[News] SS501 to attend Dream Concert 2011 @ Beijing

Credit: (Chinese Translation) Shinee Baidu Tieba + (Source) Dream Concert Official Twitter + (English translation) PlanetHyun.blogspot.com


Korea most high profile concert 2011 Dream Concert will hold its frist oversea concert in China! 6 August at Beijing Workers' Sport Complex!

Participating artist:
SuperJunior、SNSD、2PM、Lee Hyori、SHINee、Rain、Wonder Girls、SS501、JYJ、Big Bang、2NE1、Son DanBi、CNBlue、KARA、Miss A、F(x)、Beast、T-ara、MBLAQ、4minute、U-kiss、ZE:A、After School、BEG etc

[News] SS501 to attend Dream Concert 2011 @ Beijing

Credit: (Chinese Translation) Shinee Baidu Tieba + (Source) Dream Concert Official Twitter + (English translation) PlanetHyun.blogspot.com


Korea most high profile concert 2011 Dream Concert will hold its frist oversea concert in China! 6 August at Beijing Workers' Sport Complex!

Participating artist:
SuperJunior、SNSD、2PM、Lee Hyori、SHINee、Rain、Wonder Girls、SS501、JYJ、Big Bang、2NE1、Son DanBi、CNBlue、KARA、Miss A、F(x)、Beast、T-ara、MBLAQ、4minute、U-kiss、ZE:A、After School、BEG etc

[News] SS501’s Kim Kyu Jong on acting, his group, and their new album

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After parting ways with DSP Media last year, the members of SS501 have demonstrated what it was like to be ’separate but together’. Kim Hyun Joong has established himself as an actor, and Park Jung Min returned with his first solo album, “Not Alone“.

Kim Kyu Jong is also standing before the starting line of his new acting career after he joined B2M Entertainment, the agency of fellow member Heo Young Saeng.

The aspiring actor recently took part in an interview with Daily Sports and revealed that he will be working against his ‘flower boy’ charms in an attempt to become a more skilled actor.



Q. “How’s it like working on your own now?”

Kyu Jong: “It makes me think a lot about being with my members. We used to joke and play around without rest, but now that I’m alone, the feeling’s difficult to express. It feels kind of empty.”

Q. “Are you studying acting now?”

Kyu Jong: “I get trained about two to three times a week for two hours at a time. When I was with SS501, I received some acting experiences through music videos and variety programs; now that I’m entering the world of professionals, I have to do it properly. There’s a lot of pressure, but my eyes have been opened to the charms of acting, and I’m full with excitement. There’s a drama I’m currently in discussions for, so the decision will be out soon.”

Q. “What kind of actor do you want to become?”

Kyu Jong: “I want to succeed with my skills, not with my ‘flower boy’ image. I am a part of a ‘flower boy’ group, but that doesn’t make me one. …I’m planning to prepare myself so that I can act in a way that delivers my emotions to the audience. I love actor Ha Jung Woo’s acting, so I study his works a lot. He’s especially amazing in the movie, ‘Amazing Day.’”



Q. “Do you meet with the SS501 members often?”

Kyu Jong: “All five of us haven’t been able to meet at one location yet because one or two is always out on another schedule. Young Saeng-hyung is in the same agency as me, so we meet often and give each other advice. He’s preparing for his solo album right now, and I accompanied him on his trip to the U.S. and met his album representatives; I also got to listen to his songs. I call Jung Min often and even monitor his stages. Sometimes I’ll even grab drinks with Hyun Joong-hyung.”

Q. “You must be worried about different things now that your solo activities are coming up.”

Kyu Jong: “Before, the members could carry me, but now I have no one to depend on and must take responsibility for myself. Of course I’m worried, but I’m sure I’ll improve myself through this opportunity. I’ve begun to see things that I didn’t notice when we were together. I’ll see the members doing their individual activities and wonder to myself where these different images they’re expressing were hiding. Every time I feel that they’ve grown. I feel really proud and become motivated to do better myself. I think we’ve become like a whip for one another.”

