Baek Jin Hee cuts her hair for secretarial role.

"I didn't know what's it like being a PA until I took this project."

PD Kim Jung Hyun who is directing the new KBS drama 'Jugglers' said the work scope focuses on secretaries who work behind the scenes.

                

A 5-year working secretary (PA) Chwa Yoon Yi played by Baek Jin Hee is a senior at work.
Baek has to learn what kind of work a PA does. She mentioned that it'd be better to cut her hair shorter for the PA role. So she said to her manager that she will snip off her long locks.

Also starring in Jugglers are Choi Daniel, Kang Hye Jung and Lee Won Geun. 
Baek returns to small screen after 3 years ago starring in MBC's drama Missing Nine. It has been almost 5 years Kang Hye Jung starred in tVN's drama The Wedding Scheme in 2012.
Also Choi Daniel has completed his military services on Sep 29th.

Choi Daniel plays the role as veiled man in the executive of YB AD video division department who has no interest in anything. He admitted he was rather worried for choosing his comeback in the romantic comedy drama. After reading the script, he has decided to take up the new challenge. The director, production casts and staffs were supportive and he believed it'd be great.

Kang Hye Jung was away from the limelight for a long period of time. She doesn't feel too confident as she has been postponing dramas due to living a typical 'ajumma life'.  She has been nurturing her daughter for past 8 years and felt the social wall is growing thicker.
Jugglers will feature 16 episodes and will be airing its first episode on 4th December at 10.00 pm.

Kang Ho Dong becomes a chef for tVN Kang's Restaurant.

Comedian and emcee Kang Ho Dong can be seen from early next month in tVN's 'Kang Restaurant' which shows cooking and running a restaurant.

                                        

 According to the cable channel tvN on the 29th November, a new entertainment program 'Shin New Journey to the West: Kang's Restaurant' (directed by Na Young-seok · Shin Hyo-jung) will be broad cast  at 10:50 pm on the 5th December. 'Kang's Restaurant' is a program as the same format as 'Yoon's Restaurant', which was broadcast in this March.

 

Yoon's Restaurant featured actress Yoon Yeo-jung, actor Lee Seo-jin, Jin Goo and Jung Yoo-mi operating a Korean restaurant in one of the Indonesian islands. In this new project, comedian Kang Ho Dong opens a restaurant in Jeju Island with 'New Journey to the West' members and sells food to customers.

In fact Kang's Restaurant was initially suggested by gagman Lee Soo Geun in New Journey to  West Season 4. Lee said it'd be interesting that the owner of the restaurant eats more than the customers. The concept of Kang's Restaurant is 'Big Size'. 

Wanna One Go: Zero Base- Epi 4

Continuation from Episode 3, the 11 members have time off to themselves after their busy come back on music shows and promotional activities with their new album. At Zero Base, they turned to small children upon seeing new toys and food vending machine. Twelve hours of freedom is given to them so they are to do whatever they want. Jin Young's attending school as usual while diligently paying attention during class. Daniel's still spending time at his hometown in Busan and Ji Sung's taking driving lessons and test. 

The rest are amused with new exercising gadgets at their base. Jae Hwan pointed out that Ji Hoon has put on weight after he went on the scales. Seung Woo, Woo Jin and Sung Woon continue their eating spree of instant noodles. Ji Hoon is exercising hard but not long he gave up upon smelling the fresh cooked popcorn from the microwave. Jae Hwan resisted on any food temptation. Woo Jin found a DVD featuring Jessica Gomes Body Art doing Yoga classes. The smiles on the typical male faces...ha ha! Ji Hoon looked away as he is still a minor. Seung Woo instructs Woo Jin to enlarge to big screen and stop skipping the scenes.
Kuan Lin quickly joined them with yoga mats while calling Min Hyun as 'Minion' hyung! LOL!
Come to think of it, it's a tongue twister when calling Min Hyun's name in a fast mode. 

The members attempted the Yoga positions however some failed miserably as they were not flexible as they look to be. They found soccer ball and started playing at the living room wearing a microscopic head gear making them look like fools! LOL. The penalty came where Dae Hwi, Jae Hwan and Seung Woo have to grab some snacks and ice-cream for the winners. The trio planned to escape with driving away with the writer's car but their attempt failed because they were keen to see the secret passage door opens at 5.00 pm.
Sung Woon started his Zumba class on big screen encouraging Kuan Lin and Min Hyun to exercise the swag-samba way! It is comical that Kuan Lin found his old Produce 101:S2 video where he started to dance with Seon Ho (Cube Ent.,) and they started to follow the choreo. 
               
Ji Sung passed his written driving examination but he freaks out in the physical driving test. He kept crashing at the side and whenever he starts to reverse, the indicator kept beeping to him he's disqualified. When he went to sit for the real driving test, he fared well in reversing the care into the T-drive section. But as soon as he turned out from the parking spot, the tyre hit the curb and he didn't know what to do. He just drove over the curb and immediately he failed the test! I must say for a guy...Ji Sung is rather hopeless in terms of driving. 

Daniel finally caught up with his home-room teacher Mr. Il-Yong who taught him and encouraged him to do B-boying when he was in high school. He gave his Teacher a neck tie and invited him for a drink. His teacher kept calling "Eui-geon ah"....(his birth name) and exclaims 'Aigoo' while admiring his student is now a handsome young man. At the restaurant, the two men kept having drinks while keeping the manners. Teacher Il-Yong brought a secret book that he has kept all these years- photos of young Daniel and the forms which he filled when he first enrolled in school. His dream involved with music, he likes dancing and he cracked upon reading further. Teacher told him the fans even visited his Alma mater! Daniel was grateful for that and he personally autographed the group's CD as a present for his teacher. It's amazing to know the young smiling kid at school who loved B-Boying has grown up so well into a fine young lad and so successful in the music industry. 

