Lee Hongki’s ‘Jump’ for ‘Passionate Goodbye’ movie

FNC Entertainment has revealed the music video for the original soundtrack of Passionate Goodbye, also known as Phoenix, The Song of Promise where Lee Hongki debuts as a film actor and this time, he is playing the lead role.

Hongki plays the character of a troublesome idol who gets sentenced to serve in a community hospital. Eventually, he will be fulfilling the dreams of the patients who are terminally ill.  Other members of the cast are Ma Dong Suk, Lim Won Hee, Paek Jin Hee and child actress Jeon Min Seo.

Aside from being a good husband to Fujii Mina on the popular show We Got Married, Hongki is up for the challenge of proving himself as a dynamic idol who not only can perform on stage with his music but can also move the audience with his heartfelt acting.

Lee Hongki also sang two songs for the original soundtracks of the film including the title song Jump  and the second track Goodbye. The OST tracklist have six songs, which the titles can be found below:

1. Jump (Lee Hongki)
2. Goodbye (Lee Hongki)
3. 뜨거운 안녕
4. 편지
5. 평온한 호스피스 병동
6. 회상

Don’t forget to watch the music video of the title song Jump for the movie Passionate Goodbye, which will premiere on May 30 in Korea and on June in Japan.

Source: FT Island Official Fancafe, FNC Entertainment, [Youtube] ftisland, [Photo] movieons2013

Juniel unleashes teaser for ‘Pretty Boy’

Solo singer Juniel is gearing up for a well anticipated spring comeback and will present a new approach. She recently unleashed a music video teaser for her track Pretty Boy, showing the transformation from her somber theme for Bad Man to a new innocent concept.

Juniel’s upcoming third mini album entitled Fall In L is set for release on April 25. In the meantime, check out her teaser for Pretty Boy below:

 Sources: (News & Video) – OfficialJUNIEL; Photo – FNC Entertainment Website

CNBLUE’s ‘BLUE MOON World Tour’ adds a stop in Malaysia

Yes, Malaysia BOICEs, you have read it right!

Malaysia has been recently added as one of the stops for CNBLUE‘s ‘BLUE MOON World Tour‘, and is set to take place on the 24th of August, at Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur.

Previously announced stops in countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, tickets were sold out almost immediately and in succession, and this is most  evident in Hong Kong, where reportedly all 7,000 seats were sold out in around five minutes.

CNBLUE’s agency, FNC Entertainment, revealed that due to hot demand by Malaysian fans and sold out tickets in neighboring countries, requests for a stop in Malaysia were quickly finalized.

Currently, FNC’s tour schedule officials are not only in the final finishing steps of wrapping up official schedules in countries like Australia, but also North and South America and Europe as well.

CNBLUE will embark on their tour in Taiwan on April 6, Singapore on April 13, Thailand on May 4, Hong Kong on May 11, before returning to Seoul for two shows set on the 25th and 26th of March. Their Sydney and Manila stops are scheduled to take place on the 1st and 15th of June respectively.

So BOICEs, watch this space for more information on CNBLUE’s coming concerts!

Picture and news source: Daum

AOA to perform at the ’2013 Asia Super Showcase in Malaysia’!

The newest update for the ‘2013 Asia Super Showcase in Malaysia’, which will be held on May 12 at Stadium Merdeka, has unveiled that FNC Entertainment’s resident girl group and band, AOA, will be joining Girls Generation as the part of the event’s star-studded artist line up!

AOA, which is an acronym for Ace of Angels, debuted with their single album, Angel’s Story.

AOA is constructed of an idol group of all 7 members: Choa, Jimin, Yuna, Hyejeong, Mina, Seolhyun, and Chanmi (excluding Youkyung), and a band with 5 of the members, namely Choa, Jimin, Yuna, Youkyoung and Mina.

Fellow ELVIS’, are you excited?

The last K-pop group in the artist line up will be revealed soon! Stay tuned to hellokpop for more updates!

News Source: Marctensia Facebook Page  Picture Source: AOA’s Official Website  Video source: AOA’s Youtube

Day 1: Winners at The 27th Golden Disk Awards Concert in Kuala Lumpur

The 27th Golden Disk Awards opened with day one emcees CNBlue‘s Yonghwa, performing a cover of Payphone by Maroon 5 and Nicole from KARA showing off her infectious dance to R&B’s Ne-Yo‘s Sexy Love.

