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Big Bang will be releasing their Japanese debut single on 24th June titled ‘My Heaven’. They will be working with Universal Music Japan for their Japanese debut this time.

YG Entertainment said in an interview on the 22nd, “Big Bang had went to Japan for Japanese promotions last weekend, and had came back to Korea today. In Tokyo, you can hear ‘My Heaven’ everywhere.”

“Big Bang will not be aiming to be one of the idols working with Universal Japan but as artistes. GDragon together with the other Big Bang members will bring with them their song-writing capabilities and promote as artistes.”

The YG representative also said, “At the entrance of Universal Japan office, you can see 2 photos, one is Black Eyed Peas and the other one is Big Bang’s.”

The boys will be appearing for the morning programme ‘Mezamashitere TV’ on the day of their debut single release, and the will also be appearing on SMAP member Cho NanGang’s Fuji TV ‘Waratte Iitomo’ on 26th June.

The boys will then move on to release their 2nd single in Japan title ‘Gara Gara GO’.
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Recently, a survey was done, asking netizens which idols they want to spend White Day with the most. It was reported that Big Bang gained the most votes amongst the boy bands, receiving 161 votes (38.4%),an overwhelming response compared to Dbsk's 76 votes, coming in first. Super Junior came in 3rd, while SS501 and SHINee settled for 4th.

For the girl bands, SNSD got 91 votes (21%), beating Wonder Girls' 46 votes (10.1%), coming in first position. Following these 2 bands is Seeya in 3rd, whilst Jewelry and Kara came in 4th.

Kim Bum from '꽃보다 남자' (Boys Before Flowers) came in 1st for the person most likely to give the coolest/most handsome confession. Rain, Lee Min Ho, So Ji Sub got 2nd to 4th positions respectively.

Also, the song 'Extremely Lucky' was chosen as the song most wanted to be sung and heard when confessing.
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Big Bang is appearing on the December 21st episode of “Gold Miss Diary”. Something of a Christmas special, the women in the show do the usual celebration of young men as Taeyang sings with piano accompaniment, G-Dragon raps to Kanye West and all of Big Bang woo these women.

source: seoulbeats
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You just can’t disconnect Big Bang and the Wonder Girls. Both groups have garnered 11 Cyworld Digital Music Awards amongst themselves since their debut and it’s no wonder that their songs are the most often heard on many Cyworld minihompies. (Off-topic: the Wonder Girls endorsed Baskin Robbins last year and it’s the turn of Big Bang this year.)

Big Bang will be picking up their 6th Cyworld Digital Music Award on the 8th December thanks to Sunset Glow being Song of the Month for November. The award is given out based on how often the song is used as the background music on Cyworld minihompies. Since October 2006, Big Bang has won five Cyworld Digital Music Awards for La La La, Lies (twice), Last Farewell and Haru Haru. Sunset Glow will thus be Big Bang’s 6th time winning it.

Earlier on 18th November, the Wonder Girls had won Song of the Month for October thanks to Nobody. This was their second consecutive win for Nobody having won it the previous month. Since their debut in 2007, the Wonder Girls have now won the Cyworld Digital Music Awards 5 times
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Big Bang TaeYang was voted #1 for ‘the male idol member who will best succeed going solo’.

DCInside (www.dcinside.com) did the survey 11th-18th November and with a total of 10,084 votes, Taeyang emerged #1 with 2335 votes (23.2%).

Taeyang released his first solo album “HOT” with the title song “Look at Only Me” this May. He also did a first-ever solo concert in July.

Here are the rest of the results. SeungRi received 1,553 votes (15.4%) at 2nd place, SS501 leader Kim Hyun Joong at 3rd position with 1,130 votes (11.2%). Others on the chart are Big Bang GDragon, Kim Hyung Joon and Kim Kyu Jong from SS501.

source: kbites
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Big Bang member TOP has been discharged 1 day after admitting into the hospital on 6th November at 2pm.

YG Entertainment said on 6th November, “After the health examination this morning, it was said that TOP’s situation has improved, and that he will be able to be discharged from the hospital today (6th November).”

They had also apologised for not coming out soon enough to clear the rumours that were spreading around that TOP has attempted suicide.

TOP’s elder sister Choi Hye Yoon has also denied all speculations about TOP’s supposed suicidal attempt as rumours.

TOP has admitted into Seoul HeukSeokDong Central Hospital on 5th November at 1pm in the afternoon for overwork and exhaustion.

Big Bang will have their comeback stage on 8th November on MBC Music Core.

source: kbites
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One of Korea’s hottest idol group Big Bang has released the music video of “Red Sunset,” the title song of their second regular album “Remember.” Over 200 thousand advance orders have been placed for the five-member band’s sophomore album.

“Red Sunset” sampled from the refrain part of an oldie of the same title. Unlike other remakes, Big Bang’s reinterpreted the original song by acclaimed crooner Lee Moon-se and made it their own. Their music video also features Korea’s west coast, which suffered the nation’s worst oil spill last winter, to encourage people to visit the cleaned up beaches.

Big Bang’s second regular album includes eight new songs and remix versions of their previous hits “Last Goodbye,” “Lies,” and “Day by Day.”
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Big Bang member TOP (21) had to put aside the excitement of his birthday for a moment for the busy schedule of Big Bang’s comeback.

With Big Bang’s comeback with 2nd album ‘Remember’, the members have been training and practising on their singing and chereography everyday since dawn these days.

A representative of YG Entertainment said, “On the day of TOP’s birthday, 4th November, the Big Bang members were up since 2am in the morning for their CF filming and their practice for comeback. And during the CF filming, the other Big Bang members and staff presented TOP with a cake and sang birthday song for him. There was no special event for his birthday but just a nice small birthday party for TOP by the Big Bang members.

“When they had the extra time out from the filming and practising for their comeback, the members went out for a birthday celebration meal. And all the presents that TOP received from fans for his birthday have really heightened the birthday mood as well.”

source: kbites
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They, who recently had their ‘Stand Up Tour’ in Osaka on 28th October, have also been receiving a lot of attention and interests from the Japanese media.

They have a tight schedule promoting in Japan, which includes appearing on TV programs on NHK and Fuji TV etc as guests together with some of Japan’s top stars and also doing interviews. Famous media and newspapers have also done interviews and articles on Big Bang.

Big Bang, following the footsteps of groups like Dong Bang Shin Ki and SS501 who have also advanced and did well in Japan, has received a lot of attention from the Japanese media regarding whether they will succeed like the previous Korean boy bands.

Not long ago, Big Bang was also hailed as ‘Korea’s EXILE’ by one of the Japanese newspaper.

Som Japanese reporters and media representatives recently visited Korea, and when asked about Big Bang they said, “They seem to be doing very well with their first official album released in Japan”.

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