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2008-12-10T17:59:00.001+09:00

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The Soul concert

2008-12-09T18:48:00.002+09:00

Yeps, another Christmas Concert hitting town. It's the Soul Concert, which will be held on the 20th, 21st, 23rd and 24th of December 2008 at the Olympic Park, GyeongGi Province. Celebs that will be preforming are Jeong Yeob (Brown Eyed Soul), WheeSung, Park Hyo Shin and Gummy.

Full translation credit: kpopbarbican.blogspot.com
Source: Nate.com

Farewell to Nell

2008-12-09T18:24:00.003+09:00

One of Korea's most popular modern rock groups, Nell, is next in line for military service. Drummer Jung Jaewon is set to leave for his two year service on December 11th, with rumours of Jongwan and Junghoon having to follow before January 2009. There has been no news on Jaekyung.

Nell has just released a special limited edition dvd boxset of their Stay concert that took place on July 19th at Seoul Olympic Stadium, which includes a mini album of 5 new songs. Their latest single, Part 2, will be the last we hear from these four talented boys for a while. Their fans will certainly miss them while they are gone. Some fans estimate it could be as long as 5 years depending on when they all enter into their military service.

Kim Jongwan, Lee Junghoon, Jung Jaewon and Lee Jaekyung hwaiting!

Image credit; as tagged

Speed Scandal

2008-12-08T18:42:00.004+09:00

Today we'll be talking about Cha Tae Hyun's Speed Scandal, ok, no, he doesn't have any scandal :D IT'S HIS LATEST MOVIE : SPEED SCANDAL a.k.a Gwa Sok Scandal, another comedy you should NEVER EVER miss!!! The movie topped the box office last weekend (congrats :D)

good morning everyone~

2008-12-08T12:22:00.005+09:00

And I'm back from the dead to bring you some DBSK ♥

Trusting that everyone remembers srennuj's post about BB earnings , have a look at this:

Um. Yeah I don't understand Korean either. -_-;;; BUT THANKFULLY SOMEONE ON THE INTERWEBS DOES:

CD Sales from Korea and Japan added together was about $5,392,000 USD taking out payment for the composer/producing/company. The money DBSK themselves made, they sold 674,000 records this year. 1 album from Korea and rest Japan. (But it might not be accurate because CD cost is different in Japan then the cost of CD in Korea so probably they made around 6 or 7 million.)

Made $29,000,000 in just concert venue NOT INCLUDING KOREA.. (Only stats from japan, china, Taiwan.)

Have circled 60 times around the globe by airplane.

CF/sponsoring $800,000 dollars each guarantee as spokes models…

They've made 31M 792 thousand USD dollars in 2008 alone +/- upcoming money,sponsors, extra CD sales. This is just so far.

rough translation by: virvir111@soompi

~~dancedancedance I'M UP FOR ADOPTION YOU KNOW. YAH, OPPAS. ME. HERE. ADOPT A MALAYSIAN CHILD TODAY!~~

Just did the math:

31,792,000,000 W = $21,566,819

If they have a standard contract for a Korean artist they get 20% and the company gets 80%:

6,358,400,000 W = $4,311,363

Then split that between the 5 and they each get:

1,271,680,000W = $862,272

Also the company usually pays for all expences out of the 80% that they take.

math credits: queen_eddie@LJ

O_________O The amount of digits is making my head hurt.

Well it's nice to know that I somehow contributed to the boy's new hot tub/BMW/branded undies. :D But there's a bit of speculation hanging around the 20/80 split since we don't actually know if DBSK is under the standard contract and are most probably, as of right now, in a position to request better terms.

~~knowing SM, **better** terms will be something like 20.5/80 >.>~~

And moving on, I want to get me some of that:

pic creds: mrskimj_j@LJ

A 19+ sticker in a thankfully, very considerate place ~~personally I was wondering if they'd go and stick it over Jae's head or worse, leader-sshi's nipple >.>~~. *sigh* Way to go, Korea! Censoring your top (imho, that is, put those killing things away) act? Way. To. Go.