Q. “Aren’t there a lot of hardcore SS501 fans?”

Kyu Jong: “I once told my fans to restrict waiting outside our homes; in return, I would treat them better in concert or broadcast halls. Ever since then, there’s been a lot less sasaeng fans. My father often tells me to treat them well when they come to me, because who will be there 10 years from now. It’s true, don’t you think? I live feeling thankful that they like me.”

Q. “When will SS501’s album be released?”

Kyu Jong: “I’m thinking sometime near the year-end. Our agencies are all different, so it’s difficult to get things moving. Since all of our members are on the same page of remaining together, the results of that desire will come out soon.”

[Scans] SS501 Star Card

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[Article] Park Jung MIn "SS501 is not my rival"

Credit: KukiNews + (English translation) ode @ Ss501Ode.blogspot.com




The most beautiful group when all five were as one. Now, it's not as five; but shared as one or as two. Last June when SS501 whose full time contract with DSP Media was up, did not sign on to a new contract with DSP Media. Members Hyunjoong, Jungmin, Hyungjunturned to stand on sole feet, while Youngsaeng and Kyujong moved to a new agency company as all of them began to shoulder troubles on their own as solo musicians. Without his 4 other intimate members, Park Jungmin has returned alone. As he poured his rhythm of his heart, we listened to how he told about leaving the arms of SS501 to stand again alone on his own feet.

Our interview with Park Jungmin continued throughout without a pause. Two hours passed by in a huff with someone who was so affluent in speech. He was just like any other youth chattering on and on about his stories. If there wasn't any time restrictions for interviews, it could have just been like pure comfort listening to someone pour about his personal stories. Though he returned alone, he did not look lonely at all. In fact, even more manly now. Park Jungmin who is a part of SS501 member has came forth for the first time with his solo mini-album titled [Not Alone] as if attempting to make it known officially that he has fought off the word named'Loneliness'. So how are his thoughts on stepping forth solo for the first time amidst his 6 years of experience in showbiz?

"The album name of 'Not Alone' simply means to want to contain the message of 'We are all not alone. We are all One'. For my case, it also contains the meaning wherein although I stepped forth alone, I will forever be a member of SS501. If you listen to the entire album, you will be able to feel that this album contains only my personal attributes and not as a concept of SS501's continuation of line. Without electronics or instruments, we tried our best to use bands and orchestras to animate the entire feel instead".

In order for Park Jungmin to create only-his attributes, the part that he had put in most effort was in the 'lyrics'. He wrote the lyrics with his imagination and personal experiences. Through the lyrics with a sentence by a sentence, a word by a word, Park Jungmin had obviously attempted to deliver his story there and then.

"When a singer sings on stage, the most important thing is to hold that sincere heart. For the fact that I decided to write the lyrics, it is for the sake of better expressing my feelings. Just like the songs 'Do you know' and 'Every day is Christmas' contained positive lyrics because I wrote them then with a serenic heart. Especially the song 'Do you know' - it was a song featuring the concept of a re-unite with the lover whom you already broke up with. I wrote the lyrics of this song in a puff upon hearing the melody of it a hundred times. It was in the feeling of a phone call conversation. There are also people who asked me if this song was written in view of feelings towards the members or not, but no it wasn't hinting at any one, it's just a story from my imagination(laughs)".

SS501 may be his forever-roots, but still he wants to create his personal character image. For the sake of transforming into 'the solo singer Park Jungmin' and not as 'SS501's Park Jungmin', he's shed 12kg of weight. With his slimmed body, he's managed to create a sharp image. Could it be for outlook transformation only? Still, you could see it as a form of stronger highlight of the feeling as 'solo singer Park Jungmin' who carries with him a rookie heart instead of that as 'SS501's Park Jungmin'.

"I went to watch past SS501 videos when I was preparing for my solo album, and I thought as I watched, 'Ah this won't do ne'. I didn't know that I was so huge in size (laughs). When there were many of us, I couldn't feel it clearly, but since I have to stand on stage alone now, I came to be worried about visuals wise. In order to slim down on my heavy body, I went on diets like diet treatments and exercising. I shed 12kg of weight, do I look different to you? (laughs)".

