[News] Jiyeon and IU’s childhood pictures revealed

IU and Jiyeon of T-ara, who are part of the fixed cast on SBS’s “Heroes,” have revealed their childhood photos on a special segment titled, “Elementary school students“.

Looking back, IU reflected, “I think I was prettier when I was younger.”

Hilariously, the photo showed her in the exact spaced-out expression she’s known to have on “Heroes.”

Guess who’s who?

[News] Hyuna doesn’t think much of the new G7 cast?

Former G7 member Hyuna had something to say about the new members of ‘Invincible Youth‘. She boasted jokingly on set, “I still don’t think there’s a character as good as mine was.”

Recently, she and Kim Tae Woo paid a visit to the set for the show’s 1 year anniversary.

While there, Hyuna also spoke candidly about new member Sori: “On stage, I always thought you looked charismatic, but I think after coming on ‘Invincible Youth’ everyone becomes the same,”causing laughter among the cast.

Hyuna also brought clothes for the puppies of their “Invincible Youth” mascot ‘Yoochi’. Fellow OG-7 member, Sunny of SNSD was also reported to have been quite happy after hearing of her cow’s pregnancy.

The cast joked around and enjoyed each others’ company while eating potatoes and yams.

[News] 4Minute was humiliated on Japan's TV Show

It had been announced that 4Minute had an appearance from a Japanese TV Show entitled: NTV PON this week. Unfortunately, because a lot of us, international fans, weren't able to watch the real situation from the show, we weren't able to see how the girls seemed to be humiliated and ignored on the said show.

In order to make a name on the Japanese market and promote their 3rd Japanese single: "FIRST/DREAMS COME TRUE," they appeared as guest performers at NTV PON. However, the rude treatment of the hosts of the show towards the girls were reported and was widely talked about on different internet sites.

It was reported that the girls only had more or less, 10 minutes of airtime during the whole show. Besides that, the girls can only be found at the background of the show and the hosts were merely ignoring them. It appeared like the purpose of actually promoting their single has not been shown. The cooking show scene proceeded with very less emphasis on the girls who were simply looking at the side of the hosts.

With this, Korean Netizens immediately showed their disappointment and reactions towards the humiliation that the show displayed towards the girls and expressed comfort for the girls. Some of them said:

"Just come back here in Korea and we'll give you more love here."

"Is this the proper treatment that idols with more than 2000 fans should receive?"

"They cut off the music in the middle of the dance to cook."

"Do they even have any common sense on what they have done?"

Reading through this may hurt a lot of us - 4Nias, knowing that despite of the girls' continuous hard work, they are not receiving the respect, attention and proper treatment that they deserve. Perhaps, what we could do now is to continue supporting them and hoping that their agency as well as the other labels that manages them could make a more "well-thought-out" plan for their overseas promotional activities.

[News] KBS2 SungKyunKwan Scandal To Shoot Sequel?

There is only a week left until the last broadcast of [SungKyunKwan Scandal]. Could the audience be feeling regretful about that? Currently, there is a lot of heated discussion regarding the possibility of filming the sequel to [SungKyunKwan Scandal]. A staff in charge of promotions for the TV series revealed, "Although it has not been decided, but there are many ongoing discussion with regards to the filming of the sequel to [SungKyunKwan Scandal]." This is good news to all those who were disappointed when there were rumours that there will not be a sequel.

[SungKyunKwan Scandal] is adapted from the novel "The Lives of SungKyunKwan Confucian Scholars", which is followed up with a second book*. As [SungKyunKwan Scandal] only shows the first half of the story, the views are also left with a lot of anticipation for a sequel.

Also, the two leads are extremely popular, which results in an increasing demand for there to be a sequel. In reality, it has not been decided if a sequel will be filmed, but the fans are already ecstatic at the words "many ongoing discussion with regards to the filming of the sequel".

Many netizens have also left many messages online to express their high hopes: "It's such a waste if there's neither an extended version nor a special version!" "You have to fine a sequel, you can't just end like that~" and "If there's a sequel, I want to Jalgeum Quartet to act in it!"

[News] Onew, Minho, Suzy, Jiyeon to MC for “Music Core”

SHINee’s Onew and Minho, miss A’s Suzy, and T-ara’s Jiyeon have been chosen as the new MCs for MBC’s “Show! Music Core.”

MBC representatives uploaded a new post on their message board stating, “The four will be joining us as our new MCs starting this week.” A representative of SHINee’s agency, SM Entertainment, confirmed the news on October 29th: “SHINee’s Onew and Minho will be joining Suzy and Jiyeon as the MCs for ‘Show! Music Core.’”

After SNSD’s Yuri and Tiffany’s hung up their MC mics, the show began circulating different guest MCs every week. However, beginning with this week’s broadcast, viewers will be able to meet their new established hosts! Many are excited about the new lineup, as this will be the first time that four idol members will MC simultaneously.

[News] 4minute’s first Japanese album out December 1st!

Via tokyohive:

Currently promoting their 3rd Japanese single, “FIRST/Dreams Come True”, which includes an original Japanese A-side, 4minute will be following it up by releasing their first full length Japanese album on December 1st!

Details are still under wraps, but the album is set to include “Muzik”, “I My Me Mine”, “FIRST”, “Dreams Come True”, and more new material. The album will come in two editions, CD+DVD and CD-Only, which are already up for pre-order on several online shops in Japan. The DVD will include all PVs for previously released material, but it is unknown whether there will be any new music videos for upcoming promotional tracks from the album.

4minute, who debuted with the Japanese version of “Muzik” earlier this year, are holding true to their word to compete energetically with KARA in Japan. Both groups will be releasing their debut albums in Japan within two weeks of each other, KARA making their entry earlier with “Girls Talk” on the 24th of November.