Who's who?

2008-12-08T01:14:00.004+09:00

familiar? yeah I think so...

On the right side is new comer Cous Yuki while on the left side is DBSK member, Kim Jae Joong And the first picture? Definitely NOT KIM JAE JOONG. Well, the resemblance aren't that much except for some pictures, to me that is. LOL!!

Thoughts?

TOHOSHINKI - BALERO

2008-12-08T01:08:00.002+09:00

You ain't seeing enough of Toho hotness yet xDDDD
Tohoshinki will be releasing their latest Japanese single-Balero on 21st January 2009.

image credits: as tagged

Rumoured girl group

2008-12-07T23:04:00.003+09:00

The Kpop industry is currently lacking of new blood (talented new blood that is). But I'm not sure whether these new blood are talented enough to save the industry from recycling songs over and over again. JYP ENT's sister company, Cube Ent is ~~planning~~ rumoured to launch a female group in mid-2009. Group name? still unknown (But we will keep on updating :D) Anyway, members who are confirmed to debut are, Choi Gina, Jang SeoHee and Kim Hyuna.

I bet most of you are familiar with Hyuna, a former member of Wondergirls while Choi Gina made her appearance in 2PM's hit PV, 10 out of 10.. Jang SeoHee on the other hand was formerly considered to join Wondergirls but she was being substituted in the last minute.

So if you're still wondering how they look like, here're some pictures of them.

Gina

SeoHee

Hyuna

credits: daum + soompi + AF

Factory Girl vs, Wonder Bakery

2008-12-07T18:06:00.000+09:00

SNSD prepare something special for their fans that is filming Mnet reality show, “Factory Girl”. The show will have the girls taking on the role of editors for a fashion magazine (”ELLE girl“) where they’ll be looking at trends for girls in their teens and in their 20s. (The original article said something about how it’s a reality show version of “The Devil Wears Prada”.)

This is their resume. (Click for larger View)

This is their first episode with subs provided by soshisubs. The first episode talks about their fashion sense as in how they dress & them as an editor. A fashion stylist, is it? Yea, her, she will observe the SNSD girls' fashion, see thier wardrobe and their beauty products they used. Well, mostly its compliment *coughs* from the stylist. There's one thing i'm not really ok with because Tae Yeon & YooNa left for their activities about 10 minutes?after the show started. So it would be better, if the whole team work together as in no one is missing. If you are a big fans of fashion and you doesn't mind SNSD. This is an interesting show to be watch plus you can see the fun side of SNSD.

Wonder Bakery by Wonder Girls

Wonder Girls are starring in a Mnet reality show called “Wonder Bakery” in which they will be pairing up with aspiring bakers to compete for a cash prize of 10 million Won .

I watched the first episode. It's funny seeing the guys and the girls expression when they knew their partner. And the guys are rather flirty with the girls. LOL SoHee got the best looking partner & that really worries her. Wonder Bakery compared to Factory Girls, it's a super different show. Because this show talks about food and being the strongest team to win the money, while factory girl is about fashion. The girls gets a bit messy too in here.
I'll strongly recommend you to watch this show if you are a fan of food or at least pastry. ^^

Ok that's all from me.
By Ikaru.
credits to soompi & wonderland.

Kpop Relay

2008-12-06T21:39:00.004+09:00

Gong Yoo Is Back!!!

Well, not really though~ According to Newsen, our Coffee Prince lead actor, Gong Yoo, who is also currently serving the military as an entertainment soldier made his public appearance in 'Good Morning City' held in Dongdaemun, Seoul to celebrate the launching of a new radio station yesterday. Celebs who perfomed at the event includes Jamilya, Psy, Hwangbo and NRG's No Yoo-min.

Daddy SooMan fights back!!!

oh yeah~ finally He's doing something right, standing up for our wonderful DongBang boys to fight against the ~~evil~~ court.

On 27th November 2008, The Ministry of Health and Family Affairs announced that DBSK's 4th album-Ju Mun contains inappropriate content for youths and is put under the 19 year age banned by the Youth Safety Association.

