.:[동방신기]_-Official DongBangShinKi Thread- NEWpoll

Member with the best personality? ^^

U-KNOW YunHo	17.1%	[ 329 ]
MICKY YooChun	11.8%	[ 226 ]
HERO JaeJoong	32.5%	[ 624 ]
MAX ChangMin	16.6%	[ 319 ]
XIAH JunSu	22.1%	[ 424 ]
Total Votes:			[ 1922 ]

[Paolyx]

@Tama-Inu---> Really ?! I never did... though my mother meets local celebrities at the grocery xD. I wish I could just bump into them one day (well for that I need to get to Korea first >> wink .

For clones.... nah I prefer the originals... though it wouldn't be bad in a way...

[whatheflipp]

This may be off topic (Not actually remembering the topic.. LOL.) and totally *random* .. But I want to know If anyone has a room with DBSK posters? 8D
Id like to see your walls XDD
I've got a wall with some, and the rest.. you might know.
So would anyone else would like to share? * u * ~



I got a little crazy putting my username in the pic. O__o.
Ive recently got a Super Junior poster, but it's not added on here. :

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Paolyx

They are ? I didn't know... oh wait it reminds me that yes they had said they'd continue their concerts in Shangai or something like that.

But is it actually possible to meet them in the street by pure accident ??? O.o

Classmates have actually run into celebrities (Bae YoungJoon, TaeYang, and TOP), but I have had no such luck. emo


Here, I don't want to ruin the walls (paranoid about "repair costs" wink so I have no posters up, but back at home I have five Big Bang posters (each individual member), a DBSK Calendar (2009), and I have a whole bunch of other posters I took down and put in safe keeping. (And a signed Se7en poster I brought with me but never put up...)
While here, I also got a poster from the Asia is One Concert, and other random things. o3o;

[Tama-inu]

My walls are somewhat bare. sweatdrop I'll post a picutre later... you're going to laugh at how I placed my posters on the wall. XD **hint: OCD much** rolleyes
*wishes for a giant Changmin poster*

[Tama-inu]

Bordum + School Library "hook-ups" + Typing SM Entertainment = Random article razz
Enjoy biggrin

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Teens swarm against the stage at DAR Constitution Hall, holding their cellphone cameras aloft, ready to fire. In nervous anticipation, a girl squeals, unleashing a torrent of Oh my Gods! and a wave of synchronized bouncing.
...
Born and raised near Los Angeles, Danny Im is among a growing cadre of Korean Americans who have broken into the Korean entertainment industry and now serve as K-pop stars to be exported globally.

Some hail from the suburbs of Northern Virginia: Chart-topper Micky Yuchun of boy group TVXQ attended Chantilly High before he became famous in Asia for his baby-face good looks and Justin Timberlake dance moves; Lee Ming Young of the best-selling pop duo As One is a graduate of Fairfax High School.
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"You grow up hearing all kinds of music, languages and sounds growing up in America," says Danny, an eight-year veteran Korean singer and rapper. "Those experiences make you open to more things and more versatile. "
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Micky Yuchun grew up in Seoul, where he was known as Yuchun Park. He immigrated with his parents, middle-class small-business owners, in the sixth grade. He watched Korean dramas on satellite TV and listened to the CDs of K-pop bands. At Holmes Middle School, Chantilly High and among friends, he soaked up the Backstreet Boys, Eric Clapton and MTV.

Three years ago he was plucked from talent contests in Northern Virginia to join one of Asia's hottest boy bands. He uses his American moniker, Micky, as his stage name.

"I felt 50-50 American and Korean," Micky, 21, says in a telephone interview from Seoul. "I think most Korean kids in America feel that way these days."

One in five residents of the Washington area is foreign-born, making imports like manga (Japanese comics) and bhangra (Punjabi music) part of the cultural vernacular of the youth. Global travel is more accessible. So is entertainment. In the world of teens, K- pop, J-pop and Taiwanese pop music and movies are a click away. Even some K-pop band names mean more than Americans realize: TVXQ, for example, is a transliteration of the name in Mandarin Chinese -- the group is also seeking a market in the Communist mainland.
...
Just as baby boomers once fought over which Beatle would be their "boyfriend," teens Elaine Park, Joanne Kim and Christina Oh argue over who gets to "claim" Tae Yang of boy band Big Bang.

They are sophomores at Lake Braddock High and self-described BFFs -- best friends forever. All born and raised in Fairfax, the three have attended the same schools and churches since childhood. They've shared countless hours lounging in each other's bedrooms, the walls decorated with posters of Korean boy bands, memorizing lyrics and scouring Korean entertainment forums like Soompi.com for scraps of gossip.

