Like for many other idol hopefuls, the future of actually debuting is an unsure and at times, an unpromising one. Rookie idol girl group, Nine Muses recently opened up about the hardships they had to go through until debut.
Star Empire began to form a group of nine girls in 2006-2007. In 2009, it seemed like a good time to finally debut the girls, but after one of the members left, the company decided to put a hold on their debut until August 2010. “To be honest, we were very frustrated at first because we had debuted much later than we had expected and also because of the constant member change,” said one of the members through a recent interview.

Starting off with many idol-hopefuls, only three of the girls from the original lineup remain. “Everyone in this group prepared to become a singer after they turned into an adult. The thought of giving up our old lives to start new ones was very scary to us,” a member said. Because the life of a trainee is very risky, many of them quit their training when the wait becomes too long. “We were very worried about being able to survive as singers. But we never gave up on our dream to be singers and endured it all to this day. In the end, we’re now able to have an album with our names on it.”

After training for such a long period of time the girls almost can’t believe they’ve actually debuted. “To be honest, everyday we are touched. Just like we endured everything before our debut, we will work just as hard while promoting as singers. Please keep a close eye on us.”

While the girls have just debuted a week ago, netizens have already taken notice of the nine girls for their incredible height and great bodies. Their first title track, No Playboy is slowly going up the charts as the girls promote on music shows.

Source: Kim HyungWoo@newsen.com

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The bare face of HyunA from 4minute is garnering a lot of interest amongst the netizens and fans.

On August 19th, via an online community site, a photo of HyunA with the title “Performing with bare face during rehearsal” was unveiled.

As seen in the photo, HyunA is seen with a white tee and a really short pants, showcasing her natural beautiful face.

Netizens who have seen the photos replied back things such as, “4minute members are known to have beautiful bare faces, but it’s my first time seeing them perform without makeups,” “Having a bare face on stage really brings out a whole new charm of her,” “Very attractive,” and, “She looks better with her bare face.”

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Recently, wax figures of the 9 membered boy group ZE:A displayed at the international fair is gaining increasing attention from the public.

According to ZE:A’s management company on the 20th, wax figures of these 9 idol members can be viewed at the Yeosu Global SFX Congress 2010 event. It is said that these wax figures were created in order to promote and symbolize ZE:A as the chosen representatives for this event.

Idol group ZE:A stated about the event, “It is an honor for us to represent the world’s first international special effects fair. Through these wax figures that look like us, we hope that many people become aware of the different kinds of special effects that are used in movies and dramas.”

The Yeosu Global SFX Congress 2010 fair continues until the 21st.

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I recently reported that ZE:A would be traveling to Taiwan as they were invited by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau as goodwill ambassadors.
Their 6-day promotional tour to Taiwan is slowly coming to an end as they will be flying back to Korea tomorrow, August 17th. However, while staying there, the boys participated in tons of activities with regards to the Taiwanese culture and they were even joined by one of Taiwan’s hottest boy groups, Fahrenheit, yesterday for a trip to the Xing Tian Gong temple.

Fahrenheit welcomed ZE:A and introduced them to what was usually done in temples, as well as how the Taiwanese go about traditions like praying with incense sticks for good fortune. Fahrenheit also told the boys to have the old ladies of the temple conduct a ceremony called Shou Jing on them. To put it simply, this certain ceremony allows the so-called Yin and Yang of the body to be restored in its original form for a person to have a “balanced” soul. Here are some of the photos from their exciting adventure:





After which, ZE:A visited Taipei 101 to have their foot massages. They also came to love the Taiwanese delicacy, Run Bing, and the local ground peanuts.

There will be a 2-part documentary including footage to be shown on Mnet in the near future. It’s really nice to see two countries joining hands to promote one another.

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Rookie girl group Nine Muses tell their feelings after their first broadcast.

On August 12th's Mnet 'MCountdown' was the first debut of Nine Muses. Their words they told to Sports Today was "Very sorry" about their debut.

Member Hye-Mi says. "I didn't think much. For the first time, I didn't know what to do. Being at the broadcast was very strange and that made us even more nervous. It was a shame I couldn't do better." She told us truthfully.

Erin used scores for the first stages quality. "I wanted to give it 20 points. After the first stage, the members could not say a word. 'More than 2 years of training to only get this result.' This seemed to upset the members." She said.

Of course, Lee Sam also spoke her mind, "The publics opinion after such a long time was upsetting. We lack a lot but from now on we will try and do harder. The Nine Muses you see now will be more advanced in the future." She told us her ambition.

Nine Muses' producer is JYP who produced Wonder Girls' "Nobody" along with Rainstone who worked together to make the pop dance song "No Playboy" which has been moving up in popularity.

