Jyp's Wonder Girls (원더걸스) Official Thread 2

[Guest icespike]

chubby or not yeeun's still hot and i admire her for her voice, her public speaking skill, etc.

as for jyp making them gain or lose weight as he sees fit hmmm that's a bit of a stretch but i mean we never know lol. there is a difference in ideal body types between the west and asia.. but i'd like to think jyp isn't so micro-managing.

anyway, netizens need to stop nitpicking at everything.

[Guest ♪ LeeNa ♪]

mimimimi0502

죽을맛이다...Being sick is.........................ㅠㅠ

[Guest tnamphel]

Found this on youtube: Choi hong man dancing to 2DT on Strong Heart

[Guest qoxie]

Re-translated from the Chinese. The best I can do for now. Sorry.

Cr: i5205u0 @ WG 台灣之友論壇

Translated: We were supposed to see the Eiffel Tower together TTTT (i.e. they did not.)

Although it was raining, we got to see what's there to see.

Yoobin even became our tour guide.

Have you reached there safely?

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WG cameo in BFM-TV (French news channel) segment.

They have a YT channel but I can't find the clip there, so this source link will have to do:

http://www.bfmtv.com/video-infos-actualite/detail/les-shows-tv-arrivent-en-force-cannes-486520/

The French title translates as "The TV shows come out in force at Cannes."

Screengrabs:

[Guest ♪ LeeNa ♪]

shinee key dance to 2dt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGQAQMbmRvo (5:22)

[wonderstruck]

My translation of a bit of the BFM-TV speaker comment

"...the international stars of the moment. To know/mention, the Wonder Girls: you don't know them, yet they are the Korean Spice Girls, which are booming - it seems - on the international scene right now with some real songs."

I subscribe

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Mipcom ends today, maybe some new pics & vids could be shared later by the participants which should be on the road home by now.

The candid reaction registered by Aving, the cool act of support to French WF & interest by Nice Matin and this commentary (which might be a little ironic, yet is informed on who are and what the girls do) are all positive points scored in this trip.

I would say that France and Europe at large make perfect grounds to explore, and eventually conquer for the girls. But there are plans in motion since long for the bigger target, the US (plus securing Asia). In perspective, it's not surprising that JY did not show up in Cannes, despite the networking occasion provided by MIPCOM. But never say never, especially in the long term.

[Guest valentino_rossi46]

Huh ? Jane asked Sun Ye whether she reached somewhere else safely ?

OMG No No yesterday i just told if DongYe is real, Dong Hae will fly from Italy to France or SY will from France to Italy or they both go to somewhere else together, cuz both of them have a break now

And today when i saw all the photos i didnt find SY, i just think OMG this cant be true, but now Jane said SY went to some other places without the girls , OMG ha ha unbelievable, ]i remember the fan account of the girl attend Super Show and brought DongYe board, and Dong Hae, Eun Hyuk and Ye Sung saw it, whispered and smiled secretly, OMG who know ?

[wonderstruck]

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/8861/173731210.jpg

This is my translation of the Nice Matin articles of Monday 4. Did the best to fill in my gaps, some quirks could be still there.

Red carpet for Mipcom

CONGRESS The audiovisual market of programs opens today with an evening "much people" at the Martinez.

The expected constellation of stars is going to attract a crowd.

Mipcom 2010 opening today is announced to be particularly glamour, with participations more important than the customary little screen stars.

For this occasion, the international market of audiovisual programs will offer, for the first time in its history, a "red carpet" Festival-like, in front of the Martinez for the inaugural evening. The public from Cannes will be able to see, starting 7.30pm, the majority of this edition stars, like Jon Hamm and Elizabeth Moss from the succeful series Mad Men, Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne and Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Luke Perry (Goodnight for Justice), Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant and Eric Balfour (Haven), Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick (Hot in Cleveland) the Korean singers Wonder Girls (see at the side) and the Power Rangers. Theres's wait for (but presence hasn't been confirmed) Robert Redford (who's going to present its Sundance Festival TV channel) and Gene Simmons, the leader of Kiss who has already his Reality TV program (Gene Simmons Family Jewels).

After this intermission of stars and sequins, the professional Market will take back its rights until Thursday at the Palais des festivals.

Laure and Marie Wonder Girls V.I.P. fans

Sunye, Ye-eun, Sohee, Yoobin, Hye-rim. These five young girls are the Koreans most well known in Asia now. Their group, "Wonder Girls", is going to perform this evening, during the Mipcom opening ceremony. And if their names don't ring a bell, don't worry, we didn't know them anymore until that flaming mail of Laure Rodrigus, a young from Tolouse aged 19.