Park Jungmin's solo debut was full of bumps though. His album was originally scheduled to be released last November, but while he was in midst of preparing it, the North Korea's Yeonpyeong-do incident occurred, to which his album had to be inevitably postponed. There was no choice but to lay down his hands on it because it was to emphatize with the country matter. However though, it turned out that 2 months of emptiness was incurred. If you think of it negatively, you might have thought that this entire matter could almost fail through already, but for him, he thought of it in a positive light and auto-tuned his mindset. He waited, and waited - his higher goals for the completion of his album.

"I felt sad that the release had to be postponed about close to two months. But if you think of it in the opposite manner, there was more time for me to prepare and so I felt glad. The Yeonpyeong-do incident wasn't something to be happy nor laugh about, so I thought that it'd have been better as I emphatize with the country affair with the status of a citizen rather than to carry out my personal affairs. At that time I was in Japan holding my fanmeeting. Was studying alot then as I was preparing for my acoustic band performance. With the incident, it turned out as a period for me to better mature with the name as a musician to carry out activities".

While preparing for the album, the toughest part was to deal with SS501 related conjectures and unfounded rumors. Park Jungmin was dragged into the talk of town as "the cause for SS501's dispersal all around the place". Though that inflicted scars on Park Jungmin, he chose to shoulder all of these on his own. It wasn't something to have in control about where scars turn out to be inflicted on his family members SS501. He who has that strong affection for his family members strugglingly revealed talks of SS501.

"It was all along five of us, and the toughest thing was when we had to be dispersed. All kinds of thoughts came onto mind, but I managed to tune my mindset. There are many others who are more unfortunate than I am. What is mine as compared to really unfortunate matters? That thought crept through me all time long, and no sooner than later, all bad thoughts disappeared. I just want to talk about pleasant matters of SS501".

"We may all be in different agencies, but we made it a must to prioritize this one condition that we have to re-unite under the name of SS501", as Park Jungmin delivered his affections. SS501 is not his rival, but instead his companions who will be walking with him for the whole of his life -- as he clarified it.

"The five of us don't see one another as rivals. All of us must succeed, and when so, that will be the most beautiful graphic is it not. All of us have good abilities, so we're not exactly very hugely worried. All of us are working hard on our own. Results will be different with each of us as per how much sincere preparation we put in. It will be lovely if you could realize that 'Ah so there's a person called Park Jungmin' through this time's album. I wasn't the person who shone to one's eyes at first sight when I was in SS501, and I wasn't superbly outstanding with my singing as well, but now I'm working hard for that, and I want to create good results".

The title that Park Jungmin yearns for is a 'All Rounded Entertainer'. Not just as a singer, but also as an MC and actor, and he dreams to hold results in many multi fields. He also met an agency that could accompany in his strides as they walk the same pace. He moved into the new agency CNR Media which would be his full-fledged partner. CNR Media collaborates alongside Taiwan's Comic Ritz. While for his activities in Greater China region, he chose to sign on with Sony Music Asia. With these, he is now able to fly wider. Soon, he will be starring in a drama with Comic Ritz who produced Taiwan version of'Boys over Flowers'. Starting from May onwards, he will be leaving the country for Taiwan as he stays there and starts his path as an actor.

"I want to become a person who shows his various profiles as a singer, MC, actor, etc. Not only in Korea but also in China, Southeast Asia, European markets, I will work hard to show these people about a person called Park Jungmin. If I am to summarize my name, it would mean 'a person who sings with his heart', 'a person who acts with his eyes', and then when people recall me in future they would think of these descriptions. I will sprint only ahead bearing these in mind".

[Scans] Hyunjoong and SS501 for Korean New Year Book

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[News] Kyujong, Youngsaeng Publicly Promises 'SS501 5 members will comeback together someday'

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Group SS501's members Kim KyuJong and Heo YoungSaeng attracted attention when they revealed 'Someday, all 5 members will come back together as one' during their fan meeting in HongKong.

Chinese media Fensiwang reported on 11-Jan 'Kim KyuJong and Heo YoungSaeng said in front of their fans that SS501 will be coming back together again and so asking fans not to worry'.

