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Brave Brothers

Brave Brothers is a famous Korean producer who previously worked with artists such as BIG BANG, Son Dam Bi (손담비), After School, Minwoo, U-KISS etc.

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Davichi

Davichi is a South Korean duet female group made up of Lee Hae-ri and Kang Min-kyung. Debuting in 2008, they won various new artist awards, and released a mini-album in March 2009, with the lead single “8282″ fast becoming a chart-topper.

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Lee Seung Gi

Lee Seung Gi is a South Korean singer, actor and MC.

Scouted by singer Lee Sun Hee, Lee Seung Gi was trained for 2 years before debuting on June 5, 2004 at the age of 17. Because You’re My Girl, his debut song from his first album The Dream Of A Moth, was a very popular ballad and created a “liking older women” syndrome in South Korea. With this song, he won the “Best Newcomer” award in various music awards ceremonies in 2004 (such as M.net KM Music Festival, SBS Music Awards and MBC Best 10 Singers Music Festival).

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Genie (Album)

“Genie” is the debut Japanese single from popular Korean girl group Girls’ Generation. The single is set to be released on September 8, 2010.

It was released in three editions, two CD+DVD editions (first press and regular), and a CD Only edition. First press CD+DVD edition includes a special photobook and a random (1 of 9) photocard. The single includes three versions of their Korean hit song, “Tell Me Your Wish(Genie)”.

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Supernova

Cho Shin Sung, is a South Korean boy band formed under Mnet Media. Its six members specialized in the areas of singing, dance, acting, rap and pop. Since debut, the group gained popularity in South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and other East Asian countries.

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MBLAQ

MBLAQ, (an acronym for Music Boys Live in Absolute Quality) is a South Korean quintet boy band created by Korean pop R&B singer Rain under his label J.Tune Entertainment. The members include Seung Ho, G.O, Joon, Thunder, and Mir. The group debuted in October 9, 2009 at Rain’s Legend of Rainism concert. On October 14, 2009 the group released their debut single album, “Just BLAQ”, which topped various on-line and off-line music charts in South Korea. The group then released their second single Y in May 18, 2010.

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Korean, Japanese hip-hop artists to perform at music fest

Several of the biggest names in Korean and Japanese hip-hop will be taking the stage for a summer music festival next weekend in Korea, according to the concert’s promoter TYPE Communication on Friday.

TYPE announced in a press release that Japanese rappers Zeebra, Simon and Dabo will be performing along Korean artists such as LeeSSang and Jung-in, Supreme Team, Double K and SOUL DIVE for the “What’s Up Summer Hiphop Festival” to be held at the Walker Hill Theater on August 28.

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Zia

Zia is a South Korean singer, famous for being a faceless artist.

Zia debuted in 2007. She recently sang live and she isn’t really that ugly at all, although some people have criticized her for her looks. Her first album was Voice of Heaven, which had a great song called 물꾸러미 (absentmindedly) which had a music video starring Kim Ok Bin and shin hyun joon, from Stairway to Heaven, the korean drama. apparently the music video cost 10 billion won (10 million dollars).

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Zia takes over Mnet’s singles chart with "Laughter"

Korean pop star Zia has taken over Mnet’s singles chart with her latest song “Laughter” during the second week of August.

The singer’s new song “Laughter” made an incredible 31-slot jump to first place, displacing former winner “I’m a Guy Like This” from hip-hop trio DJ DOC to the No. 5 spot.

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CNBLUE tops weekly music charts in Taiwan

Four-member rock band CNBLUE has topped two weekly music charts in Taiwan with their mini-album “Bluetory,” according to their agency FNC Music on Tuesday.

FNC announced in a press release that the group’s Korean mini-album “Bluetory” took the No. 1 spot on Taiwan’s G-Music and Five Music weekly music chart during the week of August 6 to 12, placing ahead of Super Junior’s fourth full-length record “BONAMANA” and SS501′s first Japanese single “Kokoro.”

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