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Held by China popular website CRI Online, 'Global Entertainment Most Influential - 2009 Most Popular Artist Online Election", voting starts from 4 January to 18 January. The top winning as at noon of 5 January is SS501 Kim Hyun Joong who acted in popular Korean drama "Boys over Flowers" in the 1st half of 2009 and gain high popularity.
Following by him, No. 2 ranking was Han Geng who has some disputes with his management company. Han Geng and his management company's contract issue is currently highly concerned by China media and his fans.
No. 3 ranking is Lee Jun Ki who acted in MBC Drama 'Hero'. Lee Jun Ki started to gain high popularity after his movie 'The King's Man', some of his China fans even went to his 'Hero' drama press release to give him support.
No. 4 is SJ Kim Hee Chul, No. 5 is International Star Rain, No. 6 is Park Hee Jin who is rising up as a Hallyu star, No. 7 is SJ-M.
In addtion, noteworthy is star lover Song Hye Kyo - Hyun Bin was ranking together in No.8 & No. 9 ranking. Also, Lee Byung Hun who won in '2009 KBS Acting Award' with his KBS 2TV drama 'Iris' is ranked No. 11.
Current vote ranking (As at 2010.01.05 10.40am +GMT8)
Cover Story – SS501 Press Conference
SS501’s charisma took Taiwan by storm, not only did the concert sales made a shocking record by breaking it and selling out within two days, every single album also sold well and even broke the record criteria of 5 platinum albums. Even for their latest REBIRTH album, the pre-order had very good results. The music company also specially held a celebratory press conference for SS501.
At the site of the press conference, the cover of REBIRTH was used as the backdrop for the press conference. While receiving platinum award during the photo taking, the five couldn’t stop bending over to look at the huge board that they were holding. Leader also understood the requirements of the reporters very well and took the initiative to direct everyone’s line of vision and to change their poses.
Once the press conference started, SS501 was first asked about their first concert in Taiwan. Hyun Joong represented and answered “We were very happy to find out that the concert tickets for Taiwan’s concert were sold out within two days. We are very thankful for the Taiwanese fans’ support and we will definitely bring the Taiwanese fans a concert which is even better than 100%, please look forward to it!”
They specially prepared a Chinese song for the Taiwanese fans this time, to be sung by SS501’s most sexy Jung Min. Jung Min said “Tian Mi Mi” has always been a song he has liked a lot, he also acceded to the reporter’s request and sung part of the song live, his very accurate Mandarin had won recognition through the media’s applause and everyone couldn’t help but look forward to Jung Min’s performance during the concert.
Laughter within the Chinese Test
It has been heard that for the Taiwan concert, SS501 had been practicing mandarin very seriously. During the press conference, a test was carried out to check the results of their practice. This time what SS501 is challenging is something that would even knot the tongues of Taiwanese - the Mandarin tongue twisters.
The most linguistically gifted in SS501, Jung Min was the first to accept the test. Who would have thought that he would be tested something which even the Chinese would complain about it’s level of difficulty, the one with the devil level, “ si shi si zhi shi shi zi” (or literally forty four stone lions) tongue twister.
Although there was much laughter, but Jung Min managed to smoothly pass through the test. Jung Min’s gifted performance not only won the respect of the other four members, Kyu Jong after listening even collapsed onto the table.
When it was time to choose the next person to take the test, the remaining four silently avoided the eyes of the MC, Kyu Jong used his fingers and secretly made an “X” sign, hoping that he wouldn’t be chosen; while Young Saeng’s head was so low it was almost going to be buried under the table. With an obvious facial expression saying “don’t chose me”, but was still caught by the MC.
Young Saeng was chosen to do the tongue twister that had to do with eating vegetarian. It was very difficult, but under Young Saeng’s sense of rhythm and the other four member’s “chi su” (which being to eat vegetarian), and with laughter, he successfully completed his challenge. The one who is truly gifted and does not show, is leader Hyun Joong, he was the real genius. If you haven’t seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn’t believe that he was a foreigner who could complete the tongue twister so smoothly.
Full of confidence, the work of five 'REBIRTH'
After smoothly sailing past the mandarin tongue twisters, SS501 followed up introducing their new mini album 'REBIRTH'. After one year and seven months, SS501 was back together as five again to launch their new refreshing work.
Kyu Jong was full of confidence and introduced “ This time we tried a lot of things, both on the type of song and on our style, we wanted to show everyone a new look for SS501. REBIRTH includes the opinions of all the members and was mainly produced based on our ideas as the focus. We hope that after everyone have listened to this mini album, could find a different SS501 and we hope that everyone will like it.”
