(photos credit from Cashewmania)

**I have to redo this entry due to Xanga not saving it—grrrr!

Thanks to SNSD fans, they translated this game show KBS Star Golden Bell 스타골든벨. (I did catch a translated episode on KBS World while traveling through SE Asia.) One recent episode that shown on Valentine’s day had SNSD 소녀시대 aka Girls Generation and  빅뱅 Big Bang’s Seung Ri on it.

The first part of the show they have everyone do some promo work so SNSD 소녀시대(minus Yoona) did a quick demo of “GEE” (their latest and hottest song that is redone all over the world into many versions) and Seung Ri 승리 with “Strong Baby” 승리솔로. Then later the participants have a few games as a team (each row) or later on individually. At the end, one person will have the honor to answer the final “STARGOLDEN BELL” question. All the money raised does to go to charity.

I thought this episode was cute as whenever Seung Ri did well and his team, he had to do the dance from his song to “crack crack” which was hilarious. Or when one of the SNSD gals had to swipe a stick with food to have the other gals try some of it while the MCs were not looking. One game I don’t get but enjoy is when Kara’s Nicole for the guessing game.

(photos: Sookyeong)

Yesterday was the second episode of the two episode spot with 빅뱅 Big Bang’s T.O.P (aka 최승현 Choi Seung Hyun)on the Sunday show 패밀리가떳다 ”Family Outing”. Even though I cannot get alot of the jokes, I was still laughing alot. Compared to 다니엘 헤니Daniel Henney, he is very quiet. The first part shown on 2/8/09 was funny as he had problems touching the fish. Or that Daesang 강대성 was taking advantage being a permanent member on the Family by ordering around his 형hyung while the members were making dinner. Or the fact Hyori 이효리was making pancakes and how everyone lined up to take try some. The singing contest between Jong Gook 김종국 and MC Yoo 유재석 was hilarious to get more of Hyori’s pancakes. I was impressed that this time Jong Gook stepped up and helped YeJin 박예진clean the fish. She is the one who is skilled in making food and knowing what to do.

Last night’s episode (2/15/09) was funny. MC Yoo’s rapping and poking fun at Jong Gook of his old “scandal” with 윤은혜Yoon Eun Hye on “Xman”  (especially in 2005) was hilarious. I still think it is not fun to wake up at 7:30am to play a game to avoid making breakfast. It was funny how Daesang was a bit jealous and had to come out and check out how the breakfast prep was coming along with TOP, MC Yoo and Yoon .Chunhee 이천희 showed off on the ice and after making a cool jump he later fell after doing some other tricks. Poor YeJin fell when paired with Chunhee.

Next up is the third female guest since this show started Yoona 임윤아 of SNSD 소녀시대 (aka Girls Generation the 9 girl group). Right now their song Gee is very hot in Korea at least 3 weeks at the top spot. Of course during the episode preview, she does the requisite performance of “Gee”.

Song Seung Hun’s 송승헌 recent spread for SUIT POWER magazine is great to look at. Ok eye candy is nice and he is my mom’s fave especially since her first Korean Drama too.  Check out this here from ALLKPOP. Here are two pics:

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Credit : ALLKPOP

Pics: Suit Power Magazine

After seeing her (Hwa Yobi 火曜飛 or 박화요비 ) on We Are Married with Hwanhee, though now the news she is leaving her tv show husband. I love her songs. Though her personality is very interesting and she is very cute.

I like the song 반쪽 Half from her mini album This is Love.

This is the video teaser

The audio of Half or aka One Half and Let’s Love

Lyrics-One Half (lyrics written by Hwayobi)
I only love you,
My heart is palpitating that I can’t sleep,
I never missed your way of speaking and your expression.
A woman in love supposed to be happy,
But why it is so painful to me,
I say ‘no’ shouting but I can’t listen myself.

But I love you,
I only love you,
I should be happy with a half of you,
My delayed love,
It’s my fault you couldn’t help with that,
You couldn’t help with that..

Once I used to struggle thinking of you,
It seemed difficult already that I couldn’t handle it,
A wounded heart should be cured by another love,
I only think about you..

credit: Rikkimargarette at HwanYobi soompi
Translated by Leandrosxxi at DCINSIDE/ Hwanyobi Soompi

Since Randy Jackson started last early summer with America’s Best Dance Crew (ABDC) I have been loving this show! (Thank you MTV for allowing to have episodes to be watchable online!) I did not realize it was back—thanks unni! So I caught up and watched the first three episodes.

Right now I love and think the top two look like to be Beat Freaks (go all women crew!) and Quest Crew (love that they are Asian and Hok rocks!) if the audience voters don’t mess up. Though strong contention would be the Strikers All Stars.

This season has been refreshing because you saw various new stuff never seen by the main stream and were absent the first two seasons-clumping, striking and the stuff with their body contortionist moves by the just ousted Ringmasters (last week).