An idols forum

In her letter, the young girl explains that she's "freaking" over the group. "I knew [the group] three years ago, and followed it's evolution. I dedicated a big admiration to these five girls. So, with two friends, we created a forum on them".

Laure and her friend Marie did not expect to see the Koreans someday. But since they learned that the group is going to perform in Cannes, they held their breath. "We did all the necessary research to assist to the performance, with the aid of fans from all over the world. Sadly, a pass is needed to enter the Mipcom. And until now it's been refused to us..." The message was sometimes filled with candidness. And full of delicacy: "We hope that our cheekiness doesn't look too out of place to you (...)".

We already pardoned them, in fact, and the newsroom didn't resist to the urge of recounting this history which is going to echo to some. And then we chose to try something... After some phone calls [ending] void, to the Palais and to the headquarters of Reed Midem, Mipcom's organizers, we found an understanding press service which promised to print two passes.

Encounter today

At the announcement of the good news, Laure, almost desperate, was speechless. We must meet her with Marie this afternoon, at 3pm, at the arrival of their train in Cannes station. We already previewed to escort them at the accredit counter. Promise, we will tell you the rest in a following edition.

CHRYSTELE BURLOT

cburlot@nicematin.fr

[Guest chikusho1]

What are the strengths of the top 5 K-pop girl groups?

Today, the entertainment industry is overflowing with idol groups that are armed with each of their own strengths and colors, particularly girl groups. With such a huge variety of girl groups blooming in this ‘Girl group Golden Age’, Osen recently ran an article where five of the top representative girl groups of K-pop were examined and compared for each group’s strengths. Amongst the countless cliche girl groups currently on the market, it is these girls who have maintained their own territory with their unique set of charms and separated from the rest of the pack.

SNSD / Girls’ Generation – Good coordination between members, capable of pulling off a variety of styles

With as many as 9 members in the group, the myriad of strengths of SNSD are distributed equally within the group, allowing for their specialty in overall coordination to be accentuated.

The vocally talented Taeyeon and Jessica, the luxurious and feminine visuals of Yoona and Yuri, the consistently skinny Sooyoung, the cute and innocent charms of Seohyun and Tiffany, the fun and cute Sunny, and dancer Hyoyeon – it is these diverse strengths which permit for a greater number of people to match their tastes with the group and pick their biases, making them all the more appealing.

In addition, the group has an excellent ability of adapting easily to numerous concepts and styles, such as the sexy, cute, innocent, lively and fresh images. People also take fun in watching out for that one member who receives a complete makeover for the group’s new concept.

2NE1 - Individuality, creativity, a powerful hold of the stage

The four member group, consisting of Park Bom, Sandara Park, Minzy and CL, are known to possess individuality that clearly differentiates them from other female idol groups. They also gain their popularity through their ‘aspiring, longing image’, along with their unconventional personalities.

With their powerful music, and doubly powerful stylists, they crossed to the high fashion world wearing unusual outfits directly made by world famous designers. This plants a perception of creativeness for the group. In addition, instead of wowing the crowds with the typical bling-bling, feminine concepts, they showcase very non-girl group-like charisma on stage with the use of their powerful choreography and energy.

KARA – A sense of familiarity, all members of equal beauty

KARA’s strength is that all members are so equally beautiful that one can consider all of them to take the ‘visuals’ role of the group.

The group led by lead vocalist Park Gyuri, Goo Hara, Kang Jiyoung, Han Seung Yeon and Nicole all possess a feminine and mature beauty, making themselves known as a visually appealing group. However, instead of looking so perfect that it’s burdensome, the group holds a sense of familiarity in their attractiveness, which makes it easier for girls their age to relate to them.

Brown Eyed Girls – A sophisticated and defiant concept

When the Brown Eyed Girls (Jea, Narsha, Miryo, Ga-in) stepped foot into the K-pop scene with ‘Your Story’ back in 2006, their original concept focused mainly on their strong, charismatic vocals. However things changed when they released their 3rd album ‘Abracadabra‘. With this they showcased a new, sexy concept, which ultimately was a national jackpot and took them to the next level.

Everything about the ‘arrogant dance’ for ‘Abracadabra’, starting from their outfits, the dance itself, and the performance, showed exactly how important concepts are for girl groups. Furthermore, Narsha’s extravagant change in concept for her solo promotions had also received a great deal of attention.

