Down with ankle injuries, Amber to be absent for f(x) "Mr. Boogie" performances

Member Amber was not present for f(x)’s performance on MBC Music Core.

f(x) performed their followup hit from their 1st minialbum ‘Mr. Boogie’ on 17th July on MBC Music Core, after the promotions for their title song ‘NU ABO’ ended. However for the performance that day, only 4 f(x) members were present for the performance. It is revealed that Amber had injured her ankle and will not be able to carry out the choreography. With that, the girls will be putting up special stages as 4 members both on 17th and 18th July on the weekend music shows.

An SM Ent official said, “This is a small surprise event for fans. The girls will continue to greet fans through their individual activities.”

Source: Newsen
Posted by sookyeong @ Kbites

f(x) returns with 'Mr. Boogie' on Music Core

The five ladies of f(x) have returned to Music Core with a nice surprise for their fans. Today, the girls performed their much awaited follow-up single Mr. Boogie.

The song has been a favorite amongst fans since it’s release, so many have been anticipating today’s performance for quite some time. Amber was still missing though as f(x) performed the catchy single in today’s pre-recorded episode of Music Core. Check out their sexy concept below!

"MR. BOOGIE" performance:


SM Entertainment revealed later that Amber was still recovering from her ankle injury and was thus unable to take to the stage.

Posted by Kjpop @ Allkpop

kpoplive | Super Junior "Bonamana" Album Hits Gold in the Philippines!

Even though Super Junior’s latest album Bonamana was released around two months ago, the craze has yet to die down.

Asian pop superstar group Super Junior’s 4th album Bonamana is now certified Gold in the Philippines after just 10 days of release in the market. Super Junior holds the distinction of being the first and only K-Pop artist with two Gold record albums in the Philippines – first time was for the Sorry Sorry album last December 2009, and now the Bonamana album this July.

Bonamana albums are enjoying brisk sales in record stores nationwide. In fact, it charted number one in three of the country’s biggest record retail chains simultaneously – Astroplus/Astrovision, Music One & Odyssey (album charts dated June 28 to July 4, 2010).

The album launch event entitled Finding Miina was able to reach the 1 Million PHP mark (around $21,612.28 USD) in a span of hours. That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?

Other than that, Super Junior is also the first, and only, K-Pop artist with five albums that reached number one in the country – Sorry Sorry in September 2009, Super Girl in November 2009, Super Show 2 Live Album in February 2010, Don’t Don in May 2010 and now, Bonamana this July 2010.

The power of the ELFs in terms of supporting their favorite idol group is really admirable.

Super Junior albums are released in the Philippines by Universal Records, the first record label to release K-Pop albums in the country.

Posted by Rie27 @ Kpoplive.com
Source: http://www.kpoplive.com/2010/07/16/super-junior-hits-gold/

Super Junior's Donghae High Cut Magazine Photoshoot (behind the scenes)

Super Junior’s Sungmin leaves the Twitter world

Having joined the Twitterverse almost 3 months ago, Super Junior’s Sungmin bid his farewell from Twitter with one last tweet thanking fans.

He said, “Hello, I’m quitting Twitter and this is my last post ^^ heh it has been good fun, and it had lots of use for me. Thank you for being so interested ^^ bye!”

Although the reason for his abrupt exit is unknown, Sungmin doesn’t seem to be sad, so maybe he just got fed up with the idea in general. He later went on to terminate his official Twitter account that had over 140,000 followers.

Posted by Kingpolo @allkpop

SMTOWN LIVE ‘10 WORLD TOUR in Los Angeles

Remember the news about the SMTOWN Live ‘10 World Tour earlier this month? Well, the concert extravaganza will be making a stop outside of Asia for the first time in history in Los Angeles, California, and we’ve got all info about this epic concert right here!

The artist lineup will consist of, KANGTA, BoA, U KNOW, MAX, SUPER JUNIOR, GIRLS’ GENERATION, SHINee, f(x), Zhang Ri Yin, Trax and a few other SM artists. And you can be sure we’ll be there to bring you coverage of this epic concert if you aren’t able to make it, but we suggest you do – seriously, how often do these SM artists make it over stateside?

