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Another Korean entertainer’s death for year 2008
Monday December 1, 2008 Korea
After artistes like U-Nee, Turtleman, Monday Kiz Kim Min Soo, Lee Eon and Choi Jin Shil, another piece of news of the suicidal death of Korean singer surfaced.
It has been reported that one fifth of 5-member group M Street Lee Seo Hyun (30) has passed away.
He was found on 1st December at 4.40pm in the practise studio located in Seoul YangJaeDong. He was found hanging by his neck, a death letter was also found together with his body.
One of the police officer in charged of the case said, “We will look at the case as suicidal case, and we are now investigating the cause of his death.”
The officer also revealed that from the death letter found, it seems that Lee is a sincere Christian and had decided to commit suicide on 30th November.
It was revealed the content in the death letter written on both sides of an A4 size paper
"All the last faces I see before I leave the world.. All the church members, the parents of the unfortunate child.. I’m so sorry to have hurt you."
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Seoul University opens its gates for Star’s Lover
Monday December 1, 2008 Korea
Yoo Ji-tae and Cha Ye-ryun are shown here filming for A Star’s Lover at Seoul University, marking the first time a drama’s been shot at Korea’s top educational institution. A few productions have been shot at another top school, Yonsei University (Attic Cat, My Sassy Girl), but never before at Seoul.
(In the scene, Yoo’s character Chul-soo reminisces about his breakup with his first love, played by Cha. As they’re saying their goodbyes, the first snow falls around them, the effect of which was achieved using a snow machine. In the present day, Chul-soo is an associate professor at his alma mater.)
source: dramabeans
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Winners of 1st Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Philippines bared
Sunday November 30, 2008 Philippines
The Filipino kids have spoken.
The winners of the first-ever Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards (KCA) Philippines 2008 were bared Saturday night during the awarding ceremony at Aliw Theater in Pasay City.
Teenagers and kids voted Kim Chiu and Dingdong Dantes as their favorite actress and actor, respectively.
Chiu emerged as kids’ favorite actress among Angel Locsin, Iza Calzado, Marian Rivera and Sarah Geronimo.
Dantes, on the other hand, bested other nominees namely Gerald Anderson, John Lloyd Cruz, Piolo Pascual and Richard Gutierrez.
“Marimar” was the kids’ favorite television show, beating “Bubble Gang,” “Goin’ Bulilit,” “Marimar,” “The Singing Bee” and “Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan.”
Basketball player Chris Tiu of the Ateneo de Manila University was this year’s KCA Philippines favorite athlete, defeating Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Molina, Efren “Bata” Reyes, and Japoy Lizardo.
Singer Christian Bautista was voted as the winner under the favorite musical act category. Other nominees were Gary Valenciano, Parokya ni Edgar, Sandwich and Yeng Constantino.
“SpongeBob SquarePants” remained popular among the children after it was picked as their favorite cartoon show among other nominees namely “Avatar,” “The ..... (article cut to save bandwidth)
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Maomi Yuki promotes traffic safety in Tokyo
Monday December 1, 2008 Japan
“Multi-talent” Maomi Yuki appeared at the opening ceremony for “Safety and Smooth Tokyo Fair 2008” on Sunday, an event held in Akasaka as part of a wider campaign concerned with road safety and alleviating traffic congestion.
Yuki, 28, was wearing a policewoman’s uniform, and went on to tell of an unfortunate alcohol-related mishap: “I love alcohol, and right around when I graduated from university, I was at an end-of-year party at an izakaya, and I passed out with my head in the toilet bowl.”
source: japantoday
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BoA to Makes US Debut Through MTV
Monday December 1, 2008 Korea
Korean pop sensation BoA will make her television debut in the United States through ``MTV World Presents: BoA Live in New York'' Dec. 3.
The recording will be taped by Music Television, or MTV's Total Request Live (TRL) studios, for three hours from 11 a.m.
The 21-year-old singer will not only perform live with her single ``Eat You Up,'' but talk about her life as a singer both in the U.S. and Korea, new plans and how she managed to break into the U.S. music industry. She will also spend time answering questions from the audience.
Along with ``Eat You Up,'' BoA will present her new song, ``Look Who's Talking,'' for the first time.
The show will be broadcast live on a giant LCD screen in Times Square, while the recording will be aired around the U.S. by MTV, MTV Iggy and mtvU, a division of MTV Networks available on more than 750 colleges and university campuses in the U.S. Fans can also get a glimpse of the show through MTV channels like MTV Korea, Japan, Asia and Australia.
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Charice back on Oprah
Saturday November 29, 2008 Philippines
The latest season of The Oprah Winfrey Show will air in Asia on Hallmark Channel, two months after its debut in the US.
Kicking off the new season is the The Most Talented Girl in the World featuring how Oprah makes Charice's dreams come true (an encore telecast on Dec. 1, 1 p.m.).