This time around they did not show the auditions. But from the first episode, they went to more places and had more people try out for the top 9 crews to perform. The first episode was sudden death. The crews really brought their game. Second episode was the FIT TEST, meaning each crew had to do a difficult move incorporated into their dance routine. This last episode was the Britney Spears challenge creating a routine on a Britney hit and given a difficult task. I was very impressed by the challenges and the new dance crews ingenious ideas!

There is more entertainment, cleaner routines, variety and amazing choreography that I am looking forward to each week.

Who know that the very masculine and powerful  Quest Crew for the Britney challenge input a convincing “feminine sequence” but not seem “effeminate” either. On top of that, they had to do moves “blindfolded”. WOW! Amazing!  Or that Strikers All Stars did the mirror image and the effective use of their prop-amazing. Even the usual boxy and baggy bboy dancing group Beat Freaks really brought their femininity out (not their usual comfort zone) for their dance routine-it was hot! Even Shane was not expecting them to bring it and breaking out of their usual bboy shell.  I think an all female crew is finally going to make it to the final three or two this time.

Episode 1-Ousted-G.O.P Dance (Puerto Rico)

Episode 2- Boxcuttuhz (reminded me of last season’s Fanny Pack but not as good)

Episode 3-Team Millenia were ousted (though this time they were better than their first outing).

Ringmasters (only East Coast Crew) They made Lil Moma cry but in a good way during the first episode. I think that these kids from Brooklyn are a positive role model to try to avoid the streets in a positive way. Their moves are gravity defying and scary to watch.

I am waiting for the fourth episode (this weeks to be on line).

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Pics from MTV

I loved this Kdrama alot. Ha Ji Won 하지원 just shined. I loved Jang Geun Suk  장근석 as her first love. I heard the film version with Song Hye Gyo is not as good. I watched this drama twice! The costumes, music and acting were top notch.  The OST rocks and listening to this song reminds me of this great drama!

This MV 나쁜사람 (Bad Man) by Paek Ji Young 백지영 is lovely.

So the ballroom dancing craze has also hit South Korea. Currently there is a KBS Special show called “Shall We Dance” 아련알섬님.where they get some entertainers-singers/dancers/models to compete. I watched some clips of the January 27th show. They show some clips of them getting ready but instead have the group sit down and then head off (a pair at a time). I saw clips of 빅뱅 Big Bang’s Seungri 승리Samba (wowed) and Seeya’s Nam Gyu Ri’s남규리 Tango (was not as good) performances. I noticed that Solbi 솔비 and M (Lee Min Woo 이민우) are also in this show as well.

Currently the MVP is Seungri 승리 with a score of 94 and he topped Solbi’s 88. I wish my Korean was better to understand all the comments and discussions. But it was fun to watch! I was glad that Seungri’s 승리 94 topped Nam Gyu Ri’s 남규리 93. (He really is the better dancer of the two.) By by the end of the night his MVP status was usurped by  백지영Baek Ji Young’s performance. (I have seen limited clips here and there.)

Dance order for 1/27/09 show:

1. Goo Hara – Quick Step
2. SS501 Kim Hyung Joon - Waltz
3. Brown Eyed Girls GaIn – Paso Doble
4. ShinHwa Andy – Jive
5. Solbi - Rumba
6. ShinHwa Lee Minwoo – Paso Doble
7. SeeYa Nam GyuRi - Tango
8. Baek Ji Young - ChaChaCha

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Source for some info of the show- Sookyeong’s site here

Pics from Popseoul-seungri and nam gyuri

I really want to see the Box Office leader in South Korea right now Frozen Flower 쌍화점Ssanghwajeom. This movie made some waves with its racy bedroom scenes and the forbidden love/attraction between two male characters (King)  Ju Ji Mo 주진모 and  (Hong Lim) Jo In Sung 조인성.  Throw in (Queen)Song Ji Hyo 송지효 there is a love triangle. I know that Lee Junki 이준기catapulted to stardom to his roll and “on screen kiss” with the King. (In reality, not a big deal, but I guess in South Korea it was a few years back.) Seems like Korean audiences are going to the theaters to see this Period Movie! I cannot wait to watch this film!