Reason?

Specifically, the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs have pointed out the references to sperm in the word, “Crystal” (….flowing through you are millions of my crystal…”) and “red ocean” to a woman’s monthly function.

adapted from Popseoul-DongBangShinKi's Too Sexy For The Government article

The Outcome? SM Entertainment agreed to release a clean version of Jumon-Mirotic.

But daddy SM is not going to give up :D The management company decided to file a case to the court and stated that,

"Even before when the order had been put against MIROTIC, we have clearly negotiated and tried to explain the real meaning and explanation of the lyrics , but even after this the results came out unexpectedly and we are bewildered as of this moment"

credits: dbskdbsk111@soompi + DNBN

This incident however, will not affect DBSK's attendance for NHK's Red White Ceremony, according to the NHK PD.

Up and Coming: CSJH The Grace

After so long, we are finally seeing them ei? CSJH The Grace will be releasing their latest Japanese album - DEAR in January 2009. Check out their latest music video, A Bit of Good.

oh yeah~ I can feel a STRONG J-POP scent out of the pv~ STEPHANIE!!!! *faint*

Pretty girl lesson from KARA?

2008-12-06T20:49:00.003+09:00

credit - wondersmurf@youtube
KARA finally ~~attack~~ their fans and audience with their pretty look in their new ~~lesson~~ mv pretty girl. From my POV, i think seung yeon is more to japanese style when u look at her tan makeup.
credits - yopress

Try to compare seung yeon make up with them.is almost the same but of course seung yeon make up is not that tan.KARA NEW MV almost have the same ~~self praising~~ concept as wonder girls so hot(~~the popular self praising mv~~) that have caught alot attention from the medias.

note - i love both wonder girls and KARA XD

Colonize ripped WRONGWROKS?

2008-12-06T12:02:00.008+09:00

This is quite an old news but just want to let those who still doesn't know about this.
WRONGWROKS is a tee line which produces the 'coolest' tee in town. That's what HongKies(HongKong) & Taiwanese are saying. Their base, if i'm not mistaken its somewhere in USA? They were even interviewed by Hong Kong & Taiwan fashion magazine.So what about them got to do with Colonize? Try and take a look at the picture below.

WRONGWROKS Dora Tee Series

The tee even get featured in HongKong Fashion Magazine

Looks Familiar? Well, its the tee and hoodie that bigbang oftenly wear! Not just bigbang but other kpop artist too! The other time, i saw Hwang Bo's assistant or was it security guard wearing the colonize tee. xD

COLONIZE TEE

According to wrongwroks, they created the dora series tee a year ago. And one fine day, they got many emails by the wrongworks fans reporting about some korean idol wearing tee similiar to wrongwroks design.

This is what they say when they saw BigBang wearing Colonize Tee.

lots of email these 2 days….god, email server is full….so here is the deal….

loads of emails coming to us talking about this “famous” (for?) Korean band, BIG BANG wearing a serious so-called original clothing called COLONIZE is ripped off , well not ripped off but totally copy from WRONGWROKS and calling themselves original FANZ club tee….i guess peeps are very mad and emailing us about this…. well i guess lots of people know about this, and i think eventually, this korean big bang boyz club will know about this….

What did they do?
They launched a new line of tee called " Colonize Steals Wrongwroks " series!

its been a year we didn't launch any style of the Dora tee series, we finally decided to launch this series again in different color camo's regarding to this COLONIZE STEALS WRONGWROKS thing , we have launch similar color to what they have made it in Korea...this series will launch FIRST in our webstore and also in SCULPOFNY, (SEOUL KOREA) , it comes in 2 options, buying individually or in a set of 4 with a great deal (it has to be same size) !

Then what did colonize said? Well i'm not quite sure. There weren't any reply from colonize to Wrongwroks but wrongwroks did mention something about colonize clarified that they didn't copy? Well, if you do know about this do drop a comment. It'll be super usefull~

By Ikaru.
source:wrongwroks.