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We’ve had quite few pairs of twins in K-pop industry, but never an identical one! f(x)’s dancing queen Luna revealed that she has an identical and biological twin sister, by posting a photo of both posing in front of camera to celebrate their birthday. Both Luna and her sister turned 17 on August 12th.

Including myself, netizens had quite a hard time differentiating the two in the photo.

Frankly, there’s simply no way to tell!

Which one is Luna, do you think? The sporty one, or the lady-like one?

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Brown Eyed Girls’ charismatic rapper, Miryo, praised maknae Janey from the young rookie girl group, GP Basic.

A representative from Brown Eyed Girls’ company shared:

“Miryo, after watching GP Basic’s first performance, showed immense interest towards Janey. Miryo praised Janey for her powerful rap and confident stage presence despite her young age”

Watching this hard-working junior, striving for her dreams at such a young age, left a deep impression on Miryo.

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1)：Asia most influential groups ：

NO.1 Super Junior NO.2 Wonder Girls NO.3 DBSK NO.4 S.H.E NO.5 SS501 SHINEE SNSD

2)：Asia most talented with good looks groups:

NO.1 Super Junior NO.2 SHINEE NO.3 S.H.E NO.4 H.O.T NO.5 Wonder Girls

3)：Best-selling albums within these 2 years：

NO.1 Super Junior NO.2 Super Junior-M NO.3 SNSD NO.4 SS501 NO.5 SHINEE

4)：Most popular among the well-known artists：

NO.1 Super Junior NO.2 SHINEE NO.3 S.H.E NO.4 ShinHwa NO.5 Super Junior-M

5)： Accomplished with good rankings in TV shows and movies：

NO.1 Farenheit NO.2 Super Junior NO.3 S.H.E NO.4 Lollipop

6)：Band members that are best in MC：

NO.1 SJ LeeTeuk EunHyuk NO.2 Farenheit ChenYi Ru NO.3 CNBLUE Jung Yong Hwa NO.4 SJ ShinDong NO.5 SJ HeeChul

7)： Band members that are best in actings：

NO.1 SJ Kim KiBum NO.2 Farenheit all membersN O.3 SJ Choi SiWon NO.4 SHINEE Lee TaeMinHo.5 S.H.E ELLA

8)：Band members with the best vocal：

NO.1 SJ YeSung NO.2 DBSK Xiah JunSu NO.3 SJ KimRyeoWook NO.4 SJ ChoKyuHyun NO.5 DBSK Kim JaeJoong SHINEE LeeTaeMin Kim Jonghyun

9)：Band members who are best in RAP：

NO.1 SJ EunHyuk NO.2 S.H.E ELLA 'NO.3 SHINEE KEY MinHoNO.4 DBSK YunHoNO.5 SJ ShinDong KiBum

10)：Band member who are best in dancing:

NO.1 DBSK YunHo NO.2 SJEunHyuk NO.3 SJ HanKyung NO.4 SHINEE Lee TaeMin

11)：Band members who are best in DJ：

NO.1 SJ Kim HeeChul NO.2 SJ LeeTeuk EunHyuk NO.3 SNSD NO.4 SHINEE Onew NO.5 SJ ShinDong

12)：Most popular among the stars for imitation：

NO.1 SUPER JUNIOR (U, Sorry Sorry, Bonamana)NO.2 Wonder Girls (Nobody)NO.3 SHINEE (Ring Ding Dong)NO.4 SNSD (GEE)NO.4 SUPER JUNIOR-M (Super Girl)


Korea/Chinese male stars ranking (Looks)

1. SJ Kim HeeChul 2. DBSK Kim Jaejoong 3. CNBLUE Jung YongHwa 4. SS501 Kim HyunJoong 5. SJ HanKyung 6. Farenheit WuZun 7. Show Luo 8. SHNEE Lee TaeMin 9. Lin Jun Jie 10.RAIN 11.SJ LeeTeuk 12.ZhouJieLun 13.Lee JunKi 14.SJ Lee DongHae 15.Hyun Bin 16.Wang Lee Hom 17.Lee Seung Gi 18.DBSK YunHo 19.SJ Kim RyeoWook 20.Kim JongHun

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While the girls of Rainbow were rehearsing ahead of their comeback performance for title track A on Inkigayo, they received an unexpected gift from fellow DSP Entertainment group, KARA.

Despite their packed schedule in Japan, KARA took the time to send a bouquet of flowers to Rainbow, along with a cake which was sent to their waiting room.


Rainbow also said, “Thanks to the support of KARA and our fans we were able to perform our comeback stage without any big mistakes.”

It’s always great to see fellow groups from the same company support each other.

