[by Bae Jung Yun] Lee Hi’s full album ‘SEOULITE’, which will be released on April 19 at midnight KST, started its countdown.

On April 19 at 2pm KST, an image of Lee Hi, who was wearing a pink suit and delivering gorgeous gaze, surrounded by dancers along with album counter was unveiled on YG’s official blog.

Her album title song is ‘MY STAR’. The agency’s main producer Teddy and Kush participated in song writing and lyrics writing of the title song. It is a metro soul genre music, which matches well with Lee Hi and it is full of groove that can be enjoyed with its choreography like her previous song \'1,2,3,4\'.

Particularly, on April 18, the title song’s new teaser video and poster were unveiled. A handsome rapper ONE, who became famous after appearing in Mnet ‘Show Me the Money 4’, appeared as a male main character in the teaser video and it is receiving people’s attention.

A total of six songs are included in the album. Lee Hi participated in song writing and lyrics writing of her album and she wrote the lyrics of the third track ‘PASSING BY’ for the first time. She will show herself developing as an artist with the album. Moreover, Tablo and iKON Bobby featured the 4th track ‘UP ALL NIGHT’ and 5th track ‘VIDEO’ each and completed the better album.

If people could check out her charm from her half album, her upcoming full album includes songs that will show her true ability and attract the music fans.

[by Bae Jung Yun] A girl group TWICE unveiled the personal teaser image of three members, Nayeon, Momo and Dahyun.

On April 19, the group disclosed the first personal teaser image of its second mini album ‘PAGE TWO’ on its official website and social media. It unveiled Nayeon, Momo and Dahyun’s teaser and increased people’s expectation.


From the unveiled image, three members were showing off their unique style by wearing an active and cheerful outfit. Refreshing mint background, member’s changed hair style and their upgraded beauty are enough to make fans to fall in love with.

JYP Entertainment said that continue to the group teaser video and teaser that released on April 18, each member’s personal video and teaser will be unveiled in consecutive orders from April 19 and continue the TWICE WEEK.”

The title song ‘CHEER UP’ is a color-pop dance song mixes hip hop, tropical house, drum and base genre. Exciting sound, sensational and refreshing feeling of the music became much stronger.


A total of seven songs is included in the album such as ‘CHEER UP’, a remake song of Park Ji Yoon ‘Precious Love’, ‘Touchdown’, ‘Tap and Snap (direct translation), ‘Woohoo’, ‘Use Headphone’ and ‘I’m gonna be a star’ that only included in the CD version of the album.

Meanwhile, TWICE’s second mini album ‘PAGE TWO’ will drop on April 25. (photo by JYP Entertainment)

[by Bae Jung Yun, photo by Baek Su Yeon] On April 19, the production conference of the movie ‘Canola’ was held at CGV in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul.

The movie is a sensation drama about a grandmother Gye Chun, who only thinks and cares about her granddaughter and her mysterious granddaughter Hye Ji, who came back home after 12 years and hiding her past.

Meanwhile, ‘Canola’ will be screened on May 19. (photo by bntnews DB)

[by Bae Jung Yun] On April15, an actor Jung Il Woo held a fan meetup event ‘JUNG IL WOO FAN MEETING ~10thank you~ in Japan’ with his 1,800 fans to celebrate his 10th anniversary.

The event was full of surprises. At the beginning of the event, he showed up at the second floor other than the stage and surprised the fans. After that, he sang ‘Rain and You’ with his unique sweet voice. 


He brightened up the atmosphere by talking about his recent condition with his pleasant talk. Then, he presented a best cut event and reproduced MBC Drama ‘The Night Watchman’s Journal’ that aired in 2014. He wore the same Korean traditional outfit of the drama and took a Polaroid picture with some fans to return the love. In addition, he called some fans on the stage and had a back hug and presented a ring for them.

Moreover, he sang three Japanese songs to get closer to his local fans. He also personally read the letter with the excellent Japanese and moved the fans. 1,800 fans sang along with him by turning on the phone light and responded to his romantic love toward fans.

[by Bae Kye Hyun, translated by Bae Jung Yun] Jung Si Ah, who is receiving lots of love from the mass public through SBS ‘Oh! My Baby’, had a pictorial with bntnews.

