‘Kpop Dance Cover Festival’ holds its Japanese audition

‘Cover Dance Festival K-POP Roadshow 40120′, held its Japanese audition on September 11th at Tokyo Shinkiba Studio Coast.

Out of the 193 dance cover teams that applied through the homepage, 22 teams made it through the preliminaries, performing in front of 3,000 audience members and KARA.

Various participants from different backgrounds, from a 9 year old girl, a housewife with 3 kids to a 42 year old salaryman, competed in hopes of being selected as the winner. In addition to the usual idol groups like KARA and T-ara, there were also covers of under represented genres of Korean music fromUV’s “Itaewon Freedom” to Park Hyun Bin’s “Shabang Shabang”.

KARA’s Gyuri stated, “I was touched by the amount of effort put in by the dance teams… I knew that there were a lot of Japanese fans that were interested in K-POP, but I didn’t know the interest level was to the extent of people wanting to actually go to Korea or students dreaming of studying abroad there”.

The PD in charge of the Japanese auditions, Kim Hyun Chul, remarked, “Through the Japanese audition, we were surprised by the different genders and different age groups of K-POP fans and at all the organized K-POP dance cover teams with their own set of fans” and that “If we look at Japan, where K-POP has reached a certain stage, instead of other countries where K-POP has yet to penetrate, we will be able to confirm the true nature of K-POP’s status and the direction it must head towards”.

‘Cover dance Festival K-POP Roadshow 40120′ is an entertainment-documentary program which will air its first episode on September 22nd through MBC.

T-ara appointed as honorary ambassadors for Seoul Customs

On September 16th, the members of T-ara were formally appointed as the honorary ambassadors for the Seoul Customs department at the customs office in Nonhyun-dong, Seoul.

T-ara will be promoting the jobs of customs officials and encouraging competition between future companies. They will also be participating in various charity and volunteer efforts to better aid the citizens of Korea.

The girls were recently appointed as endorsement models for ramen brand Shin Ramen‘s new Japanese products. They’ll be carrying out their respective promotional duties in addition to preparing for their comeback on October 27th.

Check out photos from the event below!

KARA wins Music Bank K-Chart + other performances

‘Music Bank‘ is back with another fun and exciting show that was chock-full of amazing performances!

Besides the usual stages on tonight’s show, KARA, Sung Shi Kyung, Huh Gak, and B1A4 made their comebacks this week! Meanwhile, hip hop duo Crispi Crunch made their debut.

Super Junior faced off against KARA for this week’s K-Chart, but in the end, it was KARA who clinched the ‘K-Chart’ win.

Congratulations, KARA!

Others who performed tonight included Davichi, U-KISS, G.NA, Nine Muses, 45 RPM, Piggy Dolls, April Kiss, Lee Ji Young, Witches, Chocolat, Bella, Shin Goeun, and TWI-light.

Check them out down below!

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KARA returns to ‘Music Bank’!

KARA is finally back with their new song, “Step“, which they performed for the first time on tonight’s ‘Music Bank‘.

Seungyeon stated, “We’re finally releasing our third album in Korea. Compared to our other albums, this is an especially important one that we all feel more affectionate towards. We participated in the recording, choreography, music video, and style concepts. It will only be for a short while, but we want to show our best.”

The members continued, “Ever since our debut, people asked what our differentiating factor was, and we always said that it was our friendliness. This time, we want to go with something unique and professional. We hope that if we do our best on stage, it will become the best stage for our fans as well.”

Check out their comeback stage below, which features “Date (My Boy)“ and “Step“!

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Victoria and Nickhun celebrate the last day of their marriage in We Got Married : "Victoria bursts into tears"

On September 17’s episode of MBC We Got Married, Nickhun and Victoria hold an event to celebrate the last day of their marriage.

The two of them open a party to celebrate the 456th day of their marriage. Professional badminton player Lee Yong Dae, and members of f(x): Sulli, Luna, and Amber came to the party.

At the end of the party, Nickhun gives a goodbye gift to Victoria. Unable to hold it back, Victoria bursts into tears for the first time in front of Nickhun. Nickhun and Victoria celebrated the last day of their marriage in the 63 Building, where they met for the first time a year and three months ago.

Hyun Ah took some selcas in Cube practice room

4Minute's Hyun Ah shared a few new selcas on her official Twitter account.

She shows her cute expressions in the photos shown here.She is simply adorable,i wonder where the other girls are?Why leaving her alone!

KARA wins Music Bank K-Chart

KARA made their anticipated comeback on Music Bank and dominated today's K-Chart with "Step"!

Watch their winning moment and performances!