                                            

Exactly at 5.00 pm, the secret room opened and they solved a riddle to get into another dungeon filled with BBQ equipment, meat, drinks and relaxation picnic area. Members were happy while screaming away. Being a pro-BBQ cook, Sung Woon heats up the grill and starts cooking the meat. Woo Jin looks unsettled seeing Dae Hwi tries cooking the Spanish Gambas while Min Hyun starts boiling Kimchi stew. The members were about to clean up when Ji Sung returns home looking dejected after failing the driving exam. Ji Hoon and Jin Young cheered him up stating failure is nothing. They snapped a photograph at the secret dungeon while missing out Daniel. (they Photoshop him in it)

Kuan Lin is serious about improving his Korean language. When he sees how fluent GOT7's Jackson and vocalist Henry Lau are, he intends to work harder. Min Hyun and Sung Woon became his tutor mentoring his pronunciation, slangs and words in Korean. 

Wanna One continues to sweep music charts and took home Rookie Artist awards in Asia Artist Awards and further on to Mnet Asia Music Awards 2017 at Japan.

Beauty title winners list... my own choice.

Here is my list of my personal choice of the beauty with brains- Miss Universe and Miss World winners whom I think are not just presented in beauty but with grace and intelligence. 

Japan's Riyo Mori who won Miss Universe 2007
Not only she has the Asian features but the Mikimoto Pearl crown suits her the best.


Puerto Rico's lass- Dayanara Torres from Miss Universe 1993
Her beauty is everlasting and leaves me wondering she looks like a Barbie Doll. 


India's first woman to win the crown Sushmita Sen- Miss Universe 1994


Venezuela's Alicia Machado- Miss Universe 1996



India's Manushi Chhilar - Miss World 2017
A medical student and skilled Classical dancer- that's what I say beauty with brains.


India's Aiswarya Rai- Miss World 1994
The first Indian woman to win the beauty title, current actress and model. 



Philippines' Megan Young- Miss World 2013 
An American-Filipino TV host, actress and model with Caucasian looks. 

Kim Jae Joong's postage stamp released in Japan.

A stamp featuring JYJ member, Kim Jae Joong will be released next year in Japan.

                           
According to agency, CJES Entertainment- Kim Jae Joong is scheduled to release a set of REBOOT special frame stamps for Kim Jae Joong in Japan on February 28, 2018.

The release of Kim Jae Joong 's face stamp is the second time since it was selected as a postage stamp model for the 10th anniversary of a stamp company in Japan in 2014.

"This is a new start with the theme of 'REBOOT' with the meaning of the new launch, and it is gaining hot attention because it is selected as the best seller among the pre-book sales," he said.

Actually, Kim Jae Joong's stamp was ranked No. 1 in the hit products shortly after it was booked and sold at HMV Japan the day before.

Kim Jae-joong said, "Thanks to his Instagram. I am grateful that a second stamp with my face will be issued in Japan. I would like to send mail to someone I love and to be a precious stamp that can be kept as a memory."


On the other hand, Jae Joong will continue his Asian tour to the Philippines on the 30th November 2017.

Taeyeon involved in double car accident.

Girls' Generation member, Taeyeon was involved in a double car accident in Seoul.

According to the SM Entertainment and Gangnam Police Station, on 28th November 2017, Taeyeon was driving her Benz in front of a taxi at 7:39 pm. The taxi was pushed aside and collided with another passenger car.

Two passengers were injured in the car accident but the driver of the car escaped unhurt.
Taeyeon was heading to the hospital to check up for any injuries. No alcohol was detected.

A Netizen who claims to be a victim of a traffic accident said that police officer and paramedics attended to Taeyeon first than treating the injured, however the fact has not been proven true or wrong.

SM official has admitted that Taeyeon was at fault for carelessness and she is sorry for what happened to the driver and injured passengers. She is doing her best to deal with the accident.
Taeyeon has returned home to rest and taking measures for causing the problem.

Police official also mentioned that at this moment the accident is just a simple straight forward accident as an act of negligence. Details of the exact damage situation and the cause of the accident will be investigated later on.

My Golden Life drama breaks into 40% ratings.

KBS2TV weekend drama 'My Golden Life' has hit the 40% viewers ratings and continuing to rise. According to Nielsen Korea on the 27th November, the 'My Golden Life' (drama Soo Hyung Kyung, director Kim Hyung Suk) has recorded an average audience rating of 39.0% nationwide. The ratings for Seoul and the metropolitan area were 38.8% and 38.6% respectively. 

On Episode 22, the drama has already recorded 22.9% ratings and continues to spike up.
The 50-episode drama is aiming to show more conflicts between various characters and gradually turning the tables around.

The recent episode showed Seo Ji An (played by Shin Hye Sun) is slowly creeping out from her shell after suffering from a massive shock that she has been switched with Ji Soo (played by Seo Eun Soo) into the Haesung Group. Choi Do Kyung (played by Park Shi Hoo) tries to help her secure good job interviews through Hyuk (played by Lee Tae Hwan) but she is reluctant to do so. Seo Tae Soo  sees his family is breaking up. He decided to sleep and shut off from the world when Ji An refuses to come home and Ji Tae is moving out with his wife. 

