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The wireless music portal, Lunchbox, will unfold a “Music Dream” donation campaign along with national idol girl group SNSD.

In the Music Dream campaign, Netizens will click the “join” button on the site Dosirak and 3% of the purchase price will be accumulated as a reserve. This reserve will be delivered to the donation group, “Korea Make Wish Foundation”. The Music Dream campaign will carry the cute and lively voices of SNSD and will be broadcasted via TV stations KBS, MBC and SBS.

Dosirak is trying to attract the Netizens’ participation with a quiz, “who is the owner of the voice that participates in the Music Dream campaign?”. Donation certificates will be given to all the participating Netizens.

KT Music staff said, “We prepared a space in Dosirak where sharing can be practiced via music” and “We anticipate that the Netizens will join the Music Dream campaign and hopefully we can convert the joy of listening to music into the joy of sharing.”

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he national girl group SNSD created a phenomenon of hitting 1st place instantly after their comeback.

SNSD rose to the 1st place spot with their 2nd album title track ‘Oh!’ on the live broadcasting of Music Bank on the 5th. This stage was SNSD’s comeback stage to ‘Music Bank’ and they set a record for reaching the 1st place position so fast after a comeback. SNSD showed off their SNSD syndrome by taking over the music industry just 9 days after the release and only 6 days after their official comeback.

Following suit, SNSD reached the top in album sales and downloads as well as airtime charts in just 10 days which showed their formidable force of their title of ‘national girl group’.

After being rewarded, SNSD stated, “We want to thank the fans who are always supporting us.”

SNSD gave rise to consecutive hits with ‘Gee’ and ‘Genie’ in the past year and had dominated the public media as well as the commercial industry and had received the love of the public. And with the explosive responses to their most recent song, SNSD promises to create a SNSD syndrome that will alter the entire public media in 2010.

2nd album’s title track ‘Oh!’ was produced by Kenzie and has a electronic pop genre to it and it shows off the bright and energetic image that is special to SNSD. It has been judged that the lyrics which include cute proposals of love that have completely sold out the listeners.

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The Korean singer Rain descended in Kaohsiung, causing the second-largest city in Taiwan to become paralyzed by a swarm of fans who came out to welcome him.

Rain arrived in the Taiwanese city on Thursday night for his performance, titled “Legend of Rainism.”

Even though his arrival time was 10 p.m., some 500 fans gathered at the airport to see the Korean pop idol.

The airport pooled a number of security guards to maintain order, according to the JoongAng Ilbo Saturday.

A number of Taiwanese media outlets also dispatched reporters and TV crews to the scene.

The city’s major Qu Ju also showed up in person at the airport, introducing Rain to the fans. Rain responded by saying “It’s my great pleasure to visit Kaohsiung” in the local Taiwanese dialect.

Korea Times

dol group Big Bang will extending their help to the earthquake victims in Haiti through their upcoming independent concert.

Coming 29th January at 8pm, 30th at 6pm, and 31st and 5pm, the group will be holding their ‘2010 BIGBANG CONCERT-BIG SHOW’ concert. And to help those in need in Haiti, the group will also be donating from their concert.

A YG Entertainment staff said on 29th January, “Big Bang will be doing a donation drive at their concert venue for their concert performances this time. The Big Bang members will also be donating into this donation funds.”

It was also added that, “We are expecting that the Big Bang fans will be participating actively in this donation drive. And the funds collected will be donated to help those in Haiti under the name of Big Bang and their fans.”

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Top boygroup SS501 will wrap up their Asia Tour as the boys will execute their last concert performance through their Encore concert in Seoul in the upcoming Feb 27th and Feb 28th at Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium in Seoul.
Their Asia Tour was opened last August in Seoul, and continued to other location in overseas such as : Tokyo, Shanghai, Taipei and Hong Kong giving spectacular performances for their fans.

Leader Kim HyunJoong was getting everyone’s attention as he always gives sexy performance in his solo stage whilst other member Park Jungmin gave another fan service by singing local famous song in their language.

It is shared by their agency DSP Media that this encore concert will be different from the previous concerts as the boys will give their fans new shows line up.

Meanwhile, before throwing their encore concert , this coming Feb 13, SS501 will held their concert in Bangkok-Thailand.

Tickets for the SS501 – Seoul Encore Concert can be purchased in Interpark starting Jan 27th,2010 at 7 pm local time.