SYNOPSIS (credit: wikipedia)

In the end of Goryeo era politically manipulated by the Yuan Dynasty, the ambitious King of the Goryeo Dynasty organizes Kunryongwe. Hong Lim, the commander of Kunryongwe, captivates the King of Goryeo, and the Queen keeps her eyes on the relationship between Hong Lim and the King with a reluctant view. Meanwhile, the bilateral relation between Goryeo and the Yuan gets worse as Yuan demands to install the cousin of the King in the Crown Prince of Goryeo with ascribing it to no son the King has. The King refuses it resolutely, so the high-ranking officials of Goryeo, who are in submission to Yuan, are discontented with the king. One day, the King gives Hong Lim a covert yet unobjectionable order to sleep with the Queen instead of himself to protect the independence of Goryeo from the Yuan by making a son, the successor to Goryeo throne

Movie Trailer

Family Outing  패밀리가 떴다  (episode 32-33)had special guest Daniel Henney 다니엘 헤니(19th guest) on their show for the special Lunar New Year show. (Henney is currently filming XMen in Vancouver.) I have watched the first part (broadcast 1/25/09) and the last part (broadcast 2/1/09) I have not caught yet. I had fun watching it though my Korean leaves a lot to be desired.

The “Family” comprised of a few celebrities, singers,entertainers,models come together for a weekly show and they go somewhere for 2 days and 1 night. They do the tasks the occupants usually do, have some games/challenges and take care of the house they are staying at. There are only two females (show regulars) Park YeJin  박예진 /(she is very knowledgeable about food and cooking) and pop diva  이효리 Lee Hyori and this show has only had 2 female guests thus far.  Others are 김수로  Kim Su Ro, Kim Jong Gook 김종국  (new since SEPT), Yoon Jong Shin 윤종신 ,While the “Family” is together, they separate into teams for sports competitions and various tasks. In every episode they have to cook their own meals. I have only seen two episodes so far—-Rain 비 (real name: Jun Ji Hoon 정지훈 back in the fall).

In two episodes, Daniel learned how to dry squid, how Korean rice cakes are made as well as do a Korean wrestling challenge and he had a chance to cook breakfast with Lee Hyori. I love the bit where he snuck in the ramen powder while making the seafood soup. Even the discussion about their first loves and kisses was cute. Lee Chunhee 이천희  (aka Chunderella) cracked me up when he said his first kiss was in a “video bang” while watching a Stephen Chow 周星馳 movie. Dae Sang 대성 adds the cute comic relief.

When they did the New Year’s greeting their antics were funny. MC Yoo Jae Suk  유재석 trying to imitate Daniel’s cool model stare walk was hilarious. Or doing the physical sports challenges both Kim Su Ro and Yoon Jong Shim (called themselves the 40 guys). I must admit, I cracked up when the cast was using their Konglish on Daniel.

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Pics from SBS

태양 Tae Yang  aka Sol (of Big Bang 빅뱅) song 나만 봐라바 Look At Me has a nice RB sound with Shin Min Hee  신민희 as the object of Tae Yang’s affections. She was in “I Really Really Like You” and is currently Chulsoo’s sis in 스타의 연인 Star’s Lovers.

MV

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Lyrics from: here

Translated lyrics: Koalabear

UH…
IT’S BEEN ON MY MIND FOR A WHILE
GOT TO LET THIS OFF MY CHEST
BEFORE…IT’S TOO LATE

(I CAN’T LET YOU GO
YOU GOT TO LET HIM GO
I CAN’T LET YOU GO
YOU GOT TO…LISTEN)

I’ve been telling you everyday
I smile when I see you.
I’ve told you so many times
You’re the love of my life.
In this world full of lies, in my nervous heart
the one thing I believe in is you.
When you get nervous thinking that my feelings may change
Remember I laughed when I told you that would never happen.
A direction with no end,
my completely empty heart
The only place I can lean on is you.
And I hate that my heart sometimes wavers
Even today I get carried away by the world
and you get erased

Even if I cheat
Don’t you ever cheat, Baby
Even if I forget you
Don’t you ever forget me, Lady
If once in a while I don’t contact you
and I go out to drink
Even if I ever meet another girl’s gaze
Look only at me.

When you tell me with tears in your eyes
that you spent all night waiting up for me
you say “I think you changed.”
So many nights you ask me to tell you
that my feeling are the same as when I first met you.
Although it seems that I am miserable without you
Honestly sometimes you suffocate me
The never ending arguments
The long sighs.
Although the only place for you to lean is on me
I hate that sometimes I get sick of you
Even today I smile
and lose myself without my knowledge

Even if I cheat
Don’t you ever cheat, Baby
Even if I forget you
Don’t you ever forget me, Lady
If once in a while I don’t contact you
and I go out to drink
Even if I ever meet another girl’s gaze
Look only at me.

I know well that I’m self-centered
And I spend my days in meaningless activities
Becoming filthier, baby.
I want to leave your purity as it is,
this is my sincerity, my belief in you
Don’t leave me even in death

Even if I cheat
Don’t you ever cheat, Baby
Even if I forget you
Don’t you ever forget me, Lady
If once in a while I don’t contact you
and I go out to drink
Even if I ever meet another girl’s gaze
Look only at me.

