useless if you can’t get along with your colleagues.”

Park Shin Yang is understood to be spending his Christmas with his family in America while Moon Geun Young has gone to Australia to visit her sister. But she will be back in time for the 2008 SBS Drama Awards on 31st.
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