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Forever 2NE1 Wallpapers

2009-07-04T01:00:37+00:00

Alright allkpoppers, ahead of 2NE1's impending comeback with I don't care next week, one of our designers Orangious (with assistance from akp user, LanaJ) has created a 2NE1 bundle consisting of wallpapers (different color shades for widescreens only) and msn icons, showing the cute side of 2NE1. Exclusively for akp readers.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Hey 2NE1, Say Hello to 3NE1

2009-07-03T18:29:59+00:00

Remember when we told you that Park Kyung Lim, Jang Nara, and Lee Soo Young were getting ready to do a parody of 2NE1 for Yoo Hee Yeol's Sketchbook?

Well it's here, and from start to finish, I couldn't take the grin off my face. From their ridiculous outfits and hairdo's to the painful singing, the whole thing was a joke. A funny one at that! I have to say, I actually enjoyed these three pretty successful MC and singers make a fool out of themselves.

Watch out 2NE1 because these 30 year olds are coming for you!

Enjoy, because you don't see ridiculous parodies like this often!

Credit: CodeMonmonSeason2

Thanks jillybean for the tip!

Rain Not Falling for Megan Fox

2009-07-03T17:00:27+00:00

Most of you already know about Megan Fox having the hots for Rain / Bi. And Knowing that Rain's dream girl was Megan Fox, I thought he would've reciprocated those sentiments, but that isn't the case. According to Yahoo! News, Rain replied plainly to her invite with "I'm not interested." The full story:

"Hollywood Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen actress Megan Fox recently openly expressed her interest in Korean star Rain and also a desire to date the latter, who replied plainly to her invite, "I'm not interested."

According to media reports, Fox has spoke numerously about her admiration for Rain while on the movie promotional tour.

And that was not just a comment made by Fox; she has indeed extended a dinner date to Rain through her manager but was rejected by the Korean star who was "not interested".

Yet, the rejection did not wound her pride and ironically, it has built up stronger interest of Rain in Fox who recently criticized the comparison of herself to Angelina Jolie.

According to reports, Fox loves such challenges and has no plans to give up. She would continue extending her invite to Rain, hoping that he would agree to meet up someday."

WTF? Are you crazy Rain? Rejecting a hottie like Megan Fox. I know Bi means Rain in Korean, but in English it means something else, and he must be Bi to reject a hot piece like Fox, because no straight man would.

TVXQ Performance of Stand By You on Music Station

2009-07-03T16:00:26+00:00

TVXQ / DBSK / Tohoshinki performed "Stand By You," today on Music Station. It wasn't too long ago when people were wondering why TVXQ were never invited to Music Station.

With TVXQ's ever increasing popularity in Japan and their previous performance on Music Station, it's become more of an afterthought.

The performance was great as usual, as with all their live performances. This is a great warm up for them just before their big concerts at the Tokyo Dome this weekend.

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SNSD Wannabe Spice Girls?

2009-07-03T15:06:05+00:00

On today's Super Junior's Kiss the Radio session, Tiffany, Sunny, Jessica and Sooyoung of SNSD performed a cover of the Spice Girls' smash hit "Wannabe". I think this is the first time I've heard any kpop artist cover this song, and it kind of makes you wonder why there aren't more Spice Girls covers. I mean the Spice Girls were huge back then. Although besides this song, my only other memory of them is the part in their movie "Spice World" where aliens visited earth, and greeted the girls by squeezing one of the Spice Girls' boobies. Good times. Furthermore, "Wannabe" is a catchy upbeat song, and it also sends the positive message of "chicks before di..." well, you know what goes there. "If you want to be my lover, you gotta get with my friends"? Yes please!

Overall, the cover was great, and I was very impressed with Sooyoung's and Sunny's English.

Thanks prot0980 for the video.

Kim Hyung Joon is Quite the Ladies’ Man

2009-07-03T15:00:13+00:00

While filming for MBC's God of Cookery Expedition, SS501's Kim Hyung Joon revealed that he received confessions from 2 female artists.

As food was being prepared for them, MC Jung Joon Ha asked Hyung Joon if he had ever dated a female artist before, to which he simply replied no. The MCs then asked if he ever received any love confessions. This time, his reaction was less cool and collected and he was left too flustered to answer. With enough prying from the MCs, Hyung Joon eventually revealed that he had 2 confessions from female artists that are active in various fields of entertainment.

Kim Shin Young further fueled the fire by stating, "I think I know who she is."

Tune in and you just might find out who those 2 ladies are!

