B2ST's Hyunseung to Make Musical Debut in "Mozart"

BEAST‘s Hyunseung will be making his musical debut by participating in "Mozart".

Cube Entertainment confirmed that B2ST’s  Hyunseung will play the role of Mozart, following in the footsteps of JYJ‘s Kim Junsu.

Hyunseung gained a lot of popularity when he performed with 4minute's HyunA for subunit group,  "Troublemaker", and showed off his vocal talent in this project.

"Mozart"will begin performances at the Sejong Cultural Center on July 10 and the show will continue to run until July 28.

Source: starnews

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Top K-Pop groups to perform at Google Headquarters

Google will be hosting a K-Pop concert for the first time.


Girls Generation, TVXQ, Super Junior, SISTAR, KARA, B2ST, MBLAQ, and the Wonder Girls will perform at Google's headquarters in San Francisco on May 21st.

This concert will be broadcast worldwide through MBC and Google.

In addition to Google event, SM Entertainment will also be holding its own SM Town Live Concert on May 20th, one day before the Google performance, at the Honda Center in California, USA.

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Official TeenNick Trailer for The Wonder Girls Movie released

The Wonder Girls Movie is set to air on TeenNick next month.

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Girls' Generation to Perform on Letterman Show

Girls' Generation will appear on two U.S. TV talk shows. The leading K-pop girl group will appear on CBS' "The Late Show with David Letterman" as a guest next Tuesday and give a five-minute performance, their agency SM Entertainment said.

They will present "The Boys," the title song of their third full length album, which was released globally at the end of last year, the agency added.

The David Letterman show, one of the most famous talk shows in the U.S. along with NBC's "The Tonight Show," invites celebrities including politicians, entertainers and athletes onto the show.

"Girls' Generation is the first Korean band to appear on a mainstream talk show on a terrestrial TV channel in the U.S.," the agency said.

On Feb. 1, the band will also perform and have an interview on ABC TV's popular talk show "Live! with Kelly."

source: Chosun Ilbo

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SM releases EXO's first group photos

SM Entertainment revealed the first group photos of the new boy band 'EXO' through the EXO-M's official facebook page with a picture of Kai, Lu Han, Tao and Chen.

After releasing the teaser video and photos, EXO has finally made their debut at SBS ‘Gayo Daejun’on December 29th.

Check out their performances below.

 

Photo credit : bnt news via Nate, EXO-M's official Facebook page
Video credit : mangamad2825@youtube

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Korean boy bands in Christmas Costumes

SHINee

Block B

2PM

MBLAQ

BIGBANG

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Super Junior Wins Four Awards at Yahoo Awards Ceremony

Kim Hyun Joong, Jang Geun Seok, and Lee Da Hea also won awards.

Star group Super Junior garnered awards as they were selected as the mostly searched singing group in Asia. According to Yahoo Korea on December 21, Super Junior won a total of four awards including "Asia Top Searched Group Artist" and "Top Searched Star Artist of the year" in Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at the award ceremony of "2011 Yahoo! Asia Buzz Award" that was held at Hong Kong Convention Center on December 20.



In addition, Kim Hyun Joong also won four awards including "Asia Top Buzz Single Artist" and "Best Buzz Single Star" in Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Actor Jang Geun Seok and actress Lee Da Hea garnered the "Taiwan Top Searched Single Korean Artist" and "Korea Top Buzz Female Artist," respectively

"Yahoo! Asia Buzz Awards" is an award ceremony prepared jointly by Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and it publishes the hot trend of entertainment industry of the year and awards the top stars. As it selects the winners based on the figures of search hits and the votes, the result can tell the Asian Netizen' interest for a year. The awards ceremony was broadcast live online through Yahoo Hong Kong, and it will air again as a filmed TV broadcast on TVB-Jade.

source: KBS Global

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BoA shoots new music video in 3D with "Avatar" creators

Korean singing sensation BoA has recently completed shooting a music video for her upcoming new single "Hurricane Venus" in 3D format with the help of creators of the smash hit 3D pic "Avatar," according to agency SM Entertainment (SM) on Monday.

SM explained in a press release that the singer collaborated with Samsung Electronics and PACE HD, the cinematography team behind "Avatar," to complete the shooting for the video to "Hurricane," the title single from her new sixth album.

This is the first time that creators of "Avatar" have worked on a 3D music video in Korea.

"We expect that this 3D music video shoot will be a masterpiece since it is a union of Samsung Electronics and PACE HD, two of top teams in the 3D industry," John Brooks of PACE HD was quoted as saying. "We hope this will be a good opportunity to promote 3D content."

During director James Cameron's visit to Korea in May, SM had announced that it will be creating 3D content for its artists with his "Avatar" team and Samsung Electronics.

BoA, one of the most active K-pop stars on the international scene, debuted in August 2000 with the album "ID; Peace B". She has released eight studio albums in Korea, six in Japan and made her U.S. debut in March 2009. Her last album in Korea was "Girls on Top," released in 2005.

She will be going on a world tour titled "SMTOWN LIVE '10 WORLD TOUR" with the rest of her SM labelmates including Kangta, U-know Yunho, Max Changmin, Super Junior, Girl's Generation, SHINee, f(x) and TRAX starting in Seoul on August 21.

The L.A. leg of "SMTOWN LIVE ’10 WORLD TOUR," to be held in September, will be filmed in 3D by PACE HD.

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