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Jaejoong and Sungmin going into the military, MY HEART, NOOOO
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OMG, that foil-covered bubble, I’d eat that like Italian left-overs!!!!
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Chemistry effect between wind and Doctor’s hair xD
This is a lot funnier than it should be omg he morphs from Actor Jae to Ridiculous Jae, I actually laughed out loud.
Dear every fandom under the sun: dating is not a scandal. Hiding a relationship is not a poor reflection on the idol -- it's a poor reflection on the fans, because they've already proven they can't handle real life. If anyone's betraying anyone, it's the fans betraying the idols by acting like such self-righteous malcontents. Those who tell idols they need to be more accountable for their words and actions need to look in the mirror and have some personal accountability. Yes, I'm talking to YOU. Yes, I'm talking about YOUR idol -- only, they're not actually "yours," and you need to fucking understand that. Good bye.
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So Gunhee is besties with Heechul AND Jaejoong?!
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11/10/2014 BORNFREEONEKISS2!! omg （≧∇≦）
HNNNNNNG
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JJ with his Sisters (ˆ⌣ˆc)
From what I understand, adoption is rare in South Korea. I'm so happy Jaejoong found a family to love and take care of him and raise him to be the man he is today :)
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I didn't listen to a lot of DBSK, but even if they don't reunite as a group, I'd just like to see them together again! I hope they get to the point to where, if there are no hard feelings, we can see that they're keeping contact with each other, like Hangeng is with Super Junior. He had to go it alone, but members are still meeting with him and talking about him, so I hope we can see DBSK as, if not united, at least at peace with each other.
Guys, if you have even the slightest interest in K-Pop, or an interest in basic human well-being, you need to read these two articles. Please think twice before crucifying an idol for having plastic surgery, a stick-thin figure, or a ridiculous hair cut -- they might not have even wanted it.
This one is an interview done by Brad Moore of the alternative music trio Busker Busker. Never mind if you've never heard of them or him: he reveals the unadulterated truth about the Korean music industry: the contracts they impart, how laws make it okay for them to make absolutely NO money, the way they run even the lesser idols into the ground, all but forced plastic surgery and procedures. And, yes, slave contracts DO exist:
Written by By Jakob Dorof, some choice excerpts from the interview:
Moore didn’t intend to be here, and it’s the last thing on his mind; right now he just wants his fiancé back, and his freedom. He’s been shuttered from the outside world for two months, and if he screws this up, it’ll be a long time before his next chance to escape.
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K-Pop’s outspoken online community was in such a furor over Busker Busker’s dismissal that Superstar K offered to grandfather them back into the show’s Top 11. But Jang and Kim would have to drop out of college, and Moore would have to abruptly quit his professorship.
“I asked the show, if I leave my job for this, can I make money doing music? And they said probably not,” Moore recalls. “Don’t do this if you think you’re going to make more money than you did as a teacher, they said. Do it for the chance of having a story to tell.”
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As soon as the band returned to the umbrage of Superstar K, the Korean entertainment industry’s peculiar darkness set upon them. Nobody had warned Moore of the autocratic living strictures upheld at the rural manor the remaining contestants called home. His phone and wallet were confiscated upon arrival, and he would remain confined until whenever Busker Busker lost.
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...he was force fed a slimming diet of salad and tofu. “Involuntary makeup” was an everyday ritual, and the show’s producers frequently aimed snide barbs at the musicians’ physiques. Weirder still was Superstar K’s daily request for the contestants—mostly in their twenties or late teens—to take advantage of their gratis Botox regimens.
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In lieu of music, Superstar K filled its subjects’ time with what they called “VCR.” This daily, filmed servitude entailed the occasional skit or cutesy “mission,” but moreover, a marathon of brand name endorsements—for which Busker Busker and their peers received literal slave wage.
“We were popular because we were on TV, but we couldn’t legally make money,” Moore says, underscoring a strange norm in Korean entertainment law.
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“We were at ‘amateur status’ in the broadcasting contract. So, like, Coca-Cola comes in and we spend all day doing a Coca-Cola commercial, but they pay the [show’s] company—not the artist. We were on the show for eight weeks straight, and we did commercials for eight weeks straight. We took home no money from that.” On some days their schedule would go “over 24 hours”—Moore, Jang and Kim soon grew accustomed to napping between takes in bushes, on concrete.
