Thursday, September 1, 2011
88 idols ranks the best looking idol star in real life
Credit :: (source + pic) Chosun via Naver + VITALSIGN @ Allkpop
MBC Every1’s ‘Weekly Idol‘ recently had 88 idols participate in a survey asking which idol star was the best looking in real life for their ‘Real Chart!‘ corner.
The corner was centered around the question, “Real Chart! Idol Self Ranking – Who looks the best in real life! The top five best-looking male and female stars!”
Idols who managed to land in the ranking included Super Junior’s Choi Si Won, SS501’s Kim Hyun Joong, Big Bang’s T.O.P., SNSD’s YoonA, miss A’s Suzy, 2PM’s Taecyeon and Nichkhun, and T-ara’s Jiyeon and Qri.
In the end, however, there could only be one winner, and it was 2PM’s Nichkhun and T-ara’s Jiyeon that came out on top for the male and female categories. Jiyeon was called up after the rankings were revealed, and she was recorded saying, “I don’t look as good on camera. I think I look similar to my TV image, but since I look better in real life, please come and see me!”
The full ranking will be revealed on September 3rd!
Kim Hyun Joong successfully completes his Asia tour
Credit :: (source + pic) Chosun via Naver + VITALSIGN @ Allkpop
On August 27th, SS501’s Kim Hyun Joong successfully concluded his one month promotional tour across Asia and returned to Korea.
Starting with Japan last month, the star toured seven different countries across Asia, which resulted in blocked-up airports at every entrance. His popularity was definitely confirmed with each visit, as he reportedly ran out of staff to effectively control the crowd for every high-five event. Kim Hyun Joong has also been receiving love calls from record labels around the globe.
Kim Hyun Joong revealed that he’ll be starting an Asia tour concert starting this December. “It was an enjoyable time that allowed me to meet my fans overseas, who are always supporting me and giving me so much love. I’ve gained so much strength from your love and I promise to work hard on my next album.”
The star will be heading straight into preparations for his second mini-album.
Kim Hyun Joong will be holding a Asia Concert Tour from December
Credit :: (source) Koreastardaily + (Eng trans) ss501chapter.wordpress.com
Kim Hyun Joong’s agency KeyEast expressed that he will be holding his 1st solo Asia Concert Tour from this December till early next year.
Kim Hyun Joong has been promoting in Asia for the entire August from Japan to Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines 7 countries straight meeting his fans from overseas. Kim Hyun Joong had stayed around 2 to 3 days in each country. Not only he promotes for his album, he even held press conference, fan sign event and had interview with various television programs and newspaper, his daily schedule was really tight.
Objections Towards Kim Hyun Joong From Going To Sendai, Japan For His Performances
Source: Enews4
Chinese Trans: Ivy@HKHenecia
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Some Kim Hyun Joong Korean fans objected him from going to the Sendai, Japan where an earthquake just happened a few months ago for performances.
“WE TOTALLY OBJECT KIM HYUN JOONG FOR GOING TO SENDAI FOR PERFORMANCES”
At the internet communication portals have a surge of objections towards Kim Hyun Joong at going Japan Sendai for performance creating a wave.
Kim Hyun Joong is scheduled to have his concert tour in Japan in Nov, starting from Osaka, Sendai, Kyoto, etc.. performing in 7 cities.
This news is making all Kim Hyun Joong fans to be elated while on the hand their worries, anxiety and fear comments are also significantly increased. During March this year, Northeastern Japan Sendai just went thru a major earthquake, and it is the worst hit disaster area in the whole city. During that time, the damage for the disaster hit between 15 ~ 25 billon yen.
Thus, the fans have this mentality “What if ” something happened kinda state, regarding this Sendai performance. Fans state that “Really worried will there be any danger”, “Can’t ignore if there are any after effects happen”, “Are we going to take the risk of going there?” etc… different kinds of opinions on this.
But there are still some believe that “Since they can celebrate which means that it should be safe”, “rather than be worried, why not action upon it”, “Shouldn’t be a problem since they are going to hold a concert there” etc… different positive responses.
Kim Hyun Joong Participation In ShenZhen Concert, Pre-Ordered Tickets By Fans Almost Exceeds 1 Million Yuan
Source: ShenZhen News Portal
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Hallyu Popular Idol, Kim Hyun Joong, will be coming to Shenzhen to participate together with the 4 Heavenly Queens of Chinese & Canto-pop, Elva Hsiao, Shirley Kwan, Fish Leong and Sammi Cheng for the “SUPER PERFECT” (“非常完美”) Concert. It is a huge scale of grand-style dance floor DISCO PARTY theme which will be held on 16 Sep at ChunJian of ShenZhen Sport Complex. He will be appearing in his blonde new image.
Praising the Warmth of ShenZhen Universiade 2011
Hallyu Star Kim Hyun Joong “surprised” participation added the finishing touches to this concert. Kim Hyun Joong is currently the most popular Asian Superstar in today’s Asian entertainment industry. His Korean drama “Boys Over Flowers, “Playful Kiss” showed his exceptional acting skills and dashing looks which propelled him to fame. He is also the leader of the popular idol group SS501 and recently he just released his solo mini album “BREAK DOWN”. After finishing his promotional tour in Korea, Kim Hyun Joong will start invading into the Asian market and China is 1 of the main station for his series of promotional activities.
This time “SUPER PERFECT” Concert will be held at ChunJian of ShenZhen Sports complex after the Universiade 2011. Regard this, Kim Hyun Joong is particularly looking forward to it. He has watched the Universiade 2011 in Korea and also some of the competition events, saying that even though he is separated only by a TV screen, he can feel the enthusiasm and passion of the Chinese audience, thus he is really looking forward for the arrival at ChunJian to have interactions with the Chinese audience, “Thru the World University Games on TV I felt the Chinese audience’s enthusiasm, I look forward to 16 Sep performance in Shenzhen Bay. I will decide what songs I will be performing after my interaction with China fans.”
This Time Wanna Be A Tough Cool Man
It is reported that, this time Kim Hyun Joong participation for this event was supported by the Chinese fans. The sale for the concert tickets only starts on 29 Aug, but the news from the box office is that his fans have already booked tickets which exceeds 1 million yuan that really caused the organisers to be stunned as they did expect that this Korean flower boy has such a strong base of fans.
Kim Hyun Joong will be bringing his sound engineers, light engineers, dancers, stage designers and so on, a huge entourage and his image will be a total break through matching with his newly released album “BREAK DOWN” with a new blonde image to show his transformation. “This is my 1st solo album, it depicts a 26 years old man growing stages”. In the MV, he was in black doing a strong dance, showing off his cool side, “I hope to let people to see a more brillant performance.” Kim Hyun Joong new blonde hair style will be very striking, he explains, “This is due to the last hit song in the album “KISS KISS” is on the radio top charts, it is a more happy and cute style.”
There is no doubt, this “surprise” hallyu will also bring a different surprise and shock to the fans. Kim Hyun Joong states, “Hope this time showing the audience my new image can let them see the transformation of me from a flower boy into a tough and cool man.”