Family Outing = Hilarity

2008-12-06T00:33:00.002+09:00

Family Outing or you call it 패밀리가 떴다 in korean. It means either "The family is up" or "The family come/came out".

What is the show about?
Residents from the countryside are picked and given a free vacation for one night and two days. During this time, the MCs and various additional guests form a 'family' and look after their house, experiencing the lives of these people. They must complete different chores and jobs, and play fun & hilarious games while they're at it.

The peoples involve are

Family Members: Yoo Jae Suk, Lee Hyori, Yoon Jong Shin, Kim Soo Ro, Lee Chun Hee, Daesung (Big Bang), Park Ye Jin & Kim Jong Kook [Ep19+]

According to some 'site', this show was made to beat 2 days, 1 night hosted by Kang Ho Dong . The result is? No one knows yet. But Family Outing did surpas We Got Married.Back to family outing, for each episode a special guest star will appear such as members from Shinhwa ( Dong Wan, Junjin , Hye Sung ) , BigBang( G-Dragon ) , Ft.Island (Hong Ki) , SNSD ( Tae Yeon ) , TVXQ ( Yunho & Junsu) , even the world class idol Bi Rain & many more.

Some of the highlights from the show include 'Ramen Soup' , Ye Jin's Skill handling with seafood & her bribing skill, Chun Hee's clumsyness , The dumb & dumber brothers , The sly eyes brothers , Hyo Ri funniness/stupidness/patheticness , Rain's Tango with Hyori & so much more.

For me, it's super hilarious. Everytime i watched it, I'll either laugh till i cry or cry + stomachache! Youtube do offers some episode but not all. But you can surely find the ones with TVXQ , Rain , Dong Wan , Hye Sung & some cut out scenes of JunJin. That's what i observed. FO Fansubs do offer until epi 14, if i'm not mistaken but lately the site restrict the number of people watchin through there because of some bashin from unsatisfied viewers. Currently they won't be opening up any membership but they will in February 2009.

So please do try and watch it . I recommend you to start with the episode featuring Bi Rain and TVXQ. It's just HILARIOUS.

By: Ikaru ( sorry if this bored you. )

much credits to soompi.

How much does Big Bang earn?

2008-12-05T21:04:00.006+09:00

Hey people. Srennuj here. We all know that stars make big money to stuff in their deep fat pockets but seriously, how much do they actually earn?

Big bang is a very famous and well known band right now and practically Korea's sweet heart. They're smoothly climbing their way up the world of fame. Success with songs like Lies, Last Greeting, Haru haru, Sunset Glow and much much more has hyper spaced them up in the sky and knocking the socks off K-Charts everywhere. Obviously, big success + cute boys + golden hearts = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

*drum rolls*

Big Bang earns... 36 Billion KRW in 2008.

Here am I thinking...2008 isn't even over yet...

36 billion KRW is equivalent to 24 Million USD. They earn it from their concerts, CF activities, endorsement, album sales, online music sales, merchandise and many other things they. I guess all this hard work really paid off huh?

Random bits~

2008-12-05T17:55:00.008+09:00

Hello folks, and yes this is another post of the day :D

*coughs* allow me to introduce mahself: Mrs Park, the eldest and perhaps THE MOST NOT Funniest among the bunch, loves to cling on the internet looking for more (YES! MORE!!!) Kpop. END.

Lame? yeah~ I guess so. Anyway, we have:

Yes, more updates on JYP's (or more familiarly known as ze Dancing Gorrila) 2008 Concert tour - One Night Stand. According to JYPE today, his fellow artists (namely 2PM, 2AM, Wondergirls and Joo) are going to perform onstage with him. One Night Stand will surge through 7 cities in Korea starting from 13th December.

Oh btw~ please be reminded that I have a great habit of using brackets.TYVM. NEXT~

Yesterday, we have KARA releasing their latest mini album-Pretty Girl. Kiaa~ I like pretty much about EVERYTHING in this album: cute, bright and colourful :)

Gwiyoweo~~~~ *pokes Seung Yeon*

LOL~ that's all from me.

first news post

2008-12-05T16:35:00.008+09:00

:DD *bounces into spankin' new blog* Thanks to Ikaru (yo, bb ilu), imma be your first news-posting ~~barbarian~~ barbicanian!