From the first concept, she showed a slender female image with pleasantly plain and pure dress. The second concept of vivid and yellow dress made her clear face look brighter and her cute and cheerful image to stand out. Lastly, she showed elegance and urban style with white jumpsuit. She proved her beautiful goddess beauty throughout the pictorial.

From the following interview, we could see her presently felt happiness. She said that she wants to be happy as it is. We could feel her complete family and a perfect life from her word.


Her first son Jun Woo is an elementary school student and second daughter Seo Woo grew up enough to go to the kindergarten. She, who became a parent, is having a stable life after a crazy couple of years. However, she said that she still feel uncomfortable with sending her kids to school.

A life with her husband’s father and her baby care were started right after the marriage, so she had no time to enjoy her sweet new marriage. Nevertheless, because of a thoughtful husband’s father, a homely husband and lovely children, she said that she felt like doing new marriage for 8 years.


Even though she is showing her family life through ‘Oh! My Baby’, she never showed the program to Seo Woo, who is actually a main character of the program. She said, “I don’t want my child to think that she is a special person” and talked about her parenting philosophy. In addition, “I will make the experience and opportunity for children to build their own life that they wants to live.”

About children’s future, she said, “I don’t want to force my child to become an actor. If they want to become a celebrity after their self identity established, I wouldn’t oppose to their decision.”

[by Bae Jung Yun] A picture Oh My Girl Hyojung and Yoo Jae Suk took together came up in conversation.

On April 1, the picture posted on the group’s official twitter with a comment, “Did everyone see ‘Happy Together’? I was so nervous because it was my first variety program to star alone. However, I had a great time and learned a lot from several superiors. I’ll see all of you soon!”

From the picture, Hyojung, who was wearing a white shirt, made a cute smile and posed friendly ‘V’ with Yoo Jae Suk. The picture was taken in the waiting room when she filmed the program as a guest.” The group’s leader, Hyojung received lots of attention from netizens by her graceful look and unique refreshing smile.


Oh My Girl made its comeback with the 3rd mini album title song ‘LIAR LIAR’ on March 28. On April 1, the group will perform its comeback stage on KBS 2TV ‘Music Bank’. (photo by WM Entertainment)

[by Bae Jung Yun, photo by Kim Chi Yun] On March 28, Oh My Girl’s 3rd mini album ‘PINK OCEAN’ showcase was held at Mecenatpolis Mall in Hapjeong-dong, Seoul.

Meanwhile, Oh My Girl’s 3rd mini album includes five tracks along with the title song ‘LIAR LIAR’. (photo by bntnews DB)

For more bntnews.co.uk
Contact: news@bntnews.co.uk

[by Bae Jung Yun, photo by Hwang Ji Eun] On March 29, HAZZYS Eyewear 16SS Collection Presentation was held at HAZZYS flagship store in Myeongdong, Seoul. (photo by bntnews DB)

For more bntnews.co.uk
Contact: news@bntnews.co.uk

[by Bae Jung Yun] National representative female vocalist NAVI will come back with her new song.

On March 29 at midnight KST, her new digital single ‘Changed (literal translation)’ will be released with surprise. Her new song is an acoustic R&B genre music made by a famous songwriter Star Trek who participated in making Secret and B.A.P’s songs. 


Smooth piano, electric piano and acoustic guitar will harmonize together and NAVI’s unique emotion will be added into the song. Different than her original songs, her new song will be a spring-like song that has a refreshing sound.

Moreover, the lyrics of the song poetically expressed the gradually changing image and attitude of a person after meeting his lover. The song is expected to arouse sympathy from the mass public.


Along with her to receive lots of love from people by her various OSTs and steady songs such as ‘Heart Damage’, ‘Wasteful Tears’, ‘First Snow’ and ‘Well Done’, she topped the music chart with her previously released song ‘Don’t Miss You’. People are expecting her to top the chart again with her new song.

[by Bae Jung Yun] Brown Eyed Girls leader JeA announced her solo comeback with a title song ‘Bad Girl’.

On April 12, her agency Mystic Entertainment dropped the title song’s MV stills. From the unveiled picture, she was expressing fascinating and mature atmosphere by wearing the black and white outfits and gave a preview of the ambience of her new song.


Moreover, a white color see-through dress and a minimal black dress doubled her feminine charm, which is different than her original powerful and charismatic image, and showed her overflowing beauty.