Being questioned about the shocking smoky make-up this time, Hyun Joong replied “the smoky makeup style this time hopes to present SS501’s sexiness and a mature image of a man, initially the members were not used to it. This is also the first time since I’ve debut, to cut my hair so short, but the result of the photographs were not bad. Hopefully everyone can feel the SS501’s manly charisma!”
SS501 also said that this time during the Taiwan concert, they would be singing songs from their new mini album and hopes that everyone can support it!
First revelation in Taiwan, lesson on SS501’s new song hand signs
After the press conference, SS501 also showed the hand signs of the dance steps from their new song which has never been revealed before. Hopefully when everyone listens to “Love like this” they can follow SS501 to show “ L.O.V.E.” four movements for support!
An apology to the dear fans
Just after landing and existing from the plane, SS501 was received by many enthusiastic fans and a large number of media and was heavily surrounded by them. This resulted in the area becoming chaotic and people were pushing around. This made all the members from SS501 very worried about the state of the fans. As the leader, Hyun Joong also specially apologized to all the fans and media at the press conference. Hopefully everyone will be able to understand the duty of the bodyguards and sincerely hope that no one was hurt.
Hyung Jun’s Chinese Specialty is actually…
Jung Min and Hyung Jun’s funny habit didn’t change at the press conference
Young Saeng’s ingenious way of relieving stress
Kyu Jong misses
Hyun Joong’s serious expression analysisDuring the visit to Taiwan, there was only one activity of attending MTV JK Pop Music Craze (to be aired on 10/28~10/30). Of course, this time Trendy also showed the spirit of tagging along to bring everyone the exclusive news of the behind the scenes for the filming of MTV JK Pop Music Craze.
Before the filming, Ken Wu (host) was very seriously practicing non-stop the Korean tongue twister specially designed using Hyun Joong and Hyung Joon’s name. Highly anticipating, what will SS501’s reaction be when they are listening to this tongue twister?
Greetings: Chinese and Korean Exchange
When Hyun Joong first entered the filming room, his refreshing short black haircut caught everyone’s attention. Just after recovering from his illness, he looked much better, and the flesh around his cheek started growing. Hyun Joong continuously used Chinese to greet everyone “ Da jia hao” to say hi to everyone around.
Being sharp eyed, he saw Trendy hiding in the corner in a low profile manner and specially walked over to give a friendly greeting, a really courteous leader Kim! Similarly, the remaining four members also used Chinese to politely greet everyone. Especially when Jung Min walked in, Jung Min’s unrivalled huge smile allowed everyone to feel his good mood.
When Jung Min saw Trendy, he seemed very shock and immediately said to Trendy, “ Hao jiu…hao jiu…hao jiu…(literally mean Long time in Chinese)” the last interview allowed him to remember Trendy, and the little tag-a-long (Trendy’s reporter) helpfully aided him in completing his words “ Hao Jiu Bu Jian!” (Literally means long time haven’t met in Chinese) He immediately nodded his head quickly and repeated once “ hao jiu bu jian!” Haha! He must have forgotten “ bu jian” .(means haven’t met) He then tilited his head and looked at the little tag-a-long (Trendy’s reporter) “ Hao jiu bu jian? Hao jiu bu jian?” after he was sure he got it right, he immediately ran up to Ken and said loudly “ HAO JIU BU JIAN!” the cute action had everyone laughing.
And just as Jung Min was practicing his “hao jiu bu jian” something else was happening at the side. As Ken was speaking to Hyun Joong, Hyung Joon also entered the room. Ken used Korean to greet Hyung Joon, Hyung Joon who seemed to have missed the greeting, and didn’t reply. Hyun Joong as the leader, immediately called out to stop Hyung Joon and told Hyung Joon seriously that Ken was greeting him. After Hyung Joon heard what Hyun Joong said, he looked like a child who made a mistake. He quickly and bashfully walked up to Ken to bow and greet him. After Hyun Joong watching Hyung Joon seriously finished his greetings, his smile then returned to his face. A really responsible team leader! Hyun Joong.
Playful and Mischievous all at one go
It was the official filming, maybe it is because it’s second time on Ken’s programme, SS501 and Ken were more familiar, not only were there more smiles and chatter, they didn’t spare any efforts in being mischievous, Hyung Joon V.S. Jung Min’s classic Tom and Jerry battle was a must!
