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Shanghai Daily

TAIWANESE supermodel Lin Chiling was appointed by Swiss watch maker Longines as its "international ambassador of elegance" last week.

At the announcement at the Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong, Lin danced with children dressed in various national costumes.

As its new international ambassador, Lin will help promote the first "Longines Tennis Youth Dream Tour" to be held in China next month. The tour aims to discover and nurture China's young tennis talent.

Considered "Taiwan's No.1 Beauty," Lin also has a double degree in art history and economics from University of Toronto.

She has also turned her talent to hosting TV shows and award ceremonies, receiving praise for hosting Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards in 2004.

Last year Lin broke through in movies, landing a leading role in John Woo's film "Red Cliff" alongside stars Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro.

This month she will start shooting the action comedy "Treasure Hunter" with Taiwanese superstar Jay Chow.
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Super Junior who come back after 1 year 6 month got No.1 on disc sales, digital sales, as well as the most aired song with "Sorry sorry".

Super Junior's 3rd album "Sorry sorry" has ranked #1 three weeks in a row on Hanteo chart, hottracks. Besides, the title song "Sorry sorry" has ranked #1 on many online music sites like dosirak, Mnet, bugs....

Also "Sory sorry" got No.1 on the radio weekly chart's most aired song (March 16th to March 22nd) and become the most aired song on both radio and TV.

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Singer Alex wrote on a post on his own Cyworld minihompy on 24th March with the title ‘Congratulation ^^’.

He was referring to his made-believe wife ShinAe in MBC variety show We Got Married on her marriage.alshin_250309_2

He attached a picture of a heart on a plate in the post and wrote, “From now, it is to you guys to do some great cooking. To walk together. To get tired together. To sleep and wake up with that person together. This is so beautiful. Congratulations.”

credit:Kbites
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Officials announced "We wanted a different type of model this time around and we were wonder who would be appropriate. During this time, it was decided that Baek Ji Young would be our new model. She has a very large fan base and has had great success with her latest activities. We also loved her honest personality and found it very charming."

Apparently, she was chosen through an online poll that had her at 77.3% as a good choice. They plan to start filming sometime in April for the commercials.

Baek Ji Young has always mentioned on programs that she had a fondness for soju. She said "Because I like soju, I've always wanted to do the soju commercial that only top stars usually get to do." Until now, models for this soju have included stars like Jang Na Ra, Jo Mi Na, Jung Ryeo Won, Kim Ohk Bin, and Han Ji Min. Other soju models have included Ha Ji Won, Son Ye Jin, Kim Ah Joong, Lee Hyori, and Song Hye Gyo.

credits: allkpop
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Fans will finally get to see ‘female Big Bang‘ for the first time together this weekend!

With their group name not yet decided, ‘female Big Bang‘ is a name that netizens gave the 4-member group under YG Entertainment 4 years in preparation.

They will released a digital single ‘Lollipop’ on 27th March through sites like Melon and Mnet, and on the 28th, they will appear in the CF for LG Electronics CYON. They will appear in a new ‘Lollipop phone’ MV for LG CYON. And they will be working together with fellow colleagues Big Bang for this project.

‘Lollipop’ MV will be revealed around end of March to beginning of April.

The members of this upcoming group consists of Sandara Park, Park Bom, Gong Min Ji and CL. YG Entertainment said, “Big Bang GDragon has a part in the lyrics and composing for ‘Lollipop’ CF. And from March, the group will officially debut. Because of the amount of time into preparing this, we have many good songs for them and they will be promoting till the end of this year.”

source: kbites
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New actress Kim Min Ji as been selected to play the character known as Umi in the original version of ‘Boys Over Flowers.’

The BOF production company revealed to the Asian Economic Daily news over the phone that, “Kim Min Ji has been decided upon to play the character known as Umi in the Japanese version and she will make her appearance on the 30th in Episode 24 uptil the 25th episode.”

Kim Min Ji was recently in the KBS drama, Empress Cheon Chu and now in BOF she will aid Goo Jun Pyo who loses his memory and ultimately cause a rift between him and Geum Jandi acting as the part of Umi.

In the meantime, ‘Boys Over Flowers’ will end it’s run with the 25th episode to be broadcast on March 31st.

Source : Asia economic daily
translation : seoulfull.wordpress.com
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South Korea's pop star BoA was unable to make a pre-game performance at the second World Baseball Classic Tuesday due to fever and swollen tonsils.

SM Entertainment said, ``BoA had been scheduled to perform before the Korea-Japan baseball final at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles but the abrupt illness forced her to cancel the plan.''

BoA, who had recently entered the American market, has been sick in recent days with her busy schedule in Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Last week, BoA, the Korean-born pop phenom who has sold millions of records in Asia, released her first U.S. album amid high expectations that she will be able to reenact her success story in Japan in the world's largest album market.
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A huge number of 1,800 fans came to the Kara’s fan meeting, causing the whole fan meeting to be stopped.

On the 21st of March, Kara held a fan meeting at a mall. On this day, 1,800 fans showed up to this event, surprising all the Kara associates. They were able to see how popular Kara got.

Even though a huge number of fans came to the event, Kara did their best to keep the meeting going. But, because the maximum capacity of the room was exceeded, the meeting had to be stopped after 30 minutes, for safety concerns.

One associates said, “Because a lot more fans turned up than what we had expected, even Kara was surprised. We tried to keep the event going as we had planned it, but we had to stop for the safety of the fans.”

On the other hand, Kara, with the title track ‘Pretty Girl’ and ‘Honey’, was able to gain huge popularity and become one of the top girl groups.

Credit: Newsen
Tip off: Mae
Translated by: hopelesshong@Karaholic.com
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Ayumi Hamasaki Releasing New Album This Week
Source: Chosunilbo

Queen of J-pop Ayumi Hamasaki's 10th album titled "Next Level" is released simultaneously in Korea and Japan on Wednesday. Hamasaki became the first Japanese solo singer and female musician to have 20 consecutive no. 1 singles in the Oricon Weekly Single Chart in Feb. 25 with her release "Rule/Sparkle."

The album features 14 songs in various genres including "Rule," the theme song for a Hollywood movie "Dragonball Evolution," which will be released worldwide in April.
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Zai Zai, Zhao You Ting and Chen Yi han attended one of Azio Plus variety show "Azio Superstar" for promoting their new drama "Black and white". Producers specially arranged for a test of shooting air guns, but Zai Zai is being posted nonsensical answers by the host Jackie Wu who said: "Have you beaten a hand gun before?", making Zai Zai go embarassed and at a complete loss of speech. He embarassedly replied: "I have played a hand gun before, but I have never "beaten" a hand gun before".

Jacky Wu hosting style is always saying something nonsensical and comical. In yesterday's show, when Zai Zai was preparing to challenge in a test of shooting air gun, but was being spouted nonsense by Jackie Wu saying "Beaten hand gun", making Zai Zai going embarassedly saying: "How am I supposed to answer such questions!"
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