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lee hyori asdf Singer Lee Hyori revealed a bikini picture. On the 2nd, Lee Hyori posted on her twitter, "A picture of me because I can't only put up picture of my dogs~ ^^ Good night everyone~ ^^" along with a picture of herself. In the picture, Hyori is wearing a black bikini with sunglasses and a hat, smiling brightly while holding a ukelele. The bright, cheery mood and the voluminous body of Lee Hyori stand out in the picture. Internet users who saw this commented, "She looks like a Hawaiian artist", "So pretty", etc

“Superstar K2’s” Kang Seung Yoon recent appearance has become public. On the June 25 broadcast of cable channel tvN’s “enews,” Kang Seung Yoon made an appearance during the episode, he is currently practicing as a trainee with YG Entertainment. His sudden appearance sparked laughter as it was not a rehearsed spot. The “enews” production staff was on its way to YG Entertainment to find Yoo In Na, since her relationship with Ji Hyun Woo had been made official not long ago, that is when they ran into Seung Yoon

SHINee completed their first Japanese arena tour successfully with their ending performance in Hiroshima, Japan. “SHINee The First Japan Arena Tour-SHINee World 2012” began on April 25 and since has gone on to hold a whopping twenty concerts throughout Japan. The tour made stops in Fukuoka, Hokkaido, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Tokyo, and Hiroshima. In total the tour attracted an impressive 200,000 fans, affirming SHINee’s popularity in Japan. Their first ever Japanese arena tour set a record for the most people in attendance for a Korean act in Japan

On July 2nd, actor Lee Jong Suk posted on his me2day, “Live broadcast is definitely really hard. Hara was trying to help me because I made a mistake during live broadcast.” He also added, “My heart is heavy because she had to hear harsh comments because of me, I’m sorry. Everyone, this foolish rookie MC right now makes a lot of mistakes but will soon get things together.” His post was made in response to many fans and netizens’ concerns about Hara’s dark expression on ‘Inkigayo‘

(July 2, 2012, Seoul, Korea) CJ E&M's Smart Media Division announced on July 2 that it would be completely restructuring its K-Pop site 'Global Mnet.com' (global.mnet.com). The new site aims to provide galleries of information grouped by individual artist and also strengthen communication among the site's users. CJ E&M found that global K-Pop fans usually view content based on his/her preferred artist, and rebuilt the main page of Global Mnet.com to reflect this trend

Powerful group B.A.P has already sold out the VIP tickets for their Taiwanese showcase! On June 30th, G-Music, the company that will be hosting the showcase, put up the tickets for sale on it’s website. Around 600 VIP tickets were available, and amazingly, they were all sold out within 5 minutes. VIP tickets that were being sold offline have also attracted a lot of traffic, as stores selling them saw long lines of eager B.A.P fans. Surprisingly, there were also a large number of male fans seen waiting in these lines, defying the popular theory that boy groups tend to only attract female fans

The Super Junior members will be hosting an upcoming episode of tvN‘s ‘Saturday Night Live (SNL) Korea 2′! On July 2nd, representatives of tvN told Nocut News, “Super Junior will be participating as the hosts of ‘SNL 2′ for the July 14th episode.” To add to this already exciting piece of news, they added, “Kangin is also scheduled to appear as part of a 10-membered Super Junior.“ This will mark Kangin’s first variety appearance as a Super Junior member after having fulfilled his mandatory military service

Added new images for the upcoming Korean drama "Arang and the Magistrate" (2012)Directed by Kim Sang-ho-IWritten by Jeong Yoon-jeongNetwork : MBCWith Lee Joon-ki, Sin Min-ah, Yeon Woo-jin, Hwang Bo-ra, Han Jeong-soo, Kwon O-joong,...Wed, Thu 21:55SynopsisAn adventurous fantasy mellow historical of Ah-rang a single ghost with ataxia who wants to know how she died and a bad tempered district magistrate who can see ghosts.Broadcast starting date in Korea : 2012/07/25

This week for Music Monday, Simon and Martina review f(x)‘s “Electric Shock.”  They thought that the song sounded amazing and perfectly fits f(x)’s style. Their one complaint is that the music video is kinda boring. Once again, the group is trapped in an oddly lit room. Check out their full review! Watch the full music video for “Electric Shock” if you haven’t done so already. Be sure to check out their site at http://www.eatyourkimchi

Lately, K-Pop Idols schedules include vigorous activities in Japan. Out of all the Hallyu stars who is able to speak the best Japanese? The Pagoda Academy of Foreign Languages (www.pagoda21.com) conducted a survey in June to discover which Hallyu star spoke Japanese the best. Thirty-seven Japanese instructors working for the academy were polled, in which 43 percent responded that DBSK’s U-Know Yunho came out on top with the best Japanese skills. Fellow DBSK member Changmin ranked high with a similar level of Japanese proficiency as his group-mate