Yoona Cast in Chinese Drama, ‘God of War Zhao Yun’

Yoona has been cast as the lead female role in an upcoming Chinese drama, “God of War Zhao Yun”. The 60-episode drama is about the hero Zhao Yun, whose life is dramatized in the historical novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. It will consist of war, love, and development of characters set in the latter part of the Han Dynasty.

Yoona will play the heroine of the story, Xiahou Qing Yi, and will be working alongside actor Lin Gengxin, who will play Zhao Yun, one of the Five Tiger Generals under Liu Bei. In the story, Xiahou Qing Yi falls in love with Zhao Yun, but later discovers that he had killed her father.

Shooting for “God of War Zhao Yun” is set to begin next month, and the drama will begin airing in August on Hunan TV.

Sooyoung sheds tears on her last episode of 'One Night of TV Entertainment'

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On the December 24 edition of SBS's 'One Night of TV Entertainment', Girls' Generation member Sooyoung, who has served as an MC for two years and six months, gave a teary farewell for her final broadcast. 

In the clip above, Sooyoung says, "My heart is heavy having to give this kind of news on Christmas Eve." She continues, "Because I am preparing for next year's activities, I came to this difficult decision." Sooyoung refers to the fact that she will be leaving the show due to conflicting schedules with that of her Girls' Generation activities. 

Sooyoung is then shown a video prepared by 'One Night of TV Entertainment' to reflect on her memories as an MC. As she watches the video, she begins to tear up. She says, "Just as we've seen in the video, I've had so many good times here and this is a program that has affectionately given me so many memories that I find it impossible to leave." 

She continues to then thank her fellow MCs, production staff, as well as the viewers for her time on the show. 

Taeyeon beats out Eunji and Park Bom for Wefans 'Idol Vocal' award

It was recently revealed that Girls' Generation's Taeyeon was chosen as the female idol with the best vocals on a poll conducted by mobile app Wefans.

The winner of Wefans 'Idol Vocal' award was completely determined by users of the Wefans app. Users voted among talented female idol vocalists Taeyeon, A Pink's Eunji,2NE1's Park Bom, SISTAR's Hyorin, Girl's Day's Minah, f(x)'s Luna, 4minute'sGayoon, SECRET's Ji Eun, KARA's Gyuri, and After School's Raina. In the end, Taeyeon won first place, Eunji placed second, and Park Bom was third.

Currently, Wefans voters have the opportunity to win a ticket to the 'Golden Disk Awards' ceremony by voting for three categories: album, digital song, and rookie of the year.

Congrats to Taeyeon for being crowned the best female vocalist among Wefans users! 

Taeyeon and Sistar's Soyu to have a collaboration stage with male singers at '2014 KBS Gayo Daechukjae'

Girls' Generation's Taeyeon and Sistar's Soyu will come together for a special collaboration stage at the upcoming '2014 KBS Gayo Daechukjae'.

According to KBS on December 24th, Taeyeon and Soyu will partner with male singers for the special stage. Since the two of them received much love and success with their collaboration with male singers, as Taeyeon promoted 'Breathe' with SHINee's Jonghyun as SM The Ballad while Soyu x Junggio's 'Some' was a big hit, so many people are very anticipating to their special performance together.

'2014 KBS Gayo Daechukjae' will be held on December 26th at 8:30pm kst.

Jessica, Kris and Mizuhara Kiko spotted sitting next to each other at 'Sohu Fashion Awards'

Jessica, Kris and G-Dragon's reported girfriendMizuhara Kiko were revealed to have attended 'Sohu Fashion Awards' in China on December 23rd, especially they were even spotted sitting next to each other at the event.

It was said that Jessica and Kiko were having a good time together a they were chatting and laughing together during the awards show, while having barely any interaction with Kris even though they were sitting side-by-side.

Jessica, Kris and Mizuhara Kiko were all received 'Asian Fashion Icon of the Year' awards.

Check out some of the photos below

Jessica sheds tears at her fan signing event

On December 22, former Girls' Generation member, Jessica, attended her fan signing event as the creative director for her fashion company, 'BLANC & ECLARE' which was held at Lotte Cinema Avenuel Theater 5.

On this day, the media reported that Jessica had a bright smile across her face throughout the signing event, shedding her ice queen image she had while being a member of Girls' Generation. 

Towards the end of the event, Jessica gave thanks to her fans and shed some tears, touched by the letters that she received at the event. She said, "Thank you, how many times are you making me cry today. Thank you for today, and I will read each and every one of these today. I will create many events where we can meet more often." Jessica also addressed her foreign fans in English, expressing her gratitude for their presence at the event.

Meanwhile, Jessica also revealed that 'BLANC & ECLARE' will be releasing new items with more diversified designs, heightening the anticipation for the brand's expansion. 

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Reporters express frustration after Jessica's recent fan signing event

As mentioned before, Jessica, attended her fan signing event as the creative director for her fashion company, 'BLANC & ECLARE', held at the Lotte Department store on the 22nd. Although she had spent a meaningful time with her fans, it seems some reporters left the event frustrated and angry. 

One reporter from Sports Donga even went as far as to release a lengthy article titled, 'How did Jessica become an outcast?'. The reporter goes on to describe being invited to cover this 'BLANC & ECLARE' pop-up store event and fan signing, but leaving the event wondering how it could have proceeded such a way when Jessica needs all the help she can get to make a good impression for her fashion company. The reporter writes that Jessica was late and the event started late. In addition, the press was told they couldn't actually take pictures once the fan signing was underway, and was only given a 10 second time period to take photos for a brief photo-time before the signing. 

This apparently left some of the press angry, and they thus 'boycotted' in their own way by not releasing photos from the event.

It's said there was no actual organizer or someone who was in charge to take care of various issues, and that it seems to have been solely handled by Jessica and 'BLANC & ECLARE' with no involvement from SM Entertainment. The reporter goes onto question if this is Jessica's way of drawing the line with her agency and whether she's going to be able to keep this up.

In response to the article, one netizen wrote, "Guess we won't be able to see Jessica since she's making reporters angry", but others felt that the problem lies with the reporters rather than Jessica and the event: "Are you trying to show off what happens when celebrities piss off reporters? Are you so desperate to show off the power you have?", "Why is it that everyone else is saying the fan signing went well, and you reporters seem to be the only ones with the problem?", and "I heard because of the reporters throwing a fuss, the fan signing time got shortened. Don't you think this is far from the ideal act of an reporter. You should be embarrassed."