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BoA’s album tops Japan chart again

Yummy — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:14:53 +0000

Korean pop star BoA’s 6th album, “The Face” has top the Japanese Oricon chart after its release on Feb 27.

BoA’s previous 5 albums had also topped the chart before; she is only the 2nd artist to have had 6 albums topping the chart in a role. The other pop star that have managed to do so is Ayumi Hamasaki with 8 consecutive chart-topping albums.

Humming meets the press

Yummy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:37:48 +0000

Korean actor Lee Cheon-hee and actress Han Ji-hye met the press on Feb 27 to promote their latest movie, “Humming”…

[Image credits to Chosun.com]

A Destiny awaits

Yummy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:41:33 +0000

Korean movie “A Destiny” is set to premiere on March 20 in Korea. The movie is one of the most anticipated Korean productions in 2008 as it features actor Song Seung-hun, his first act since discharging from military service. Song is joined by a strong cast which includes Kwon Sang-woo and Ji Sung etc.

Bad Love is really bad

Yummy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:15:44 +0000

Korean drama “Bad Love” (also known as “Cruel Love”), starring Kwon Sang-woo and Lee Yo-won, has ended showing in Korea on Feb 12 with disappointing ratings.

Despite starring the big names, Bad Love’s final episode only managed a 6.8% rating. On contrary, other dramas that showed on the same time has achieved much better ratings (MBC’s “Yi San” has 34.7% ratings).

Big names don’t always work.

Girls Generation wishing Happy New Year

Yummy — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:18:25 +0000

Korean pop group Girls’ Generation is wishing everyone a Happy Korean New Year (same day as Chinese New Year)…

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TVXQ’s Hero voted prettiest Asian men

Yummy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:56:58 +0000

Hero (JaeJoong) from Korean boyband TVXQ is voted as the prettiest Asian men in a poll organised by China’s Xingkong TV channel.

Around 40 million votes have been casted, and Hero topped the poll with 10% of the votes (4.17 million).

Came in 2nd is Taiwanese heartthrob Jerry Yan; while 3rd place belongs to another TVXQ member U-know (YunHo).

4th-10th are Kazuya Kamenashi (Japan), Jimmy Lin, Vic Zhou (Taiwan), Tomohisa Yamashita (Japan), Han Geng (China), Joe Cheng (Taiwan) and Wu Zun (Brunei).

The funny thing is that only one China artist was on top 10… but Han Geng probably got in for being a member of Korean boyband Super Junior, so he is ‘half Korean’ actually.

The young Moon Geun-young

Yummy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:58:10 +0000

Korean actress Moon Geun-young when she was a kid…

Hasn’t changed much isn’t she?

Girls Generation – Kissing You MV

Yummy — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:28:15 +0000

Music video of Kissing You from Korean group Girls’ Generation…

Won Bin coming back soon

Yummy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:36:27 +0000

Korean actor Won Bin is coming back to acting pretty soon.

The “Autumn in my Heart” star is working on his first job since discharging from the army in June 2006… modelling for fashion brand Ziozia, which he worked with since 2001 until he was admitted to military service in late 2005.

His agency said that Won Bin is currently reviewing some scripts and is likely to make his comeback starring in a movie (instead of drama).

Gong Yoo in army

Yummy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:23:46 +0000

The Korea Military Academy has released a photo of actor Gong Yoo in the military academy, wearing his uniform.

Gong Yoo, who joins the army on Jan 14, is the latest high profile star who enter the military service.

2008 will see an influx of big names into Korea’s mandatory military service… Shinhwa’s Eric and Kim Dong-wan are approaching the age limit (28) and will have to join the army this year; others like actors Kim Rae-won, Lee Dong-gun and pop star Kangta are probably joining in too.