Hyuk plays along and treated Ji Soo to lunch while apologising that he left her at Incheon earlier. She was all over the moon telling her baker owner that finally Hyuk treated her lunch.
She also realised that Bakery owner is in love with Hyuk's sister all these years. Noh Myung Hee is annoyed that Ji Soo isn't trying to fit into their family, it'd be better she leaves the house.
Ji Soo blames them for losing her and they should give her a house or at least a room before kicking her out! Haesung Group Chairman returns from Hawaii furious to hear his granddaughter swap identities. 

Do Kyung continues to fuss over Ji An's stubborn attitude missing out good opportunities. 
When she hears that he was the one who told her father where she was, she blew her lid started shouting angrily at him. He was rather startled as she looked pissed off. She warned him not to visit her and she doesn't wish to see his face anymore. 

2PM Jun-K is worried for military services next year.

"I made a promise among the members and if all goes well, I will do a 2 PM concert." 

On November 27th, 2PM member Jun-K (29, Kim Min-joon) sat down with the media at Sinsa-dong ahead of the announcement of his new solo mini album "My 20s -나의 20대" dropped the brick that he will be enlisting either early or mid of 2018. 

                                                 

Jun-K is due to enter military this year delayed the enlistment after being injured at the 2PM concert in February. He will be enrolled after a physical examination at the beginning of next year. 2PM being a representative of 2nd generation Hallyu idols have been forced to complete activities for a while due to the enlistment of its members. While other idol groups are walking their way from military services and renewing contracts, there seems to be no problem in their future activities.

The 6 member boy group- member Tacyeon is currently serving in the army since September.
Tacyeon gave up his US green card and been diligently working as a trainee in the agency for many years. Jun-K has recently caught up with Tacyeon complimented that he is doing very well. Tacyeon looked healthy and thanks to him, Jun-K's worries are slowly dissolving from military services. 

Jun-K's new album 'My 20's' will be released before his enlistment telling the story of his life from 20's heading to 30's. As he looked back, he knew 20's just passed by so quickly. He has experienced ups and downs in life. His father passed away in 2012. 2PM members play a big part in his life as they have been together for many years. The six members got along very well, performing concerts around Asia, receiving awards, caring towards each other.

Currently other members of 2PM are involved in solo activities such as musicals, dramas or movies. Jun-K is heavily involved in composing and writing music since in his twenties.
He made his debut as professional singer when he contributed in the KBS drama 'Dream High' OST which was aired in 2011. He also did much work in the 4th album. Since young, Jun-K's main dream was to be a musician not a singer. Of course it was great to be a singer, but he wanted to be a composer.

During high school, he saved up money to buy a music book. He remembered saying he's not crazy to his mother. His family was against the idea for him being a singer. The title song "Moving Day" of the new album leaves the house with memories of the lover who was separated which it puts out the nostalgia that he left without letting it go. Above all, there are signs that he tried to sympathise with the public in lyrics,

From US to UK, BTS continues to spread their love.

The popularity doesn't end in America. Hallyu group, BTS is pretty much occupied for the rest of the year. As they continue to spread the K-pop wave across US and now they are heading towards UK.

                

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio 1 has announced on 26th November that they will produce a K-pop documentary on the BTS group via Twitter. On the Twitter message states 'Dear Army, DJ Adele Roberts is busy filming together with BTS boys for a special documentary program."

Specific details and dates have not been released.  It is said that K-Pop is the main content of BTS. Meanwhile, BTS has performed solo performances for the first time as a K-pop group at the America's Music Awards 2017 (AMAs), which was held in Los Angeles, USA. 

In addition to that, the boys have appeared in various talk shows in the US. 

Taxi Driver film wins the Best Actor Award at Blue Dragon Awards.

The two movies- Taxi Driver and I Can Speak were the highlights of the evening at the 38th Blue Dragon Film Awards that was held at the Hall of Peace Hall in Kyunghee University in Seoul on the evening of the 25th November. 

The main hosts of the the event were actress Kim Hye Soo and actor Lee Sun Gyun. 

Taxi Driver took home 4 awards- Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Audience Award and Music Award. I Can Speak swept 2 awards- Best Director and Best Actress Award. Veteran actress Na Moon Hee took the Best Actress Award at the age of 76. Song Kang Ho was awarded Best Actor Award for Taxi Driver. 

           

The movie 'The Outlaws' has proven actor Jin Sun Kyu the Best Supporting Actor Award. For the past 20 years, Jin has came to the stage with tears and laughter mixed with a good impression that was completely different from the grisly Korean gangster. He joked that he is not a Chinese but a pure Korean citizen. Kim So Jin took the Best Supporting Actress in The King. 

Actor Cha Tae Hyun remained solemn as he paid tributes to all the late actors and actresses- Kim Ji Young, Yoon Soo Jung, Kim Young Ae and lastly Kim Joo Hyuk. These late celebrities were memories for those who are living. There was some sadness felt among those who were present at the event. 

Choi Hee Soo won the Best New Actress for her film Anarchist from Colony while EXO's Do Kyung Soo took the Best New Actor award for his movie 'My Annoying Brother'. 

           
The Fortress took the Best Screenplay Award. Jo In Sung and Sol Kyung Gu were awarded Most Popular Male Award. Na Moon Hee and child actress Kim Su An won the Most Popular Female Award.  It is quite alarming to see The Battleship Island didn't win any major awards despite big list of A-actors in the movie. It only won Best Art Direction Award. 

EXO thanked their juniors BTS, Wanna One for promoting K-Pop worldwide.

