110724 JYJ Kim Jaejoong : ” While Drinking, Kim Hyunjoong Said That He Wants To Release An Album Together”

JYJ member Kim Jaejoong showed his close friendship with Kim Hyunjoong.

In a recent interview with Seoul News NTN. Kim Jaejoong talks about interesting episodes between himself and Kim Hyunjoong, who are both same-age friends in the entertainment circle.

On this day, when Kim Jaejoong was talking about being a director for concerts, he was asked, “What if you were to be the director for another artist’s concert?” Jaejoong thought about this question for a while, then asked the reporter, “How about Kim Hyunjoong?” Kim Jaejoong said, “He will probably do it himself, although I’m not sure if he will do a concert or not, but it’s possible that he might do it.”

“A few days ago, while drinking with Kim Hyunjoong, we talked about when we could possibly record an album together, and actually this has been a topic that we had discussed much earlier before. Then, Kim Hyunjoong had not signed a contract with a new agency yet so there was a rumour that he would join our company, but somehow, we talked about it again (Laughs)”

Kim Jaejoong also said “Working with Kim Hyunjoong should be very interesting, and it would be nice to hold a concert together, not for profit  but just for the fans. If I were to direct that, there should be no problems.”

Aside from Kim Hyunjoong, Kim Jaejoong and soccer player Jung Tae-Se, actors Song Joong Ki, Im Ju Hwan, Park Ji Bin, as well as Japan’s Ayumi Hamasaki, Yamashita Tomohisa and Shirota Yu were photographed together, earning him the nickname “Entertainment Network King” with “Crazy (amount of) contacts”

When talking about this, Kim Jaejoong waved his hands and said “I’m really not a network king”

“Korean artists and Japanese artists do make contact with each other, but it doesn’t happen often. I too don’t have a lot of friends, but it so happens that my friends are very famous. My friends are mostly interested in fashion, dance and acting, and we have common interests and points of views so we naturally became friends.”

Also, Kim Jaejoong will be making his debut as an actor, playing the role of the “Prince of the Financial World” Cha Mu Won “Protect the Boss,” which airs on 3 August.

Source : [BaiduTVXQ + Seoul News NTN]
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110722 Park Yoochun – #1 Most Wanted Male Stars to go on vacation with.. “Anywhere is paradise”

Park Yoochun of group JYJ was selected as #1 Most Wanted male stars to go on vacation with.

On the 22th, according to a survey conducted from the 14^th to th 20^th by Monkey 3, a site specialized in music, Park Yoochun was selected as #1 ‘Stars you want to go on summer vacation with’

Park Yoochun acquired 10 535 among total 20 303 votes, which occupied 52%. Netizens left comments such as, “If I can go on vacation with Park Yoochun, anywhere is heaven on earth,” and “He seems to be the type who will tenderly take care of you”…

#2 is SS501’s Kim HyunJoong with 9194 votes. Following them is WonBin of ‘Ajusshi’, Cha SeungWon, Jung HyungDon, Yoon SeYoon.

On the other hand, Park Yoochun has Herpes Zoster and is taking a rest after finishing filming MBC’s ‘Miss Ripley’.

Source: Star News
Translation Credit: The_little_pear from JYJ3

110713 Kim Jaejoong Is Charmed By Directing, “I Want To Work With Kim Hyun Joong, Our Album Isn’t Ready Yet”

JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong, who recently completed a world tour of two months, has fallen for the charm of being a stage director.

Kim Jaejoong talked about his feelings of ending JYJ’s world tour and expressed the last two months in one word as ‘fun’.

He said, “At the end of the world tour, I felt so thankful and proud of our members, our company coworkers and our staff. Most of the songs we sang during the tour were songs we had composed and I even took on the role of directing the Asia leg of the tour,” and “We even took our tour to the USA; we faced difficulties and troubles but I’m so amazed and proud of the fact that we were able to pull through without receiving help from other people.”

Kim Jaejoong debuted as a director through the world tour. When asked if he prefers acting or directing, Kim Jaejoong smiled and said, “When I’m doing a performance, I’d rather be a director.” He said, “Our director is so great that I’m learning what the qualifications are to becoming a director of a drama,” and “It looks like he begins to film only when he’s done deliberating. But dramas are dramas and concerts are concerts, they each have their own charm.”

When asked which country left him with the most prominent impression during the JYJ world tour, Kim Jaejoong chose Bangkok, Thailand, which they visited in April. He explained, “I think it’s because it was the first city we visited in the Asia leg that I directed. I was so thankful to see that the reaction of our fans was positive.”

‘Director’ Kim Jaejoong is very greedy about directing the concerts and performances of other singers. Kim Jaejoong said, “I’m interested in directing the performances of other idols. Once, Kim Hyun Joong, who I’m close friends with, and I talked about releasing an album and working together, but because Kim Hyun Joong is very greedy about his music as well, I think he’d want to be the director too.“

He reminisced the days he spent directing Sohn Yeon Jae’s rhythmic gymnastics gala show and said that he had a great time doing it. He said, “Sohn Yeon Jae expressed everything much better than I had imagined.” 

