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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

KARA's Park Gyuri to star in the "200 Pound Beauty" Musical

KARA member Park Gyu-ri is about to get a lot busier.

Park was chosen as the best candidate to star in the musical version of "200-Pound Beauty". The original film starred actress Kim Ah-joong.

The musical team will tour Asia, starting off in Osaka, Japan in October to later stop in Seoul as well.

The musical which first premiered in 2008 had a 95% ticket sales rate with roughly 1,500 tickets on average sold daily. It has even beat out many classic foreign musicals, holding down the number one spot in terms of ticket sales.

The idol star will play Park Han-byul who is a character with explosive vocal talent, despite her overweight appearance. Thus she sings backstage, hidden, for other prettier "singers". She then transforms into a beautiful girl to kickoff a series of entertaining incidents.

Other than practicing for the romantic comedy musical, Park will be starting her group KARA's Japanese promotions for the group's fourth single, "Go Go", on June 29th.

Girl Groups Advance to Japan One After Another

After School, Tiara, Secret, and Rainbow will officially debut in Japan.

Star Korean girl groups will debut in Japan during this summer. As other star girl groups who had already debuted in Japan such as Kara, Girls Generation, Brown Eyed Girls, 4 Minute, and 2NE1 had gained huge popularity in Japan, the debut of new groups has raised anticipation about whether they could be kicking off a K-POP boom again.

After School opened their official Japanese website (http://www.after–school.jp) and they will hold their first solo concert entitled “After School Premium Party – Bang! Bang! Bang!” at Asakusa Blitz in Tokyo on July 17. They will release their first debut single “Bang!” one month later on August 17. In addition, Tiara recently signed an agency contract with the Japanese agency J-ROCK and they will hold showcase in Japan at Shibuya-Ax in Tokyo on July 5 to meet their fans before their official debut. The group Secret, who also opened their official Japanese website (http://www.secret-jpn.com) on June 8, will officially advance to Japan with their debut single “Madonna” on August 3. Secret will hold their debut live concert at Rapore Musium Harajuku in Tokyo on July 6 before they release their album.

Rainbow, who belongs to the same agency with Kara, will debut in the Japanese music industry this upcoming September with their debut single entitled “A” after signing an agency contract with Universal Sigma in Japan.