T-ara‘s Hyomin decided to celebrate South Korea’s Independence Day by buying the Japanese staff of her upcoming movie, “Jinx“, Korean food. While T-ara‘s Hyomin is currently in Japan filming for her upcoming Japanese movie ‘Jinx‘, she didn’t forget to celebrate South Korea’s Independence (Declaration) Day. The idol star decided to treat the film crew to a Korean meal in celebration ... Read More »
Here’s part of the news I needed to catch up on, as YEIN E&M gave T-ara‘s Eunjung a long, detailed, itemized official apology for unfairly making her walk the plank for the “Five Fingers” drama. The best-rated reaction from K-netizens on the issue shouldn’t surprise you, but the logic goes to show the lengths they’re willing to go to in ... Read More »
T-ara‘s Eunjung has found employment again as an MC of MBC Music‘s “Show Champion“, and she’ll probably do well because she’s shown before that she has the chops for stuff like this. Also, it means netizens will have ample time to rehash shitty jokes about ‘determination’ and ‘rice cakes’ and whatever the fuck else that nobody with a life gives ... Read More »
Either tVN completely blacked out for the majority of 2012 or the thought of “Nation’s Little Sister” (IU) getting her wizard sleeve pummeled by what looks like a half-man, half-elf woman thing (Super Junior‘s Eunhyuk) was a ton more traumatizing than I thought, because they named that “scandal” the worst of 2012. As you would expect, that fucking blows my ... Read More »
Zinger was the member most seriously hurt in the SECRET automobile accident, so when she made her return to Twitter to a bunch of people trolling her over getting hurt it was fucking terrible, but the worst part might be that I wasn’t even surprised. Zinger made her first Twitter post after SECRET‘s car accident on December 11th, and unfortunately, ... Read More »
Just moments ago, it was revealed by allkpop sources that Block B‘s Zico is dating former T-ara member Hwayoung. A recent hot rumor in the K-Pop idol scene is that Block B‘s Zico and ex-T-ara member Hwayoung, have been dating for a few months now. We reached out to our sources at Stardom Entertainment and although the company denied the ... Read More »
KARA‘s music video for “PANDORA” was something I had been waiting for, especially after their teasers were released since they revealed that it was going to be a mature, seductive type of concept, thus getting away from all the cutesy shit they were doing in Japan. From the outset, the music video reminded me a bit of their “Lupin” days, ... Read More »
Netizens are still trying to find whatever angle they can use to hate on T-ara, but their disdain for them must stop with digging up inane shit to find faults with, as the ratings for “Five Fingers” are plummeting while viewership of “Sexy Love” is booming. Let’s start with the delusional netizen hate of the day though — as if ... Read More »
So if you haven’t heard by now, KARA‘s comeback is currently being sullied by controversy. I covered their Dokdo/Takeshima Catch-22 previously, but since then things have only gotten worse because … netizens. KARA has been pulled into several debates and controversies following their comeback. For one, their suggestiveness of their choreography has raised concern, along with their outfits. For “Pandora,” ... Read More »
“The Shadow“, along with “Only One“, are probably the best couple of music videos BoA has released in a while. For a period in time, all she was releasing was bullshit vanilla music videos in Japan and that mess of a “Hurricane Penis” concept in Korea. While “Only One” takes her back to her roots, “The Shadow” meshes modernity and ... Read More »
If you hadn’t heard by now, the latest chapter in the T-ara bullying saga is member Soyeon giving an interview to the Chosun Ilbo, speaking about the Hwayoung situation and the bullying accusations, then promptly getting into a serious car accident that led to her hospitalization. The reaction was sadly predictable, with gobs of people crying out “karma”, which only ... Read More »
Have you ever gotten so mad … that you wanted to throw an egg into the ground in front of a building?! That motherfucker has. What you know about it, son? He keeps it real. Read More »
In the midst of the T-ara bullying scandal/Hwayoung‘s expulsion, a run of insanely stupid reaction from fans, which was not only anticipated but expected, emerged as one of the most amusing parts that came out of all this. I wanted to write something where I got to mock netizens, but I saw this article over at The Prophet Blog and ... Read More »
Overlooked in all the recent scandals within K-pop is JYJ‘s ongoing battle (yes, still) with SM Entertainment, so I thought I would take a question on it for Ask Asian Junkie. Read this article: http://www.allkpop.com/2012/07/court-ruling-for-jyj-vs-sm-entertainment-delayed-to-august Don’t tell me what to do. Rebecca Soni farts in your general direction. JYJ’s lawsuit with SM Entertainment has been postponed to August. If the ... Read More »
Former Sharp member Lee Ji Hye gave her two cents on the T-ara issue recently and what she said shouldn’t surprise anyone. On July 30th’s airing of social broadcast Palm tv‘s ‘Lee Ji Hye’s Secret‘, Lee Ji Hye talked about the ongoing situation with T-ara for the show’s ‘Today’s search words’ segment. Lee Ji Hye shared, “Sharp broke up because ... Read More »
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