*bows* blurm eese here~ Self confessed dongbang (DBSK/TVXQ/TVfXQ/THSK/if you don't know them, prepare to feel my wrath and re-education :]) fan which means almost everything you see with my name stamped on it is probably gonna be 1. about the boys 2.about the boys or 3.about the boys.

MOVING ON~

The (well, almost) latest, and oh mini font is mine because I'm ~~chibi~~ unable to shut up :

"DBSK will not be attending any of the End of the Year BIg Gayo DaeJun (WAR) Programs for KBS MBC SBS. holey crap can you hear the sound of 800,000 girls crying

The 4th Album "MIROTIC" released in September has hit 500,000 album sales and has proved DBSK's power once again as the BEst Idols in Korea, but it will be difficult to see DBSK at this years Big Three GAYO ceremonies.

DBSK's SM Ent. has said over interview " 29 through the 30th DBSK will be in Japan for the award ceremonies there and will be difficult to be able to make it for the Live GAYO ceremonies in Korea.

The BIG 3 end of the Year GAYO DaeJUns will take place on the 29th for SBS, 30th for KBS, and 31st for MBC.

It's impossible for DBSK to make it to any of them. *crawls into hole and weeps*

In contrast DBSK will be away in Japan those days for the Dec- 29th ( i dont the name in japanese) White-Red ?? ceremony.. Since it's DBSK's first time it will be exciting for DBSK.

on the 30th DBSk will attend Japan Record Awards as a nominee."

-trans. credits to 김형우 cox109@newsen.com + virvir111@soompi

And there you have it, there's gonna be a no-show from DongBang in Korea due to ~~Japan being selfish boo~~ having Japanese stuff to appear on, namely the Japan Record Awards and NHK Red & White Songfest (Kouhaku).

;-;. :O. >.>.

But wait just a second before you go around crying/despairing/threatening to burn Bigeast fanclub members, dongbang in Japan is srs business here ~~but of course dbsk is always srs business duh~~

As to why:

Japan Record Awards- they'll be there for the Gold Award for their Doushite single (one of the 12 winning artists) on the 30th of Dec., this ain't no small award, believe me.

Middle row, right side~ This is from the Kouhaku press con. on 25/11

And again, pls ignore Chunface's hair and concentrate on how good the magnae looks in a turtleneck.

pic creds: mainichi.jp + xietinloveshero@bs

Kouhaku- the thing almost everyone's been waiting for, Kouhaku is only the biggest, the most prestigious Japanese music show. And I quote from Wikipedia:

"The honor of performing on Kōhaku is strictly by invitation, so only the most successful J-Pop artists and enka singers can perform"

"Even today, a performance on Kōhaku is said to be a big highlight in a singer's career because of the show's large reach.

:D. XD. ^.^.

Still wanna burn fanclubs? :D And to clear up things up about the Gayos, here's a quote from toshiya@LJ-

Some people may be a bit confused.
The gayos are not award ceremonies. They are like music festivals where artists are invited to perform. So it's not a battle to see who gets the award, but who gives the best performance on stage.

end of first news post, yo~ :D

Welcome!

2008-12-05T12:27:00.002+09:00

First of all i would like to express my thanks to those who visit this site. I would like to thank my Barbican Team too for helping out the codes & designs. Kpop Barbican is created to bring you, readers the latest news of Kpop & behind the scenes of the industry too. You might be wondering, what on earth is barbican. Barbican simply means fotresss. The front wall or you can say defending gate/ wall. We will defend the greatness of Kpop an continue spreading the love, the joy of Kpop.

Barbicanians ( That's what we call ourself ) aims to bring you a different perspective of Kpop. We want to do things slighthly different from others. So i hope that you readers will give us a chance by supporting us. Please do give us your opinion so that we can improve and offer a better service.

Thanks.