According to the news report, both of them who recently held a fan meeting in Hong Kong, revealed their thoughts that they felt regretful that the fans weren't able to see all of SS501 members, they told the fans, 'Currently, we are going only going separate ways for our own development, but we have not disband so don't worry'.

Kim KyuJong and Heo YoungSaeng said 'The dreams that each of us have is different, even though we have moved to different agencies, that doesn't mean that we have disbanded. Someday, you will be able to see SS501 with all 5 members together.'

Meanwhile, the fan meeting on this day was packed with fans displaying their popularity. They started their opening stage with Korean drama 'Boys Over Flowers' popular song 'Because I am Stupid', both of them greeted the fans in Cantonese, showing their sincerity.

They also had a harmonious time where they personally made toast and coffee and feed some fans to it. After Kim KyuJong and Heo YoungSaeng fed the fans to the food, the fans have to rate the taste, and Heo YoungSaeng lost the game and had to drink wuhuacha (a type of tea) as a forfeit.

At final performance of the fan meeting, Kim KyuJong came down from the stage to hold hands with the fans and sang his own solo song 'WUSS UP'. Heo YoungSaeng sang pop song 'Love Like This'. The moment when both of them touched the hands of fans and giving hugs, loud cries of envious can be heard everywhere among the audience.

[News] 110109 SS501 - Having worries to reveal having girl friend

Source: Apple Daily
English translation: PlanetHyun.blogspot.com
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South Korea group SS501 members Kim KyuJong and Heo YoungSaeng, yesterday night held their fan meeting at Asia Expo, and was being interviewed by our newspaper the day before yesterday when they arrived in Hong Kong, both of them used contonese to greet everybody Happy New Year. When being asked recently there's a lot of idol will reveal their love relationship, whether they will follow suit? Both of them expressed that they were still single, KyuJong said: "If have a girl friend, I will consider what to do, because there is too many to worry."

Still keep in contact with the other 3 members

KyuJong and YoungSaeng and the other 3 members of SS501 are from different management agencies, they spoke frankly that originally when there were only two of them, they were a little nervous, and mentioned that 5 of them still keep in contact with each others. YoungSaeng had once came to Hong Kong for tour, and found lots of things which was very interesting: "I saw them selling imitation goods, very funny!" He revealed that he will released his solo album next month, while KyuJong wish to go over to act realm, acting in love comedy.

[Scans] "Eternal SS501" @ Junior January 2011

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[Article] Kim Hyung Jun, "SS501 bad relationship? No way! Our relationship is still good!"

Source: Osen + Honeyeee @ Love501.com for english translation

It seems that this man is no longer remembered as SS501's youngest member Kim Hyung Jun. Despite facing challenges of a new environment, Kim Hyung Jun receives compliments for his outstanding performance in his Musical. Self-confidence may possibily show itself in various ways, and it seems that

Kim Hyung Jun have gained his confidence through a different field. 

Recently, Kim Hyung Jun who has been receiving good reviews from musical "Caffeine" revealed that although SS501 members haven't been meeting as often as before, their relationship with each other still remains as close as brothers and good friends.

Kim Hyung Jun affirmed "All is well between us. We are always in touch with each other. It's just that we don't often have time to meet. But it seems that our relationship gets better this way. And because we are apart, we tend to appreciate each other more."

He added, "This is a path that each member had chosen as they desired and hence, there is no reason why our relationship with each other will worsen because of this. We give each other advices as we root for each other to do well."

Kim Hyung Jun reveals that he will show a more diverse side of him in his future solo activities."Somehow doing solo activites also signifies that there will be more responsibilities. Responsibilities and pressure like this will create a growth in mindset and encourage positive thinking. I will be looking forward to my future undertakings positively. Also, the good reaction from the crowd which i have been receiving from musical "Caffeine" have also given me more confidence." he said as he laughed.

Kim Hyung Jun will be involved in his musical "Caffeine" until next year. After which, he is expecting to release a new album and will be promoting it actively.

[Vid] 101227 Hyunjoong & SS501 – MTV 日韓音樂瘋

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[Scans] SS501 on fans Magazine December 8

urm.. anyways.. is it just me or hyunjoong's skin looked a lil bit dark on the pic where he wore the checkered shirt? D:

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