It was recently posted on the Japanese mobile fansite that Taeyeon would be appearing at a special event to help promote “Athena: Goddess of War”, a popular Korean drama that is set to air in Japan on November 30th. Taeyeon is reported to be performing “I Love You”, which is the main theme song for the drama.
“Athena: Goddess of War” is a spin off from the 2009 hit, “Iris”, and the story is about South Korea wanting to unify the Korean Peninsula using their nuclear energy program.
The event will be held at the Saitama Super Arena, and Osaka-Jo Hall, on January 7th and 9th respectively. For each respective day, two shows will be held, one in the early afternoon and one in the evening.
Also appearing at the event are the entire main cast for the drama, label mates Super Junior, and SHINee.
Apart from Taeyeon, the other artists who participated in the OST album were TVXQ, Kangta and BoA.
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After gaining lots of love as the laidback, lively “Soonkyu” in the first season last year, Girls’ Generation’s Sunny has returned to “Invincible Youth 2″.
Being called by her real name, Soonkyu, in the first season, Sunny gained the support of town elders by catching chickens with her hands and accomplishing various farm work. Sunny created a new standard for girl group idols as a true farming-dol.
With her popularity from the previous season, she has joined season two’s G8 as the “Return of Soonkyu”. Other G8 members were jealous of her unchanged awareness and variety show skills, as well as working skills that the new members could not match.
Fellow Girls’ Generation member Hyoyeon is joining Sunny on the show, which airs its first episode this week on November 12th at 11:05pm KST on KBS2 TV.
Source: KBS
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Edited by: MoonSoshi9@soshified.com
WheeSung begins his 2-year military service on November 7th at Nonsan Military Training Centre in Chungnam. He will be receiving 5 weeks of basic military training before going on to serve as a serviceman for the next 23 months.
Before entering the camp, WheeSung said to his fans who came to see him off, “Doing military service is like an opportunity to begin living a second life. Just wait for another 2 years. I will return your love and support with good music”.
He added, “I am close with Sunny. I am looking forward to meeting Girls’ Generation. It would be great if they could come over to meet me once and I will definitely return them the favor later”.
Besides his fans, veteran singer Tae JinAh and Kim Taewoo, who had a joint-performance with WheeSung on November 5th and 6th were also present to send him off to his military service.
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from fanwonder.com
With the Wonder Girls returning to Korea, many are chattering excitedly about the supposed rivalry between Girls′ Generation and Wonder Girls - but is it really something to be talking about?
Wonder Girls emphasized that people shouldn’t be concentrating on the group’s rivalry with Girls’ Generation, but more on the diverse music produced by the two groups.
In a recent interview with enews, Wonder Girls first revealed their thoughts on its competition with Girls’ Generation. Wonder Girls released its second studio album on November 7 and picked up where it left off in Korea a year and a half ago. Coincidentally, the group’s comeback falls in the middle of Girls’ Generation’s promotion for its own third studio album, The Boys.
“All of the members of Girls’ Generation are very pretty. They’re all cool onstage and when they’re on variety shows, they’re entertaining," said the group leader, Sun. "Actually, we don’t have any members who are so great with words or can entertain on variety shows, so we’re envious of those skills."
“Actually, when we see their different colors, they push us on in many different ways. We’ve never promoted our songs at the same time; this is the first time," added Sun. "It’s probably much fun to pitch us against them in a rivalry, but now, since K-Pop is becoming ever more popular around the world, we hope both groups grow together as partners rather than competitors as fellow girl groups who do idol music."
"In that sense, Girls’ Generation is our partner, but just with a different name," said Sun. "We’re especially thankful to Girls’ Generation because they’re singers who can satisfy what we can’t. I hope we can come together in a good stage at the end of the year and wrap up this year with a festival and music."
When it was pointed out that in a competition there can’t be two winners, Sun said with confidence, “There’s nothing else to it than to do our best in every performance. Fortunately, we’ve done music that’s easy for everyone to enjoy. We believe it will be that way this time also.”
Wonder Girls released its second studio album Wonder World on November 7, and will be promoting its first single cutBe My Baby. The sensual dance routines for Be My Baby were put together by Jonte, the choreographer for Beyonce’sSingle Lady.
Photo credit: JYP Entertainment
from : enewsworld.com