At the concert at Constitution Hall, the three stake their claim to a small section in front of the stage. Elaine says she will go home happy if she can give Big Bang's Tae Yang a personal memento - - maybe her student ID.

As performers come on, one by one, the friends sing all the lyrics -- Korean and English -- to songs performed by Se7en, Gummy and Lexy. Arms interlaced, they sway side to side.

"I like American music too, but sometimes I find it too sexual," says 16-year-old Christina. "Korean music is more innocent, but still really fun."

Suddenly the stage falls dim. With a buildup of smoke and flashing lights, the six members of Big Bang come out to the heavily synthesized dance beats of the song "La La La."

The BFFs lose it as the music inspires a hormonal storm. The floor shakes. Fans jump and scream. "Musheesuh!" a girl in back yells. You are so handsome!

Elaine presses forward, trying to get as close as she can. Her moment arrives; Tae Yang comes to her part of the stage. She frantically grabs for something to give him: a water bottle. He takes it and smiles. She floats to another world, but a very familiar one.

Credits: Cecilia Kang - Washington Post Staff Writer. (2006, November 26). Riding the Seoul Train; Korean American Teens Embrace a Pop Music Hybrid :[FINAL Edition]. The Washington Post,p. N.1. Retrieved October 7, 2009, from ProQuest National Newspapers Core. (Document ID: 1168284401).

"I like American music too, but sometimes I find it too sexual," says 16-year-old Christina. "Korean music is more innocent, but still really fun."
Dude I totally agree with this girl. ^_^

I'll se if I can find any more articles... :3

[Tama-inu]

Bordum + School Library "hook-ups" + Typing k-pop = Random article #2
((Searching DBSK and TVXQ doesn't work ;_; )) Unfortuantly DBSK isn't maentioned in this...

Quote:

CALL it "Korean American Idol."

Soo-Man Lee's search for the next big Korean star brings him to Los Angeles to watch young performers flip their hair, swivel their hips and do their best Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake impressions, almost entirely in English.

"The language doesn't matter. We can teach them that," Lee said. "What we need is people who understand American culture. That is what will make them stars in Asia."

Lee's view may seem counterintuitive, but it appears to work.

For the past several years, Lee's company -- he's president of Seoul-based S.M. Entertainment -- has held open-call auditions in 11 North American cities, including Los Angeles and Garden Grove, for performers who can sing, act or model their way to stardom in Asia.

So far, he's discovered almost half a dozen U.S.-born entertainers who have become celebrities in Korea, feeding that country's demand for stars who look like them but have Britney Spears' dance moves or Eminem's swagger. Korean youth may follow Hollywood movies, wear Gap jeans and download singles from iTunes, but "they just can't rap. There are just things that only Americans can do," explained Francis Hur, president of SkyLight Entertainment, a Los Angeles company that promotes Korean music.

So people like Brian Gintaek Joo, who was born in Absecon, N.J., but is a now a top R&B singer in Korea, and Tony An, who DJ'd in New York clubs before joining the influential hip-hop group H.O.T., can fill the cultural void while looking Korean enough to blend into Seoul.
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Many of the contestants were fans of "K-pop," the nickname of popular Korean music which is a distant cousin of early 1990s music and features the same style of soaring ballads and catchy dance tunes as 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys.

Korean popular culture dominates much of Asia, where performers like Rain sell out stadiums from Thailand to China. When Korean soap operas travel to Tokyo for press junkets, the scene resembles something out of Beatlemania.
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He believes that S.M.'s growth is tied to bilingual performers -- stars who can make it big in Korea and then possibly back in America. The singer known as BoA, for example, perhaps S.M.'s biggest performer, is Korean but speaks Japanese fluently and is a megastar in both countries. "We need more English speakers. America is the world's biggest market," said Lee, who spent several years in the early 1990s studying economics at Cal State Northridge. ((Woot Woot go CSUN! ^^; Sry that's my local State College))
Credits: Jason Song. (2007, January 1). Called to star in Asia; The hunt for the next pop idols in Korea leads to auditions here. It helps to be able to shake it like Britney but look like the folks back home :[HOME EDITION]. Los Angeles Times,p. E.3. Retrieved October 7, 2009, from Los Angeles Times. (Document ID: 1187902741).

*sigh* no more interesting articles D: ...I did find several on the Chinese band F4 XD

[whatheflipp]

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Paolyx

They are ? I didn't know... oh wait it reminds me that yes they had said they'd continue their concerts in Shangai or something like that.

