SNSD will be coming back early in 2014, and it was rumored that their concept was going to be ‘mannish’, which was a weird way of saying it would be a ‘tomboy’ concept. Unfortunately, SM Entertainment shot that idea/rumor down completely. SM Entertainment released an official statement, saying that “Girl’s Generation is currently preparing for their comeback next year, but ... Read More »
I haven’t covered this ongoing gambling scandal in Korea much because I don’t think it’s much of a scandal, but I’m covering this story because Tony An‘s lawyer seriously said that he deserves to avoid a jail sentence because his career is in the shitter. The attorney for former H.O.T. singer Tony An, on trial this week for illegal gambling ... Read More »
Kahi has always wanted to be a diva, and practice makes perfect, so she recently took to Facebook to shade the fuck out of her manager LIKE A TRUE DIVA. Kahi basically posted up her manager’s text in its entirety on her Facebook and called it off putting because nobody from her company came to her promotion wrap-up party. “There ... Read More »
2PM‘s Taecyeon revealed that he’ll be enlisting in the army around the end of 2015 on KBS 2TV‘s ‘The Human Condition’. “After finishing all schedules up until the end of 2015, I will enlist in the army,” said Taecyeon. Sort of a throwaway comment in the article, and not unexpected, but it does bring us back to the stark reality ... Read More »
The long awaited release of Yellow Monsters‘ third album unfolded in an interesting way for me. When I visited Seoul in November of 2012, I heard some of the songs in their early stages when I visited their practice room. When I visited again in April of 2013, I heard more of the songs from the album at the ‘Yellow ... Read More »
Crayon Pop rules. “Lonely Christmas” is cute. Here’s Crayon Pop’s oppa army invading M! Countdown and destroying everybody else: Good lord. This site should have a meetup at their next comeback so we can add some diversity to that group. Read More »
Block B‘s Jaehyo has been sexually harassed on Twitter recently, and his agency, Seven Seasons, decided to report the activity and take legal action. On December 5, Newsen spoke with Seven Seasons, who stated, “We have reported a netizen, who has sent several sexually harassing mentions [on Twitter] to Jaehyo. When it became too much, we decided to report it.” ... Read More »
So Soompi‘s 2013 Ulzzang Contest ended recently (a joint venture with Nega Network), and they’ve picked the winners, which means it’s time for everybody to throw shade! Soompi Ulzzang Contest came back after a year off with a bang. We had over 800 entries from all over the world, with our fourth and final round pitting 14 girls and 12 ... Read More »
14-year-old* idol sensation Hashimoto Kanna, member of Rev. from DVL, went viral last month due to the photo you see above, and that’s led to a lot of publicity for the most irrelevant of idol groups. A chain of events like this is pretty rare in terms of idols, and it’s been a cool story, but also sort of disturbing. ... Read More »
Hyorin recently appeared on MBC‘s “Radio Star” to address a plastic surgery controversy that she believes basically should have never happened if the powers that be weren’t fucking with her. During her previous appearance on “Radio Star,” Hyorin had mentioned that in the past, she had inquired at a hospital to get work done on her face. However, the doctor ... Read More »
Remember when allkpop was on that “WE ONLY TELL THE TRUTH! NOT OUR FAULT IF IT’S TOO HARDCORE FOR Y’ALL!” shit? Yeah, well besides it being bullshit to begin with, now they’ve taken down the censored, watermarked Ailee nude photos in the original post. lol Not sure how this might connect to them removing sources and pictures site wide after ... Read More »
Japan has decided to make a live-action movie based on the manga/anime ‘Attack On Titan‘, which inevitably means they are going to make a terribad piece of shit and try to use the manga/anime popularity to milk fans for money. There’s been talk of a live-action theatrical version of Attack on Titan for some time, and the project now has ... Read More »
Asian Junkie had previously featured the teaser pictures of Nine Muses for their newest release, “Glue“, and they were as smoking hot as one would expect from a group that is basically nine models. But that only increased expectations for the music video, especially with them hyping it was 25+ restricted, which made me think they were going to do ... Read More »
So unlike the previous ‘Hate Me Now‘ brought to us by an EXO stan, which was basically just fan stupidity, this one was actually hateful. @asianjunkiecom if I saw you posting harsh fake news about Lee Chaerin one more time and call her a "cockblocking ugly bitch" I'll kill you — Tamara (@YASS_GURL) October 26, 2012 I can’t recall exactly ... Read More »
Something-something-something fanboys shooting off their own glue. God. I wanted to write something witty and clever but these pictures from Nine Muses‘ new single “Glue” really don’t need a preamble. Guh. Read More »
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