He continued to say with pride, “I think directing is something that becomes more fun and charming the more you do it. Of course, I’m still in the learning stage but I can feel my ability to visualize an entire performance improving,” and “I felt proud of myself, knowing that I was contributing to our team during the rehearsals for our JYJ concerts, not as a singer standing on stage, but as a director who works behind the scenes.“

Regarding a Korean album, ‘Singer’ Kim Jaejoong of JYJ stated, “It’s currently in the making,” but didn’t confirm anything as he said, “I would like to release it right away if great songs come to us, but I wonder if an album release will be possible within this year. We’re working on it whenever we have time.” When asked if he plans to sing for the ‘Protect the Boss’ OST, he said he doesn’t have plans to do so ‘yet’. Kim Jaejoong said, “I don’t have any self-composed songs that can be used for the drama so for now, it would be difficult for me to participate in the OST,” but also left his fans with hope as he added, “But if I’m offered the opportunity to do so, I’ll take it. Anything for the drama.”

Source: [newsen]
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110628 Kim Jaejoong Says, “Junsu Sent Me A Text As If Something Was Terribly Wrong But In Fact…”

JYJ’s world tour, which has finally completed its two month marathon, has been revealed.

 

The episode of KBS2′s ‘Live News Feed’ that aired on the 28th showed scenes from ‘JYJ WORLD TOUR CONCERT IN GWANGJU’, that took place on the 26th at 7pm at the Yeom Joo Gymnasium in Gwangju.

In the interview that took place before the concert, Kim Jaejoong revealed Kim Junsu’s ‘off the wall’ charm as he said, “One day, Junsu sent me a text message saying ‘Hyung’ with ten exclamation marks following it.”

Kim Jaejoong said, “I thought something was wrong and sent him a reply that said, ‘What?’ He replied by saying, ‘Hyung, Hyun Joong’s number has changed. Tell me his new one.’”

On this day, JYJ members also talked about their feelings of ending their world tour. They showed that they have matured throughout the tour as they said, “It feels like I’ve learned so much throughout these months,” and “I feel as though we must work harder. It made me think that I should work harder and live a better life.”

JYJ’s Park Yoochun is currently acting in MBC’s Monday-Tuesday drama ‘Miss Ripley’ while Kim Jaejoong will be taking his first steps into the domestic drama industry with the SBS drama ‘Protect The Boss’. Kim Junsu will be greeting his audience at the Seongnam Arts Center’s Opera House through the encore performance of the musical ‘Mozart!’ till early July.

Source: [tv daily]
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110628 Shrieking ‘Oppa Troops’ Have Become Benevolent ‘Good Deed Troops’

The fandom culture, that used to chase after stars, is experiencing a change. The generation of ‘Sasaeng Fans’(Fans who chase stars’ private lives) and just writing letters to stars is over. Recently, fans have been spreading the culture of giving back to the community and getting their stars a better image and more publicity.

◆Rice instead of flowers… Even creating a scholarship fund in their celebrity’s name

These days, it’s hard to find ordinary flower stands at musical concerts or concert venues. This is because fans have been replacing these flower stands with ‘rice stands’ through donation drives.

At the venue of the successful musical ‘Mozart!’, the entrance of the building is decorated by the ‘rice stands’ donated by Kim Junsu’s fans. ‘Rice stands’ from other stars such as Eom Gi Joon, Song Chang Ui and Park Eun Tae fill the entrance as well. These ‘rice stands’ have been distributed to social welfare centers, retirement homes and to the elderly who are living alone.

Kim Hyun Joong’s fanclub became a hot topic last year when it created a scholarship fund with their favorite star’s name titled ‘The Kim Hyun Joong Scholarship Fund’. After donating 14 million Won to a childcare center, they have been monetarily supporting students who leave the center due to their age.

Fans of JYJ’s Park Yoochun have been donating at regular intervals since 2010. They collected a total of 40 million Won this year and after donating 10 million Won to a social welfare center last year, they’ve been helping child patients since then.

Lee Minho’s fanclub ‘Mizuno’ donated 20 million Won to celebrate his birthday. A different fanclub of Lee Minho also donated alms to a devastated district through Unicef and they’ve been avid supporters of the Green Energy campaign.

◆Take care of our star..Sending lunchboxes to staff

When stars spend the night filming on location, fans prepare lunch boxes for the members of the staff as well. Everyone knows about fans making lunch boxes for their celebrities to ensure that they don’t skip their meals, but recently, fans have begun preparing lunch boxes for staff members as well. They take care of their stars’ image by leaving a message with the stars’ names on each lunch box.

These lunch boxes are delivered to a variety of locations such as concert venues, and filming locations for movies or CFs. At the press conference of ‘You’ve Fallen For Me’, which features CN Blue’s Jung Yong Hwa, fans impressed the reporters and production company crew by providing everyone with lunch boxes.

