Friday Fun! or Kpop is good for Everything or Sherlock tumblr tag 2.0

[Random] a K-Shawol snap a photo today at a music store, and found out 'Korn' CD is placed on 20+ music area XD

Source:ilovetaemin

See???? Kpop is good for everything/everyone! When I first heard rumors of Taemin singing a KoRn song I was all..."in what universe does THIS make sense?" o.O Everyone was searching and guessing which song it would be. Well it sure didn't take Shawols long....'Get Up' then the wait for videos started.... Remember what happened on the tumblr Sherlock tag? Shawols had the Sherlockians anywhere from WTF to When did Sherlock become Asian? O.o Now its surely KoRn's turn to be all "Wait who? Shiny who?" Of course there is the required 'Taemin brought me here' comment getting thumbed up. In the end Kpop is good for everyone, as I'm sure the downloads and purchases will increase. 

Cause no matter what or who the idols of Hallyu touch....it can only get better 

KoRn - Get Up (Featuring Skrillex)
 Uploaded by iEatZombieess on Oct 17, 2011

What I love so much about Taemin this year is.... his ability to keep us on our toes while keeping us amazed at a never ending array of talent and skills.

Rock on Taemin! This brought together two of my longtime loves Heavy Metal...and Kpop Still looking through the starz for that universe.

 [FANCAM] 120425 Taemin's Solo 'Get Up!' (Korn) | SNW Ar3na Tour Fukuoka

Published on Apr 26, 2012 by PP2pinkyTOP89

credits: Taempo

Another fun My Music Radar! Commentary!

^.~

Super Junior’s “Sorry Sorry” featured on Conan O’Brien Show

by GhostWriter

Super Junior‘s hit single “Sorry Sorry” made an appearance on TBS‘s CONAN in a very peculiar manner.
A Chinese talk show named ‘Da Peng‘ blatantly ripped off the opening sequence to CONAN. ‘Da Peng’ was caught red handed on CONAN and to smooth things over, the hosts of ‘Da Peng’ decided to apologize by performing Super Junior’s “Sorry Sorry” dance. Host Conan O’Brien was very touched by the gesture and performed his own mangled version of the “Sorry Sorry” dance.
Check out the hilarious segment below!

Published on Mar 5, 2012 by teamcoco

Source:allkpop

If only Conan knew what he was doing.....
Sorry sorry Super Junior >.<

Oprah replies to Tiger JK on Twitter

by *Miso*
As a popular talk show host, entrepreneur, producer, and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey is not only one of the richest, but also one of the most powerful celebrities in the world. She takes on all her tasks with a positive mentality, and has drawn a huge fan base from housewives to A-list celebrities.
Recently, Tiger JK professed that he became a fan of Oprah Winfrey’s. On February 19th, he tweeted Oprah with the message, “When can I meet you? My wifey, Yoon Mi Rae, had me watch all your shows — it made a grown man cry. God bless.”
Oprah thanked Tiger JK for the support and replied,“Nice wifey”.
Ecstatic that he got a response, Tiger JK tweeted, “OMG ! My wifey going to love me forever ! Thank you Oprah! I love you *in tears*”
He continued, “I just got re-tweeted by the one and only @Oprah ! Just woke up Tasha and showed her tweet she loving me lol“
Tiger JK’s wife, Yoon Mi Rae (a.k.a Tasha) also wrote, “No way..This is a joke right? This can’t be real.!!! Daebak!!! What am I going to do!! ^^”.
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Source + Image: Tiger JK’s Twitter

Source:allkpop

Seems like the Hallyu Wave is far reaching!

How did Oprah even know who Tiger JK is?

I dunno but its pretty awesome! ^^

The Korean invasion: New Yorkers are screaming for the new wave of pop stars-MMR! Commentary

Why am I starting with this article from the NYDaily News

instead of MMR!'s coverage of SMTown Live?

1.It seemed relevant...and a wee bit misinformed, David Yi gets most things right, and it is kinda fluffy (ie:taken from SME's trainee required 'What to say in interviews 101')

A lot of the reply's are just so damn jaded...I hope I never get that jaded about Kpop.

2. I'm waiting for Tara to wake up so we can have an MMR! meeting to figure out who is gonna write up who or if we should just do a combined article lol

So please wait a little while as we have 2 phones worth of video and pics to download!

