ay_link May 22nd, 2008
The new boyband on the block is Shinee (pronounced like “shiny”) is a contemporary Korean boyband consists of 5 very young male members: Jong Hyun (종현), Min Ho (민호), Tae Min (태민), Ohn Yoo (온유), and Key, ranging from the ages of 14~18.
This band has been working on their debut for some time now under the SM Entertainment wings (the used-to-be SHINHWA’s management group before the guys dumped SM. Heard lots bad things about this management company too btw.)
SM Entertainment stated, “Like their unique name, they are going to be unique with their dancing as well as their fashion, and trendy music.” Member Tae Min, who is only 14 years old, was recruited due to his dancing skills, and is planning on giving his audience a worthy show. I guess it’s ‘easier’ to milk money out of young boys who can dance rather than singing, but after watching their MV debut called, “Noona (older sister), you’re so pretty”, I think the song is very catchy. Nice music to accompany their dancing skills and boy, how they all look so young and so look-alike! I seriously can’t tell which one is which. LOL.
click to see their music video~~
ay_link May 20th, 2008
I couldn’t resist not to put this picture as the front image for this episode *chuckle*
Darn, by midway of watching this episode last Sunday, I got soooo hungry and now I’m craving for this spagetti lookin’ thing (alfredo sauce? with shrimps? ooh-lala~)
Anyway. La Dolce Vita ROCKS. Seriously.
I had my reservations at first and I didn’t want to blabber too much about it, but definitely, I’m hooked. There’s something about this series that is really very intriguing. Though the theme is very adult-like, and not many viewers will like this kind of theme. Some may hate it a lot, since there’s deception, cheating spouses and whatnot, but there’s another element to the story that I find it very unique.
Some drama it is, and it’s written across and all over the story, but yet, there’s always room to explore in each episode.
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ay_link May 20th, 2008
After months without news (his last drama 9회말 2아웃 ended July last year), it turns out that this hottie has been working on his newest movie called Daetul 대털 (Big Head). This movie will be based on its original comic by Kim Sung Han. This will be an action movie about the work of a professional robber from a wealthy family. For the past three months, Lee Jung Jin has been in training to learn some cool action for his movie. (Sounds exciting, no? lol)
His latest movie Mapado was two years ago. And this movie will come out the end of next month.
Looks like I have TONS of stuffs to look forward to next month!
June’s line-up as follows:
- Lee Jung’s album
- Alex’s 1st solo album
- Yoon Kye Sang - Kim Ha Neul’s newest movie, 6 years in love
- Gourmet - MBC TV drama about a chef in the presidential residence
- When it’s at night - KBS TV drama starring Kim Sun Ah and Lee Dong Gun
ay_link May 20th, 2008
When I read that Ivy will be debuting as an actress in SBS Korean-Japanese collaboration 4 episodes drama, Tokyo Showers, I was like, “Oh, okay, so she’ll be in a drama.” But little did I know that I’d be gushing about her song, “Love, what do I do?” after watching her upcoming drama, Tokyo Showers on Youtube. The song, her voice and the lyrics seem to match really well to the theme of the drama.
Ivy debuted in 2005 with the first album called My Sweet and Free Day with a sexy image, but after watching her performing live on music shows, I become to like her strong vocals. In 2006, she didn’t have any album maybe to prepare for her 2nd album A Sweet Moment in early 2007. Unfortunately, one of the album’s song’s music video (Temptation of Sonata) caused a lot of controversy and was banned because a South Korean court ruled that it illegally copied a scene from Japanese game company Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Due to her popularity and strong marketing *lol* she was in Shinhwa
Last year, Ivy came to the Hollywood Bowl so I had the chance to see her performing live in person. But since I wasn’t familiar to her songs, I didn’t think much of her at that time. But when talking about Ivy, if you’re familiar with the Kpop entertainment, you’d remember all the scandalous news the media reported about her. Sadly, the Korean media is like a hawk watching for every mistake from these artists, and she happened to be in the hotspot last year.
Glad to know she’s bouncing back this year and scored a role in Tokyo Showers, premiering on June 2 after the SBS Mon-Tue drama I Love You.
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ay_link May 18th, 2008
Episode 5 was obviously a showcase for Jeong Bo Seok’s character (sorry, I think I messed up on his name before. His name is Ha Dong Won, not Dong Wook, so it’ll be corrected from now onwards.) And though I have never seen him in any drama before this one — apparently he was in the KBS2 historical drama “Dae Jo Young”, after episode 5, I’m really quite impressed at his acting. Playing as a scumbag husband, a loving father, yet very rich and successful in his career, usually tends to make me despise the character no matter what. But Dong Won is actually an interesting character, and the most important thing is that he’s smart and manipulative. He seems to know what he’s doing and him playing with ‘fire’ is not that he did it recklessly.
In short, Ha Dong Won rocked this episode, and his sleazy character is getting more and more interesting. This episode brought us even more closer to each character, and especially zooming in more to his character as a husband, a father and a man.
Thumbs up, episode 5 is such a great one that I was pretty much intrigued again to keep on following this series. (despite of the low ratings it’s been getting every week. Sigh. I guess ahjumma dramas are still the #1 watched TV drama in Korea. Though I’m glad, SBS weekend drama “Happiness” which I’ve been watching all this while is placed second to KBS2 weekend killer ratings “Angry Mom”)
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Tags: La Dolce Vita