"Recently BTS and Wanna One and other juniors in the music industry, we thanked them for promoting K-pop worldwide."

The leader of Hallyu boy band- EXO, leader Suho has mentioned during their Exo Planet # 4 concert at Gocheok Sky Dome that their biggest influence would be their seniors such as TVXQ, Girls Generation, PSY, BoA and Super Junior. These seniors are their role models that they are able to come to this place to perform.

             

As everyone knows recently BTS and Wanna One were the two popular trendy groups that have captured the nation and international fans as well. Currently there are many juniors and boy bands emerging in the same industry. This year will mark EXO's 5th year in the entertainment industry. In 'Guinness World Records 2018', EXO has become the Guinness Book of World Records winner of MNET Asia Music Awards (MAMA). They are those who shine in 'Quadruple Million Sellers' of 4 million consecutive albums sold a total of 9 million albums so far. Also, the song "Power" released in September was adopted as the music of the Dubai fountain show in front of Burj Al-Khalifa. 

Suho also said, "Like our seniors, our juniors are obliged to promote K-pop. I would like to contribute to informing the world about K-Pop with our juniors."


Members are also carrying out individual activities. D.O who is also actor with his real name Do Kyung Soo has received a rookie male idol from the Blue Dragon Film Awards ceremony on the previous day for the movie 'Brother' (2016). Suho will make his musical debut "The Last Kiss" which opens at LG Arts Centre on December 15th. 

D.O said, "I am happy to be acknowledged as an actor and I want to share my empathy with alot of my experiences in the future."

Jo Jong Suk in cops and con artists for MBC drama 'Two Cops'.

What happens when a soul of a fraudster is trapped inside a body of criminal justice police officer? That'd be a heart-breaking event! Hah! On top of that, the police officer finds himself falling in love with a shameless and bad temper reporter. How will he be able to explain to that?

One of the fantasy romance drama 'Two Cops' will be featuring actor Jo Jung Suk as the Officer Cha Dong Tak. Dong Tak is very inflexible in real life and upright in his work. With the sly cunning conman's soul trapped inside, it will bring lots of laughter and weird atmosphere around him.  

   

Girls' Day Lee Hye Ri plays the shameless social media reporter Song Ji-An. Her previous works of Entertainer and Reply 1988 were massive hits. Kim Sun Ho plays as the weird con-man soul Gong Soo Chang trapped inside Dong Tak's body. 

Other supporting casts include Hoya, Lee Si-Eon, Moon Ji In, Choi Il Hwa, Lee Dae Yeon, Im Se Mi.

The writer has mentioned that the key is investigation of criminals and fraudsters. Because of the two souls, the problem is tackled in a somewhat unusual way. Jo Sung Suk will be playing as two roles in the drama. It's quite a difficult thing to do but he's confident to pull through the role and put his best. 

Hyun Bin's The Swindlers opens at no# 1 spot.

Hyun Bin's new movie "The Swindlers" directed by PD Jang Chang Won ranked first at the box office on the first day of release in the theatres.
                        
According to the Film Promotion Committee on March 23, the "The Swindlers" gathered 21,955 people at 1195 openings on the previous day, 6295 times, and took the stairs of the "Justice League" (44,493) and took the first place in the box office. On the day, sales amounted to 1,564 million won, and the share of sales was 62.2%.

The Swindlers is a story of a prosecutor who is trying to catch a scammer who turned the Republic of South Korea upside down with another scammer to catch him. Hyun Bin, a con artist who was in the custody of a fraudster and Prosecutor Park Hee-soo played by Yoo Ji Tae. In addition, fellow supporting casts include Bae Sung-woo, Park Sung-woong, Nana and Ahn Se Ha. This director PD Jang's debut film.

Park Eun Bin, Yeon Woo Jin's drama sets off at 8% viewer ratings.

The new SBS drama 'Nothing to Lose' or literally pronounced in Korean as Judge vs. Judge (이판사판) kicks off at 8% viewers ratings. The drama made a fresh start with leads from actress Park Eun Bin and actor Yeon Woo Jin. 

According to Nielsen Korea on the 23rd November, the new SBS drama directed by Lee Kwang-young) recorded an average audience rating of 8.0% nationwide.The Seoul audience rating was 9.4% and the metropolitan audience rating was 8.9%. At the same time, KBS 2TV drama 'Mad Dog' ratings were 7.4% at nationwide average.

                    

The drama draws the story of a hasty and hot tempered criminal Judge Lee Jeong Joo (played by Park), who goes through various cases of murder and reveals the secrets of how her brother who went to jail. She meets her opponent, the rich and intelligent Judge Sa Eui Hyeon (played by Yeon). 

Other supporting casts include Dong Ha who plays Prosecutor Do Han Jun  who is Jeong Joo's graduation class mate. His mother Professor Yoo Myung Hee (played by Kim Hee Sook) are their mentors. Na Hae Ryung plays as Jin Se Ra who is a rich man's daughter and law school student. 

The first two episodes were rather interesting and funny in the court room where Jeong Joo made a big chaotic incident and the video was posted online. Lee Moon Shik who plays as the chief prosecuting attorney is comical as ever. The same goes to Dong Ha as we remembered him as the serial killer in Suspicious Partner and the adorable Myung Suk in Good Chief Mr. Kim early this year. 

Yeon Woo Jin continues to dominate a serious and cold character in this drama compared to his previous loveable and quiet roles. Park Eun Bin is delightful as she gained fame from tVN's Age of Youth series and weekend drama Father, I'll Take Care of You. 