[News] Nichkhun and Victoria take selcas at the beach

The “Khuntoria Couple” of MBC’s “We Got Married” revealed a series of selcas taken together at a beach.

Although the pictures were revealed on October 20th, the scene will be shown on the “We Got Married” episode set to air on the 30th.

The couple embarked on their ‘runaway vacation’ in celebration of acquiring a new car in last week’s episode. Nichkhun made a surprise visit to the beach since Victoria is an avid fan of Korean dramas and allowed her to roleplay as ‘Geumtoria’ while he played the role of ‘Goojoonkhun.’

The producers of the show stated, “Right at this moment, Victoria surprised Nichkhun by doing a skinship. Nichkhun was a bit taken back at his wife’s aggressive side, but soon smiled and seemed to be unable to hide his joy.”

[News] ‘Invincible Youth’ to release a photo-book and calendar

KBS 2TV’s popular series ‘Invincible Youth‘ have announced that they will release a photo-book and calendar.

On October 28th, PD Kim Ho Sang said to TV Report, ‘On November 22nd, we will release a photo-book. We took nearly 10,000 photos over the past year, and so we’re currently in the process of choosing which ones to put in. Also, a calendar release is planned for the end of the year‘.

As ‘Invincible Youth’ is a show in which highly-popular female idols appear on, it’s expected that the merchandise will be extremely popular.

[News] Nominees for 2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards revealed (Updated with Video)

There has been much controversy over Mnet’s decision to hold their annual awards ceremony, “2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards“, overseas in Macau on Sunday, November 28th, as it angered the two TV broadcasters, MBC and SBS. However, Mnet is no stranger to such situations, and they have now revealed the nominees in the various categories for the extravaganza.

Despite supposedly “bad blood” between Mnet and SM Entertainment, SM Entertainment artists like Super Junior, SNSD, SHINee were nominated in the various categories released by Mnet on their official website. Mnet had said earlier in a press conference today that they had sent invitations to all entertainment companies, including SME and were awaiting a response from them.

And here are the nominees! (Updated with some of the video nominations)

Daesang Award
Singer of the Year
Song of the Year
Album of the Year

Male Group Award
2AM
2PM
B2ST
MBLAQ
Super Junior

Female Group Award
2NE1
4minute
KARA
T-ara
SNSD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UORqd8mIyeI&feature=player_embedded

Male Singer Award
PSY
Se7en
Rain
Taeyang
Wheesung

Female Singer Award
BoA
Gummy
Seo In Young
Son Dambi
Lee Hyori

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXeqgD7OJgs&feature=player_embedded

Male Rookie Award
CNBlue
Infinite
Teen Top
Seo In Kook
ZE:A

Female Rookie Award
G.NA
miss A
Nine Muses
Rainbow
SISTAR

Best Music Video Picture
2NE1 – “Can’t Nobody”
Epik High – “Run”
UV – “Sorry I Can’t Be Cool”
Ga-In – “Irreversible”
Taeyang – “I’ll Be There”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQz1bPYUvA&feature=player_embedded

Best Dance Performance – Solo
Narsha – “Bbiri Bbabba”
Rain – “Love Song”
Lee Hyori – “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”
Taeyang – “I’ll be There”
Hyuna – “Change”

Best Dance Performance – Male Group
2PM – “I’ll Be Back”
B2ST – “SHOCK”
MBLAQ – “Y”
SHINee – “Lucifer”
Super Junior – “Bonamana”

Best Dance Performance – Female Group
2NE1 – “Can’t Nobody”
4minute – “HUH!”
miss A – “Bad Girl Good Girl”
Secret – “Magic”
T-ara – “Bo Peep Bo Peep”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPXL6GG8ns&feature=player_embedded

Best Vocal Performance – Solo
K. Will – “Miss Miss Miss”
Gummy – “Because You’re A Man”
Seo In Young – “You Write It As Love and Call It Pain”
Jung In – “Hate”
Wheesung – “I Thought of Marriage”

Best Vocal Performance – Group
2AM – “Can’t Send You Even if I Die”
4men – “Can’t”
8Eight – “Break Up Is Coming”
Vibe – “Come Back”
Davichi – “Time Please Stop”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nzckZe4e4I&feature=player_embedded

Best Band Performance
CNBlue – “Love”
FT Island – “Love Love Love”
Hot POtato – “Confession”
Boohwal – “Love Is”
TransFixion – “Shouts of Reds”

Best Rap Performance
DJ Doc – “I’m This Kind of Person”
Epik HIgh – “Run”
Outsider – “Acquaintance”
UV – “Sorry I’m Not Cool”
Supreme Team – “Dang Dang Dang”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uEDCA4YC1c&feature=player_embedded

Best Collaboration
Homme – “Eating Well”
Ga-In/Jo Kwon – “We Fell In Love”
Seo Young Eun/Jung Yeob – “This Pitiful Word”
IU/Seulong – “Nagging”
Sung Shi Kyung/IU – “It’s You”

Best Digital Single
MC Mong – “Hurt to Death”
Monday Kiz – “Spread Away”
Park Bom – “You and I”
Supreme Team – “Then Then THen”
Jung Yeob – “Without YOu”

The Shilla Duty Free Asian Wave Award
2PM
4minute
CNBlue
KARA
SNSD

Viewers can begin voting via MAMA’s official website from today till November 21st.

Mnet plans to air the ceremony live through Hong Kong TVB, Singapore Mediacorp, Philippines GMA, Cambodian CTN in real time, in addition to its main Mnet channel. It will also air the show via satellite in North America, Oceania, and Europe and more will be revealed in due time.

Stay tuned to allkpop for more on the 2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards.