These are English subbed (not by me).

Part 1:

Part 2:

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Two versions of a new HA HA HA Song Campaign plus some HQ images from the official site!

Dance:

School Attack:

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You can find some more super HQ images of this campaign at the official site.

You can also find SNSD, Shinee, and Super Junior messages and autographs here!
“Always keep the faith!”

via DNBN; SM Fanclub

Yunho of popular boy band, Dong bang shin ki visited his old high school, Kwang-il High school on January 2nd to pay respects to his teachers in the New Year. After meeting his teachers and signing for his hubaes (juniors), the DBSK member set up a scholarship fund of 600,000 won for 6 students. Afterwards, Yunho took 70 of the school people out to lunch (and hopefully paid).

And in parting, Yunho told his younger classmates to “dream big.”

via Popseoul

More images from his visit:

via DNBN; Popseoul

In the aftermath of the completion of the various Gayo Daejuns in Korea, there was news last Friday that some singers had used some music for their performances without the required permission from copyright holders.

According to reports, DBSK leader U-Know Yunho and Rain had used Justin Timberlake Magic as the background music for their performances in the SBS Gayo Daejun and KBS Gayo Daechuk respectively. But the tune was apparently used without any permission being sought from the copyright holders. In addition, Shinee’s Taemin has also met with the same problem, using Usher Dat Girl Right There for his dance performance at the SBS Gayo Daejun.

A SonyBMG who holds the rights for both songs expressed that Magic and Dat Girl Right There had not been released officially through any channels. They thus do not understand how they had gotten their hands on the songs. Although Magic was illegally uploaded in October last year but it wasn’t included in any of Justin Timberlake’s album thus they are left perplexed at this.

DBSK and Shinee’s manager responded by saying that they didn’t know that the song was obtained through illegal means and expressed their regrets. Rain’s management, J. Tunes expressed that they did not use the music illegally on purpose but only knew that it was an American song. Some Korean netizens felt that it was a national insult, “Even though the singers have called on fans not to download music illegally, why are they infringing on copyrights themselves?”

via Coolsmurf

The audience ratings for NHK’s 59th Kohaku Uta Gassen have been announced. Ratings were up from last year, reaching 35.7% for the first half and 42.1% for the second half.

The news was a welcome change, as the past two years had dipped below the 40% mark. The second half of the show had ratings of 39.8% in 2006 and 39.5% in 2007, which are the 3rd and 2nd worst performances in the show’s history.

The first half ratings were also an improvement, climbing up from 30.6% in 2006 and 32.8% in 2007.

This Kohaku Uta Gassen was the fourth consecutive victory for the White Team (male artists), bringing their overall total record to 31 wins and 28 losses. It was a convincing win, as the White Team received nearly 206,000 votes compared to the Red Team’s 112,000.

via TokyoGraph

Updates will be slow from now on, meaning I won’t be able to translate much of the stuff on my own. Reason being, my winter holidays are almost over, and I’ll be busy focusing on school again. Plus, I cannot seem to get over a certain tragedy called “What Happened in Bali” or get out of my “What Happened in Bali”/Jo Insung/Ha Jiwon phase…

And interesting article, I thought!

DBSK’s best year for both Korea and Japan … DBSK’s Van Interview
“Proud because there are more male fans … Thank you Wang Biho for your anti-comments”

The night of 29th, 7 PM, Kimpo Airport Entrance. The five stars barely got on the van with the help of their securities, going past the amazing amount of fans. The van leaves hastily, and there are at least a good ten taxi’s trailing the van. No it’s not a chase or a movie scene. It’s the five membered boy band “DBSK” and their scene of entrance.

On this day, DBSK finished their rehearsal for a Japanese end of year special show and flew back to Korea to participate in the “SBS Gayo Daejun”. They flew back to Japan on the thirtieth to receive the “Best Piece” Award. On the thirty-first they will be on NHK Kouhaku uta Gassen. Such a killer-schedule tells us how famous they have become.

DBSK has sold 460, 000 copies of their new album “The fourth album: JUMON-MIROTIC”, which is their comeback album after a hiatus of 1 year and seven months. They re-instated that they were the best group, once again. In Japan, they’re known as Tohoshinki. Tohoshinki have achieved the number one rank on Oricon weekly charts four times. Since they were so busy, their interview had to be done in the van.

Q: Due to the song “JUMON-MIROTIC”, I think our fandom has become a bigger place.

“In airplanes, not only do the air hostesses request of our autographs but the pilots also. I’m very pleased that there has been an increase of male fans. During “O-Jung.Ban.Hap”, we were known as the group that sang tough songs. But now we hear from people we now sing songs that people in the thirties can also sing along to.” said U-know Yunho.

“I think we’ve become a national idol. There are a lot of female (older) fans that tell us, “You guys all look like man now. We see you as man now.” Our management even told us, “You can start dating now. It’ll help with your images, to look manly.” But we have no time to meet women.” said Hero Jaejoong.

Q: I think you guys have had some difficult heartaches, during all those times.

“We were afraid of the people that kept looking us with the set mind of, “DBSK are no longer the “it” people in Korea. Your songs are no longer the trend.” We were afraid and worried during the period we were getting ready for our comeback. So we made up our minds to be strong. We wanted to hear, “DBSK, they’re definitely something else / They’re different from other singers”. said Xiah Junsu.

“JUMON-MIROTIC is a song that has DBSK’s color mixed with Pop. It’s a song that gave re-birth to DBSK.” said Max Changmin.

Q: Hasn’t the fact that gagman Wang Biho (Yoon Hyung Bin) said, “DBSK’s fanclub consists of 800, 000 people, but how come you can only sell 100, 000 copies of the album?” helped you in the selling of your album?

“I admit that completely and hence I’m grateful. His word wasn’t a pact or a rule. But more of a suspicion of, “If you are their fan, then you should be buying their albums.” I hear that other artists have increased albums sales also. I think fandom culture has really improved if you see the fans these days that clean up after everyone in concerts, and donate money towards the members’ birthdays.” said, U-know Yunho.

Q: I think you guys have achieve a rival line with the group “Big Bang”.

“Big Bang and DBSK sing different genres of music, and we don’t think we’re better then them. Big Bang knows how to have fun yet perform well on stage. I think, when we go on stage that “We’re the best on this stage”, but I think they think that too.” said Xiah Junsu.

Q: I heard that “JUMON-MIROTIC” got banned by the Commision of Youth Protection

“I don’t understand it. So that’s why I feel like we’ve inconvenienced everyone. When we attended the Golden Disk Awards to receive the Daesang, we had to change some lyrics, but the original feel just didn’t come alive. I’m sure the people that listened felt the same also.” said Micky Yoochun.

Q: Ever since your debut, you have grown so very fast!

“Like some said, we’re only eating the rice that other people have deliciously made. It’s just that we also put in that much effort, and eat the rice with ‘Golden Spoons’.” said, Xiah Junsu.

Q: What is DBSK’s dream?

“It is our dream to be able to continue doing K-Pop music that only we’d be able to pull off. It is also our job, our duty to get rid of the misconception that idols can only dance good but can’t sing or have no idea of what good singing is.” said, U-know Yunho.

via DNBN; Joins; Livejournal
Translation: vaseline@TVXQau
Shared by: xietinloveshero + KPOP JJANG (edit for grammar etc.)

They’ve surfaced and people are not discussing whether that’s Jaejoong’s hand on Han Hyojoo’s waist or not… I think it is; who else’s could it be?

via DNBN (check the post out; it’s actually really funny, whether you know Korean or not. Funnier if you do of course, since you’ll be able to read some of the comments.)

You can view a new (and really short) clip of what looks to be the filming of a third “HA HA HA” Song Campaign here at DNBN. It was aired on KBS’s Morning News on Jan. 1.

via DNBN

Also, just a bit of random information, because I love it when other stars talk about DBSK, but singer Lyn recently said she’d like to go on a date with Junsu. I’ll just translate the original post from DNBN; you can also listen to audio here.

최화정의 파워타임에서 진실토크하는 부분에
Choi Hwajung’s Power Time Truth Talk Corner

“나는, 일일 데이트라도 한번 해보고 싶은 이성 연예인이 있다??!!”
라는 물음에
“I have a celebrity that I would like to go on a one-to-one date with??!”
was the question

수주웁게 시아준수… 라고 말하시는 린(Lyn) 언니 이십니당… OTL
(기뻐해야 하나효? 울어야 하나효? T^T)
Shyly Lyn unnie replied Xiah Junsu
(Should I be happy? Or should I cry? T^T)

최화정씨도 좋다고 하시고 더블에스의 규종군도 준수 매력있다고 하시네요~ ^.^
Choi Hwajung also said she liked him and said SS501’s Kyujong has Junsu’s charm (TN: I think that’s what she means, but I’m not completely sure)

And just a cute GIF that came with the post!

via DNBN