[NEWS] Modern Mozart Make-up Fits Gun Hyung and Junsu Well

100108 Modern Mozart Make-up, It Fits Park Gun Hyung And Kim Junsu Well 

Make-up Artist Kim Yoo Sun has a unique love for wigs
"I want to hear 'Your work for the musical Mozart! was good.'"

Musicals 'Phantom of the Opera', 'Empress Myeongseong', 'Hairspray' and 'Chicago'. What is the similarity between these unique musicals? Extravagance. And that extravagance existed because of make-up artist Kim Yoo Sun.

"I prefer musicals because they are more extravagant and larger in scale than plays," says Kim Yoo Sun and he has been put in charge of make-up for the musical [Mozart!] that is "a position any make-up artist would envy."

This was his first official interview so he was shy at first but he showed his unique love and pride for wigs throughout the interview. We met with the man who has lived since November buried in the 200 or so wigs that are to be used in Mozart! 

"I fell in love with the music of Mozart!, and I'm confident."

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[NEWS] From Backdancer to Dancing Singer

100107 From Backdancer To Dancing Singer (U-Know Yunho)

The walls of Kpop are crumbling down. Comedians and actors are putting out albums and singers in reverse are entering the fields of acting and comedy as well. This is why many new terms such as Gaegaman (Gaegeuman "Comedian)+Gasoo (singer)" and Telgamen "Telunteu(Actor)+Gasoo(singer)".

No longer do only comedians make people laugh or only singers sing. Reality has made being good in only one field no longer useful in the competitive industry. Kpop has evolved and changed so much that the joking comment that "If you're good at singing, go be a singer" can no longer be used meaningfully.

How people become singers is also changing as well. There are many cases where people become singers because they are good at singing, but there is an increasing number of people who become singers after being backdancers who stood behind other singers and let them shine. In today's industry, we are seeing them stepping up to the spotlight. They are stars who have gone from supporting actors to leads.

U-Know Yunho, part of Asia's hottest group TVXQ, first became known by performing as Dana's rapper and backdancer in her solo album. Dana is currently part of TSZX the Grace but was performing as a high-school singer before TVXQ's 2004 debut.

Singers who used to be backdancers succeed because of their determination and effort. Backdancers are said to stay up for an entire week making choreography for a singer and make singers shine even when it gets them small injuries and bruises.

The backdancer who came up with Jewelry's E.T. dance said, "The reason they were able to succeed as singers was because of their cow-like determination, ceaseless hard work and diligent rehearsals."

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[INFO] 2009 Best Selling Albums in Korea

100107 100 Best Selling Albums of 2009 in Korea

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[FACC] A Cruise with Junsu XD

Just to continue the airport fanaccounts. Kyaaa~ It's so fun to read faccs XDD

100107 A Cruise with Junsu and Meeting JaeChun and Yoohwan

So I'll try and get the boring stuff asap. Basically, I got to Circular Quay at 8:40am and there was one other TVXQaus member there (Emily). We chatted for a while and took a walk nearby a hotel because we didn't know where they were staying. We came back and few more people arrived. We waited until 9:30am before actually started out our plan. We basically split up into a few groups and each covered different areas (darling harbour, circular quay, different hotels, townhall, fishmarket, QVB). I was taking the circular quay area with my group (Emily, Sam and I--to start off with) and another group (Let's call them group A) went to check out some nearby hotels.

We set out at 9:40am and we started walking towards the harbour bridge and a person from group A called me, telling me that she sees Junsu at the Rocks and so we literally ran for our lives to the Rocks and then she calls me again, telling me that he is lining up for a cruise. We literally died because we were right next to the lining up place for the cruises when she called us the first time. So we ran all the way back to the lining up place for the cruises and we saw him, surrounded by staff and cameramen/manager, and he was obviously boarding onto the cruise. Group A was kind of standing afar, just waving to him but we didn't even think twice and bought 3 tickets for the cruise. It was a two hour cruise and basically went around the harbour.

Anyway, the three of us got onto the cruise and met another nice girl, a Junsu fan/chinese Cass, and we kind of merged together. We all sat at the bottom deck for the time being because we all kind of ran everywhere and needed to regain our sanity. We sat there for a few minutes telling each other that Junsu was ACTUALLY above us. After calming down, we went upstairs and I nearly gasped because he was JUST to our right eating breakfast (and camera in his face too). We weren't allowed to take pictures or videos for anything at all...but I managed to do some ninja shots for Junsu.

Anyway, the cruise provided morning tea and he and the staff went inside to eat some of the food they provided. We did not disturb them at all, we just watched from a distance.

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