 

Not only do these fans help maintain the image of their stars, but they also help the morale of the star. As more fans buy lunch boxes in large quantities for their fans, new ‘support lunchbox businesses’ have sprung up.

◆Money is no issue… They even create newspaper ads

It has become a natural thing for fans to celebrate stars’ birthdays or promote albums through advertisements. Fanclubs collect money for a variety of mediums such as newspapers, buses, and electronic scoreboards.

‘Girls’ Generation’ fans have been garnering attention for making newspaper ads for the birthdays of the members. Last year, their fanclub ‘HwaSuEunHwa’ created newspaper ads for members such as Seohyun, Sunny, Soo Young, Jessica and Yoona.

When Yoochun, Jaejoong and Junsu, who have transformed from ‘TVXQ’ to ‘JYJ’, released their music essay in January, fans hired 120 buses across the nation to hang advertisements for the group on the side of the vehicles. To make it happen, it was said that the fans collected a total of 200 million Won. After this, JYJ fans also placed ads in 21 subway stations.

A broadcasting representative stated, “Though the current mature culture of the fans who think of their star’s image is desirable, there is still fierce competition amongst the fans in certain areas,” and “I hope that the fandom culture becomes something mature and truly for the star and his or her well-being.”

Source: [etoday]
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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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110528 ‘The Male Star With The Most Suspicious Face-off’ Is JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong

‘Gossip House’, OnStyle’s TV tabloid, released the results for the cheeky poll titled ‘The Male Star with the most Suspicious Face-off’.

In a survey about the nation’s most handsome male stars who have the most suspicious face-offs, who were chosen for looking different from their past selves, 545 netizens voted through the portal site Daum from the 11th to the 16th.

The 7 nominees for the survey were JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong, TVXQ’s U-Know Yunho, Jang Dong Gun, Jisung, Kim Hyun Joong, Jang Geun Seok and Lee Teuk.

The man to come in first place by a landslide was JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong with his sharp facial features. He received 57% (275 votes) of the total votes.

Netizens who chose him left comments such as, “He’s like a perfect sculpture now, such a handsome guy. But in old photos, he looks like the ordinary guy next door” and “I can’t find the stage presence that he has now in his old photos.”

Second place went to TVXQ’s U-Know Yunho with 13% (63 votes) of the votes. In the case of U-Know Yunho, who has had his teeth realigned, he looks like and gives off a feel of a completely different person since the treatment, leaving many with envious suspicions of his face-off.

One netizen stated, “You’d only become that handsome after such treatment if you had the basic good-looks to begin with. Though I don’t want to admit it, I’m jealous.”

Kim Hyun Joong(8%), Jisung(6%), Lee Teuk(6%) and Jang Dong Gun(5%) took 3rd~6th place respectively.

Source: [tv daily]
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110405 JYJ Kim Junsu Soccer Team FC MEN, Joining ‘Sparkling Stars Game’ on The 15th

FC MEN, a fairly new formed soccer team led by JYJ member Kim Junsu in which many celebrities including singers, gagman, and model joining is planning to actively participate in social contribution activities. The team will play in celebrity soccer tournament ’2011 Peace Star Cup’ held at Suwon World Cup Stadium.

FC MEN is teamed up with names such as JYJ Park Yoochun and Kim Jaejoong, as well as their infamous best friend from popular group SS501 Kim Hyunjoong, Beast Yoon Doojoon, Lee Gi Gwang, 2AM Lee Changmin, Shinhwa Lee Minwoo, model Im Juhwan, gagman Park Sung-Gwang, actor Park Gun-hyung, Lee wan, and more. The team’s coach is soccer player Jung Sung-ryong with gag woman Park Ji-sun in charge as the manager.

FC MEN is scheduled to join the match led by actor Jung Junho on April 15th at 17:00.

credit: TVDaily
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Because Of JYJ, Nature Republic's Sales Quadrupled!

Last month, due to the Yeonpyeong Island bombing incident, the main source of revenue from tourists coming from sales of cosmetics stores in the Myeongdong distrct have decreased by 30%. On the contrary, sales from Nature Republic has increased by 4 times compared to the average volume of sales.

As the spokes-people for the Nature Republic brand and the center of the hot Hallyu wave, JYJ held their Seoul concert on November 27 and 28, spurring a massive influx of Japanese fans as well as tourists from other countries and initiating a cosmetics-buying frenzy.

Despite being under the extremely tense situation of the bombing attack, the reason for Korea's increase of tourism has every reason to be associated with JYJ's influence.

However, other cosmetic brands have also suffered a 20%-50% decrease of sales, even with the endorsements of Won Bin, Kim Hyun Joong, 2PM, Song Joong Ki, and SNSD. JYJ has without a doubt, the most influence across the southeast Asian countries with noticeable effects.

After Rain's endorsement, JYJ's invitation of being the faces of Nature Republic is positively expanding the industry's market share.

Source: baidutvxq

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