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BoA, Ivy, Lee Hyori, Gummy, Baek Ji Young To have an agency tell you that you have the star quality to become a solo singer, meaning they believe you have what it takes to have a solo career, is a huge deal. Any one who is going to take on a solo career on their own, without leaning on others in a group deserves a badass award and today we're going to take a look at the five top badass solo female singers in the industry.  It would be a disrespectful to the Queen of Kpop if I didn't start this list off without the goddess herself, Lee Hyori

Cho Yong-pil talks at a press event for his new album in Seoul on Wednesday. Veteran crooner Cho Yong-pil on Wednesday attributed the massive success of his latest album to his change in musical direction. The album, his 19th, effortlessly swept the music charts here by selling 180,000 copies in 20 days of its release.Cho departed from his usual power ballads by adding elements of hip hop, rock and house, which are more likely to appeal to young people.After his last album a decade ago, Cho said he felt a strong need to change his style

kdrama Seo In Guk Actor and singer Seo In Guk is not gay. Although he makes it veryclear that he really likes women, he does know why people assume that hehas a different preference. The winner of the talent reality show "Superstar K" thinks it has alot to do with one of his kdrama appearances and his participation in amusic video. Seo In Guk played Yoon Yoon Jae, the boy next door, in "Reply 1997." For his romantic performance in that drama, he won Drama Fever's "BestKiss Award" for a kiss he shared with A Pink's Jung Eun Ji

SECRET, Jun Hyosung SECRET Jun Hyosung Apologizes for ‘Democratization’ Comments SECRET's Jun Hyosung offered a public apology for her remarks on a radio show. On May 14, after controversy erupted over her use of the word 'democratization' on radio show, 'Power Time,' Jun Hyosung made an apology on her Twitter. SECRET's leader tweeted, "I apologize for the misuse of a word on today's 'Power Time.'" She added, "I am deeply sorry for using a word without knowing the exact meaning of it

Lee Hi‘s fans from all over the world have banded together to celebrate her first ever solo concert. On May 12, Lee Hi performed a free concert, ‘RE-HI‘, for 500 fans at the Seokang University’s Mary Hall in Seoul. To celebrate, her fans from USA, Peru, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Bahrain, and other countries gathered to send 1.17 tons of rice (~2,580 pounds). One fan said, “We wanted to give back a small gift to YG Entertainment because they opened a free concert for us, so we decided to do a rice wreath from fans all over the world

by: Raine --- Episode 12 dropped 0.4% to 9.4%. It's the same stuff over and over. It's saving grace is some mystical power that catches the attention and the heart and invests you. Perhaps it's the hot men. Perhaps it's the need to figure this hot mess of a drama out. I'm not sure. "Fashion King" features Yoo Ah-in, Sin Se-kyeong and Lee Je-hoon. Episode 13 recap Young-gul is agonizing in bed over Ga-young's departure and then rises  to check Ga-young's sleeping area, but she isn't there

2PM, Lee Hyori, Cho Yong Pil, Psy, Akdong Musician, Busker Busker, Lee Hi Digital Music Charts Korea   In the past couple months the digital K-Pop charts have displayed a wide variety of artists and styles in the top ten. Lately it has not been the mega idol groups who have dominated the charts as in the past, and 2PM's failure to shoot to the top with their recent comeback is a perfect example of this new trend. JYP Entertainment's beastly idols released "Comeback When You Hear This Song" May 5 and it barely made a blip on the charts in the first couple days

Tickets are now on sale for the fifth edition of the annual Terracotta Far East Film Festival.Over the years the festival has seen the event go from strength to strength. This year is set to be the biggest yet, expanding to 27 films spread over 4 sections and 2 venues from 06 - 15 June 2013.The core of the festival will remain a hand-picked selection of the best CURRENT ASIAN CINEMA at The Prince Charles Cinema. This all UK Premiere section reflects the vibrancy and energy in Asian filmmaking today

Juniel Juniel ‘I Want to Take It Easy and Enjoy Music and Life’ Solo sing-a-song writer Juniel is back. Moving away from the sad, emotional type of music that comprised the majority of her debut album, Juniel now sings about cute, puppy love. Her title song, "A Cute Guy," along with charming choreography, is the epitome of 'girly.' About the switch of colors, Juniel commented, "I wanted to show something new because my music was so dark the first time. I did enough sad songs in the debut album so I thought it was time to smile a little

world tour, G-Dragon, CNBLUE, TVXQ, U-Know, Yunho, max changmin, Psy, Girls Generation, Shinhwa, Japan, Japan Concert, Dome, osaka, Yong Hwa Super Junior Successfully Completes South America Portion of 'SUPERSHOW5' Tour with 40,000 Fans Spring is here, and that means that around the world (or at least in the temperate climate zone) people are getting outside looking for ways to spend their new sun-given energy. To tap into that feeling, lots of K-Pop World Tours have kicked off this April. In fact, some of the most popular Korean pop music acts (and I'm not just talking about PSY) have begun touring the world, including G-Dragon, CNBLUE, TVXQ and Super Junior