Other upcoming episodes in December include Why Men Cheat where Oprah talks to relationship expert M. Gary Neuman on the real reasons behind men's infidelity and how couples can strengthen their relationship (Dec. 7, 8 p.m.); and Tatum O'Neal Speaks Out About Her Drug Bust, covering the youngest Oscar winner's life-long struggle with drugs and alcohol, and the recent wake-up call that finally worked (Dec. 21, 8 p.m.).
Catch a star-studded Christmas as Oprah presents a two-part Celebrity Showcase on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, 6 to 11 p.m. featuring episodes on Hollywood A-listers such as Steve Carrell, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, the women of Sex & the City, Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, and others. - (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)
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Agnes Wins Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards
Monday December 1, 2008 Indonesia
Agnes Monica the Indonesian pop princess had big triumphant in the Nickelodeon Indonesia Kids Choice Awards 2008. On this first Kids Choice Awards in Asia, the singer who represented Indonesia in Asia Song Festival 2008 swept 2 awards in 2 categories where she was nominated. Although she's not a child singer anymore, Agnes Monica seems still has a lot of kids fans.
Agnes received Most Favorite Singer; unexpectedly beat the 15 years-old popera singer Gita Gutawa who was initially calculated as the strongest nominee of all. However, Gita had so much pleasure performing two of her singles for the kids in this show.
Agnes also bagged an inspirational award called Wannabe Award. Agnes Monica has been considered as an artist who gives inspiration to the Indonesian kids to be a successful young person and have wonderful achievements at the very young age just like her self.
Special for Wannabe Award, the announcement was presented with a video slide of Agnes journey in showbiz from a 10 years-old little actress till a grown up Agnes now.
Having these two awards, the 22 years-old girl who will release her third ..... (article cut to save bandwidth)
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Song Hye Kyo and Hyun Bin Couple Shows Sign of Breakup
Monday December 1, 2008 Korea
In the drama that is. According to the news, the episode 11 preview of “The World They Live In” shown last week show a snippet of the break-up scene of Ji Oh (Hyun Bin) and Joon Young (Song Hye Kyo). As the couple is well-liked by many even till the point of jealousy, many viewers expressed objections towards such a direction in plot development after watching the preview.
In the preview of episode 11, Joon Young said with tears: “I want to ask you, why do you treat me like this?”, but Ji Oh replied calmly: “This relationship between you and me isn’t really a big deal, I seriously cannot find any reason why I have to endure all these, hence I have decided to give up.” After the preview was shown, netizens swarmed the internet forums and protested against such a development in the plot.
In addition, the Ji Oh’s eye injury also triggered the curiosity of the viewers. Many netizens speculated that Ji Oh might be facing the risk of going blind or even death. One netizens even gave a bold speculation that Ji Oh will go blind ..... (article cut to save bandwidth)
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335,000 Audience in 4 days - Pure Comic Strip Tops Box Office
Monday December 1, 2008 Korea
Movie “Pure Comic Strip“, which is an adaptation from a comic of the same name by popular comic writer Kang Po, is reporting good news one after another. After the movie has broke the record for the most number of viewers on premiere day in history, it went on to take the crown for the box office last week.
According to the records, “Pure Comic Strip” has attracted a total of 253,279 movie-goers between 28th to 30th, bringing its total audience up to 335,497, ending 1st December 7.11am. Kim Min Sun’s “A Portrait of a Beauty” which has dominated the box office for the previous 2 weeks, slipped to the second place with 240,362 audience. The 3rd, 4th and 5th place goes to “Quantum of Solace”, “Blindness” and “Antique” respectively.
“Pure Comic Strip” is not the first comic by Kang Po that is being brought to the big screen. His works like “Apartment” and “Fool” were filmed into movies previously but did not attract a huge following like the comic version. Even though “Fool” had top stars like Ha Ji Won and Cha Tae Hyun, the result was not ..... (article cut to save bandwidth)
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Family Outing Stays Top For 11 Consecutive Weeks
Monday December 1, 2008 Korea
Thanks to the appearance of Cha Tae Hyun as a guest family member, SBS Family Outing continued its hot streak on the weekend television ratings chart for the 11 consecutive week as the leader against competing programs.
Not only did SBS Family Outing trumphed competing variety programs over the weekend, it also knocked the weekend dramas off the No.1 spot, becoming the highest rated program for the weekend. According to TNS Media, the rating last night was 26.1% which was an increase of 1 percentage point compared to the previous week. KBS Happy Sunday (1N2D and IMC) got 16.0% while MBC We Got Married continued to struggle with 14.2% despite numerous changes.