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Big Bang DaeSung will be releasing one solo new song the end of this month in the form of a digital single online.

YG Entertainment revealed on 20th January, “DaeSung will releasing his solo album the first half of this year. And ahead of that, he will be revealing his new solo song ‘Cotton Candy’ during Big Bang’s concert the end of this month.”

It is added that, “We have plans that DaeSung’s new song ‘Cotton Candy’ will be released officially as a digital single the week after it is revealed during Big Bang’s concert. But we felt that fans will be able to better get a taste of what the song is like during the concert.”

After leaving the Family Outing team in February, fans will get to see DaeSung through the release of his new song. The song is said to be written personally by DaeSung, and is composed by Jung JiChan of Ja HwaSang.

The YG rep said, “‘Cotton Candy’ is a song that is of totally different style as compared to Big Bang’s music. To bring out DaeSung’s own music styles in the song and also for his 1st solo album, we have not only have producers from within YG but also external producers.”

Meanwhile, Big Bang will hold their concert performance from 29th till 31st January at Seoul Olympic Stadium. They will alsobe holding their Japanese tour concert in February.

S:StarNews + kbites

Big Bang TOP will reveal his solo song during Big Bang’s independent concert.

An official revealed on 21st January, “TOP will reveal his new song during Big Bang ‘Big Show’ concert.”

All this time, TOP has participated as featuring for rap in songs like ‘DISCO’ by Um JungHwa and ‘Sorry’ for Gummy, and is known for his rap capabilities. And all these songs have received great popularity, and with TOP’s own solo song coming up, much anticipation is for how it will be received by music fans.

There has been much interests since it was announced a while back that fellow DaeSung will also be releasing a solo album the first half of the year.

Meanwhile, Big Bang concert will take place from 29th till 31st January. And TOP recently wrote on GDragon’s me2day on 19th January, “This is the place we are together” and attached a photo of their performance venue.

S: StarNews
Credit: Kbites

9-member girlgroup So Nyeo Shi Dae will be having their comeback.

Coming 28th January, they will be releasing their 2nd full-length album with the title song ‘Oh!’. With that, this will be their new song 7 months after they release ‘Tell Me Your Wish’ last June. And it will be 2 years after their 1st full length album released in 2007.

A SM Entertainment official said on 21st January, “2nd Full length album title song ‘Oh!’ will be a well-polished electronic pop genre song, and So Nyeo Shi Dae will be back to set a new trend with the song.” It is also revealed that the song is about heartfelt confession to someone one likes.

With that, the girls will also have their comeback stage on 30th January on MBC Music Core. The SM Ent rep also added, “Please look forward to the girls’ transformation for their comeback stage on Music Core.”

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5 member male idol group BIGBANG’s Daesung will release his new song at the end of this month in the form of digital single.

YG Entertainment officials said to Star News, “Earlier this month, it was announced that Daesung will be releasing his solo album. His new song ‘Cotton Candy’ will be perform on their upcoming concert at the end of the month.”

There has been a plan that this song will be release next week before the concert, so that fans will have a taste of this before the concert.

In February, Family Outing will broadcast their last episode for the first season but the fans will be seeing Daesung again through this song.

According to the officials, “Daesung wrote the lyrics for this song himself.” They added, “This song is different from the style of BIGBANG. Daesung wants to show to the fans his own style of music in his first solo album.” His song is going to be published by YG members and some composers outside.

Big Bang will be having their come back concert in three consecutive days, January 29 to 31, at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul. They will be back again in Japan for their tour after the concert.

Korean Article: Starnews
Translated by: zai @ibigbang wordpress

It has been known that Dong Bang Shin Ki Hero JaeJoong and SS501 Kim HyunJoong has both gone to Canada together.

The 2 are known to be close friends in the Korean entertainment circle. And both of them had recently gone on a vacation to Canada Vancouver on 9th January. JaeJoong had the plans for the vacation and Kim HyunJoong is known to have joined him on the trip.

An official said, “The 2 of them are very close friends, and now they have the chance to go on a vacation together.”

Recently, Hero JaeJoong just came back from a visit to Australia Sydney with Xiah JunSu and Micky YooChun, and shortly after he headed off to Canada.

The news of the 2 in Canada was known online with netizens and fans posting up photos of the 2 together on their vacation.

Meanwhile, the 2 will be heading back to Korea this weekend.

S:Newsen + kbites