f(x)’s Sulli revealed her bold side once again!
On February 3rd, Sulli showed off her childhood photo through KBS 2TV’s “Lunar New Year Special Idol Brain Competition.”
Slyly, the f(x) member quipped, “I think I’m prettier now,” causing everyone to howl with laughter.
Sulli is known as a ‘bold celebrity’ for daring to show off her pre-debut photos, but she later backed up and apologized to show modesty.
f(x)’s Victoria is famous for her flexibility and with this latest win, she’s lived up to her reputation as the ‘human folder’.
On KBS’s Lunar New Year’s special, “Idol Brain Collision“, Victoria and the other female contestants were asked to see how far they could stretch. Victoria was able to stretch out to an astounding 217 cm – that’s just over 7 feet!
Needless to say, she blew the other competitors out of the water. In the picture above, you can see the aghast faces of the other female idols!
There’s no better time than Chuseok and Lunar New Year’s for idol groups to get out there and promote themselves to the public. A variety of special programs lets them to reach out to a bigger audience, since everyone’s home from work and school.
Some would argue that KARA was the idol group who first kicked off this vigorous promotion cycle back during 2009’s Chuseok, when they earned the nickname ‘bolts of energy‘ thanks to Goo Hara’s efforts. By winning a variety of contests, she established the foundations for the rest of her group members to rise up on, resulting in KARA being one of Korea’s top girl groups.
SISTAR’s Bora continued the trend during 2010’s Chuseok by achieving exceptional results at MBC’s “Idol Star Athletics Championships”. The idol won the female 100m hurdle, the female 400m relay, the female 100m race, and a silver at the high jump. The achievements brought countless headlines for SISTAR in the weeks that followed.
So which stars hit it big during 2011’s Lunar New Year 
According to Sports Today,
SECRET and SISTAR came out with nine and eight appearances, respectively.
Following those three groups were Girl’s Day, Rainbow, f(x), miss A, the Brown Eyed Girls, and Dal Shabet. Rookies Dal Shabet, Han Groo, and Co-Ed also garnered a surprising amount of appearances throughout the two-day holiday as well.
Male groups, including 2PM and MBLAQ, were also seen on the specials, but the number of their appearances paled in comparison to the girls’.
Unfortunately for some, the jam-packed schedule resulted in visible fatigue in their performances. Yet some groups felt that it was a good sacrifice, as they managed to set up a foundation for themselves and raise their popularity over the holiday, allowing them to further grow into top stars.
Special holiday programs have now become a staple for idols in the music industry, as well as a ‘must attend’ activity for rookie artists.
On February 3rd, SBS aired their annual Lunar New Year’s special, “Star Couple Challenge Cup“!
Fans of various idol groups went wild as their favorite artists paired up with different teammates in order to deliver performances that were hot, hilarious, astounding, and memorable.
Check out the videos below!
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KARA’s Goo Hara made a hilarious transformation on February 4th’s episode of ”URAKARA“!
In the drama, Hara’s character feels ‘oppressed’ whenever she’s about to tackle an important event, and so to cope with the pressure, she’ll obsessively eat curry and focus on white lines whenever she walks on roads.
Her character was cast into a popular drama, where she plays a court lady in a world made up of cats. Unfortunately, she ends up buckling under the pressure, and ultimately fails in keeping her role.
The next day, Hara meets a robot named ‘Park CEO #2′, and she’s ordered to meet a Japanese pro-golfer. After learning that he has the same personality as her’s, Hara is able to let go of her ‘jinx’.
Despite the troubles KARA has been facing over the past few weeks, the group’s new CF has finally made its way onto the Japanese airwaves!
KARA has teamed up with Japanese aesthetics company TBC to headline the campaign, “Kirei wa, TBC kara” (“Beauty comes from TBC”). The word “Kara”, which also means “from”, was cleverly incorporated into the slogan in order to further promote the group’s position as spokespersons.
In the new CF, these five gorgeous ladies dazzle the viewers with a sparkling, energetic dance. The song featured in the CF, “Jet Coaster Love“, is an upbeat tune which urges the listener to “fall in love”.
Watch the new CF below, and let us know what you think of the new song!
No word yet on whether “Jet Coaster Love” will see a physical release.
T-ara’s Hyomin recently apologized to her senior, Big Bang’s Seungri, for speaking informally to him on public broadcast.
She recently wrote on her Twitter, “I was in the middle of watching a broadcast, and that day Seungri and I decided to have fun together by jokingly mocking each other and speaking comfortably, but it’s been bothering me cause it looked like I was talking carelessly.”
Hyomin was in fact talking about scenes from the recently broadcast SBS TV’s “King of Idols”,where the two were playing a water game. Hyomin made comments towards Seungri such as, “This guy’s kinda weird” and “He’s dumb.”
Although Hyomin is technically older than Seungri, he is considered her senior as he debuted earlier in the music industry with Big Bang. Hyomin expressed, “We both agreed to do it out of fun, but if it was uncomfortable to watch then I apologize. I hope people do not think badly of it.”