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The inclusion of Cha Tae Hyun as a guest family member has attracted the attention of many with with goofball antics. In yesterday’s episode, Cha Tae Hyun and Kim Jong Kook were in charge of making breakfast. The both of them showed excellent chemisty (best of friends off-screen) with their comedic performance creating lots of laughter. They also re-enacted scenes from Cha Tae Hyun’s movie My Sassy Girl as part of the sleeping ranking ..... (article cut to save bandwidth)
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KC Concepcion joins Clinton Global Initiative
Monday December 1, 2008 Philippines
Actress and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Philippines National Ambassador Against Hunger KC Concepcion will attend the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Asia meeting on December 2-3, 2008 in Hong Kong, to promote innovative solutions to addressing hunger and malnutrition in Asia, especially among children.
"I am very excited to participate in this first CGI event in Asia on behalf of WFP, and to urge concerted action to address the challenge of hunger and under-nutrition in Asia," Concepcion said.
"I hope that the needs of Asia's children will be recognized by our leaders in government, business and civil society. We need to work together to reverse this vicious cycle of under-nutrition and secure a healthier future for the hungry poor, especially children."
With alarming hunger and malnutrition levels creating barriers to economic growth in many parts of Asia, Ms. Concepcion - a popular actor and TV personality - has strongly supported WFP's work providing solutions to hunger in Asia and around the world since her appointment as a National Ambassador in February 2008.
Concepcion will join WFP Regional Director for Asia, Tony Banbury at the CGI Conference, in calling ..... (article cut to save bandwidth)
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DBSK released new Samsung "Ha Ha Ha" Campaign Video
Monday December 1, 2008 Korea
TVXQ has released a new Samsung Campaign, named "Ha Ha Ha".
Credits to: mickytoho@youtube
The NoKy Brothers HAHAHA Song is part of Samsung's campaign for spreading encouragement - to share laughs & smiles - during these hard times. It is not a commercial, but a public message campaign. The message that was to be brought is "When going gets tough, tough gets going! so cheer up!"
Some photos from the Campaign:
Also, all five members have done a video for the campaign, which can be viewed below:
Here's the official website for the campaign: http://www.hahaha4u.co.kr/
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Famous Korean Actor Moon Chun Sik in Clark Philippines
Monday December 01, 2008 Philippines
The 31-year old famous actor of South Korea Moon Chun Sik arrived to Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark Pampanga Philippines this afternoon.
Moon Chun Sik received an invitation from the minister of The Korean Church of Love in Clark Pampanga to participate the said charity program for a week in a Korean Community.
Moon Chun Sik has been known by his dramas and movies 'War of the Roses', 'Oh! Pil Seung Bong Soon Young', 'Shinsukki Blues', 'Ice Girl', 'Hwang Jini', 'Dalja's Spring', 'Hello Miss', and 'Don't Go Away'.
source: The Philippines Star Magazine
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Report: China blocks Japan-flavored Taiwan film
Monday December 1, 2008 China
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Report: China blocks Japan-flavored Taiwan film
By MIN LEE,AP Entertainment Writer
Yahoo news
HONG KONG - China has reversed its decision to import a hit Taiwanese film that highlights Japan's 50-year colonial rule over the island because it may be offensive to nationalist sentiment on the Chinese mainland, news reports said.
"Cape No. 7" is Taiwan's most successful movie in years, earning more than 231 million New Taiwan dollars ($6.9 million) since its release on Aug. 22 and becoming the island's second top-grossing movie after the Hollywood romance "Titanic."
"Cape No. 7" is about a failed Taiwanese rock musician who returns to his small coastal hometown and is forced to play in a hastily assembled amateur band that will open for a Japanese pop star. He falls in love with the Japanese publicist overseeing the show.
The movie is also interspersed with a voice-over that reads from love letters written by a Japanese man to his Taiwanese love interest just after the island's colonial era ended. Japan ruled Taiwan from 1895 to 1945.
Cecille Huang, a marketing official at Taiwan's ARS Film Production, the company ..... (article cut to save bandwidth)
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"Team Batista" sequel slated for March
Monday December 1, 2008 Japan
This past February, TBS released the film "Team Batista no Eikou," based on a medical mystery novel by Takeru Kaido. Due to its success, TBS immediately opted to produce a sequel, which has been dated for March 7, 2009.
"Team Batista" starred Yuko Takeuchi and Hiroshi Abe as a doctor and a government official investigating a series of deaths at a university hospital. The movie made 1.6 billion yen at the box office, and it was turned into a television drama starring Atsushi Ito, which is currently getting decent ratings.
The sequel is adapted from "General Rouge no Gaisen," which is the third book in the same novel series as "Team Batista." Considered to be the best of the series, the novel follows the same main characters as they deal with the issue of emergency medical treatment, which has become a hot topic in recent years. Takeuchi and Abe will again play the starring duo, while Masato Sakai has been cast as the antagonist, the director of an emergency medical center. Other supporting cast members, including Shiro Sano and Tetsuji Tamayama, will reprise their roles.
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