The Korean invasion: New Yorkers are screaming for the new wave of pop stars

BY David Yi
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, October 23rd 2011, 4:00 AM

SM Entertainment Boy band SHINee hits the stage.

could they have used an older pic? *sigh*

The symptoms are uncontrollable shrieks, intense heart palpitations, soaked palms, speaking — and squealing — in foreign tongues.

Now arriving in New York City: The South Korean phenomenon known as "hallyu," or "Korean Wave."

Already a craze in Asia, the wave has opened the floodgates of K-Pop in France, Brazil, Germany and Australia. Now it's about to take over New York.

Fans will pack a sold-out Madison Square Garden Sunday night for a concert presented by SM, one of South Korea's biggest record labels. The lineup: Girls' Generation, f(x), BoA, Kangta, TVXQ, Super Junior and SHINee.

If you don't know the names, don't worry. Think of the show as a combination of the annual Jingle Ball extravaganza and a big helping of Seoul Train.

And if fans are pumped, so are the performers.

"It is absolutely a dream come true," Tiffany Hwang, 22, one member of Girls' Generation told the Daily News. "I'm so excited. All I've been looking forward to was this weekend for a pretty long time."

A previous SM concert in Paris sold out in under 15 minutes. A second show was added and tickets went in less than 10 minutes.

Korean pop has been causing a frenzy in NYC, too.
On a recent Monday afternoon, hordes of fans outnumbered tourists in Times Square, holding colorful cardboard signs outside of MTV's TRL studios. The cheers weren't for Katy Perry or Justin Bieber, but for a group of South Korean acts including B2ST and 4 Minute. One fan issued a familiar cry.

"Oh my God, this is a dream come true!" exclaimed Nicole Asmat, 19, who was part of the lucky audience inside TRL studios. A flood of tears drenched her face after one of her favorite stars held her hand from the stage.

"I haven't seen this in years," Peter Griffin, executive vice president at MTV said while peering at the crowd outside. "It reminds me of when 'N Sync was here and the fans lined up around the studio."

Just one day earlier, 40,000 fans screamed as K-Pop heartthrobs 2PM and TVXQ, among others, performed at the New York Korean Festival in Overpeck County Park in Bergen County, N.J. The next morning residents complained to authorities about the crowd noise.

"They mean so much to me. I started dancing again because of them," Ana Ciprian, 15, shrieked from her seat, wildly clapping her hands.

Others, like Katerin Morales, 21, traveled from Texas to get her up-close and personal dose of K-Pop. "I'm having a moment," she said, her left hand covering her mouth. "They're so far away that I never thought I'd see them."

Ashley Diomedi, 20, drove eight hours from Virginia; Kharla Salazar, 22, took a red-eye flight from Miami; Virgine Cote and five of her friends traveled from Quebec.

"Korean pop stars are beautiful, and I love them because they care so much about their fans," said Cote, sporting a bright shirt with the words SHINee — her favorite band — emblazoned in bold letters, while tugging on her art book, filled with sketches of Korean celebrities.

"We don't have singers like them in Canada."

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Source:NYDaily News
tl:dr yah! take an interest in how your idols are being portrayed and read all 4 pages! 
Stormy ^.^

Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger Talks About Super Junior - The Hallyu Wave continues to lap away at distant shores!

The Hallyu Wave continues to lap away at distant shores!
And I couldn't be happier!
So happy for my 'SuperMen!'

Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger Talks About Super Junior

by: JangMinHo on Oct 6, 2011 

K-Pop's popularity is spreading everywhere and is gaining recognition by American artists as well. Such is the case with 2NE1, who got help from Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am in producing their music or Big Bang's recent collaboration with Ludacris for his new headphones "Soul by Ludacris", or when Heechul received praise from Lady Gaga (who liked his hair ribbon) when he impersonated her in Paris as Lady Hee Hee. Now it's Super Junior's turn, who got praised by one of the greatest rock icons in American history, Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger.
He shared that he found out about Super Junior while listening randomly to some songs online and found a song he could not understand. He felt pretty good about the song, like "having a vacation in Ireland." Then, he searched for information about the song and it turns out that it was Super Junior's song "Walkin" from their fifth album, Mr. Simple. He then asked them to keep it up and that he was impressed by the Asian singers.

This news was so huge regarding Super Junior's popularity that Shindong excitedly tweeted: "This is so cool… Maroon 5 has a song about Jagger-nim… He likes Super Junior’s song... Rolling Stones Mick Jagger!!! Woah awesome!!!" and also "It isn’t even the title track of our 5th album, but the other song, Walkin’! The first part is mine!!! Woah!!! I’m walkin’ to the day!!!! I’m walkin’ to the day…!!!" It's really cool for Super Junior to be recognized by such a huge icon!

