Archive for the Seoul Category

Sohee embarrasses all of East Asia

Posted in Seoul with tags , on March 1, 2009 by illdielaughing


Sohee performs Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” at Bangkok 

Anything I say about this performance will be really mean. Not because I’m a mean person but because I’m an honest person and to talk about this performane honestly would be to bring up things that some would perceive as negative when it is the truth. So I’ll let you comment. 

All I can say about that performance is. “Wow”.

Park Myung Soo makes a better woman

Posted in Seoul, ^_^ with tags , , , on February 22, 2009 by illdielaughing

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Watching the Infinity Challenge parody and I’m shocked! (As well as laughing my ass off). Park Myung Soo should stick to wigs and cross dressing because he looks much better that way. This parody is hilarious. I love these guys. Noh Hong Chul has perfected creepy.

JYP Auditions 2009

Posted in Auditions, NYC, Seoul with tags on February 11, 2009 by illdielaughing

JYP is holding auditions yet again.

Once again, they do everything in Korean which makes little sense to me as they’re holding auditions in the United States. Why don’t they do it in English and Korean? Are they showing off to Koreans that they can have auditions in the United States? Are they limiting applicants to those only of Korean-American descent and/or to those  that can speak Korean? I’m sure they have an excellent reason for that. 

Los Angeles – March 7th 
9am to 3pm
2975Wilshire Blvd. 5th floor 

New York – March 14th
10am to 6pm
JYP USA Center
110th east 31st  

jype.com/audition.town for more information. 

Is anyone here auditioning?

KBS Bans Again

Posted in Music, Seoul with tags on February 10, 2009 by illdielaughing

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I LOL all over from the news that KBS has banned singer Achoo AJOO from KBS Music Bank because of his song Wealthy 2nd Generation’s supposed worship of materialism (or something to that affect). 

HA.

HA.

HA.

I swear, I’m not cynical. But come on, what a horrible excuse to ban a song. Read more »

Boys Over Flowers “News”

Posted in Drama, Seoul with tags , , , , on February 10, 2009 by illdielaughing

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I’ve long since abandoned my hopes of being a “news” blog but it’s really funny to see the “current events” in Korean pop culture. It’s all “might haves” “would haves” and it’s pretty dull.

Kim So Eun, the actress that plays Ga Eul in Boys Over Flowers might have been a national skier.
DBSK would have been in BOF. (And I’m very happy that this never happened. Hyun Joong is enough in the bad-acting-from-idols department.)

Speaking of BOF, I really can’t believe that it broke the 30% Nielsen rating. That is completely nuts. I mean, I understand the show’s appeal, and I’ve watched all but the last 2 episodes but I just can’t imagine that nearly a third of the R.O.K watches this show. That’s NUTS. Okay. I’m done with that. When/IF I start watching the show again I’ll share some more of my opinions on the plot and what not. Though really, I find it hard to find the contrived plot very interesting. I mean it’s based on a manga, so it’s allowed to be ridiculous but then they make it melo-dramatic, swath the scenes in horrid music and call it sentimental. Read more »

Cocaine and SNSD

Posted in Seoul, WTF?, suckness with tags on February 7, 2009 by illdielaughing

So have you heard of the Cocaine nose video? Or the reaction videos? Apparently people were instructed to watch the vid with SNSD’s “Gee” playing in the background. Wha-wa WHAT?

As random as it is, I think it’s a pretty hilarious combination. Unfortunately, people didn’t understand that SNSD was not the main focus of the video and assumed that the reactions were to the song. Now that was clearly was not the case but some people DID have reactions to the music as well. Mostly in the “This-shit-sucks” arena. This of course put people on edge, but let’s be honest. SNSD’s “Gee” may be catchy but it is the epitome of crappy, manufactured pop music and saying you hate the song, are claiming that it is shitty is not bashing especially not to people that don’t at all know how the cooks in fandom think. I’m sure they would have avoided saying anything about the song if they’d known that a barage of ill-informed fans were going to be leaving idiotic comments.

The funniest thing about this whole thing though is that there are only 6 reaction videos, and apparently the “cocaine nose” video isn’t that interesting anyway. So really, the SNSD fans are the ones making the video of people abhoring SNSD’s music more popular. Hah. 

Nice job guys. 

The video/man that started it all:

“The Good, The Bad, The Weird” [Review]

Posted in Movie, Movies, Seoul with tags , , on February 1, 2009 by illdielaughing

This film is beautiful, hilarious and has convinced me that Lee Byung Hun is attractive. I didn’t think a movie could be so many things. 

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Set in 1930’s Manchuria, this “Kimchi Western”, based on the Italian “spaghetti western” The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, surrounds a treasure map and the various groups and individuals that are out to find it and the supposed treasure. The main focus, of course, is The Good, bounty hunter Park Do Won, The Bad, crazy killer Park Chang Yi and The Weird, petty thief Yoon Tae Goo. Also involved in the chase is the Japanese army, Korean independence fighters and what seems to be roaming Chinese nomads. Read more »

G-Dragon leaves earth

Posted in Concert, Music, Seoul, ^_^ with tags , on January 31, 2009 by illdielaughing

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From Borbes Magazine: G-Dragon is being beamed back into the mother ship and he’s returning to the planet he came from. They decided he’s caused to much fashion damage to continue his existence on earth. The mother ship retrieved him quickly and left their deepest apologies to the citizens of Earth. 

I love this picture of G-Dragon. It’s hilarious. It also made me want to post which I’ve been having a hard time doing lately. More pictures from the Big Show to come!

Big Bang going solo: A Refresher

Posted in Music, Seoul with tags on January 24, 2009 by illdielaughing

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I’m no longer very excited about anything that Big Bang does. I slowly fell out of love with them over the course of the Stand Up EP and the Remember album. But I’m interested in what their solo endeavours will bring. Read more »

Taeyeon made a mistake?

Posted in Rant, Seoul with tags , , on January 22, 2009 by illdielaughing

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Now would the mistake be that she thinks that Alicia Keys “for a black person is really pretty?” Or is the mistake that she said it on national radio? Read more »