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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

"Lovey Dovey" music video given 19+ rating!

Girl group T-ara's music video of Lovey Dovey is said unsafe and harmful and is given a 19+ rating.

On the 30th of March, The Youth Protection Commission ruled that T-ara's Love Dovey Music Video is harmful because it features criminal activity, suicide and drugs that are not good for the children to watch.

To prevent the kids watching this music video, anyone under the age of 19 will not be able to watch the music video online. They also decided that the music video will not be aired on TV until 10PM.

They do this to refrain the kids from doing criminal activities and other things that cause trouble.

2NE1 invited as co-speakers in Cannes Advertising Festival

[Cheil Communications, to hold seminar on international marketing in Cannes Festival... 2NE1 to participate as co-speakers]

Cheil Communications along with group 2NE1 would be talking about the Korean wave during the Cannes International Advertising Festival.

Cheil Communications will be holding a seminar at the Cannes Inernational Advertising Festival for its fifth consecutive year.

This year, they will be having the topic “Korean Wave Through Digital Wave,” talking about the digital advertising global content strategy of K-Pop. Cheil Communications vice-president, and also South-East Asia regional president,Seong Jong Kim, was announced to be the speaker during the said event.

Particularly, during this seminar, 2NE1 will be the co-speakers. They along with Cheil Communications talking about global advertising and the reasons why K-POP has been gaining international attention.

2NE1, with their unique and distinctive music and fashion, are one of the leaders of the Hallyu Wave, also, their agency, YG Entertainment, are one of the agencies that are actively marketing the Hallyu wave through digital means, this was the high point of being the reason why they were chosen as one of the seminar’s speakers.

Terry Savage, the current chairman of this year’s festival, and one of the officers in the Cannes International Advertising Festival, said that “Every year, many people take an interest in Cheil Communications’ seminar, which focuses mainly on digital advertising, she continued, “This year, they will be talking about the recent boom in interest about the digital Hallyu content marketing.“

Lee Min Ho cancels fan event due to large crowd

Hallyu star Lee Min Ho had to cancel his fan event in China due to unexpectedly large amount of people swarmed to the scene.

On April 3rd, according to Lee Min Ho’s agency, Starhaus Entertainment, “On the afternoon of April 2nd, Lee Min Ho was planning to attend the opening ceremony of the brand Semir in X’ian, China. However, due to an overflow of people, the event got cancelled.”

Semir is a popular Chinese clothing brand that has over 6,000 stores all over the country. In light of the new store that was being opened, Lee Min Ho, who is the official model for the brand, was supposed to celebrate the opening with an event.

Huge crowds of people started to camp out from the night before the event to see Lee Min Ho. From the day before the event, about 5,000 people had filled up the square in front of the shop.

The employees of the store were trapped inside by the crowd of people and could not go outside. 100 extra staff members and bodyguards and 300 Public Security Officers were dispatched to the scene, but they were no match for the sea of Chinese fans.

Lee Min Ho was only able to tell his fans hastily in the filming video, “I’m upset that I had to leave without even getting to see everyone. I promise there will be a next time.”

Lee Min Ho tried his best to give something back to his fans and gave out 300 signatures in two hours.

Rumors of Lee Min Ho and Park Min Young getting back together are not true

Are Lee Min Ho and Park Min Young getting back together? The actor and actresses agency says otherwise. Recently, rumors of the two who have publicly declared their relationship before but eventually broke up due to their busy schedule started that the two were going to get back together.

However their respective agencies denied this rumor and called it "unfounded" and said that the two hasn't contacted each other since they broke up and clears all rumors of the two getting back together. Two two were co-stars in the hit drama SBS "City Hunter" and now they are working on their respective projects, Park Min Young is working on KBS "Man of Honor" while Lee Min Ho has been confirmed for the new drama "Faith".