Just after sitting down, Jung Min first smelled Hyung Joon who was sitting next to him and immediately said in Chinese “Hao chou!” (which literally mean very smelly! ) using one had to cover his nose and the other hand to make a move, pretending to push Hyung Joon away.
Hyung Joon pouted innocently, but immediately retaliated using his palm to hit Jung Min’s thigh. Their argument even spreaded to Young Saeng and Kyu Jong at the side. Unexpectedly, the usually calm Young Saeng couldn’t resist and also joined in, using his finger to poke Hyung Joon. Kyu Jong who was seriously and silently repeating his name in Chinese at the side was so affected by their commotion that all the Chinese he learnt flew away at that instant, and he had to quickly secretly seek for help from the lady translator.
Although all this time, leader Hyun Joong did not join in the commotion, he actually started playing with his bangle. He first placed it at his right ear then placed it at his left ear to try and see if he could make the bangle become an ear ring. After he thought that no one was looking, he chuckled to himself. However, Ken immediately caught his 4D actions.
Young Saeng’s little words are very innocent
During the process of the interview, Young Saeng was really too quiet, Ken specially appointed him to answer the question regarding the concert, if there were anything special about the style of clothes. The other four members also took the chance to ask Young Saeng to speak more.
Young Saeng thought for a long time but showed much difficulty in his expression. The translator lady misunderstood Young Saeng as not being able to comprehend and quickly repeated the question again. Leader Kim couldn’t resist and took over to answer the question.
Ken was very curious as to what happen to Young Saeng a while ago? Young Saeng said innocently “ to give the fans a surprise, so all concert content and clothes have to be kept a secret!” Ken couldn’t resist Young Saeng’s innocent expression and explained that the filming will only be broadcasted after the concert. But because of this, everyone felt Young Saeng’s meticulous thought and his love for the fans.
The tongue twister that made SS501 very confused
And during this interview, one of the most classic parts was the Korean tongue twister that Ken had been practicing very hard for a long time.
When Ken read the tongue twister at one go for the first time, SS501 was too confused, all members were stunned for three seconds, Kyu Jong even pretended to faint and collapsed while laughing on the sofa.
During the second attempt of the tongue twister, Hyun Joong’s confusion made it look as if there was a messy ball of grey wool thread above his head. However, after that he seemed to realize that his name was in the tongue twister and hence when his name was read, he placed his hand on his chest and pat himself, but was still confused and knitted his eyebrows.
The other lead of the tongue twister, Hyung Joon, upon hearing his name, raised his name and asked “Is it me? Was it Hyung Joon? “ Thankfully for Jung Min’s gifted linguistic ability, after listening for a few times, he near accurately deciphered the meaning of the tongue twister and cleared the confusion of the others.
As the meaning of the tongue twister was revealed, SS501 couldn’t stop clapping and laughing excessively, and were fighting to read and read it for a few times.
Simultaneously, Jung Min pretended to be jealous and said, “Hmp! My name wasn’t used! “ But his jealousy disappeared quickly when Ken took out the Marble Soft Drink (弹珠汽水 is a traditional soft drink in Taiwan with a marble in the bottle)
Marble Soft Drink which looked special made SS501 very curious, and once they heard that it was a soft drink, they immediately wanted to open it. Jung Min took the Marble Soft Drink and wanted to turn to open the cover, but the crew quickly said that it was not the way to be done. After Ken’s explanation, five members managed to successfully open the bottle, but the drink under the “torture” of the five members started spraying out of the bottle at the instant. Not only did SS501 not mind the drink that was spraying all over, they were instead, more curious about the marble in the bottle. They happily cheers with Ken and even playfully wanted Hyung Joon to compete with Ken to finish the everything at one go.
Seems like SS501 favourite drink in Taiwan has added extra 1 more type
SS501’s first experience with Tarot cards
JK Pop Music Craze also specially invited a tarot card teacher to help SS501 predict their recent luck. Towards the mysterious tarot cards, SS501 were very enthusiastic in trying. The good and well-behaved kid Kyu Jong wanted to find out about his health. The tarot cards read that SS501 will enter a stage where they are very very busy, hence physically; it will be a great challenge. The teacher adviced kyu jong to treat himself better and to allow himself to have time to rest, take a breather and to also to consume supplements. He could also use some cologne with refreshing smells to aid him in relaxing.
The question quiet prince Young Saeng wanted to ask was actually, when can he get a girlfriend? For this question, the rest of the members looked more anxious and excited than Young Saeng himself, much less the pea princesses who support and love him!