Under Their Umbrellas

2009-07-03T14:29:36+00:00

On a recent poll on bugs music charts, netizens were asked to choose the artist they would most like to share an umbrella with. The results are nowhere near surprising because SNSD's Jessica grabbed the number 1 spot with more than half of the votes. Some netizens even went so far as to state, "They want to give Jessica the umbrella, and get hit by the rain." Now that's love.

Happy Sunday's Lee Seung Gi got some of his own loving from netizens and nabbed the 2nd place position. Dara of 2NE1 rocked 3rd place, showing that even if she is part of a newbie girl group, they're a force to be reckoned with. 4th place was SHINee's maknae Taemin, 5th was taken by 2PM's Chansung, and last but not least was 4Minute rapper supreme Hyuna.

I know a lot of guys and gals wouldn't mind sharing their umbrellas with these stars, but what do you think? Who really should have gotten number 1?

2PM wins K-Chart at Music Bank while in Thailand

2009-07-03T11:55:32+00:00

KBS Music Bank, July 3rd, 2009. Outsider, SNSD, and 2PM were the top three contenders vying for No.1 on KBS2TV Music Bank K-Chart. And the winner is...

Kudos to CodeMonmonSeason2 for the upload

2PM, for "I Hate You"! Hoo Radley! But wait... where is the hottie heptagon?

2PM is currently in Thailand to accept their position as delegates for the "I Love Thailand" tourism campaign. Half-Thai / half-Chinese member Nichkhun is an even bigger star in his home country than he is in Korea, and 2PM's breakout success has given way for this national honor. The JYP seven met with Thailand's Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, to receive the honor of his presence and their new titles.

Kudos to 2PM-Online for the pics

This is 2PM's second victory for "I Hate You", as they also won on Mnet's M! Countdown yesterday. Meeting prime ministers, winning mutizens, and having eight-packs - for a K-Pop group, it doesn't get much better than this.

UEE debuting as actress

2009-07-03T10:08:02+00:00

After School member, UEE (Kim Yoo Jin) will soon be making her acting debut in MBC's Queen Seon Duk, as the youth version of Go Hyun Jung's Misil character.

The production team for Queen Seon Duk had decided recently that UEE will be playing the role of young Misil during flashbacks in episode 13 and 14. Following the impressive showing by Nam Ji Hyun, Shin Se Kyung as the young Deokman and Chun Myung respectively earlier on in the drama, viewers are anticipating for UEE's portrayal as she will be acting out the first love scenes of young Misil when she was 20 years old. UEE will be playing an important role in telling the story of Misil and linking it with the present evil Misil character which is being acted out with conviction by Go Hyun Jung.

Some are worried that UEE might affect the quality of the drama after former Sugar member, Park Soo Jin's lacklustre performance earlier on as the young Lady Maya. But we wouldn't know until we have seen UEE in action. UEE is currently majoring in Theatre and Drama at Sungkyunkwan University and had worked very hard during the auditions to get this role. UEE also bears a striking resemblance with Go Hyun Jung.

Episode 13, 14 will be shown on 6 and 7th July respectively next week. Queen Seon Duk is steadily on it's way to being the next Jumong if you haven't seen it yet.

Park Myung Soo warded for acute hepatitis

2009-07-03T09:10:39+00:00

Park Myung Soo has been warded in hospital after being diagnosed with acute hepatitis this morning. His radio show, Park Myung Soo's Dating at 2pm was handed temporarily over to announcer, Oh Sang Jin in his absence.

According to someone from Park Myung Soo's agency, he had started to feel some discomfort since last week due to an overload in his schedule recently. Park Myung Soo had actually gone to the hospital this morning to get treated for flu but he was later diagnosed to have developed acute hepatitis, where flu is one of the symptoms. The source also revealed that from the checkup, Park Myung Soo's liver was diagnosed to be operating at an unhealthy level and a detailed report of his health status will only be out later today.

Park Myung Soo is currently being warded for further observation and it's still touch-and-go on whether he can continue working, including filming for Infinity Challenge, etc.

Brown Eyed Girls releases 1st teaser for 3rd album

2009-07-03T08:42:26+00:00

In line with their despair.tear.wait.revenge concept for their previous hit song How Come, the Brown Eyed Girls are adopting a similar approach for their title track off their 3rd album which will be out on 20th July. The Brown Eyed Girls are adopting a "City Girl" concept with their first teaser titled Oasis and featuring Narsha. You can hear Narsha sing a few lines while swinging around on a swing as Miryo raps in the background in this teaser. Unfortunately for Narcia, she suffered minor leg injuries after falling off the swing during the filming. Nega Network expressed confidence that Narsha will recover in time for the Brown Eyed Girls comeback in a few weeks time.

credit: sookyungie

Take A Peek Inside SHINee’s Man Bags

2009-07-03T08:25:25+00:00

We've seen inside girls' bags before, but now it's the boys' turn with SHINee doing it for High Cut magazine.

