Sunday, May 30, 2010

Super Junior!!!!! the world ranked them as 7th!

Super Junior!!!!! the world ranked them as 7th!

Wonder what this is saying? What it means?


Never heard of 'Media Traffic'? Media Traffic is a site which arranges all the world charts including the American bill board, Japanese oricon chart, and England's UK chart. Super Junior's 4th album (which you know.. if you have been reading my blog!) was released on the 13th of May and the repackage album came out on the 20th. In such a short time, Super Junior was able to sell 75,000 copies. Awesome.. right? Tvxq was able to rank first but Korea didn't notify this to Koreans.

I know that Super Junior is awesome and stuff but they won't be able to follow TVXQ. Not only them but nor any other Korean boy bands including 2PM, Big Bang, and SHINee. Korean critics are saying that Big Bang is right behind TVXQ's tail but no way. TVXQ sold 500,000 copies of their Korean 4th album in the first month of their release.

Anyway, I'm sorry I got off track! As Koreans were able to know this fact, that Super Junior was ranked 7th place, all of their reflections were the same: wow, just as I expected, and more. Super Junior's fans, E.L.F. are awesome too. Before even their album release, fans ordered over 25,000 copies and this was also an issue.

As you can see here, Korean fans are different from foreign fans (by the exception of fans of Korean artists.) When foreign fans only go and cheer for their favorite singers at concerts or when they are on stage, Korean fans follow them where ever they go, give food to them and the staffs of a program they are on. Furthermore, Koreans have this competition from other fans. They HAVE to get a higher rank than them, especially if that singer debuted much later.

Maybe this is why Super Junior's fans and TVXQ's fans are so aggressive, and maybe this is why Super Junior's fans and TVXQ's fans are so close. I hope the world can notice the efforts of Korean singers and at least listen to their songs once.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Super Junior's FIFA World Cup cheer song





I think this is a really awesome song! :) The real post is below this video.

Famous Korean singers challenge their skills!

[2AM singing 2010 FIFA World cup theme song- subtitles in English]


As many singers all over the world challenged for the 2010 FIFA world cup song, many Koreans made songs for it as well! There are various singers who sang for this album. The music video I included here is Number 1 sung by 2AM, who is a famous ballad group in Korea. The music video's concept is 'cute' and 'comfort' to Korean soccer fans.

Ever since Korea was able to go until the top 4, Koreans became huge soccer fans. The 2010 FIFA World Cup is coming up and starting on June 11th.

As you can see in the subtitles, 2AM is saying that we should cheer each other on and don't forget that it's only a 'game.' So don't care if you lose or not and we are same under humanity; gender, race, ethnicity, region don't matter.

I really love how the song is sung with all kinds of tones. The music video is also really cute. 2AM members are currently in America to promote there but they are going to come back to cheer Korea! :)

Like this, Korea has a big spirit for their soccer team. Many think that Koreans won't be able to be in the top 16 teams because we start of with really tough teams. The Republic of Korea is in group B with Argentina, Nigeria, and Greece. As many know all three of them are really good teams and they have a lot of experience but if you go to the ROK's FIFA World Cup page, the comments really touched me. All over the world... soccer fans said they will cheer on for Korea and really encouraged our teammates. On the other side, I was disappointed in other countries in group B for not cheering Korea but actually saying that they won't be able to beat their country.

Still many soccer fans encouraged our team and I really hope Korea makes a knockdown stage! Dae~ Han ~ Min Guk! clap clap clap clap!

Monday, May 17, 2010

Super Junior(슈퍼주니어)_미인아_뮤직비디오(MusicVideo)

[Teaser]Wonder Girls_2 Different Tears

Wonder Girl's New Album Release



left to right: So Hee, Ye Eun, Sun Ye, Yoo Bin, Sun Mi

It's been over than 1 year, almost 2 years since Wonder Girls released an album in Korea because they have been performing in the States. A few days ago their new album's title song's teaser came out and it was also an issue. One member of the team named Sun Mi came out of the team and a Chinese girl joined the team. May argued that she didn't fit in that group and honestly, I really don't like the fact that she joined the team because it was so used to seeing Sun Mi performing with them!

starting on the left: Yoo Bin, So Hee, Sun Ye, Ye Eun, Hyo Rim.

It's pretty awkward without Sun Mi on the team because it doesn't make Wonder Girls seem Wonder Girls without the member since the beginning. Before, one another member of the team, Hyun Ah went out of the team and Yoo Bin joined the team but Yoo Bin really fit in the team well and the teammates enjoyed performing with her so everyone liked the fact the Yoo Bin was on the team but this case was different.

First album (w/o Yoo Bin, w/ Hyun Ah)
Top: Sun Ye, Ye Eun
Middle: So Hee, Hyun Ah
Bottom: Sun Mi

That time, it was during their first album so not many were used to the 5 of them but now that they are on their 3rd album, people got used to the 5 of them- Sun Mi, Sun Ye, Yoo Bin, So Hee, and Ye Eun. If you go to daum or naver, "Korea's Google", it represents the team members as- Sun Ye, Yoo Bin, So Hee, Ye Eun, and Hyo Rim but... it doesn't really make sense because they REALLY don't look good together.

Hyo Rim doesn't really fit well in the team because of her looks, Hyo Rim has a cute face while Wonder Girls represent the word, 'sexy'.

Still, I like their new song, so I wish this new album release will be as successful as the previous ones!

(Above this post is the teaser)