But is it actually possible to meet them in the street by pure accident ??? O.o

Classmates have actually run into celebrities (Bae YoungJoon, TaeYang, and TOP), but I have had no such luck. emo


Here, I don't want to ruin the walls (paranoid about "repair costs" wink so I have no posters up, but back at home I have five Big Bang posters (each individual member), a DBSK Calendar (2009), and I have a whole bunch of other posters I took down and put in safe keeping. (And a signed Se7en poster I brought with me but never put up...)
While here, I also got a poster from the Asia is One Concert, and other random things. o3o;

AHHH o: Individual posters! I wish they sold those here. DDD;
Apparently, I can't buy online.. well not yet. .__.
That's pretty cool, signed poster by se7en. **
LOL @ Repair costs. I kinda ripped some wallpaper off when I was trying to get one off to put it somewhere else. I should be careful next time..

@Tama-inu; LOL okay. I can't wait to see. XDD

[Tama-inu]

Most of them are laminated so I had to take it at an angle otherwise the glare would be bad. sweatdrop It's still missing a lot of people... someday I'll take the time to print out more... XP


This is the cover of my binder razz *If you want a larger copy of this collage just ask ^^

xD I had a class mate point to the pictures of Jajeoong with the long hair and was going to call "her" pretty. He totally freaked when I told him that girl is this guy *points to mirotic photo*

Lastly:
There are these blocks at my college that we can write on. Last week I left my mark biggrin *everything in yellow was me*

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whatheflipp

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Paolyx

They are ? I didn't know... oh wait it reminds me that yes they had said they'd continue their concerts in Shangai or something like that.

But is it actually possible to meet them in the street by pure accident ??? O.o

Classmates have actually run into celebrities (Bae YoungJoon, TaeYang, and TOP), but I have had no such luck. emo


Here, I don't want to ruin the walls (paranoid about "repair costs" wink so I have no posters up, but back at home I have five Big Bang posters (each individual member), a DBSK Calendar (2009), and I have a whole bunch of other posters I took down and put in safe keeping. (And a signed Se7en poster I brought with me but never put up...)
While here, I also got a poster from the Asia is One Concert, and other random things. o3o;

AHHH o: Individual posters! I wish they sold those here. DDD;
Apparently, I can't buy online.. well not yet. .__.
That's pretty cool, signed poster by se7en. **
LOL @ Repair costs. I kinda ripped some wallpaper off when I was trying to get one off to put it somewhere else. I should be careful next time..

I ordered the posters on yesasia last Christmas. XD
I don't care at home, in fact my dad always jokes he would put a light in my walls and I'd have stars cause of how many pinholes I have. XD (This joke stopped being funny when I found out my room had termites. ;_; )

The binder looks awesome. =D I've been too lazy to do that (plus I like, never use my binder)... XD

[Paolyx]

Binders.... me too I'm too lazy... and I just began to put DBSK as my laptop wallpaper. And I don,t use binders as often as I did. For posters I'd so like the Mirotic one (you know the one when there's water everywhere ?)... but I'm already in debt for the DVD and CD... Hey talking about them. I received them at the beginning of the week. I'm soooooo happy, though I haven't watched the Secret Code Live Tour yet, I'm waiting for my friend to have a free evening for me to watch it with her. But the single is so worth it (ok it's an old one (Runaway / My Girlfriend) but I don't caaaaare). Did you knew that, like mangas, CDs open on the other side ? Even if the plastic "back" and "front" of the case are the same, the pictures are inversed... I'll try to scan it since I don't explain very well sweatdrop

[Tama-inu]

How can you not use your binder?
Hell I use mine so much they usually start falling apart by the 2nd semester.

[Paolyx]

Well I used them a lot back in highschool, but now in college I have more books and I take notes on my laptop since I can now. But I am in Integration session so maybe that's why I ain't using many binders since I don't have many courses.

[Tama-inu]

Oh I see.
I'm taking Bio and Chem so most of my notes require pictures. Ergo the conventional method it to hand-write my notes.

[x3REBECCA]

i was just wondering what were your first impressions of DBSK?

i thought they all looked the same when my friend showed me her wall of asian posters
--> back then i wasn't really into dbsk or anything asian
she asked who was who on two seperate posters
*points at jaejoong* i said micky?
*points at micky* i said changmin?
you get the point

sometime later i asked her "are you sure they ain't bisexual? they look like girls" =="
i was really noob. now. its

YUNHOOOOO x333