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Following Super Junior’s successful gig Super Show 3 which took place at the Seoul Olympic Park on the 14th and 15th, Shindong and Heechul and been garnering much interest with their beautiful feminine looks.

The two both tweeted pictures of themselves with Heechul resembling Lady Gaga, and Shindong resembling a fine woman.


Fans who viewed the photos commented things like, “What did you do? Oh well, you still look fine,” “I will now call you two my sisters,” and “Oppa is really beautiful, more pretty than me.”

Meanwhile, a variety of special stages were put on including Eunhyuk, Donghae, and Shindong’s rendition of Beyonce’s Single Ladies, Heechul performing Lady Gaga’s Poker Face, and the 4 of them together performing Beyonce’s Crazy in Love.

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Good news for all BEAST fans..!!! 6-member idol group BEAST would be making their long awaited comeback next month.

To further spice things up, it looks like a behind the scenes photo of BEAST’s new music video was released online. Whether the photo was taken at the actual music video set or for something else is still yet to be known, but from the looks it can be assumed it’s for their new video.

In the picture, all of the members are sporting black clothing revealing their dark sides. Their upcoming album will contain a variety of genres, and their title track may just be an upbeat track

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Earlier this week we reported that 2PM’s new dorm would be revealed through the SBS HahaMong Show.

On August 15th, Haha and MC Mong raided 2PM’s new dorm for the HahaMong Show corner, Mother’s Favor.

The beastly idols were caught off-guard in their natural habitats. From Chansung and Wooyoung, who were found sleeping in the living room, to Nichkhun, who looked like a sleeping angel, and the wild Taecyeon, the temporary mothers (Haha And MC Mong) went around to wake each of the 2PM members and helped them wash up.

In particular, 2PM’s half-awake attempt to dance to their hit songs, Again & Again and Heartbeat, brought about much laughter.

The HahaMong mothers prepared a special summer camp for the 2PM members, who were too busy this summer to have any summer vacation. At the camp site, the HahaMong mothers prepared dinner for 2PM as they shared stories about their families.

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Next up on Wang Biho’s hitlist: Nine Muses.

On the 15th, Wang Biho stated, “Who’s Nine Muses? Oh LPG,” on KBS‘ Gag Concert.

He had left the girls speechless with that statement.

He continued, “I did a background check on Nine Muses. There are 9 members but I feel like I’ve seen them somewhere. Aren’t they the knockoffs of the Chinese version of SNSD? The knockoff SNSD who copied the Chinese-version of SNSD who copied SNSD.”

Now if the part about being a knockoff of a knockoff wasn’t enough, he again continued, “I heard that Park Jin Young gave you your debut song, but do you think he gave you all a good song? He probably gave you the leftover after giving all the good ones to his company artists.”

However, this was all just for good laughs and no offense was taken, because we all know that if Wang Biho talks about you then you have become somewhat famous.

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K-Pop’s newest six-member girl group, GP Basic, recently released their debut single, Game, along with its MV and these girls have certainly been garnering a lot of interest even before their debut, due to the group’s average age of 15.

On today’s episode of SBS Inkigayo, the girls finally performed their first debut stage with their debut single, Game!

Regardless of their age, was their performance impressive? Well, check out GP Basic’s performance below to decide for yourselves!

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Following the release of their comeback single and MV, ‘A‘, the girls of Rainbow performed their comeback stages on this week’s Music Bank and Music Core.

On today’s episode of SBS Inkigayo, Rainbow returned on stage to finish off their last comeback stage of the week with A!

With the addictive tunes of the song, as well as the girls’ sexy choreography, their performance was terrific! Check out their performance of A below to fall in love with Rainbow!

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The nine gorgeous ladies of Nine Muses have successfully finished a week of back-to-back debut performances with their single, No Playboy.

Though the group consists of nine very lovely women, it seems many of you guys haven’t really warmed up to the group yet. Hopefully the song will continue to grow on listeners, and perhaps that will be the key for some to fall for this group! Check out their performance below!

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DongJoon is gaining tremendous popularity among Thais transgenders.

DongJoon said, "We've returned from promotion in Thailand. If I were to say the differences between Thais and Korean fans, there are many transgender fans there." "They are so pretty and very girlish. They called me 'Oppa', then they told me they are transgenders" he added, smiling.

On the other hand, he revealed "There is this Chinese fan boy, he sends me a frog as a present everyday." "Of course they are not living frogs but they are pens, spoons and other things, all frog-shaped. He sends it everyday", he conveyed. "Of course I'm thankful because he thinks of me, but receiving a frog everyday makes me curious what's the meaning behind those presents."

ZE:A is in the middle of promoting their song 'Bad talk sad' and 'Kkap Kwanghee' Hwang Kwanghee are topping the entertainment lists.


Source: Sports Chosun

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