Wanna One Go: Zero Base Epi 3

After settling in their Zero Base freedom house for the next 24 hours, the 11 members were happily snugging away for beauty sleep until Ji Hoon is the first to wake up. He starts his shooting practice in the living room after the defeat from his 'hyungs' the night before. Everyone was still fast asleep. Ji Hoon slowly crept to Ji Sung's room to wake him up. It turns out Ji Sung is gearing up to learn driving. He's at the age where he should have a license but due to a trauma from a car accident, he still freaks out when driving. 

Ji Hoon and Woo Jin started to disturb the rest from their beauty sleep but not one would move. Kuan Lin immediately sprung up from his bed when he heard the word food. Eventually one by one crawled to the kitchen to make themselves a meal. Jae Hwan tries calling take away food but no to avail. Min Hyun laughed at Sung Woon woke up groggy and Dae Hwi's hair is like a bird nest. Daniel skipped eating as he prefers his precious sleep with his two cats. After an hour, Ji Sung returns looking exhausted. He was rather clumsy and stressed during the driving lesson with his manager smirking behind in the car. 

Sung Woo decided to play a game where one will need to be blindfolded and catch the rest. Seems typical like a kiddie game but the members enjoyed it. Woo Jin tried cheating but he  suffered the penalty. A familiar voice was played out through the speaker. It was Woo Jin and Dae Hwi's mothers voices. Immediately Seung Woo figured out it was pre-recorded and played at a certain time. Woo Jin suddenly opened the mirror door and they discovered another room decorated with family photos, the cutlery from their home, fridge filled with home made food from their mothers and most of all letters hand written by their parents. The members get emotional reading the letters except they cracked up hearing Sung Woon's grandpa wants him to quickly tie the knot! 



Their 24 hour freedom has ended where automatically the members are getting ready for their come-back with the new album. 'Nothing Without You' and Beautiful were the singles released in their album. Fans queued up for hours to catch a glimpse of their idols cheering for them loudly at the TV station. With busy schedules up to the end of the year, they have another 12 hours freedom from their Zero Base camp. They were happy to be relaxed with new gym equipment and toys. Min Hyun snoozes at the couch, Woo Jin does his own thing, Jae Hwan and Seung Woo jamming away, Sung Woon lazing around, Dae Hwi composing songs at his computer, Jin Young is off to school, Ji Hoon practising his shooting skills and Kuan Lin taking a nap. But where is our Kang cho-ding? 

Daniel boarded the KTX to Busan to visit his mother. He envied the rest of members who could spend their time with their parents but he didn't have the time because everything was too busy. The happy puppy was visiting his hometown, bought some flowers, visited a shopping mall where he met his mother. He looked shy for the first time giving flowers while bystanders admired him. 

       

The mother & son enjoyed a good Chinese cuisine and catching up after so many months. Daniel was flustered when his mother bought everything that was endorsed by him! She is also happy and proud of what her son has achieved after training hard without any complains. She pointed out the 100 push ups worked out well now that he has the best body build. Now it's shopping time where Daniel bought a branded bag, shoes and earrings for his mother. T
Their mother and son bonding trip ended quickly where she asked him to sign autographs for her close friends! Ha ha! 

Daniel is waiting for another person at a quiet street. The person then calls out 'Eui Geon-ah!' as he laughed. The mysterious person still calls Daniel by his original birth name. 
I'd think the person must be his 'teacher' or mentor from school or during young days...

Sohn Ye Jin, So Ji Sub in melodrama of lost memory.

Actress Sohn Ye Jin (35) and actor So Ji Sub (40) are in the new melostyle movie "Going to see you now" (director Lee Jang-hoon) have finished all the filming and entered the post-production period.

 'Going to see you now' is a story about the wife, Soo Ah who left this world while leaving a promise to return on a rainy day. A year later, she then appears in front of her husband, Woo Jin and is suffering from amnesia. 

Photo courtesy from NEWSIS website

Sohn Ye Jin plays the role of the wife who is confused and loses her memories, Soo Ah. She then again loves her husband and son. So Ji Sub plays her husband, Woo Jin who lives alone with their elementary school son after his wife left.

Sohn said, "It has been a long time for me to feel such an exciting and touching feeling while filming. It is said that a good work will be born with the actors and staffs who have always been warmly welcomed in the scene."

So Ji Sub said, "All the actors and staff have done their best to make a very warm hearted movie. If you wait a little while, we will visit the audience."

Director Lee who directed the film said, "Every day is really precious and happy for me. I am grateful that I can meet good actors and staffs tocomplete the filming without any difficulty."


The movie 'Going to Meet You Now' is scheduled to be screened next year.

TVXQ, Jang Yoon Jung, Yoo Jae Suk assist Pohang victims.

Hallyu duo TVXQ (U-Know Yunho, Max Chang Min) have started to help out the children who suffered through the earthquake in Pohang.

According to the music industry on 20th November, TVXQ duo has donated KRW$ 50 million won to the Global Children's Welfare Organisation's Green Child Umbrella Foundation on the 17th Nov.  TVXQ's contribution is supported by the Green Umbrella Children's Foundation for the cost of living in the Pohang area suffering from recent earthquake damage.


In addition, singer Jang Yoon-jung was also reported to have donated KRW$50 million won to the fund raising team of Gyeongbuk Social Welfare Community for 'fruit of love'. Other singers and celebrities are also chipping in for the natural disaster victims.

