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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:24 am Post subject:
Lady's Delight I went to the arashian link, and the link they have for the SP is an Oxyshare link...but when I go there it just says download the file but there's no place to click to initiate a download. I even tried registering but it won't let me download, is there some trick to it? _________________
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:
zaizaiaddict wrote:
just wanna share this article (thanks to justified@tsinoy)...
it really touched me...seeing how much our boys are loved and how much they love their fans
J-pop's popularity grows silently
Last Saturday, Melon-AX, a live music hall in Gwangjang-dong, eastern Seoul, was densely packed with 1,800 screaming fans of Japanese boy band ARASHI.
The most number of people that have ever gathered at the venue was celebrating the group's first official fan club meeting in Korea. The event, originally scheduled for 3 p.m., began nearly an hour later, but none of the girls, with their yearning eyes, seemed to care about the delay.
Finally the curtain rose, and the five members of the group bounded on the stage, greeted by shrill screaming from the fans. Meanwhile, one of the reporters seated in the front row of the second floor whispered: "Who the heck are these boys?"
Quietly but surely, Japanese pop musicians have been winning the hearts of young Koreans. The quintet - with well over 100,000 Korean fans in eight different fan clubs - is definitely in the frontline, but they are not the only ones.
Goto Maki, a former member of girl group Morning Musume, who visited the country earlier this month, has more than 130,000 enthusiastic "official" Korean fans registered with her fan club. Both ARASHI and Goto are scheduled to have their first concerts here in November (ARASHI on Nov. 11 and 12, and Maki on Nov. 19).
Another young, sexy female star, Koda Kumi, visited the city of Gwangju last Friday for the Third Asia Song Festival, exciting legions of her fans at the event.
"We were so surprised to see so many Korean fans coming to see us so early in the morning," said Ohno Satoshi, the leader of ARASHI, looking back on their short visit to Incheon International Airport on July 31, which attracted some 2,000 fans.
Until now, Japanese entertainers have been working on becoming household names in Korea, rather than trying to earn benefits from their album sales. The situation, however, will be totally different once J-pop stars are allowed to sing and chat on local television shows, in their own language.
"It seems like, while we are blowing our own horns about the unprecedented success of Korean cultural products in Asia, Japanese pop culture has been accepted as part of a mainstream youth culture here," Chung Se-hoon, a graduate student of Kyung Hee University, told The Korea Herald.
"Our trade surplus with Japan in the pop music market can be reversed at any moment," pop columnist Kim Jung-hoon said in an interview.
So why do Korean teenagers go wild for Japanese boy bands like ARASHI, when there are so many boy bands of our own such as Shinhwa and TVXQ, who are as attractive as (and undisputedly taller than) their Japanese rivals?
"They know how to take care of their fans," said Park Bo-kyung, a high school girl at the fan meeting, of her idol. "It seems like all the members are really close to each other, which makes me like them even more," added another teenage girl who wished to remain anonymous.-> SO TRUE!
During the event, which lasted for over an hour, in which the boy band sang two of their hit songs, "Wish" and the special version of "A.RA.SHI," they never sat for a moment, although they were asked to. "We cannot sit when our fans are all standing to see us," said Matsumoto Jun, the youngest member of the group.
At the end of the concert, Ohno asked their photographer to capture them with all of their Korean fans, causing exhilaration among the girls. "We'll come back in November for our first concerts here, but I want to take a few photos so as not to forget these meaningful moments," said Ohno. -> that's why we love them deshou?
One thing is sure: they are strong enough to overcome a language barrier and win lots of Korean hearts, which must be something for Korean entertainers who target the overseas pop music market to think about.
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:
JunNoHime wrote:
Lady's Delight I went to the arashian link, and the link they have for the SP is an Oxyshare link...but when I go there it just says download the file but there's no place to click to initiate a download. I even tried registering but it won't let me download, is there some trick to it?
I used to face the same problem as you..there are no tricks, just that the link is not obvious.
all you need to do is scroll all the way down, and look for a link that says "fast and extreme". it should be on the right side of the page...click on that, and there will be a popup to download the file. just wait for 30 seconds
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject:
faithe wrote:
I used to face the same problem as you..there are no tricks, just that the link is not obvious.
all you need to do is scroll all the way down, and look for a link that says "fast and extreme". it should be on the right side of the page...click on that, and there will be a popup to download the file. just wait for 30 seconds
Oh thank you so much faithe, it was driving me nuts that I couldn't figure it out! _________________
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:
hahaha I watched GnoA SP at last.... and wow... poor Sho... he seemed so scared XD though not as much as Aiba in USG @_@
they're so positivly baka... I was wandering when they will get to the Guinness Book with their AnoA ideas XDDD
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:54 am Post subject:
Last episode of GnoA is out, check out CB My12 This is a sad ep, no more GnoA they guys were laughing but I don't think they were happy very much. It's still funny but it just isn't the same
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:37 am Post subject:
Thx for the news on the new program... but if it's their new studio... then that doesn't look that good... like a program for kindergarden kids... but I belive in Arashi... they will make it funny and interesting >.<
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject:
Hmm there's still a renewal after G no Arashi isnt it?
Called something Arashi... I don't really get it but it's still
going to air anyways. I'm a bit curious at the end of the
eps...
SPOILER
The rest of the group went off without Sho... Why?
A bit curious but I think if I didn't hear it wrong...
Sho's not going to be in the continuation of the show?
But my japanese is pretty bad so... Yeah... Hope anyone
of you can clarify it ;p
thanks!
JunNoHime: I'm wishing it to be in TO though >__<
Can't afford to fly to BC...
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject:
tensh_angels87 Thanks for the last GnoA...although it makes me sad that there won't be anymore *sigh*
And thanks for the info on Arashi no Shyukudai-kun...although, I agree with you mukashi, it really does look kinda silly:S It kinda looks like a similar format to Arashi No Waza-Ari, but it really doesn't make it too clear....but I guess we'll find out next week;)
mysty Yeah, TO would be better for me too, but it seems so much less likely (sorry!:S) But hey, it's much easier to hitch-hike across the prairies than across the pacific ocean, right? [/b] _________________
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This is a sad ep, no more GnoA 
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