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Could there be a more busy star than DBSK? With the busy schedules of idols, we’ll never know, but DBSK is sure to be right at the top. All year long, the duo has been promoting back and forth in Korea and Japan, as well as accompanying their label on concerts overseas to locations like Paris. 

After one hectic week of back to back year-end ceremonies, DBSK will finally be able to kick back and rest, as the boys have been awarded with a few days of vacation time in the new year. 

On December 30, SM Entertainment announced that DBSK will take a break for a few days starting on New Year’s Day before heading straight back to Japan to start their arena tour. The arena tour starts in mid-January, so the boys won’t have too much time to get cozy. 

Until then, they’ll have to endure an intense schedule that requires them to be in two, sometimes three, places at once on any given day. After completing their performance at NHK’s “Kohaku Uta Gassen,” DBSK will be going straight back to Korea to get some much needed rest. 

Their Japanese arena tour will make a total of nine stops, Tokyo included. 

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2NE1′s Dara and the members of SHINee, the endorsement models for cosmetic brand Etude House, delivered a New Year’s greeting through a video clip.

The members of SHINee complimented Dara stating, “It’s so nice to see you again, especially since you truly are ‘the best,’” while Dara responded, “SHINee, wherever you go in the world, you seem to shine brightly.”

They also went on the discuss their plans for 2012, and both groups agreed that they will probably spend the 2012 working hard and handling a jam packed schedule.

Both wished fans a Happy New Year and expressed their hopes for everyone to achieve what they set out to do, and also asked viewers to stay tuned for Etude’s upcoming project.

Check out their adorable interaction below!

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Super Junior‘s “Mr. Simple” has been selected to be used as the ending theme for a Japanese TV show!

On December 28th, avex Entertainment revealed, “‘Mr. Simple’ will be used as the new January 2012 ending theme song for the TBS TV program, ‘Tsubo Musume‘.”

‘Tsubo Musume’ airs weekly every Wednesday night and features two corners of interest. The first brings in popular girl groups or anchorwomen as guests for a talk show while the second corner introduces pop culture and entertainment related information.

Although it’s a late-night program, the show has a considerable fanbase that follows it religiously. “Mr. Simple” will be used as the ending theme for the first time on January 11th, 2012.

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Asia’s hottest idol group Super Junior set a new record, becoming the top artist to sell the most albums over the past 3 years.

The ‘2011 Singer Awards‘ reflects the artists that sold the most albums according to sales data from Hanteo, and Super Junior sold 355,900 albums between January 1st, 2011 and December 27th, 2011.

Super Junior’s cumulative album sales (of all 32 singles and albums they’ve released to date) for 2011 amounted to 350,000 units. This was the highest number of sales since the ‘Singer Awards’ were established back in 2009. Seo Taiji boasted 248,800 units in 2009, while Girls’ Generation set a new record last year by moving 309,400 units.

Super Junior’s full length album ‘Mr.Simple‘ was a big factor that contributed to their impressive sales numbers. ‘Mr Simple’ Type A alone sold 199,300 copies while Type B sold 53,500 copies and their repackaged album sold 73,900 copies. All together, their fifth album alone sold 326,800 units. Behind Super Junior was TVXQ who sold 230,000 units and Girls’ Generation who sold 226,700 units.

The two names that stood out on the list, however, were INFINITE and IU. The boys of INFINITE came in at 7th place selling 124,100 units while singer IU was the only soloist to break the top 10, selling 92,900 units at #9.

Hanteo charts calculates the data by collecting 85% of their information from nationwide music sales and 15% from accumulations in their own information database along with national sale estimates.

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Earlier we reported that SHINee‘s Taemin would be going out on a date with f(x)‘s Krystal throughMBC‘s ‘High Kick 3‘. Well, the episode has aired and fans of both parties were quite satisfied with the episode.

In the episode, Krystal happily finds out that her crush Taemin has finally broken up with her girlfriend through Kakao. She states that she’s attracted to him and they decide to start going out. To make things interesting the show added a counter on the lower right to see how long this new relationship would last.

Meeting at a coffee shop, Taemin reveals that he was quite surprised to receive the text from Krystal, who explains that she always had his phone number. They share orange juice & desserts together then go shopping for couple rings.