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Perhaps the most ridiculous aspect of the artists’ sacrificial pact with Superstar K was that this same rule applied to music sales.
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“Our sales were in the millions [USD]. One song, ‘Makgeollina,’ sold $1.4 million in a month and a half—and yet we saw nothing from that,” Moore says.
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"... ‘Contractually, guys, when it hits midnight on Friday, your deal dissolves and you’re free,’” Moore says. “‘But the company is gonna tell you otherwise.’”
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By the time Superstar K’s ominous bus appeared, Busker Busker had been awake for nearly two straight days.
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The other contestants, who had entered the mystery mansion, were served a new set of contracts upon arrival, and conscripted into another lengthy lockdown for “idol superstar training” on an “after-show” season.
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“I’ve never heard of anything under three years; the average is seven. And the big groups right now—miss A, BIGBANG, Super Junior—they do ten,” Moore says. “I think we just pissed them off enough that they didn’t want us in their lives for long.”
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“The CJ time, those six months—I mean, it was like the TV show. It sucked. They booked us every day, all day, because contractually they could,” Moore says.
This one reveals the COMPLETE lack of choice idols have in their image as well as the attempts at forcing plastic surgery in CHILDREN:
Naturally, not ALL entertainment industries fall under the category of MONSTER, but if they do, it's likely that we as fans will never know about it.
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[130816/130817] JYJ’s Jaejoong with Super Junior’s Heechul
The fuck....
THE FUCK....
Guys, I've found a NEW rare pare:
HeeJoong is in the HOUSE, Bitches!!!!
Can you imagine how volitile, passionate, eccentric, quirky and monstrously sexual this pairing would be?!?!
When you only "know" someone through glossy magazines, scripted television, radio programs, stage performances and airbrushed photo shoots, it's easy to believe -- or claim -- that someone is "flawless"
I don't know how many thousands of times this has been discussed, but people still seem to need to be reminded that these "idols" are mere human beings who happen to have jobs that put them in the public eye.
We don't own these people.
These people don't owe us anything.
Get over the fact that they are human, that they have off days, that they are going to date and, yes, they are going to do things lovers do with their boyfriends/girlfriends -- yeah, even your own precious, pristine idol.
Since when did never dating/never touching alcohol/never having a bad day/ect equate to perfection anyway?
Rumors are everywhere, and most of them aren't true. Still, that doesn't change the fact that 98% of all idols (yes, probably even your bias) at some point did have, do have, and will have girlfriends/boyfriends. Cling desperately to the idea that your beloved idol is in that snowy-white 2% if you have to, but when he/she proves that, no, your OTP is actually NOT gay for each other, and that they have no intention of staying alone forever, at least be civilized. Don't flip your shit and attack when they do finally reveal that they are in a relationship. They deserve their private life and they deserve happiness.
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And every second you live leaves your heart twisted and curled.
HenJoong/JaeRy, WTF ;A;
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Source: mochastache
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Source: kpopstarz.com
Some say it bothers them when idols confess that they wouldn't want to be idols if they could be reborn. Their invariable response is, "You know what you signed up for!" I say that it doesn't take a genius, detective, or psychic medium to conclude that it probably isn't all roses when a person spends less than 10% of their lives on stage, and the other 90+% of their lives putting up with our shit. Have a little empathy for the people you're constantly watching.
Sungmin is both younger and the same age as I am...
From what I understand, South Korea primarily goes by the Lunar Calendar. The Lunar New Year varies a little every year. Depending on when you were born and whether it falls before or after the Lunar New Year, one or two years are added to your International age, or the western reckoning.
The general rule is that if you're born before the Lunar New Year of the year you were born, it adds two years to your life instead of the usual one.
I was born May 12th, 1985, after the Lunar New Year of '85, so that adds one year to my life.
Sungmin was born on January 1st, 1986, before the Lunar New Year of '86, so that adds two years to his.
Internationally, Sungmin is around 8 months younger than I am.
By the Lunar Calendar, however, he's around 5 months older, since he was born in January....
So...woule he expect me to call him Sungmin-ah as a friend, or would he expect to call me noona?
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And you know what? That goes for Jaejoong and Yunho too, because they were both born before the Lunar New Year of '86....