110616 Park Yoochun’s narration timbre is similar to Hyun Bin’s, “Deep loving feel”

Park Yoochun expressed his feelings as a narrator.

Park Yoochun recorded the narration for MBC TV’s special documentary ‘The Hometown I Lived In’ on the 16th early afternoon at Seoul MBC’s dubbing room.

The production crew said that his narration timbre is similar to Hyun Bin, who narrated for ‘Africa Tears’, and was very satisfied with it. Jung Sung Ho CP highly praised Park Yoochun, “Not only the breathing, the enunciation, or the engagement, it was as favourable as any other celebrities who have done narrations before.”

‘The Hometown I Lived In’ filmed the precious soul-belonging place that has disappeared due to development, a work on how hometown’s current situation.

Park Yoochun, “Although my hometown is Seoul, I ever stayed in my grandmother’s house which is in the western mountain of Chungnam.” “My grandmother lived there, suddenly I recalled a lot of things about my grandmother,” expressing his thoughts. When mistakenly reciting the interesting difficult local names uniquely used in villages, Park Yoochun whined and made the atmosphere enjoyable.

Lee Jeong Sik PD said, “Hopefully through Park Yoochun’s deep feeling voice, we’ll be able to bring the story of the pain our hometown is going through, delivering to more audiences.”

It will be broadcasted at 11.05pm on the 17th.

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110613 K-Pop Dominates Hallyu Wave, Who Are The Stars You Want To Have A Vacation With?

On 13 June, the Korean Tourism Organization revealed the results of the survey done for members of their website. This survey was carried out in 8 languages, for 12,085 people from 102 countries. It was found that the most popular portion of the “hallyu wave” was K-pop, at 53.3%, television dramas at 32.5%, followed by movies, at 6.2%

For the survey question “Who are the Korean stars that you want to travel around Korea with,” Super Junior had the most support at 13.3%, followed by Big Bang (8.6%), JYJ (6.7%), TVXQ (5.3%) and SNSD(4.0%.) Actors Jang Geun Suk (6th) and Hyun Bin (9th) were also placed within the top 10.

For the Japanese community, the No. 1 spot was given to actor Bae Yong Jun, and interest in television dramas were higher than that of K-pop.

In the English-speaking and Chinese communities, Super Junior came out tops, and in the French & Spanish communities, Big Bang was number 1. In the German and Russian communities, actress Kim Tae Hee and actor/singer Rain (Bi) garnered the most support.

The place that most people wanted to go with together with the K-pop stars was Jeju Island. Activities that they chose to do together with the stars were to watch concerts, visit shooting locations, tourist attractions and experience traditional cultures.

For this survey, 76.6% of the people who took part were from Asia, 17.9% from Europe. 89.6% of them were female, and the largest age groups were 20s (48.7%) 30s (18.3%), and 10s (17.0%)

Source : [Japanese Yonhap News]
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110610 JYJ Are Singing In The Rain? 2PM’s Treasure Island? Hyun Bin In Wonderland?

Asia’s best duty-free shop Lotte Duty Free has released the music video of their CM song ‘So I’m Loving You Ver.2′ that features Song Seung Hun, Choi Jiwoo, Big Bang, 2PM, Hyun Bin, Jang Geun Seok, JYJ and Kim Hyun Joong.

In 2009, ‘So I’m Loving You Ver. 1′, sung by 7 teams including Rain, JYJ and Big Bang, was a bit hit in Korea, Japan and China.

The newly released music video had a theme of ‘Shopper’s Wonderland’ and had a star-studded cast list, bring viewers four dream-like minutes of each model’s unique characteristics blended into fairy tales.

The video was composed of Hyun Bin’s Alice in Wonderland, JYJ’s Singing in the Rain, Big Bang’s Arabian Nights, Choi Jiwoo and Song Seung Hun’s Beauty and the Beast, 2PM’s Treasure Island and Jang Geun Seok and Kim Hyung Joong’s Little Prince.

Each model showcased acting and singing for each concept, and 2PM and Kim Hyun Joong, new additions to the Lotte Duty Free team, said, “It feels like we’ve become the hero in a fairy tale,” and were seen having a great time as they filmed their parts.

Using a variety of natural facial expressions to show their enthusiasm, the celebrities were praised for their work by the staff who said, “That’s why their Korea’s best models.”

Nam Goong Hui of Lotte Duty Free’s marketing team stated, “On May 29th, we temporarily released the music video of the CM song and it hit 180,000 views in three days,” and “Through the new music video, we planned to revamp Lotte Duty Free’s image and solidify Lotee Duty Free’s unique enter-tour-ment marketing that mixes tourism and entertainment.”

Hallyu cable stations and fanclubs in Japan are already strongly requesting the release of content related to the music video, and Lotte Duty Free plans to take up these requests in mid-June, to coincide with the peak season of summer vacations.

The audio file of the Lotte Duty Free CM song, as well as the ‘making film’ footage and wallpapers of each star, will be released from mid-June on the homepage of Lotte Duty Free.

Source: [enews today]
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110515 Xiah Junsu Sings ‘That Man’ With Passion… ‘Is This Really The Voice Of Someone With A Cold?’

The video of JYJ’s Kim Junsu (formerly known as TVXQ’s Xiah Junsu) singing to a karaoke instrumental has become a hot topic amongst netizens.

On the 14th, Kim Junsu appeared on an internet broadcast program and sang ‘That Man’, the theme song of the SBS drama ‘Secret Garden’, famous for being sung by Hyun Bin.

Kim Junsu lived up to his reputation as the most vocally talented idol singer in the industry by perfecting ‘That Man’ with his trademark husky voice.

As soon as the video was released, Kim Junsu ranked high on various portal sites’ search engines and has since been receiving a great amount of attention from netizens.

Those who heard him sing ‘That Man’ left comments such as, “He said that he had a cold but is this really the voice of someone with a cold?” “How is it possible to sing so well with just a karaoke machine?” “Kim Junsu doesn’t let us down. His vocal talent is amazing” and “No wonder he’s called Xiahzart”.

On the other hand, Kim Junsu will soon be transforming into Mozart for the musical ‘Mozart!’ at the Seongnam Art Center on the 24th.

Source: [star mk]

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