Nation's emcee, Yoo Jae Suk has also donated KRW$50 million won for the residents of Pohang to Hope Bridge National Disaster Relief Association. 

In particular, actress Lee Young Ae has donated a whooping KRW$106 million to the Korean Disabled People Foundation to help the victims of the earthquake in Kerman, Northwest of Iran as well as Pohang.

JTBC announcer, Jang Suk-gyu also delivered KRW$10 million won to the disaster relief association to help the Pohang victims.

BTS sets footprints at American Music Awards 2017

World renowned boy band BTS have made their mark again in one of the greatest music shows- American Music Awards (AMA) 2017 with confidence in the States. 

The K-pop group was the first ever to be invited for 2017 American Music Awards held at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA. Recently their new single 'DNA' was a worldwide sensation. The title track from the album 'Love Yourself, Her' was a big hit among the local and international fans. The Microsoft Theatre was filled more of fans and performers than Korea. 

US duo, 'The Chainsmokers' have collaborated with BTS in the title track 'Best of Me'.
There were lots of cheers and annoyance from the audience during the performance.
Fans were chanting away loudly and it is natural to see the overseas fans singing along with the song. Camera pans to the audience where some fans were in tears standing at the front stage.
Local celebrities were busy taking videos and snapping photos via their mobile phones with BTS appearance on stage.

On the red carpet, BTS leader RM (Rap Monstar) has mentioned that he cannot believe he's here at AMA 2017. The show will be broadcast live across the United States by the channel network ABC while the Korean group will be recognised nationwide.

                 


The boys have set a new record for four consecutive weeks on the album chart "Billboard 200" and the single chart "Hot 100" for the first time as a Korean group with the "Love Yourself".
From there the group became a hot topic talk while winning the Social Artist Awards at the Billboard Music Award in May. 

Thanks to that, the group is able to perform at the American Music Awards which gathers the most influential and iconic artists. BTS continues with their promotion with appearance in 3 major broadcasting station- CBS Late Night Show with James Coden, NBC Ellen DeGeneres Show and ABC Jimmy Kremmel Live.

Super Junior exerts charm in Running Man.

It has been a few years before we saw a full load of SuJu members in variety shows.
Episode 376 of Running Man has invited a load of K-idol group members. That includes SuJu members- Yesung, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Leeteuk and Red Velvet members Irene and Joy.

Before that, the PD announced the RM casts will have two teams and to choose their members.
Kwang Soo blurted out it'd be good to have Kang Daniel (aww...they missed the puppy a lot!) from previous episode - fame for his clumsiness and heo-dang attitude. 

Sorry Sorry song was played as casts were thrilled to see the 4 SuJu members but they clapped their hands  happier when PD told them Red Velvet's members are also joining them...hah! Typical RM guys! Se Chan jokingly said Leeteuk's hair was Shinjuku style which they corrected him- Harajuku style as it was brownish-red colour. Jong Kook pointed out Donghae looks like a Hong Kong actor to which Jae Suk said if it was a windy day; his hairstyle wouldn't last long! 

                           

Two teams were divided- Jae Suk's team consists of Kwang Soo, So Min and Suk Jin. The rest had no choice but to put up with Kook's nagging lectures. Among 6 idols- they will test them to see which will belong to their team.

Ji Hyo then mentioned that So Min and Eunhyuk were elementary friends from the same school. It was nice to meet up school friends again! As they start to comment all the good things between the 2 primary school friends, Donghae suddenly said he's starting to feel jealous of the two's friendship. However what caught the attention of everyone is Donghae starts snapping random shots of everyone with his camera! That's funny! 

                              

First test was testing their agile and strength ability. Acupuncture mats were laid in three different lengths for long jump event. The first 2 sections were bearable however the last section was pointy and sharper which literally made anyone screech out when their feet land on it.
Jae Suk pushed Suk Jin to demonstrate to the idols whereby he was clenching his teeth while jumping on the first 2 sections.  Donghae scored 6.8m while Yesung did very well in scoring 7.7m in long jump without blurting out any sound. Eunhyuk is not ready to give up though he was seen scowling away when his feet touched on the acupuncture mat. But it was a success for Eunhyuk as he literally leaped to 8.6 m in the last section! Wow!

Eunhyuk, Leeteuk and Joy join Jae Suk's team while Yesung, Donghae and Irene goes to Kook's team. They play the cat-mouse game with chaser team wears the bells when they go hunting for their prey. PD tells the casts that there are spies among two teams. They have to figure out who they are while also ensuring their team do not fall over.

The two spies were secretly assisting their other teams to succeed the missions. The tag tearing game begins while Eunhyuk sped off so quickly that Se Chan couldn't keep up. Ji Hyo wonders what's happening to Se Chan. Meanwhile Jae Suk's team starts pondering if Eunhyuk is the spy among them. Kook's team is suspicious of Se Chan and picks him as a spy when Ha Ha is the real spy! As for Jae Suk's team, they pointed out Joy when it was Eunhyuk is the real spy! Both teams are lost for words as they suspected the wrong person in their teams!

  

RAINZ's fans-concert day in December.

Group RAINZ will hold their fan meeting and concert from Seoul to Busan.

              

On 16th November, project boy group RAINZ has mentioned that via Melon Ticket will reveal their Busan's first fan-concert. Reservation of tickets will start from 24th November on wards.
The Fan-concert will be held at Crystal Ballroom at Busan Lotte Hotel on December 29th at 7.00 pm.


RAINZ will also hold their Seoul fan-concert as well at the Yes 24 Live Hall at 7.00 pm from December 26-27th.

