Yangpa, Soyeon and Lee Boram performed I Know on Music Core!

Soyeon at Dream Concert red carpet

T-ara's main vocal Soyeon joined Yangpa and Lee Boram on Music Core aired earlier today performing I Know Live.

Check out their performance here!

K-pop joins J-pop to show some love

2PM, one of the K-pop acts to perform at the “Love-1 Festival” in Japan.[JoongAng Ilbo]

From June 16 to 17, various K-pop groups such as KARA, Rainbow, CN Blue, 2PM and Leessang will join forces with J-pop groups to perform at the “Love-1 Festival” to take place in Osaka.

The Japanese music festival is in its second season this year, kicking off last year in July as the first all-day outdoor K-pop concert event. More than 20,000 fans flocked to last year’s show.

“Love-1 Festival” is known for its emphasis on promoting volunteerism and respect for the environment via its music and sports events.

The participating K-pop acts are all very popular in Japan.

In April, KARA kicked off the Japanese leg of its Asian tour “Karasia” in Yokohama. The group will be busy touring around Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, Tokyo and Saitama until late May.

In total, KARA will perform in front of more than 130,000 Japanese fans.

Meanwhile, boy band 2PM is set to release a new EP in Japan on June 6.

Super Junior still a Japanese favorite

By selling more than 54,331 copies of its new single “Opera” on the day of its release, Super Junior came in third place on the daily Oricon chart in Japan on Wednesday. The next day, an additional 15,608 copies of the album were sold, helping the band maintain the same position.

The new album contains three tracks and is available in three different versions: CD+DVD, CD limited edition and CD only. Each limited edition album comes with a puzzle piece featuring one of the nine Super Junior members.

And Japan isn’t the only foreign nation where the boys are topping the charts.

“Mr. Simple” from Super Junior’s fifth album remained at No. 1 on Taiwanese Web site KKBox’s Weekly K-pop 100 Chart for 37 consecutive weeks, the group’s agency said on April 28.

Previously, “Beauty” was No. 1 on the same chart from June 2010 until August 2011 for 63 consecutive weeks.

EMI Music's "EMI SHINee.App" Application for Android!

EMI Music has come out with a new SHINee application.

The app comes free-of-charge, featuring a handy listing of the latest SHINee news, official videos, and a handy route map showing the location of SHINee's concert venues. (For example, SHINee's Tokyo venue/concert dates are shown in the screenshot.) A profile of SHINee is also included for newcomers. The app was created as a sort of companion to SHINee's Japanese tour. Although it is only available for the Android for now, an iPhone version is currently being worked on.

The app may be downloaded through Google here.

Additional Details

Current Version: 1.0.1

Requires Android: 2.2 and up

Category: Music & Audio

Size: 18M

Price: Free

Content Rating: Low Maturity

2012“DREAM CONCERT”红地毯照片！附加出演者名单

今年第18届的“Dream Concert”演唱会将会在今天5月12号于首尔世界杯体育场举行。


今年的“Dream Concert”出演者包裹 东方神起，少女时代，2PM，，B1A4，Miss A，2AM，Secret，IU，Mblaq，Beast，Infinite，T-ara，Rania，Kara，Davichi，SISTAR，K Will，ZE:A，TEEN TOP 以及 4Minute 等等。另一方面，今年的主持人将会是来自 Kara 的 韩胜妍，2PM 的 玉泽演 以及 ZE:A 的 林时完。

Dream Concert 2012 Red Carpet photos!

T-ara

Dream Concert 2012 will begin in a while.

Top KPop idols such as TVXQ, SNSD, 2AM, 2PM, MISS A, SECRET, IU, MBLAQ, SISTAR, BEAST, T-ARA, TEEN TOP, 4MINUTE, INFINITE, ZE:A, KARA, 4MINUTE, DAVICHI and K.Will will take on the stage later today.

For the time being,check out the red carpet photos here,we will continue to update this post from time to time! 

KARA

Teen Top

Secret

B1A4

BEAST

2AM

Davichi

TVXQ

INFINITE

MBLAQ

RaNia

This week’s ‘Running Man’ to have a ‘Wedding Race’ theme

As many of you know, miss A‘s Suzy, KARA‘s Seungyeon and Gyuri, 4minute‘s HyunA, andKrystal of f(x) will be featuring on the upcoming episode of ’Running Man‘.

A few still cuts of the members and the guests were revealed, and have left fans desperately awaiting the new episode.

As it had been hinted in the preview aired during the end of last week’s episode, the girl group members and the ‘Running Man’ members will be partnering up as couples on their wedding day.

Each couple will be racing against each other completing wedding-themed missions such as “dowry preparation”, “wedding photo”, and “wedding march” until the race comes to an end with a large-scale challenge at a wedding hall in Seoul.

Catch this new exciting episode of ‘Running Man’ on May 13th at 6PM KST!

Taecyeon & Seungyeon to host ’2012 Dream Concert’ with ZE:A’s Lim Siwan

We previously reported that ZE:A‘s Siwan would be serving as one of the main MC’s for the ‘2012 Dream Concert‘, and it looks like Taecyeon and Seungyeon will be joining him!

Siwan along with 2PM‘s Taecyeon and KARA‘s Han Seungyeon will be hosting the ‘I Love Korea 2012 Dream Concert’ scheduled to be held at the World Cup Stadium in Seoul on May 12th.

Though this will be Siwan’s first time serving as an MC, he will be focusing on flawlessly hosting the event with Taecyeon and Seungyeon, who have both boasted their MC skills on programs such as SBS‘Inkigayo‘ and ‘Animal Farm‘.

20 artists in total will be performing at the mega concert, including Girls’ Generation, KARA, T-ara, 2PM, ZE:A, miss A, B2ST, 4minute, 2AM, MBLAQ, SISTAR, SECRET, IU, and more.

The profits made from this concert will be used to help the underprivileged youth. Chairman Kim Young Jin of the Korean Entertainment Producers’ Association who are organizing the ‘Dream Concert’ remarked, “Just as we have done since 2009, we have plans to continue to use the ticket profits from the concert for our ‘Dream Concert Scholarship Fund’ to support our youth.”