Anyway, the wait is almost over as ticketing information has just been released to us from our friends at POWERHOUSE:

SMTOWN LIVE ’10 WORLD TOUR in Los Angeles

Date: Saturday, September 4, 2010
Venue: STAPLES Center (1111 S. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90015)
Seating Chart: Coming soon
Official Poster: Coming soon

Ticket Sales Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:00 AM
Ticket Price: $180, $160, $120, $80, $40

** Tickets will be available online via Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com, STAPLES Center Box Office as well as over the phone by calling Powerhouse at 323.692.0303. For more info, please visit www.powerhouselive.net

Posted by Casper @ Allkpop

SHINee's new transformation, a lot of preparation behind their music video

Just a few days behind SHINee's comeback, their music video teaser has been garnering a lot of interest.

On the 16th the music video teaser was released for their title track "Lucifer" and with the effects used for the music video teaser, a lot of preparation has been set for SHINee and their new transformation.

For their music video, they have used "matrix camera" techniques called the "Flow-mo" technique. There were over 120 digital still camera's taking 100 full frames to 12,000 to fully capture the desired special effects for their music video.

The "Flo-mo technique" was used for SHINee to maximize the dynamic image that they will be showing off.

Meanwhile, SHINee's music video and album will be released on the 19th of May and their comeback stage scheduled on 23rd in KBS Music Bank.

Source: Osen
Credits: blueprincess824 @ dailykpopnews

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SHINee's "Lucifer" Explained!

Ever since Shinee’s album cover has been revealed last night, fans and netizens alike questioned the use of ‘Lucifer’ in their promotions. The big blow to this upcoming release was on the view of Christianity amongst its fans. To clarify such issue, SM Entertainment has released a statement about the true meaning of Lucifer.

Meanwhile, in an effort to stop the confusion – fans have also explained how the word ‘Lucifer’ plays in the lyrics and representation of the song.

On the 16th, Sm Entertainment released Idol group SHINee’s image of their 2nd album ‘Lucifer’, releasing SHINee’s image at 10PM on that day required huge amount of technology/skills, to display the members’ new look.

"Members using their eye expression to show their main song ‘Lucifer’, in Christianity, Lucifer means the falling angel of the devil. SHINee with a refreshing image in the past activities, showed a big transformation and a feeling of approaching in their 2nd album.

SM expressed that ” A selfish heart, persevering love, wrongly threatened and repeatedly revolving appearance of an angel and devil, lovers having a vague feeling in Lucifer” “The meaning of religion is to have courage”.

Source: Daum
Credits: Baidu & SHINeecn
Chinese translation: 蓝
English translation: babyblue-@soompi
Posted by belinda @ Dailykpopnews

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One Way Live In Manila Mall Show Schedules Confirmed! Please note SM North venue is now at SKYDOME!

K-Pop's newest R&B/Pop trio One Way will be in Manila to promote their album "One Way Street", which includes the current single "Magic".

One Way members Chance, Peter and Young Sky will be appearing on different ABS-CBN TV programs, as well as on MYX during their stay.

Catch One Way perform their hits LIVE on these dates and venues:

JULY 30 (FRIDAY) - SM NORTH EDSA SKYDOME, 5PM
JULY 31 (SATURDAY) - SM MEGAMALL's Activity Area (formerly ice skating rink), 5PM
AUGUST (SUNDAY) - SM MALL OF ASIA's Music Hall, 5PM

Meet and greet members of One Way. Buy your advance copy of the Philippine Edition CD of their "One Way Street" album, which includes 3 Bonus tracks and DVD of their 4 Music Videos! Of course, there will be Exclusive FREEBIES available during these three mall shows! And yes, One Way members will sign those CDs!

ONE WAY "LIVE IN MANILA" is brought to you by UNIVERSAL RECORDS, YEJEON MEDIA, MYX, ABS-CBN, SKECHERS FOOTWEAR and SM SUPERMALLS.

One Way answers 16 questions

Special thanks to OneWayPH, Chichi and Aya!