Unfortunately, the relationship doesn’t last too long due to constant texting from Taemin. In a metaphysical moment, Taemin mentions finding a girl group called f(x) online; though calling them “daebak”, he concludes that Krystal is better than them. Though the two attempt to reconcile, they ultimately decide to go their separate ways due to incompatibility. The short-lived relationship lasts less than 24 hours.

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Super Junior‘s Leeteuk showed his gratification for a fulfilling year by leaving a special message for his fans.

On December 28th, he wrote on his Twitter, “There isn’t much left to 2011. It was such a happy year. I’ve always received so much love and I’m grateful to be spending the last year of my 20′s like this. In 2012, I’ll run as hard as the love I’ve received! They say that a man’s life only begins when he turns 30, so I’ll work hard to improve myself. Thank you.”

He continued, “I didn’t really feel anything at the end of my teens and 20′s, but I feel a bit off now that I’m at the end of my 20′s. Hm… what is this feeling?”

Netizens commented, “Leeteuk also has normal thoughts like any other 29 year old“, “He’s at the age where there are a lot of things to consider now“, and “Leeteuk fighting! Let’s be together into your 30′s!“.

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SHINee’s Tae Min will make a surprise cameo on High Kick 3.

Tae Min will play the role of Krystal’s boyfriend named Lee Sang Hyun in the 68th episode of MBC’s High Kick 3, which will air on December 28.

Since Tae Min is a member of idol group SHINee and Krystal is a member of girl group f(x), their romance in the sitcom will draw a lot of attention.

Tae Min will describe a lovely teenager couple in the sitcom. Sang Hyun (played by Tae Min) recently broke up with his girlfriend and Soo Jung (played by Krystal) asks him to be her boyfriend. Sang Hyun wants to think about it but Soo Jung says, “You have to decide in three minutes.” Then they become a couple and all these events happens through text messages.

Tae Min and Krystal shot the scene on December 23, a day before Christmas eve. The two stars performed like a real couple. They are close friends because they both are from same agency. They looked like close brother and sister while shooting the scene.

Tae Min previously appeared on the sitcom, Tae Hee, Hye Kyo, Ji Hyun, which aired in 2009 and showed a great potential to become an actor. This is his second appearance as an actor after two years.

Source: Starnews

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Super Junior and SNSD have become the best-selling boy group and girl group of 2011.

On December 28, Hanteo Charts, a website that researches album sales, announced, based on its 2011 Singers’ Awards, that Super Junior have sold total 355,915 copies from January 1 to December 27 2011.

Debuting in 2005, Super Junior ranked first by having sold over 300,000 copies of total 32 albums released until now. After ranking second on this chart last year, they finally ranked first this year.

Super Junior released their fifth album, Mr. Simple, in August, and have sold 199,329 copies of A type and 73,969 copies of its repackaged album. They also became the best-selling artist with this album this year.

SNSD, who ranked first on the Hanteo Singers’ Awards last year, sold total 226,769 copies this year and ranked first among female artists and third out of all. Debuting in summer 2007, SNSD have sold over 200,000 copies of total 44 albums released until now. SNSD have sold over 130,000 copies of their third domestic album, The Boys, released in October.

In this research, TVXQ, who released Keep Your Head Down in this January, ranked second among male artists and also second out of all. Debuting in 2004, TVXQ have sold total 230,897 copies of 136 albums released until now.

This shows that three artists from SM Entertainment ranked from first to third on the 2011 Hanteo Singer’s Awards.

On the Henteo Singers’ Awards, Big Bang (221,175 copies), Kim Hyun Joong (212,191 copies), JYJ (188,481 copies), Infinite (124,130 copies), B2ST (112,598 copies), IU (92,988 copies), and 2PM (90,719 copies) ranked from fourth to tenth.

Among them, new boy group Infinite is attracting attention. Infinite have sole over 80,000 copies of their first album, released in this July, and a repackaged album.

The ranks of Hanteo’s Singers’ Awards are based on the year’s total sales of all albums of each singer (or each group).

Hanteo Charts collects all sales data from major record stores and internet shopping malls and counts the data, considering them as roughly 85% of the total sales. Taking all variables into account, it determines the total sales by comparing and analyzing all collected data and estimating the rest 15%.

