Saturday, April 16, 2011

SNSD’s Tiffany, CNBLUE’s Minhyuk, & F.T. Island’s Jaejin celebrate ‘Black Day’

Every year on April 14th, singles all across Korea celebrate ‘Black Day’, a casual holiday that’s opposite to Valentine’s and White Day.Theses single ladies and gents celebrate their single status by eating a bowl of jajangmyun (black bean noodles).

SNSD’s Tiffany, CNBLUE’s Minhyuk, and F.T. Island’s Jaejin each took to their UFO Town accounts to send out a mass text message to their fans in commemoration of the day.

Tiffany wrote, “Today is Black Day. Did all of the singles eat jajangmyun? Tiffany will pray for you so that you meet someone great. Fighting!”

Minhyuk melted his fans’ hearts when he typed, “Black Day is the day for those without lovers to eat jajangmyun. Remember to order sweet and sour pork with your jajangmyun on the side. I have our fanclub BOICE, so I don’t think I’ll be eating jajangmyun this year.”

Meanwhile, Jaejin boasted, “I heard today was Black Day. Did everyone know? I’m about to eat it now. Remember to eat it!”

Sunny and YoonA showing support for Sunday at ‘Opera Star’


On April 16th at 11pm KST, YoonA and Sunny will be paying a visit to tvN’s ‘Opera Star’ in Sangmyung Art Center in Jongno-gu, Seoul to show their support for sunbae, CSJH’s Sunday.

tvN’s staff said, “CSJH’s Sunday was impressive in round 2 of ‘Opera Star’ last week and her hoobaes, SNSD’s YoonA and Sunny will be making a visit to cheer her on”.

Prior to YoonA and Sunny’s visit, other SM artistes like Shinee and F(x) had also paid their visit to ‘Opera Star’ to watch Sunday’s performances and cheered for her.

Which K-pop artist do the Japanese most want to get to know?

On April 10th, WOWOW aired the big South Korean music event “DREAM CONCERT 2010” in Japan and many Japanese K-pop fans were pleased to see the performances of many of their favorite Korean artists on TV.

Prior to the broadcast goo/NTT DoCoMo wanted to find out which K-pop artist their members were most curious about and yesterday they released the results of this mobile poll. The results shouldn’t be that surprising when looking at the current success of the various K-pop groups in Japan. Check out the complete ranking below.

(For those of you curious as to why Big Bang wasn’t on the list, they picked the artists from the lineup that performed at DREAM CONCERT 2010).

Which K-pop artist do you want to get to know the most?

01 – 5,124 votes – KARA
02 – 2,665 votes – I’m not interested in K-pop
03 – 2,155 votes – Shoujo Jidai (SNSD)
04 – 688 votes – CNBLUE
05 – 397 votes – 2PM
06 – 369 votes – BEAST
07 – 355 votes – SUPER JUNIOR
08 – 260 votes – 4Minute
09 – 213 votes – SHINee
10 – 94 votes – T-ara
11 – 88 votes – AFTER SCHOOL
12 – 82 votes – MBLAQ
13 – 71 votes – ZE:A
14 – 43 votes – Lee Hyori
14 – 43 votes – U-KISS
16 – 35 votes – Wonder Girls
17 – 34 votes – f(x)
18 – 19 votes – RAINBOW
19 – 10 votes – F.CUZ


Sunny and Yoona to Appear on 'Opera Star' in Support of CSJH's Sunday


Girls' Generation members Yoona and Sunny will make an appearance on the reality show 'Opera Star' in support of CSJH member Sunday.

It has been revealed that Yoona and Sunny will personally be at the Jongno Sangmyung Art Center at 11 PM on the 16th for the filming of tvN's 'Opera Star'.

A source from tvN said, "Sunday showed incredible improvement last week in the second round of 'Opera Star'. Yoona and Sunny, her hoobaes who are part of the same agency (SM Entertainment) as Sunday, will personally attend the filming to cheer her on."