Just some trivia extracted from the video:
1) Who takes the longest time getting ready in the morning? It's Chance xD
2) The "One Way" sign you see behind the boys is an actual road sign given by a fan.
3) One Way's favorite food? Mexican food. But they added that they can't wait to try Filipino food.
4) One Way Young Sky has two pet dogs (Spitz breed)
5) One Way's favorite sports? Basketball and soccer
6) Q#15 for One Way: What are you expecting to try once in the Phils.? Answer: Food, scenery & meeting the fans!

The boys also gives a shout out to their Pinoy fans at the end of the video! ^^

Super Junior "No Other" music video for #1!

To vote for Super Junior's music video "No Other", type in:

MYX[space]VOTE[space]NO OTHER 

And send to 2366 (for Globe/Smart/Sun subscribers)

"No Other" has been viewed more than 1.3 million times on SM Entertainment YouTube channel. Watch the MV here:


Universal Records will release "Bonamana" Version C very soon!

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Super Junior performs 'No Other' on Music Bank

Having won their triple crown with Bonamana earlier, the boys of Super Junior began their journey to win another triple crown on Music Bank as they took their first step by winning K-Chart last week with No Other.

On today’s episode of Music Bank, Super Junior returned on stage to perform No Other, looking to make it their second consecutive win, one shy of another triple crown. Their performance was very energetic as the boys showcased their charms on stage. Check out their awesome performance below!

Super Junior interview:


"No Other" performance:


Unforunately, the boys couldn’t grab their second consecutive win. But they still have Sunday’s Inkigayo, in which they won last week’s Mutizen! So stay tuned to see if they can make it with two consecutive Mutizen wins.

Posted by maestro-J @ Allkpop

Super Junior in Candy Magazine (July issue)

TVXQ trio to hold fan meeting in Seoul in September

The newly-established trio from TVXQ -- namely Hero Jaejung, Micky Yuchun and Xiah Junsu -- will be holding a fan meeting in Seoul in September.

According to an announcement posted on the event's website (http://www.tellmeclub.com/tmc/korea/jyj), the three singers will be meeting with fans in Seoul on September 4, as part of Lotte Duty Free-sponsored fan meeting tour.

The tour will be available in two versions -- the "A Course" which runs from September 3 to 5 and "B Course" from September 3 to 6.

At the event, the pop idols will give mini-live performance of four songs, talk and play games with the fans and hand out souvenirs which have their autographs on them.

Hero, Micky and Xiah debuted in 2004 as part of five-member boy band TVXQ. The group became one of the most successful K-pop acts in the country and throughout Asia, selling numerous albums and setting the Guinness record for having the largest official fan club in the world.

Despite their phenomenal success, TVXQ announced that they will no longer be working as a group in Korea nor Japan and that the members will go their separate ways to pursue individual careers.

The break-up of the band started last July due to a legal dispute between three of its members -- Xiah Junsu, Hero Jaejung and Micky Yuchun -- and major talenthouse SM Entertainment over their 13-year exclusive contract.

The three have since formed a new unit under Japanese management agency Avex, through which they will be working in Japan, and gave their first concert as a group last month.

They are set to release a documentary DVD on July 28 and appear at music festival "a - nation'10" to be held in Osaka and Tokyo starting August 7.

Reporter : Lynn Kim lynn2878@
Editor : Jessica Kim jesskim@
Posted by Mari @ Hypnotic Asia

BoA transforms into a fierce woman

World superstar BoA recently participated in a pictorial with help from popular makeup artist Gordon Espinet as she got to show off a totally different side from her usual self.

Gordon is currently in Asia working on various activities, and as soon as he heard of BoA, he sent a love call to which she gladly accepted.

Gordon said, “It’s hard to find a perfect face like BoA’s. Even though she has somewhat of a mysterious face, it’s superior and beyond beautiful.”

BoA also left some comments, “It was a totally different atmosphere from what I’m used to, but I loved participating and the makeup was just fantastic.”

The makeup artist based the photo shoot on popular and expensive makeup brand MAC, using specifically 2010 AW (Autumn Winter) brand which seems to be the current trend. The full pictorial will be released in August.

Posted by Kingpolo @ Allkpop

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