The group debuted with their mini album 'Sunshine' and have been working on the single title 'Juliet'.

Super Junior hits home shopping after 8th album release.

Hallyu group, Super Junior will be heading to home shopping channel! 
Why? The reason is simple. The group members have promised that when their 8th album sales hit the record of 200K or more, they will appear in home shopping channel.

                     

According to SJ's agency- SM Entertainment, the group will be selling the Black Padding suit on 20th November at 10.45 pm on a special program entitled 'Supermarket' via the cable channel- CJ O-Shopping Channel. 

Super Junior will be responsible in selling the duck down padding clothing brand (씨이앤(Ce&)
For those who purchase the padding clothing, they will also receive SJ's 8th album as well.
That's a little bonus to go for home viewers shopping (it'd be great if it's signed by them!) But there is a catch, for some special lottery ticket- a personally signed CD will be given out as well to the buyers.

The event "Supermarket" is a combination with 'Super' from Super Junior and the 'Market' stands for sales. CJ O-Shopping has already planned this for the members appearance.
In the recent promotion and press conference for their 8th album 'Play', SJ has made a promise that if their sales go over 200,000 copies, they will go on a home shopping channel.
Indeed 'Play' album has then reached the top of the album sales chart and exceeded 200,000 on the day. 

It is very rare to see a singer or celebrities appearing on a home shopping channel to fulfil. However earlier in the year, singer & songwriter Lucid Paul released his 7th album in a package composed of the results of his creative work and labour and sold the album through CJ Home Shopping as a promise.

ELF fans in S.Korea- well done! You have did well to get SuJu to go on home shopping channel! He he! 

Lee Min Ho, Suzy broke up after 3 years.

Actor Lee Min Ho (30) and Bae Suzy (23) decided to go on separate ways.

According to MYM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment, the couple decided to end their relationship. Lee Min Ho and Suzy were dating in London since March 2015. They have then admitted it in public. However last year in August to September, the two decided to remain as mutual friends rather than a couple.

Lee Min Ho made his debut screen as lead in the famous F4 drama 'Boys Over Flowers' (2009) and The Heirs (2013). He is currently serving in the army as a service worker.

As for Suzy, she started her music career in 2010 under Miss-A girl group. She starred in the KBS drama Dream High (2011) and her acting career took off from there. She later starred in the movie Architecture 101 as the younger version of Han Ga In. 

Well- what's new? Celebrities couple often break up that it's no longer a surprise to us...

Wanna One Go: Zero Base- Epi 2 review

Episode 2 of Wanna One Go: Zero Base continues with the 11 boys rushing around their base camp happily upon seeing a big warehouse transformed to their freedom den and playground.
Each member has previously informed the PD what they want and wish if they have a room of their own. With the busy schedules for the one year or so, members hardly have time to themselves. If only...if only by having an hour personally to themselves make a big difference.
The members were previously busy with their come-back and filming for the MV- Beautiful. 

11 rooms were decorated in its unique interior and styled to the preferences of the members.
Jae Hwan's typical musician room with instruments, Min Hyun's room was cosy with house keeping tools, Dae Hwi's room was like a honeymoon couple room decorated with flowers, curtains and lights, Seung Woo's cafe look-a-like room, Jin Young's room filled with colourful tub of plastic balls, Ji Sung's zoo-like Safari room, Sung Woon's super-star photo room, Kuan Lin's personal space with a fizzy drink machine, Woo Jin's rock-like room and Ji Hoon's room filled with soft toys and Daniel's room decorated with cats' concept. The main living room had sofa, pool table, toy guns, VR, TV, vending machine with noodles, snacks, drinks and arcade 
machines.
                                 
Daniel suddenly shouted in excitement that his two cats Rooney and Peter were transported all the way from Busan! They rushed to see the two kitties cuddled up in the cat house. Daniel clapped happily with Sung Woon and Ji Sung admiring his two pets. The rest discovered more excitement playing shoot-ambush games with toy guns. Forming two groups, they started their combat training around the living room. Seung Woo struggled with reloading his gun as Min Hyun smirked at him. Ji Hoon rushes around aiming at those who called him 'Piggy' as he tends to eat a fair bit. The members filled their hungry tummies with instant noodles, cheese, drinks and snacks. Dae Hwi pointed out the clock and rules stuck on the wall that they have 24 hours of freedom to do whatever they want. YES! Freedom for the members!

                            

Woo Jin moves around eating endlessly at  Yoon mama's noodles, Jin Young's cheese. Hwang butler is nagging at those who leave their things around messily. He is amazed with the robot vacuum cleaner with Daniel fascinated over it. Sung Woon orders pizza from outside while the rest waited patiently. Ji Sung grabs some face packs and rested. Kang cho-ding starts his quest by running around the living room with Ji Sung chasing him for his soft toy giraffe legs that were twisted like a samgyetang! Kuan Lin, Jae Hwan and Woo Jin were just observing the two MMO trainees running around like kindergarten kids. Seung Woo wanted to try out his coffee machine while Woo Jin helps him out in grinding the beans. It didn't taste nice at all for the first try! Ha ha!
                                    
