After a long absence, f(x) is finally back with their brand new first studio album, “Pinocchio” and starting promotions once again on tonight’s SBS’s Inkigayo.
Their electronic pop dance track features a powerful yet restricted beat with a unique guitar sound that brings out the diversity in f(x)’s voices. Their lyrics also add an interesting element to the performance in that it compares the process of getting to know their crush to the process of constructing their own Pinocchio doll. Check out their comeback stage below!
On the April 14th “Super Concert Wonderful Jeju” special for SBS’s “Inkigayo“, Cube labelmatesB2ST and 4minute teamed up for a collaboration music video promoting Jeju Island.
With the beautiful natural scenery of the island as their backdrop, the two groups sang an adorable song for the island to both raise awareness and promote tourism towards the island.
Members also greeted fans of different countries like Japan and France, before finally concluding with “Welcome to Korea!” Check it out below!
SBS’s Inkigayo is back once again, but this week, they’ve recorded a special episode on Jeju Island with fun and amazing performances from the top K-pop artists!
Super Concert Wonderful Jeju was part of the Visit Korea Committee’s “Visit Korea Year 2010-2012” promotional activities and was held at the Hanra Gymnasium. More than 300 audience members from not only Korea, but Japan, China, and other Asian countries attended plus foreign reporters.
The marketing director of the Visit Korea Committee stated, “By using the international power of and influence of K-Pop, we have decided to open this event to encourage and promote tourism in Jeju Island. In the future, we will be coming up with a variety of different events and ideas through the use of Hallyu so that we can appeal to an international audience.”
The concert is also in support of Jeju Island’s bid to be designated as one of the seven new natural wonders of the world. The campaign is currently in its third and final phase in which the wonders will be chosen by an estimated 1 billion voters worldwide among 28 official finalists. The final winners of the ‘New 7 Wonders of Nature’ will be announced on November 11th, 2011.
B2ST and 4minute did the ‘Greeting Song‘ video to promote Jeju Island.
MC Cuts.
The ‘Take 7‘ nominees were K.Will (“My Heart is Beating“), Big Bang (“Love Song“), Rainbow(“To Me“), Girl’s Day (“Twinkle Twinkle“), CNBLUE (“Intuition“), 4minute (“Mirror Mirror“), andOrange Caramel (“Bangkok City“). Unfortunately, Girl’s Day did not perform today.
The show ended without a winner announced for this week.
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Other artists who performed included ZE:A, Shin Moon Hee, Rania, Tony An, Dal Shabet, Lee Hyun, Mighty Mouth, Clover, INFINITE, Kim Tae Woo, U-Kiss, Yangpa, and Wheesung.
On April 24th, SBS’s Inkigayo held a live broadcast special of the “Super Concert Wonderful Jeju” at the Hanra Gymnasium with the show’s four MCs.
Throughout the show, viewers hilariously pointed out the subtle height difference between f(x)’s ‘giant baby’, Sulli, and her two male co-MCs, Jo Kwon and Kikwang.
Viewers are now wondering what Sulli’s real height is, especially since Kikwang previously admitted his height to be 170 cm, while Jo Kwon’s profile states that he is 175 cm.
Although she was wearing kill heels for the show, viewers nevertheless showed much interest in her tall height.
On the April 23rd episode of MBC’s “We Got Married“, 2PM’s Nichkhun and f(x)’s Victoriaexpressed their disappointment with their article being cut off in a magazine they were scheduled to have.
The couple was previously given a mission to act as a one-day journalist and come up with an article introducing the tastes of Korea for an internationally circulated vacation magazine.
Through the help of friends, the two diligently completed the task and earned praise of professionalism for their completed piece.
Unfortunately, while they were originally promised two full pages, only one page was printed in the magazine. To add salt to the wound, not one line from their submitted article was used at all.
Nichkhun commented, “It’s a professional magazine so I didn’t have much expectations. I guess I kind of expected it, but I did hope for our article to be in it.”
Victoria added, “I expected too much so my disappointment is just as great. I feel like someone dumped cold water on me.”
The Korean Entertainment Producers’ Association’s “2011 Dream Concert” will be opening for the 17th year on May 28th at the Seoul World Cup Stadium!
The current line-up of performances include a total of 20 K-Pop stars with TVXQ, 2PM, 4minute, IU, and many others. Free entry tickets were given out on April 7th for the 25,000 member audience, and just a week before the official close date, all seats have already been filled.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism will also be working with the Korea Copyright Commission for a special “Copyright Protection Campaign” at the event. Stay tuned for more updates!