INFINITE then took centre stage to perform Chaser and Be Mine with their energetic and powerful dance moves. For the song Paradise, the idol group took off their sparkly silver jackets and capitivated the crowd with their black outfits.

The four day monstrous event started with recognition in successful artists who achieved greatest physical sales in 2012. Awards were presented in between performances as the idols expressed their gratitude for achieving the prestigious award.

Rising solo star Juniel performed her mesmerising mellow song Bad Man before sharing the stage with CNBLUE’s Jong Hyeon for Illa Illa and My Love. Both artists played the guitar so well, I hoped that they would collaborate on a track.

And then the fans screamed. Troublemaker Hyuna and Hyun Seung of BEAST lifted the temperature of the venue with their steamy song before rookies BTOB performed a number of their songs (Secret, Wow and Candle).

KARA’s performance was met with a technical glitch when the lights blacked out. Fans lead a chant for the idol group while Yonghwa distracted fans from the glitch with multiple crowd waves. After the glitch was attended, KARA returned to the stage to perform Pandora, Jumping and Step. 4minute performed Volume Up, Mirror Mirror and Hot Issue. 

Pop rock idols FT Island changed the pace a little with their new songs from their 4th album. The band performed Life, Severely and I Wish. Following their senior’s performance, CNBLUE performed Hey You, First Step and their smash hit I’m a Loner.

BEAST performed Special, Beautiful Night and Fiction while B1A4 performed Good Night, Tried to Walk and Sechskies. Screams, cheers and then more screams,was all you could hear from fans screaming at the top of their lungs.

Dubbed as rookies of the year, EXO performed their powerful and charismatic debut song MAMA, History and Hot. The GDA winners of album of the year, Super Junior performed Bonamana, From You, Oppa Oppa before performing the lead song from their winning album, Sexy Free & Single. SHINee performed Lucifer, Stranger and Sherlock.

List of Winners for Day 1 Samsung Galaxy The 27th GDA in Kuala Lumpur

Album of the Year / Disk Daesang

Super Junior (Sexy, Free & Single)

Golden Disk Award Album Division / Disk Bonsang

INFINITE (Infinitize) / B1A4 (The B1A4) / FT Island (Grown-up) / CNBLUE (3rd Mini Album Ear Fun) / 4Minute (Volume Up) / BEAST (Midnight Sun) / KARA (Pandora) / Super Junior (Sexy, Free & Single) / SHINee (Sherlock)

New Rising K-POP Star / Rookie Award

EXO / Juniel

Best Dance Performance Award

Hyuna & Hyun Seung (Trouble Maker)

Best Group Performance Award

INFINITE

Next Generation Star Award

BTOB

MSN Southeast Asia Award

Super Junior

Malaysia’s Most Favorite Star Award

CNBLUE / KARA

JTBC Best Artist Award

BEAST

Popularity Award

SHINee

Golden Disk Producer Award

Han Sung Ho (FNC Entertainment)

**Not in particular order

Congratulation to all the winners for Day 1 of Golden Disk Awards!

About the Golden Disk Awards

Dubbed as “The Korean Grammy Awards”, GDA was founded in 1986 and it is South Korea’s most prestigious K-POP music awards show and is presented annually for outstanding achievement in the music industry. Award categories are based on the most popular K-POP music from the past year based on the digital downloads industry whilst bolstering the creativity of pop music and finding talented artists.

Candidates of the Golden Disk Awards 2013

Artistes who released their albums after December 2011, as well as albums and songs that are released or sold between January 2012 and December 2012 will be qualified for the awards. The awards are given based on the total combined sales volume of the albums, songs and judges’ votes.

Don’t forget to check our coverage of the Red Carpet & Short Interview  for Day 1.

Stay tuned for our continued coverage for Day 2!

Special thanks to the organizers Joongang Culture Media, Mediartncomm Co. Ltd, RougePR known as Rouge Creative Boutique (M) Sdn Bhd.

Event covered & Photos credits : kenny@hellokpop