She personally participated in producing her upcoming single album. The album will include two tracks of ballad songs, which will show her unique catchy singing ability. She displayed her capability as a producer in the album, which developed from her previous participation of producing other singers’ album.

[by Bae Jung Yun] A boy group BTS’s personal poster of its concert ‘2016 BTS LIVE ’ was disclosed.

On April 7 at midnight KST, the group unveiled Rap Monster, Jin, Sugar, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook’s personal poster through its official social media.


From the poster, members are showing off their chic look by wearing a suit on the red carpet. The poster is increasing people’s expectation toward the group’s new image from its upcoming concert.

The concert will be held at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena on May 7 and 8. The group will perform its new song from the special album ‘Hwa Yang Yeon Hwa, Young Forever’ for the first time during the concert.

On April 26, 24,000 seats of the concert ticket were sold out from the fan club pre-order and it proved the group’s great popularity.


Meanwhile, BTS will release its special album ‘Hwa Yang Yeon Hwa, Young Forever’ on May 2 and hold its concert ‘2016 BTS LIVE ’ on May 7 at 5pm and on May 8 at 4pm at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena in Seoul. (photo by Big Hit Entertainment)

[by Bae Jung Yun, photo by Baek Su Yeon] On March 21, group BTS left Gimpo International Airport to Japan for its concert in Kobe, Japan. (photo by bntnews DB)

For more bntnews.co.uk
Contact: news@bntnews.co.uk

[by Bae Jung Yun] Girl group Nine Muses successfully completed its fan meeting in China.

On March 19, the group held ‘MUSE IN THE CITY IN GUANG ZHOU’ in Guangzhou, China followed by the one held in Shanghai, China. Particularly, the fan meeting was broadcasted live through Chinese large portal website called PPTV.


The group spent two enthusiastic hours with 1,000 fans. It performed its hit songs such as ‘Dolls’, ‘Drama’, ‘Hurt Locker’ and others and captured the fans’ heart. Particularly, the group reinterpreted Chinese famous artist Lin Yi Lian’s song ‘At Least I Still Have You’ with its unique style and received enthusiastic acclamation from fans.

The group said, “We are very happy now. We were surprised that many people came to cheer and welcomed us. Shanghai and Guangzhou fan meetings are our first solo fan meeting in a foreign country. We will work hard to make Chinese version of our songs soon.”


After the group’s debut in 2010, it is known for various modifiers such as ‘Model Idol’ and ‘President Among the Soldiers’. It positioned itself with differentiated individuality. Along with its first solo concert ‘MUSE IN THE CITY’, the group successfully completed its fan meeting in Guangzhou and Shanghai and it continued its active performance in Korea and China.

[by Bae Jung Yun, photo by Kim Chi Yun] On March 19, DHC diet inner therapy new product launching celebration fan signing event was held at Watsons in Hongdae, Seoul.


Meanwhile, After School Nana participated in the event. (photo by bntnews DB)

For more bntnews.co.uk
Contact: news@bntnews.co.uka

[by Bae Jung Yun] Girl group Red Velvet’s new mini album ‘The Velvet’ is receiving good response from the mass public.

The group’s second mini album, which released on March 17, topped the weekly chart of the third week of March. It showed its long waited fans’ enthusiastic attention.


Along with a fairy-tale like emotional ballad title song ‘One Of These Nights’, feminine and soft Velvet style music was included in the album. The new album was enough for the group to show the twisted charm different than cheerful and cute image from its first official album ‘The Red’.

In addition, on March 16 at midnight KST, the group also ranked first on iTunes k-pop album chart in the United States, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia. It proved the group’s popularity in the foreign countries.

Moreover, the group performed its comeback stage in the various music programs. Its new songs, ‘One Of These Nights’ and ‘Cool Hot Sweet Love’ were performed for the first time and attracted attention of its fans and viewers. The group will continue to arrest attention by performing its title song ‘One Of These Nights’ in the upcoming music program for this week.

Meanwhile, Red Velvet is actively performing with its second mini album ‘The Velvet’. (photo by SM Entertainment)

[by Bae Jung Yun] ‘A Dish Requested by Mother’ competition will be presented on the ‘Please Take Care Of My Refrigerator’, the episode of Jessi.