HANGUL lyrics by Ryujilee for Look at Me:

하루에도 몇 번씩 널 보며 웃어 난
거짓된 세상 속 불안한 내 맘 속
오직 나 믿는 건 너 하나뿐이라고
가끔 내 맘 변할까 봐 불안해할 때면
웃으며 말했잖아 그럴 일 없다고
끝 없는 방황 속 텅 빈 내 가슴속
내가 기댈 곳은 너 하나뿐 이지만
가끔씩 흔들리는 내 자신이 미워
오늘도 난 이 세상에 휩쓸려 살며시 널 지워

내가 바람 펴도 너는 절대 피지마 Baby
나는 너를 잊어도 넌 나를 잊지마 Lady
가끔 내가 연락이 없고 술을 마셔도
혹시 내가 다른 어떤 여자와
잠시 눈을 맞춰도 넌 나만 바라봐

오늘밤도 지새며 날 기다렸다고
눈물로 내게 말해 변한 것 같다고
널 향한 내 맘도 처음과 같다고
수 없이 달래며 지내온 많은 밤들
니가 없이는 난 너무 힘들 것 같지만
때론 너로 인해 숨이 막혀 난
끝없는 다툼 속 기나긴 한숨 속
니가 기댈 곳은 나 하나뿐 이지만
니가 귀찮아지는 내 자신이 미워
오늘도 난 웃으며 나도 몰래 자신을 잃어

내가 바람 펴도 너는 절대 피지마 Baby
나는 너를 잊어도 넌 나를 잊지마 Lady
가끔 내가 연락이 없고 술을 마셔도
혹시 내가 다른 어떤 여자와
잠시 눈을 맞춰도 넌 나만 바라봐

내가 이기적이란 걸 난 너무 잘 알아
난 매일 무의미한 시간 속에
이렇게 더럽혀지지만 BABY
너만은 언제나 순수하게 남길 바래
이게 내 진심인걸 널 향한 믿음인 걸
죽어도 날 떠나지마

내가 바람 펴도 너는 절대 피지마 Baby
나는 너를 잊어도 넌 나를 잊지마 Lady
가끔 내가 연락이 없고 술을 마셔도
혹시 내가 다른 어떤 여자와
잠시 눈을 맞춰도 넌 나만 바라봐

Romanized lyrics

UH…
IT’S BEEN ON MY MIND FOR A WHILE
GOT TO LET THIS OFF MY CHEST
BEFORE…IT’S TOO LATE

(I CAN’T LET YOU GO
YOU GOT TO LET HIM GO
I CAN’T LET YOU GO
YOU GOT TO…LISTEN)
haruedo myeot beonssik neol bomyeo useo nan
su baek beon malhaetjanha YOU’RE THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
geojitdoen sesang sok buranhan nae mamsok
ojik na mitneun geon neo hana ppunirago
gakkeum nae mam byeonhalkka bwa buranhaehal ttaemyeon
useumyeo malhaetjanha geureol il eopdago
kkeuteomneun banghwang sok teong bin nae gaseumsok
naega gidael goseun neo hanappun ijiman
gakkeumssik heundeullineun nae jasini miwo
oneuldo nan isesange hwipsseullyeo salmyeosi neol jiwo

naega baram pyeodo neoneun jeoldae pijima BABY
naneun neoreul ijeodo neon nareul itjima LADY
gakkeum naega yeollagi eopgo sureul masyeodo
hoksi naega dareun eotteon yeojawa
jamsi nuneul matchwodo neon naman barabwa

oneulbamdo jisaemyeo nal gidaryeotdago
nunmullo naege malhae byeonhan geot gatdago
neol hyanghan nae mamdo cheoeumgwa gatdago
sueobsi dallaemyeo jinaeon manheun bamdeul
niga eobsineun nan neomu himdeul geot gatjiman
ttaeron neoro inhae sumi makhyeo nan
kkeuteomneun datum sok ginagin hansum sok
niga gidael goseun na hanappun ijiman

niga gwichanhajineun nae jasini miwo
oneuldo nan useumyeo nado mollae jasineul irheo

naega baram pyeodo neoneun jeoldae pijima BABY
naneun neoreul ijeodo neon nareul itjima LADY
gakkeum naega yeollagi eopgo sureul masyeodo
hoksi naega dareun eotteon yeojawa
jamsi nuneul matchwodo neon naman barabwa

naega igijeogiran geol nan neomu jal ara
nan maeil muuimihan sigan soge
ireoke deoreophyeojijiman BABY
neomaneun eonjena sunsuhage namgil barae
ige nae jinsimingeol neol hyanghan mideumingeol
jugeodo nal tteonajima

naega baram pyeodo neoneun jeoldae pijima BABY
naneun neoreul ijeodo neon nareul itjima LADY
gakkeum naega yeollagi eopgo sureul masyeodo
hoksi naega dareun eotteon yeojawa
jamsi nuneul matchwodo neon naman barabwa

LYRICS THANKS TO MADY@SOOMPI.COM