Source:SOOMPI

[Hallyu News]TVXQ's Yunho to Appear in BoA’s Hollywood Movie “COBU 3D”

Yunho to Appear in BoA’s Hollywood Movie “COBU 3D” 

 by: cherryspirit on May 19, 2011 

 

YAY! ^.^

TVXQ’s Yunho will be appearing in BoA’s Hollywood debut film “COBU 3D.”

According to a close official of Yunho, he recently visited Toronto where the filming of “COBU 3D” is taking place in order to participate in the shooting as a special guest.
BoA, the female lead of “COBU 3D,” also announced this exciting news to her fans through the twitter. She tweeted “Special guest! Yunho. Such a great guy!,” along with two lovely photos of both of them sitting closely together. Born in 1986, both BoA and Yunho are under the management of SM Entertainment.

“Cobu 3D” is a Romeo & Juliet type love story which portrays the competition between a male and a female dancer who belong to rival dance clubs in underground New York and come from different backgrounds.
“Cobu 3D” is directed by Duane Adler, known as the author of “Step Up” and “Save the Last Dance,” and is co-produced by Robert Colt, the producer of “Jumanji”, along with CJ Entertainment and SM Entertainment.
Source: Star News

Source: soompi

Stage Parents Jump Into the Hallyu Wave..........Kara breaks up........

Okay....so I don't report much on the Fabulous Girl Groups from Asia, but, that doesn't mean they are not on my music radar....they ping along right with the rest I keep an eye on. I was mightily disappointed yesterday when the reports of Kara breaking up and withdrawing from their management company started flooding the interwebs. Goo Hara happens to be one of my favs after watching her on several variety shows.
But Ohhhhhhh what a mess this whole thing has become, The leader of Kara claiming she didn't know anything, the lawyers claiming hardship, the parents getting involved in contract disputes.........see why I try to stay out of this kinda drama?
Now today, apparently Goo Hara is not going to terminate her contract......the first official thing DSP did was to apply to copyright the name Kara..........I'm just sayin..................

DSP Entertainment responds to TV report article
by delacroix on January 19, 2011 at 11:18 am
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Earlier today we reported details regarding Kara’s contract, uncovered by TV report in midst of this very significant controversy. Edaily, a Korean online newspaper, contacted DSP Entertainment today regarding the report; and here is what the group’s management company had to say about the allegations against them.

A representative from DSP explained to Edaily through a phone interview today that they paid each members of Kara around 300 million Won per person ($300,000) last year, more than half of which has already been paid during the first half of the year. When questioned why the members were only paid $3,000 this past December, the representative explained that it was based from a promotion with a franchise of a convenience store during August. DSP received 3 million Yen ($40,000) from the deal, and the Kara members each received $3,000 from this according to the representative. So some maybe curious on why they were only paid a share of this promotion and not their album and single sales? The representative explained this as well.

He went on to claim that Kara was offered a share of profit that was much higher than the going rate in the Japanese music industry. Japanese artists usually receive only 1% of the total album and single sales, and because DSP believed that this amount was unfair for Kara, they offered to pay the members around 20-30% of DSP’s share in the sales. In Japan, the distributor takes 86% of the album/single sales, leaving the management company with the remaining 16%. In DSP’s case, they had to split it evenly with Universal Japan, which is Kara’s management company in Japan. Hence, DSP was to receive 8% of the total album/single sales, and they would have had to pay only 1/8 of it to Kara members. However, the representative stated that they felt that the amount was unfair for Kara, so they had offered the parents of the members 20-30% of DSP’s share, which would be 1.6-2.4% of the total sales, rather than 1%.

Lastly, he stated that the Kara members were supposed to receive the third quarter profits in December, but this couldn’t be done so as the parents didn’t give an answer to their offer.

A lot of information from this interview are contradicting of other reports, mostly the ones that were written in favor of Kara. This interview does give one piece of information that is of value; the fact that dispute most likely started over profit distribution of album and single sales in Japan, and the members’ parents were heavily involved in this. Reminds us of another group of the past, doesn’t it?

Stay tuned to allkpop for more on this story as it develops.

Source: Edaily via Yahoo! Korea

Source:allkpop
And another article

DSP Media releases official statement, Goo Hara cancels contract termination
by VITALSIGN on January 19, 2011 at 4:08 am
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After the four members of KARA previously announced that they filed to terminate their contracts with DSP Media, representatives of the agency have finally released an official statement on January 19th.