Wonder Girls – A group full of effort

After the Wonder Girls (Sunye, Ye Eun, Sohee, Yubin, Hye Lim) advanced into the American market and succeeded, the results they achieved earned them images of a hardworking group. They even honestly revealed to their fans the difficulties and trials they faced during their time overseas, but the portrayal of the group running to reach the top nevertheless created a strong image for idol groups to follow.

The group may not be as strong in the visuals category as SNSD or KARA, but their subtle charms are what have attracted not only Korean fans, but also their fans across the globe as well.

Photo + Source: Osen, Allkpop

[Guest valentino_rossi46]

LA Korean Festival photos from allkpop

[Guest Mia_Mia]

its okay guys..... its sunye...she has her ninja moments hence called ninja min...lol... she'll pop out once she wants too...

since everyone misses leadah !~

yumin love on radio shows

the others can only look at the couple in envy..keke

fix your baby's hair....assa assa

they totally look like they kissed!!!!!!! woot

MinAhn..kekeke... my favoritest couple ever !!!!

aww....2sun..

sunmi is like sunye's baby..

2ye~~~~~~~~ <33333

wht are they doing ... instead of making food for the kids

nyuma teasing sunye- come on...

ninja min .. hope you're having fun wherever you are!!!!

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i wanted to post sunlim too .... but i cant find any gifs of them..anyone have any?

[patience]

^

haha thanks for the gifs definitely put a big smile on my face!!

I love how, while being super megatron serious and professional on the job, LeaderMin is so darn adorkably DORKY!!!

She never over does anything, and u can tell that its just her super friendly personality, there ain't no fakeness in my girls, eh?

I'd rather see her being dorky and fooling around than being all serious coz this is one woman who's been through a lot to get to where she is... Also, I guess what she's gone through has made her the amazing, talented, beautiful (inside and out), and loving Leader that we all love....

Dang, I'm getting all nostalgic to back in the 07-08's when the girls were all just there and being all dorky on screen... They inspire me everyday to make each day a bit better than the last one... Coz who else would ever have the guts to just up and leave all that popularity and fame, which they worked so hard for to begin with, behind to go back to being rookies in a foreign land all over again???

I love all my beautiful 6 wonders of the world.... Random rant much?

And yeah, aren't the girls back in Korea according to Jane's twitter?

Hope they're having a good rest... Something tells me some major recording's gonna take place while the girls are on the home base...

Me is very excited!!

Think I'll call it a  night now, its late enough here!!

Love,

Patience.

[Guest ll_borderline]

Wonder girls' interview by kpop.fr in cannes, catch yeeun speaking in french!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddm_o0Mx-tI

^min omma!

[Guest qoxie]

The girls are back in Korea.

Yoobin's tweets expressed her exuberance at returning home & then seeing her mother's birthday cake, if correct.

BTW I think Jane is advocating going to the Eiffel Tower with all 5 group members next time. She also replied to a follower's query about Sunye's status.

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I think Yoobin is celebrating with her family this time.

The JYP party who went to Cannes did so earlier, according to JANEyjk's previous tweets.

[wonderstruck]

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woot woot Sohee said in the interview that they are in the process of recording a new album in the US and it will come out surely at the beginning of next year. She added "there will be many big artists"

(This is a second translation (korean -> french -> english), so take it with some caution).

[Guest evilgary]

thanks for sharing the LA Korean Festival photos

the girls are really good singers based on their ability as i believe they did not get selected for visual

[Guest qoxie]

Kpop.fr article (untranslated) & photo album with WG.

Omitted the embedded interview video.

Source: http://www.kpop.fr/e...nnes-31692.html

[Guest qoxie]

Source: http://english.chosu...0100800877.html

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I think this Star News update quoted a source saying WG is back in Korea to enjoy a break.

(Not 100% sure, cuz Google Translate isn't good enough.)

http://star.mt.co.kr...&outlink=2

Google-Translated: http://translate.goo...tbb=1&ie=EUC-KR

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Sports Seoul article about the Korean 'mannequin/Barbie doll' look (SNSD, Younha, actress-model Kim Min, WG, etc).

I didn't make the copycat connection until now. Guess Wonder Style Book was a trendsetter!

Source: http://news.sportsse...tain/883905.htm

Google Translated: http://translate.goo...&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8

[Guest r1988]

the girls in France

[Guest jagerbomb]

WOW yubin looks great in the france pics, i love her color co-ordination from her red hair to the red gloves and shoes. actually they all look stunning and so mature