A musician, Jessi appeared in the 71th episode and disclosed her refrigerator. Video of her mother specially appeared in the program. From the video, Jessi’s mother revealed her love toward cannot be personally cared daughter and asked chefs to take care of Jessi’s refrigerator.


She seemed surprised by the unexpected appearance of her mother and eventually her eyes filled with tears and revealed her appreciation toward her mom. Oh Se Deuk and Sam Kim competed against each other to comply with the request of Jessi’s mom. Sam Kim participated in cooking with his unique look, which was different than his usual look and it made people burst into laughter. After tasting two completed dishes, Jessi used a special method to announce the winner of the competition.

Meanwhile, the scene of two chefs making a dish requested by Jessi’s mother airs on March 21 at 9:30pm KST on JTBC ‘Please Take Care Of My Refrigerator’. (photo by JTBC)

[by Bae Jung Yun, photo by Baek Su Yeon] On March 15, press preview of the movie ‘Su Saek’ was held at CGV in Yongsan, Seoul.

The movie is about the friendship among young men who lived in Su Saek, a very poor area until the late 1990’s, but splited because the area mentioned as the redevelopment spot for 2002 World Cup. Maeng Se Chang, Gong Myung, Lee Tae Hwan, Lee Jin Sung and Kim Ki Hyun will appear in the film.

Meanwhile, ‘Su Saek’ will be released on March 31. (photo by bntnews DB)

[by Bae Jung Yun] Cast members in JTBC’s variety program ‘Non-Summit’ will participate in turning off the non-essential lights campaign to deal with the climate change.


The campaign called ‘2016 Earth Hour’ will last for one hour, from 8:30 to 9:30pm on March 19. The program’s cast members, Tyler Rasch, Guillaume Patry, Sami Rashad El-Baz, Andreas Varsakopoulos, Carlos Gorito, Przemysław Krompiec, Nikolai Johnsen and Alberto Mondi will participate in the campaign.


Eight non-summits, whom participate in ‘2016 Earth Hour’ campaign as the celebrity supporters, will have a live broadcast through ‘Non-Summit’ Facebook page and DAUM tvPot and encourage people to participate in the campaign. They will conduct a mission by walking around the shops to guide the stores to turn off the lights. Also, they will progress a quiz event about animals that are facing a crisis of extinction because of the climate change at the Megabox on March 19 at 9pm KST.

[by Bae Jung Yun] SM Entertainment unveiled its new runner, Heritage and SHINee Jonghyun for its digital music channel STATION.

The song ‘Your Voice’ by Heritage and SHINee Jonghyun will be released through various music websites (MelOn, Genie, Naver Music and others) on March 17 at midnight KST. It is expected to receive enthusiastic attention from the music fans.


The new song is acoustic medium pop music that includes preciousness of friends, who can talk one’s honest feeling to and receive comfort from. Heritage and SHINee Jonghyun, both participated in song writing, lyrics writing and even singing. They created the perfect harmony and added the song’s attraction.

Particularly, all the members from the group Heritige have the ability to produce the song, write the song and lyrics and rearrange the song. Its high quality music is receiving lots of love from the mass public and the group even received the grand prize from the R&B soul single sector in the 4th Korean Music Award. Jonghyun made all tracks for his first solo album ‘BASE’ by himself. He positioned himself as a SM’s representative singer-songwriter. The new song collaborated by two artists is expected to receive enthusiastic attention.

[by Bae Jung Yun] A versatile boy group B1A4 is looking for BANA (B1A4’s fandom), who can participate in singing the song that will be included in the group’s new official album.

Music chart MelOn is progressing the event through MelOn Showing from March 16 to 24.


Any BANA who wants to leave its voice in the album, can participate by singing ‘Love Then’ from the group’s official second album ‘Who Am I’ on MelOn Showing. The fan, who well expressed the sad emotion of the song, will receive the chance of recording with the group and the autographed Polaroid photo. 

Particularly, B1A4’s member Jinyoung participated as a music producer for the project and captured people’s attention. He, who composed and wrote the lyrics of the new song, will also participate in recording and reveal his extraordinary love toward his fans. Its fans enthusiastic response and participation will be continued.


Jinyoung proved his capability as a producer by ranking first place on the real-time search list even before his own song ‘Same Place’ released.

Meanwhile, anyone can participate in the event through MelOn Showing from March 16 to 24. (photo by MelOn)