It reads:

“DSP Media will be making an official statement regarding the contract terminations reported by Jung Nicole, Han Seungyeon, Kang Jiyoung, and Goo Hara of KARA. We received a one-sided declaration from their lawyers, Landmark, on January 18th, but Goo Hara has decided not to join the others in terminating her contract.

According to their claims, the 10-month hospitalization of CEO Lee Hoyeon caused the management to become inefficient in planning and promoting the group’s activities, but that is not the truth, as the CEO’s wife ran administration in place of the CEO. KARA’s explosive popularity with the Hallyu wave in Japan testifies to these efforts, further proving that the management did not mishandle their activities.

CEO Lee Hoyeon was not able to run the company himself beginning March of 2010, and KARA’s Japanese achievements were made five months later in August. DSP Media has done all they can in supporting and preparing KARA’s Japanese advancement.

Regarding the income distribution claims made by Nicole’s mother and their lawyers, the information they revealed was distorted and is a complete misunderstanding. Income was distributed in a manner that was most profitable to the KARA members, and unlike what they claimed, every employee was paid at the same time the moment profits were received.

They also claimed that DSP used its stature to force unwanted schedules and activities, but this is also a baseless claim. This is a claim that only defames the company employees who have worked their hardest to raise KARA as one of Korea’s top groups and leaders of the Hallyu wave.

And regarding speculations from another report about a competing agency attempting to persuade their parents and lawyers to terminate the girls’ contract with DSP, we ask that they stop such actions immediately. Should such requests be made repeatedly, we will make sure that they are met with legal consequences.

As the company that has poured their sweat and effort into creating who KARA is today, we hope that such issues are no longer exaggerated. Should there be issues between both parties, adjustments and reconciliation should be the appropriate step in continuing to promote themselves as a representative girl group of Korea.”

Regarding news of Hara staying with DSP Media, representatives continued, “Hara has decided not to comply with the terminations she submitted earlier today with the other members.” The possibility of further changes in the remaining three contracts is now at center stage.

As for their Japanese drama, “URAKARA” which is now facing an uncertain future, they stated, “They’ve already filmed four episodes before this so we have about three weeks of time left. We are looking forward to drawing a positive decision with the KARA members before then.”

Source: Newsen #1, #2 via Nate

Source: allkpop

KARA and Jumping

Credit:DekoDekoDecole

My Music Radar! Presents: From the World of Random, Unorthodox Humor

Okies fellow fans, most of you know that my interweb wanderings reach far and wide. Occasionally I run across a video that I really feel I must share with you and this one I found today is one of them. Maybe I should have titled this...another Hallyu wave lapping at our shores (most of you will remember the review I did recently of the High Schoolers from Washington State who were my first Hallyu lappers). In any case, it doesn't really matter how, but THAT it is happening, and its cropping up more and more in my wanderings. I now present you with this video of 4 guys who really did put some work into Super Junior's Boom Boom, one of my all time favs btw.
Be sure not to miss the commentary......its truly half the fun!
Dive right in and enjoy the wave! ^.^

My Music Radar awards 4 out of 5 pings for extreme effort, awesome editing and the fact that these guys look like they are having fun!

Credit:UnorthodoxHumor
I decided to post up the commentary for you here, but, if you do like this video like I did, please take the time to go to YouTube and leave them a little comment ^.^

UnorthodoxHumor:

We moved to Seoul to gain experience in Korean culture. We attended some of the world's greatest dance schools to improve our hip moves. We learned Korean from a homeless man in San Fransisco. We trained with Lin Yu Chun, the legendary Taiwanese karaoke singer. What for, might you ask? To shake the cages of musical society and break the norms of korean pop bands? To prove to the world that three male caucasions, one male asian, and one camera could shatter the lens that has been crafted over the eye of the average citizen? To end world hunger and eliminate all threats from outer space? No. We just wanted to make a cool video that you would enjoy. Don't forget to comment!

Edit:The fact that they thank Shinee for introducing them to Kpop of course endears them all the more ^.^

[Hallyu Wave]Groove Nation helps bring the Hallyu Wave Ashore!

The Hallyu Wave has been lapping at our shores for years. These kids may be bringing it ashore in ways no one else can. Dare I say, they are the future? Take a look at this great performance from students of Heritage High of Vancouver, Washington aka Groove Nation. 1080 & FS for max Enjoyment!
My Music Radar awards 5 pings for effort and excitement! ^.^
Credit where due.