Pizza came, the boys ate their dinner and drinks, started watching an American horror film. Sung Woon starts to doze off and headed back to his room. Jin Young crawled to share the bed at Min Hyun's room. U tell me how uncomfortable it will be to sleep on a tub of colourful plastic balls?! One by one decided to call it for the night. Seung Woo, Min Hyun, Woo Jin and Ji Sung were talking among themselves at the living room. Hwang-butler starts his cleaning house chores as there were popcorn all over the place- thanks to Kang cho-ding who threw it during the movie time. After a while, Seung Woo, Sung Woon and Min Hyun decided to prank the rest who were already fast asleep. They brought the speaker from Jae Hwan's room and started playing the song Produce 101 song- It's Me to individual rooms trying to wake them up. In fact it was a wake-up call song at their dorms in the early a.m. during Produce 101. Some were pissed off and Dae Hwi just shook his head. Night time calls and all decided to say goodnight.

Middle of the night, Jae Hwan woke up in abrupt with Ji Hoon coming asking why. He said something was moving and he discovered one of the cats snucked into his room for a snuggle. In groggy mode, Daniel went and grabbed Rooney back to his room. The next morning, the members woke up for breakfast. The chaos started again with everyone talking and mumbling around. Suddenly a familiar voice came out through the loudspeaker- 'Woo Jin ah, come and eat'....followed by other female voices. They were the voices from their mothers.
Looking daze, Daniel and Dae Hwi looked around wondering what's going on. Woo Jin opened up another secret room and their eyes grew big! And snippets of Jin Young heading to school and Daniel dressed up buying a bouquet of flowers for his mother. 

See what they have discovered for in Episode 3. 

K-Idols, young actors gearing up for SAT exams

As the 2018 academic year college scholastic ability test (SAT) approaches, the interest of the trainee idols are increasing. On the other hand, newcomers who have to pay for work and study at the same time are getting ready for the SAT. 


◇ Who are the idol entertainers who trying their best in SAT exams?

The most interesting idol is Kim Do Yeon, a member of the group Weki Meki. She was formerly from the project girl group I.O.I which was formed through the MNet Produce 101: Season 1 which caused a huge syndrome.

In addition other idols include Astro's Lucky, Oh My Girl's A-Rin, WSJN's Yeo Reum, Golden Child's Dong Hyeon, Jae Hyeon, Joo Chan, Tag, Momoland's Nancy, Joey and DIA's Eunchae.

Among the 1999 year born actresses are Ji Jin Hee who was a star in the sitcom High Kick Through the Roof is also sitting for the SAT.

There are some who have already passed the exam and been selected to universities. Wanna One's Park Ji Hoon received the good news. Due to the busy schedule with the group activities, he is happy to receive the good results. Actress Kim So Hyun from The Goblin drama has been accepted to Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University.

As for the KBS Idols Rebooting Project (The Unit), the seniors and mentors are cheering the fellow contestants who will be sitting for the SAT Exams.

MAS (Kang Hyun, Dong Myung, Ha Rin), S2 (Yoo Jung), Good Day (Ji Won) are the ones taking the exams with mentors Rain, Hwang Chi Yeol, SHINee's Taemin, San-E, Jo Hyun Ah cheering them up with encouragement messages.  

Rain's message to Ha Rin, "Our Ha-Rin will be a big hit!, The Unit will be cheering for you." 

Hwang Chi Yeol sends his 'Fighting' message to Yoo Jung. 

Tae Min also send his encouragement message to Ji Won and Jo Hyun Ah advises Kang Hyun to get all his answers correct in the exam. 

EXO, Kim Hee Sun and Wanna One takes the honours in AAA 2017.

Actress Kim Hee Sun and group EXO took home the Dae-Sang (Grand Prize Award) for the Asia Artist Awards 2017. The entire event finished up with all smiles from celebrities.

EXO smiling at their best- all in black hair & suits at the red carpet                  

Asia Artist Awards gather most top artists around Asia where the event was held at Jamsil Indoor Stadium at Songpa-gu, Seoul on 15th November. The event was sponsored by Global Entertainment Media Star News (STARNEWS). The awards ceremony was hosted by Super Junior's Lee Teuk and actress Lee Tae Im. 

Emcees- Lee Tae Im and SUJU's Lee Teuk

 However the main glory was given to EXO and Kim Hee Sun. EXO's leader Suho said, "We are delighted to receive the award after last year. Thank you very much. Every time we come to the stage, we feel like crossing and we will become EXO who is not accustomed to these feelings." Fellow member D.O (Do Kyung Soo) also won 2 awards including the Popularity Award added he will work harder to become a better actor and singer. 

Kim Hee Sun, who won the Grand Prize at JTBC said, "I was not passionate or confident since I got married. I want to give this honour to the viewers who brought this enthusiasm."

Wanna One posing at the red carpet with Winter Olympics mascot bear & hearts
Photo courtesy from News Sports Chosun                     

Debuting in the music industry within 101 days, rookie group Wanna One took home the New Artist Award and Samsung Pay Award proving they are the hottest group of the year. The other fabulous awards were honoured to senior groups such as Super Junior and EXO. In the acting category, Lee Jun Ki and Park Seo Joon took home the awards. 

Mix singing group KARD also took home the New Artist Award. Ahn Hyo Sub and Jung Chae Yeon were awarded the Best New Actor/Actress Award along with Wanna One.

Hallyu rep stars such as Suzy, Park Shin Hye received Asia Star Awards and Asia Icon Award respectively. AAA Best Awards were given to Min Hyo Rin, Lee Tae Im, Cha Bum Hee (Taiwan) and Just.

NU'EST-W were present waiving at the press
Courtesy picture from Han Guk Gyeong Je

 AAA is a gathering of South Korean stars and internationally renowned selves - one of the world 's top global events in Asia including Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and South America and Argentina, A fair and transparent award was awarded to winners based on Big Data for fans.