Out of all the bags, Key's bag looks most like a man bag but he later redeems himself by having the least girly contents. The winner of that award is none other then Taemin, but however I love that in his bag he has a beanie to cover his bright hair from the Juliette promotion. Wasn't such a good idea after all was it Taemin?

The Contents:
Taemin: pencil case, beanie, scripts from his tv shows and Michael Jackson DVD (nice touch)
Key: iPod touch, camera, mirror and a book
Onew: Beauty products, iPod Classic, book, picture from after the Music Bank win
Minho: Book for his ideas and an iPod
Jonghyun: Romeo CD, wallet and pouch with items to keep him occupied in waiting rooms.

SS501 Mobbed at the HK Airport

2009-07-03T06:30:03+00:00

The boys of SS501 were mobbed by overzealous fans on their recent visit to Hong Kong as they tried to exit out of the airport. Deafening high pitched screams of fan girls filled the hallway as security guards attempted to push back the crowd without bleeding from their ears. The boys of SS501 stood back, waited and watched, seemingly a little overwhelmed by the situation. It was so chaotic that if it wasn't for the SS501 fan signs, I would've thought that I was watching a fight instead.

WARNING: watching more than 1 minute of this video may cause permanent hearing loss.

Credits: CHOCOTOPPING312

Alas, they broke free from the boy-hungry mob, and immediately hauled ass out of there. Boy did they haul haul ass. The boys ran as if Godzilla himself was chasing them.

Credits: hkucc

Overall, it doesn't seem like anyone was hurt, and SS501 seemed happy throughout. In fact, they might have even liked it. I guess they're more popular in Hong Kong than they thought.

Thanks cdlu07 for the tip.

T-ara returns

2009-07-03T06:25:43+00:00

After debuting in April and a strong display of their vocals with Good Person for the Cinderella Man OST, many were expecting big things from the 5 member girl group. Afterall, they did not seem to be adopting the cute and innocent concept which most girl groups are affilated with.

But the group's debut was postponed after members, Ji Won and Ji Ae decided to leave the group in early June, citing differences in music style. Mnet Media reacted swiftly by drafting in Jeon Young Rok's daughter, Jeon Boram as a new member. New pictures released today revealed that 2 more new members, Qri and So Yeon had been added, making T-ara a 6 member girl group.

The new pictures of the 6 T-ara members were most probably inspired by Lee Jung Hyun's Joolae concept although they kind of overdosed on the use of white. Although they were donning a yellowish-white wig and baring their shoulders, T-ara looked more feminine and innocent, rather than sexy strong. Mnet Media expressed that compared to their initial bubbly young girl image, T-ara is going for a more feminine concept this time. I wonder if they will still stick to ballads or.... I think I would rather not think about it.

Ji Yeon.

Eun Jung.

Hyo Min.

Boram.

Qri (I wonder if it's pronounced K-ree or Ri).

So Yeon.

More of T-ara will be revealed on 7th July although I am afraid that 2NE1's comeback will most likely overshadow anything that they do. No exact dates were given but T-ara are expected to release their song in mid-July and begin their promotions in early August. Ji Yeon will have to do double duty though, promoting with T-ara and filming for her drama, Soul. Even without 2NE1, girl groups like Kara, Brown Eyed Girls and Jewelry will also be making their comebacks within this period. Let the battle begin!

I am not sure if I will still care since Ji Ae is gone.

Taemin playing the piano for Music Core

2009-07-03T06:00:38+00:00

SHINee's baby Taemin will be showing off his piano skills by playing famous korean pianist / composer Yiruma's 'River Flows In You'!

On July 4th, Taemin plans on showing off his skills on MBC's Show! Music Core. He wanted to show his fans his true skills instead of just the acting that he did in his sitcom. On the 18th, his 16th (in the USA)/17th (in Korea) birthday, Taemin will also be stepping up to the plate as a piano performer by playing the piano version of 8eight's 'Goodbye My Love'. Despite his very busy schedule, he is finding time to practice hard in between his other activities. I personally love Yiruma, so I can't wait to see his Music Core performance.

Yiruma's River Flows in You:

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