Ahh, what the tarot card reads may disappoint Young Saeng, but make many pea princesses happy instead - within the short period of time because Young Saeng would be too busy with work, he would not be able to get a girlfriend!
Young Saeng’s disappointment was written all over his face and although the remaining wickedly laughed at him, they also quickly comforted him, Kyu Jong and Hyung Joon even gave him a hug. Young Saeng wouldn’t let go and continued asking “I can’t draw another card?” It seems that he is really very disappointed!
When it was Hyung Joon’s turn, without thinking, he opened his eyes widely and asked “I would like to know when I will get married?” His expressionless expression caused him to get attacked by the other four members. Jung Min shook his head and said “Which girl would want to marry you?” Young Saeng sighed and said, “Hyung Joon is a bad boyfriend” the very responsible leader Hyun Joong said “We haven’t even started promoting our new album, what’s with getting married!”
Hyung Joon argued back innocently “I really want to know!” which resulted in even more attacks at him. The kind Kyu Jong stepped out to help Hyung Joon, and as Kyu Jong comforted Hyung Joon, he suggested Hyung Joon to ask about the new album which SS501 were very concerned about. Hyung Joon heard this and immediately forgot his insistence and with a changed expression asked loudly “I would like to know if our new album will sell well and obtain the annual champions.”
This question is definitely what SS501 cared very much about and as Hyung Joon was drawing the card, everyone was watching closely. Hyung Joon drew the “ Nine of Cups” (also known as minor arcana to tarot card readers) representing that the album will receive a lot of support and love from everyone.
Jung Min also kept saying that he wanted to ask the same question, and once he drew, he drew the card with a lot of money (coins) on it and happily said loudly “There is a lot of coins! We are going to be rich people!”
What? There is someone in SS501 who wants to go solo?
Initially, we thought that Young Saeng and Hyung Joon’s questions were enough to excite everyone’s hearts but unexpectedly, Jung Min dropped an even bigger bomb. “Will SS501 be a group that will last for a every long time (forever)?” asked Jung Min. After asking, he explained with an innocent expression “Because Hyung Joon kept wanting to go solo, so I’m really worried!” after which he covered his face and pretended to cry, which lasted only three seconds before he burst out laughing.
Jung Min’s accusation left Hyung Joon speechless and was innocently dragged into another around of getting “attacked”. The card which Jung Min picked, even Hyun Joong, after seeing it, wrapped his arms around his chest and laughed. Jung Min saw the card he picked and laughed loudly as he exclaimed “What should I do?” Young Saeng and Kyu Jong quickly took the card over and looked, Young Saeng laughed and shook his head and said, “Oh no, trouble!” Kyu Jong laughed and hid the card under the table and said that the card cannot be used. And the “lead” Hyung Joon just kept giving silly laughs and asked, “What’s that?”
What happened was that Jung Min drew a card which showed a person being tied up by ropes and had three swords piercing at the person. The teacher explained “One member wishes to get concern from everyone and needs attention from others…so as long as everyone cares for each other and communicate well, SS501 will continue forever!”
That “one person”, who exactly is that “one person”? The answer was obvious, but everyone was laughing too hard to explicitly say. However, the “lead” wasn’t satisfied at being lonely and jumped out to deny, “That person definitively isn’t me, because I feel that everyone pays too much attention to me!” Hyung Joon’s serious expression led to another round of laughter which lasted for a long while.
Lastly, Hyun Joong displayed his 4D ability again and asked, “Will I live for a long time? Will I die early?”
Young Saeng and Kyu Jong were also very worried about their leader’s lifespan, but Jung Min and Hyung Joon ganged up and teased Hyun Joong “The death card may appear and you may just kicked the bucket tomorrow!” “The result may be you have very short life” Hyun Joong didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this.
Fortunately, the card read a message that “Hyun Joong will be very healthy and live a long life.” So do not be worried.
After the incident where Hyun Joong fell ill, all the members are in fact very worried about his health, although they were mischeviously make fun, but after listening to the answer, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
Maybe because of being more relaxed, they became even more playful afterwards. And this interview which left everyone laughing non-stop as if they’ve breathed laughing gas, ended successfully with Jung Min and Hyung Joon’s hug which wrapped up their argument.
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Cover Story
Cover Story It shouldn’t be too much to say that the second half of 2009 is Taiwan’s 'Pea Princess' happiest and most dreamy time! In a short span of four months, not only could Taiwan see SS501’s 'real person' twice, but was also the third stop for SS501’s 2009 Asia Concert Tour, after Korea and Japan. With such "자다가 떡이 생긴다*" (jadaga ddeok i saengginda*) happiness, stop asking the pea princesses to calm down, how can it be possible to remain calm! Because even Trendy wants to shout with the Pea Princesses “Mansae!”
