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Rescheduled dates for Taeyang’s concerts announced

Idol group Big Bang singer Taeyang’s first solo concert has been rescheduled for September 25 and 26, according to his agency YG Entertainment’s CEO Yang Hyun-suk on Tuesday.

The concert, originally set for September 4 and 5, had been postponed “for more time to perfect things for the show” with the singer being busy with promotional work in Japan and shooting a commercial with his five-man band.

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Se7en

Choi Dong-Wook (born November 9, 1984), better known by his stage name Seven (stylized as Se7en), is a South Korean pop/R&B singer. He began training under a management agency YG Entertainment at the age of fifteen. After four years of training in voice and dance, he made his debut in 2003 and became successful throughout Asia.

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Junsu

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Junsu’s a member in the South Korean dance/pop group 2PM. Junsu is known as the lead vocalist of the group. He is originally from Daegu, South Korea. He originally auditioned for YG Entertainment, where he befriended G-Dragon and Tae Yang of Big Bang. He was accepted into both YG & JYP Entertainment, but chose to take the path of JYP in his final decision.

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KISS – Sandara Park ft. CL

Sandara Park’s first digital single “Kiss”, released on September 7, 2009. the Music video also features Lee Min Ho  – the star of  “Boys Before Flower” (Goo Jun Pyo). Sandara and Lee Min Ho are the new endorsers of Cast Beer.sandara kiss

Other Information

  • Title : Kiss
  • Singer :  Sandara Park
  • Featuring : CL
  • Music video cast : Lee Min Ho
  • Label  YG Entertainment

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Koo Hye Sun

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Koo Hye Sun is a South Korean popular actress and also a singer, who has recently gained fame in a hit drama, Pure in Heart (열 아홉 순정) as a starring role, Gukhwa and also sang the title song of it. She is well-known for protraying Geum Jan Di in KBS 2TV drama Boys Over Flowers.

She also has gained attention for appearing as a cameo role in the film, August Rush as one beggar. She is in YG Entertainment. She started debuting in drama by appearing in 2005′s Nonstop 5.

Other Information

  • Name: Koo Hye Sun (Gu Hye Seon)
  • Profession: Actress and singer
  • Birthdate: 1984-Nov-09
  • Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
  • Height: 163cm
  • Weight: 42kg
  • Star sign: Scorpio
  • Blood type: A
  • Talent agency: YG Entertainment

Television

  • Boys Before Flowers (KBS2, 2009) -Jan Di is an average girl whose family owns a dry cleaning store located near the luxurious and well known Shin Hwa College. Jan Di meets the four richest and most spoiled boys known as the F4. After saving a boy from jumping off the roof of Shinhwa High School, she is admitted into the school on a swimming scholarship. Jan Di tries to avoid confrontation with the F4 at all cost because she knows what happens to those that stand against them. However, when Jan Di’s friend, Oh Min Ji, accidentally gets ice cream on the leader of the F4’s shoes, she’s forced to declare war on the leader of the F4, Goo Joon Pyo.
  • Strongest Chil Woo (KBS2, 2008) – Kang Chil Woo was a lowly police officer during the Joseon era. His parents were killed in a raid and his main goal was to stay below the radar to survive. However when his sister was killed, his outlook on life was forever changed and in seeking revenge, he turned into an assassin and began to mete out justice to criminals.
  • The King and I (SBS, 2007) – A drama about Kim Cheo Seon’s life during the Joseon Dynasty. Kim Cheo Seon was a loyal and faithful eunuch for various Kings such as the 5th King, MoonJoong, and the 10th King, YunSan Goon, during the Chosun Era.
  • Pure 19 (KBS1, 2006) – Gukhwa (Koo Hye Sun) is a young country girl who leaves Yanbian (China) for Korea to get married. When she arrives in Seoul, she finds out that her fiance had just died in a car accident. Instead of returning to China, she decides to stay and create a new life in Korea. With the help of her fiance’s family and in particular his nephew, Ugyeong (Lee Min Woo), she is able to overcome the hardship of living in a foreign country.
  • Ballad Of Suh Dong (SBS, 2005)
  • Nonstop (MBC, 2005)
  • Drama City (KBS2, 2004|2005)

Movies

  • August Rush (cameo, 2007)

Awards

  • 2007 SBS Acting Awards: New Star Award
  • 2006 KBS Acting Awards: New Actress Award

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Uhm Jung hwa

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Uhm Jung-hwa (born August 17, 1971) is a South Korean female Korean pop artist and actress. Uhm is known for her roles in the films Marriage Is a Crazy Thing (which earned her a Best Actress Award at the Paeksang Arts Awards), All for Love and Princess Aurora. Actor Uhm Tae-woong is her younger brother.

As a singer she is recognized as a 90s k-pop icon. Uhm debuted in 1989 on MBC’s 합창단 (Chorus). She then received attention as a singer in 1993 with the song 눈동자 Nundongcha. She is presently under contract to Trifecta Entertainment.

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Lee Seung Hyun – Seung Ri

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Seung Ri is from Kwangjoo, the sixth major city in Korea. As we can see in the Big Bang Documentary, it’s quite a long commute between the two. Before Big Bang, he was a member of Ilhwan, a Kwangjoo dance team.

In summer 2005, Seung Ri appeared on an episode of Battle Shinhwa, a TV show to find the second Shinhwa (a famous boyband) through auditions. The band Battle is the result of that TV show. In the thirteenth episode, he was cut because his singing wasn’t impressive enough, even though his dancing was.

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Choi Seung hyun – T.O.P

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Choi Seung hyun (Korean: 최승현, Hanja: 崔勝鉉), better known by his stage name T.O.P, is a rapper and actor from South Korea. Best known for being a member of Korean boy band Big Bang, he has also been in dramas such as I Am Sam. He stars in the upcoming spy thriller IRIS, to be released in late 2009.

T.O.P was inspired after listening to rapper, Notorious B.I.G. in the 4th or 5th grade in elementary school. He was moved and it was then that he wanted to get into music.

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Kwon Ji Yong – G-Dragon

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Kwon, Ji Yong (Korean: 권지용, Hanja: 權志龍, Born August 18, 1988), better known by his stage name G-Dragon, is the leader of the Korean musical group Big Bang. Yong means dragon in korean and Ji sounds like “g”, hence, the stagename, G-Dragon. He began training under YG Entertainment at the age of twelve. After six years of vocal and dance training he made his debut in 2006 as part of Big Bang.

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Big Bang

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Big Bang is a Korean musical group made up of five Korean men. When they first debuted, they were considered to be the new face of the YG Family, a pet name for their management company YG Entertainment. Although their debut was somewhat successful, it was not until the release of “거짓말” (“Lies“) that the group gained mainstream success. Big Bang have been noted for their music as well as their fashionable clothing, becoming famous throughout the country in the process.

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