I’m going to be going abroad for a few weeks so I won’t be posting on here until late June or early July. I am hoping that my guest bloggers will step up and keep this site alive during that time. Yes, that was an overt hint you two. =P
To my readers: Don’t give up on me! I’ll be back soon. Take care of yourselves.
I was checking my mail today and my friend had sent me a forward called “God’s Protection”. She sends me a lot of things like this, which is interesting since they’re usually Christian oriented and she affiliates herself (as far as I know) as a Hindu. But anyway, I opened it and it had a cartoon strip in English and Korean. I thought the Korean part was really random since it looks like the characters are all White. I just found it really interesting. Here is the cartoon.
Episodes 1-8 of We Got Married have been subbed and are available for downloading and streaming. I received this link through a commenter. Thanks Hind! The epsiodes are cut into three parts (all high quality) and they have English hard subs. Thanks subbers and uploaders! CLICK HERE FOR THE DOWNLOADS
You can also read up on the recent news concerning the show at Coolsmurf’s Domain. He has quite a few articles about Solbi and Andy’s promotion of the show, including the latest news of Solbi leaving a drama she’s been acting in by having her character resign due to her upcoming marriage to Andy Lee. Really, they are shamelessly milking their fame through the show, but I guess artists just have to do anything to stay on top.
I’m also excited to see Alex and Shin Ae’s reunion episode. They have already filmed it and will be shown on June 8. Boo! I won’t be here to watch it (I’m going on a trip for two and a half weeks). Oh well, it’s worth waiting for. =)
References:
1. Coolsmurf: Alex and Shin Ae confirms their return to We Got Married
2. Coolsmurf: Solbi quits Life Special Investigation Team citing “Marriage”
I don’t know if this is old news but I just found out that Park Myung Soo has released two digital singles. His last musical contributions were in 2005 with his single, Tra la la, which was a cover of Gunther’s Tra la la. I was going to put up a link to the original but the video was quite pornographic. So anyway, the two new releases are called 바보에게…바보가… (Paboege… Paboga…) and Rock Factory. You can listen to them HERE and download the MV for the first song HERE. I actually like Park Myung Soo’s music. Sure he’s not musically talented in a Kim Jong Kook kind of way, but it’s entertaining. And he makes me laugh. Just to be random, here is a clip of him that always cracks me up. He’s the one wearing the shades.
[edit]I just found out from Coolsmurf that Park Myung Soo and his wife are expecting their first child. I can’t believe PMS is going to be a father. I’m so happy for him and his wife. =D [/edit]
References:
1. Fly High: Download links
2. Kpopmyanmar: Info & audio listening links
3. Wikipedia: Info
This story isn’t exactly recent, but for those who missed it — myself included — here is the video. This little dance-off took place on May 5, 2008, a conclusion to the Rain-Colbert feud. If you haven’t heard of the feud, keep reading this post.
The feud began last year when Rain defeated Comedy Central’s faux news host, Stephen Colbert, in Time magazine’s online poll of 2007’s most influential person in the world. This resulted in a little back-and-forth smack talking between Colbert and Rain — which included Colbert making his own K-pop video, and Rain responding by telling Colbert to not “quit his day job.”
To settle their battle over world dominance, Colbert challenged Rain to fly to NYC and to appear on the Stephen Colbert’s show, so the two can have a dance-off. Being a good sport, Rain actually flew in, and the rest is history.
Too bad neither of them topped Time’s list this year though. So who was the ultimate winner of 2008? None other than Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario and the hugely successful Wii console. Rain and Colbert ended up being second and third, respectively, on the list this year — yes, Rain still beat Colbert.
This whole thing has been pretty good publicity for Rain, who is trying to enter the US market, and Korean entertainment in general. It’s a shame People Magazine couldn’t get a right photo of Rain in their recent issue — are people that retarded?