(*자다가 떡이 생긴다 literally means "How lucky I am to have ddeok unexpectedly in the dark of night/or when sleeping". Ddeok/Tteok 떡 is rice cake, and rice cake is a celebratory food that are only being eating during sad or happy occasions, like wedding, birthday, new year's day, funerals and etc. So in some way, it means that it is an unexpected happiness. Thanks SaengiePB for explaining this)
Pick up at the Airport: Taiwan Peas’ Creativity, trying to win SS501 laughter
When Trendy and the cameraman reached Taoyuan Airport, there was already a large amount of fans waiting. The cute pea princesses (SS501’s fans), to welcome SS501’s arrival, had prepared all types and kinds of banners and signs in large amounts. Their out of the box creativity, made the airport looked like an enjoyable carnival. Just as everyone’s neck was stretching longer than a giraffe’s, finally we see a red fedora wearing, flashing his very bright smile, Jung Min appearing at the arrival gate! After him was Hyung Joon and KyuJong and behind Kyu Jong was Prince Young Saeng all dressed in white and Hyun Joong wearing his super cool dark shades. Five of them were surrounded by the large number of media and fans, hence they could only move forward slowly. However, the five of them were still very friendly and waved to the fans continuously, causing the airport to be filled with screams which were like waves, one after another.
OOH! Suddenly, it seemed like something caught the eye of the five simultaneously, not only causing the five of them to constantly look back and it seemed like laughter was erupting from the midst of the five, which were even louder than the screams at the airport.
So what exactly was it? Actually it was a humorous signboard prepared by the pea princesses. There is a picture as proof, isn’t it really creative and humorous?! No wonder they could make SS501 so happy the moment they landed. Taiwan pea princesses, all of you are too good! From the time SS501 reached, most of their time were spent on rehearsals, even their request towards food were simple lunch boxes, instant noodles and soft drinks, all focused on preparing for the concert.
Finding out about SS501’s Style
Comparing to their 1st visit, returning to Taiwan for the 2nd time, they looked more relax and happy, this can be discovered from their dressing style
Hyun Joong’s Doraemon
Kim leader, Hyun Joong who has just recovered, didn’t have much expressions after landing, in addition to the black cap and large shades he was wearing, adding the cool factor. However, Trendy had a very cute finding – there was a Doraemon’s head fan hanging from Hyun Joong’s neck! Amazingly, the Doraemon fan on the very cool Hyun Joong didn’t look out of place, but instead there was an odd sense of suitable combination, maybe it’s because of the 4D and child-at-heart nature Hyun Joong has!
Jung Min is Peter Pan
Since the Seoul Concert, Jung Min has been keeping the pretty and cute fringe hairstyle and appeared with matching his style with red fedora. This hat seems to be a favourite accessory of Jung Min’s, as during the last fan meeting in Beijing, Jung Min also wore the same hat when he landed! The lively and friendly Jung Min resembles the fairytale’s Peter Pan immensely, as he couldn’t wait to fly next to everyone the moment he landed.
Hyun Joon’s low profile luxuries
As compared to the four other hyungs, Hyung Joon seem much more plain, aside from the slightly attracting cowboy hat, there wasn’t really much eye catching accessories. However, Hyung Joon’s black tee is actually a branded Italian good, simple but fashionable and stylish, seems like the low profile luxury type of style suits Hyung Joon very much!
Super Stylist Skateboarder Youth Kyu Jong
Wearing the stylish cap with a skull design on the opposite side and a loose jacket, the skate boarder style of dressing, Kyu Jong was even more handsome and shinning. In addition, when leaving the arrival hall, there were huge headphone around his neck, maybe he was happily listening to music on the plane? Probably visiting Taiwan for the second time allowed him to be more familiar, Kyu Jong was less shy and always had a smile on his face. He even playfully stuck his tongue out at Trendy’s cameraman.
Young Saeng’s Angel Wings
Prince Young Saeng always took the quiet approach and this time he appeared in an all snow white Prince Charming style. Young Saeng really likes the brightness and cleanliness feeling of white, even though he was all dressed in white, his shoes with the pair of “angel wings” were exceptionally eye catching. The sports shoes’ special wing design and matching with Young Saeng’s shy smile resembles a cute angel a lot!