However, agencies’ total sales data are different from Hanteo’s because they count them by checking the number of albums released and data from record stores. The number of sales announced by the agencies is usually 1.5 times more than Hanteo’s.

Source: Starnews

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The social music venture company, Muse Alive, compiled 89,459 K-Pop music video links that were shared on Facebook and found that “The Boys” was shared the most for a total of 959 times. Gee was shared 200 times and came in fifth. Girls’ Generation had the most music videos shared among Korean artists, taking an impressive eleven of the top fifty spots.

“The Boys” music video has proved to be a success in 2011, reaching a total of 25 million views two months after its release on SMTOWN’s Youtube channel. Gee, the song that arguably propelled Girls’ Generation to the top of the music industry, is still maintaining its popularity among fans, having just passed sixty million views on Youtube. Source: sports.donga.com, SMTOWN@youtube.com
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Girls’ Generation is well known for their beautiful and slender legs. Recently, an interesting bit of information about the boots Girls’ Generation wears was revealed.

The boots that are part of the outfits for the “MR. TAXI” promotions are specially tapered for the girls and unique to them. Perche, the production company which made the shoes, specially ordered them for Girls’ Generation’s promotions. A spokesman commented that, “Because we got Girls’ Generation’s sizes, the calf part of the boots are over 5cm thinner, while the length is over 5cm longer. (…) It is a size that would be impossible for a regular person with an ordinary body to fit in.”

Fans watching the “MR. TAXI” promotions were impressed with their slender figures and expressed their envy, commenting on various internet message boards, “Girls’ Generation make people burn in motivation for a diet”

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After being named the MC for ‘KBS Entertainment Awards’ on December 24th, YoonA’s MC-ing task is far from over as she was selected as the MC along with Lee SeungGi and Song JiHyo at the SBS ‘Gayo Daejun’ which will be held on December 29th at Ilsan Kintex.

The ’2011 SBS Gayo Daejun’ features variety of never-seen-before joint-performances by Beast, 2NE1, Wonder Girls, Kara, Super Junior, 2PM, etc.

Not only that, audience and viewers alike will be thrilled by special group ballad stages, strong and sexy performances by divas as well as intense and charismatic dance battle by male groups, etc.

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SNSD was voted singer of the year for the third consecutive time by every age group, according to the Korean Gallup poll. 

The Korean Gallup poll asked a group of 3,401 people, male and female aged between 13 and 59, to pick three singers who stood out the most in 2011. Overall, 26.1% of the answers was SNSD. They topped individual age groups with 30% of teenagers, 29.2% of people in their 20s, 29.5% in 30s, 25.2% in 40s and finally 18.2% in 50s. 

For other singers the poll showed different results according to age groups. Male idol groups such as Big Bang, BEAST and Infinite were voted considerably more by teenagers while people in their 30s and 40s voted singers from the MBC variety show “I Am A Singer”, like Kim Bum Soo, Lim Jae Bum and Park Jung Hyun. 

While SNSD has been voted as the best singers since 2009, their latest single “The Boys” was ranked number three for the most popular song of this year. The first spot was held by IU’s “Good Day.”

Also from the The Korean Gallup poll, the best rookies of the year were voted as Infinite and Dal Shabet.

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SNSD member Jessica has revealed her voluptuous body through a special performance. 

On MBC’s “SNSD’s Christmas Fairytale” that aired on Christmas Day Jessica gave a solo performance, singing a jazzed up version of “When You Wish Upon a Star.” Jessica was dressed and posed as Sleeping Beauty, laying on top of a colorful stage decorated with pink flower petals. Her dress was spread out in an eye-catching manner, giving an extra charming effect. 

Usually showing off a girlish and fresh image Jessica pulled off an ultra sexy look with a tube-top dress and a curvy and glamorous figure. Male viewers could not keep their mouths shut during her performance. 

After the show aired netizens made their thoughts known, “there no other goddess like her,” “I envy her body,” “glamorous!” 

On another note, Jessica is slated to appear on KBS2 drama “Wild Romance.”

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At the concerts for Girls’ Generation, member Yoona was seen on numerous occasions performing powerful performance cover of Madonna‘s “4 minutes” featuring Justin Timberlake.

A studio version of the cover was recently released through various Korean online communities.

Yoona who is known for her innocent charm pleasantly surprised the fans with her sexy transformation.

Check out the track below!

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