SUJU in Indonesia's magazine

UPROARING CONCERT “SUPER SHOW 3” SINGAPORE

Super Junior concert “Super Show 3 (SS3)” in Singapore is not only important and most anticipated event for ELF in the Lion Country alone. Hundreds of Indonesian ELF also made this event as a tool to fulfill their dream: meet the 10 Korean male idols. They are Leeteuk, Heechul, Sungmin, Donghae, Shindong, Yesung, Eunhyuk, Ryeowook, Siwon, and Kyuhyun, plus two Super Junior M members, Henry Lau and Zhou Mi. Hope of watching SS3 concert in our Archipelago is getting thinner, thus why ELF Indonesia stormed SS3 in Singapore. Since ticket sale opened in last November, ELF tried hard to find SS3 tickets which is not cheap: 211 and 161 Singapore dollar or about 1,5 and 1,2 million rupiah.
The hardness on getting a ticket was also added with a hunt down of Super Junior members in Singapore. Came all the way to a neighboring country, feels unsatisfied if only watched Suju in a concert. So, ELF did a stalking* preparation aka spying on Suju members’ activities. As usual, airport and hotel is the main target. Thursday (27/1) afternoon, ELF collectively went to Changi International Airport after receiving news that two Suju members – Leeteuk and Heechul – will arrive in Singapore earlier than their band mates. Unfortunately, until their estimated time passed, these two members hadn’t appeared. Same situation happened on the next day, when six Suju members – Sungmin (Yesung)**, Donghae, Kyuhyun, Ryeowook, Eunhyuk, and Shindong – were scheduled to arrive in Singapore. Fans who planned on welcoming them at the airport also couldn’t find traces of their idols. Oh right, due to tight shooting schedules, Sungmin and Siwon will catch up on their friends Saturday morning (29/1).

Light accident of Heechul and Leeteuk
SM Entertainment and (Running Into The Sun) RITS as EO have special strategies to hide their artists for security purposes. When fans smelt traces of Leeteuk and Heechul in a van car that was suspected to carry them, they’re immediately chasing it. Because of these chasing fans, van car that Leeteuk and Heechul rode was involved in a 7 cars pile up accident. Fortunately nothing fatal happened. After the accident, to the fans, Heechul sent a message to take care and not to do anything endangered. “Now, if you want to see us, come to the stadium. Everyone is in danger. I don’t want to have bad memory again,” said Heechul. Understandable, Heechul had a bad memory about car accident. In 2006, he had a severe accident after his visit to the funeral of Donghae’s father. His hip bone and leg joint were broken, ended up being hospitalized for 12 weeks. In 2007, severe accident also made Kyuhyun got into critical condition. Fortunately, what had happened in Singapore yesterday only resulting damages at the front of the car.
Suju’s security in the real world is very tight but in the virtual world ELF can easily find out about their idols’ whereabouts. A fan base Twitter account got info, Suju members had crab for dinner. They ate in the rooms and not went down to the restaurant. Through personal Suju member’s Twitter, ELF can get the newest photos plus their comments directly. Aside from uploaded his photo in a hotel room and backstage, from Twitter account @heedictator, Heechul expressed his admiration on super clean Singapore country. “Beautiful Singapore!! Clean Clean!!,” he wrote.

ELF Indonesia exist
As soon as the ticket sale’s open, 5.000 SS3 tickets were sold out in just 1.5 hours. Noticing so many people wants to watch, RITS Singapore decided to add SS3 concert who actually only hold on Saturday (29/1) into two days. Audience who didn’t get Saturday ticket can now purchase the second show ticket which will be held on the next day. But there are also many ELF who already bought the first-day concert ticket and still bought the second-day ticket. Cloudy weather and rain didn’t put down ELF’s spirit who’s gathered around Singapore Indoor Stadium, where the concert were held. Though first-day concert started on 7pm, ELF has been filling the concert location since noon. Aside from mosh pit ticket holders who need to obey first come first serve rule condition, concert location were surrounded with a lot of ELF projects. A group of Singapore ELF held a project by giving out card, photo, fan, and a birthday note to celebrate Kyuhyun’s birthday on last February 3rd. Some other held a banner with Leeteuk’s picture in jumbo size.
Indonesian ELF don’t want to miss the momentum. Indonesian ELF Project group made customized Indonesian ELF t-shirt, a banner with “Indonesia Love Super Junior”, also real gold layer medallion to be given for each of Suju members. For this project, Lia and friends collected money through profit from selling those t-shirts and donation promoted through Twitter. "The donation is not much, only about 2.5 million (rupiah). But we’ve managed to make this project,” said Lia happily. They’re happier later on because they’ve managed to give the medallion and it was worn by Yesung, Siwon, and Eunhyuk during the concert!

Heechul: “I’m Genius!”
Bintang watched the concert in day two. Unlike the first one, second concert started earlier, around 16.30 Singapore time. Previously, Suju members held a press conference. Leeteuk as a representative of his friends expressed his happiness to be able to meet their fans in Singapore. When MC said that their concert tickets were sold out within 1.5 hours, Eunhyuk said, later on he wants Suju concert tickets sold out in lesser time. “We’re thankful to all fans for big support. In the future, we’ll work harder to give a great performance, so later on our concert tickets sold out in 30 minutes,” said Eunhyuk. As usual, Heechul’s comment brought laughter. When asked about why he choose to imitate Lady Gaga’s style at SS3 concert, he casually answered, “I’m genius! For Super Show 3 we want something so powerful and influential. So, I came up with 3 partners here: Donghae, Shindong, and Eunhyuk. We dressed up like Lady Gaga and Beyonce and entertained the audience. And I think we made it,” he said. It did worked. We became the witness how funny Heechul and friends and made SS3 concert audience felt millions of rupiah spent was worth it.

Crowded But Orderly
Three hours before the concert, Bintang already in line to the entrance of the concert arena. The queue looked quite long. But we’re happy to see that everything went orderly. The line is neat, so queuing for quite a long time didn’t make us sweating. Sitting on the outside platform of the arena while queuing was also cool because it’s indoor and the rain didn’t get in.
Few minutes to 16.00 Bintang and the whole audience were already inside the stadium. At once, we were amazed when we saw this awesome stage design – more awesome than when Bintang watched “Sushow 2” in Malaysia last year. First few minutes we were presented with sponsor advertisement, up roaring scream were heard when on the big screen came video showing the winner of Suju dance competition. Imagine that, just by hearing their music, without the presence of those ten handsome men yet, it’s already up roaring! The scream is getting louder when the big screen switched to play video of Suju members’ message about planning of Sushow in Singapore.
“Hello, we are Super Junior!” they said in the video. “Come on Singapore fans, celebrate happiness with us because finally Sushow is here in Singapore!” said the leader Leeteuk. They’re all cheering. Eunhyuk even jumped madly while pushed and hugged Donghae. “Why Eunhyuk?” ask Leeteuk. “I’m so happy because it’s our first concert in Singapore,” he said with an innocent and funny face. Leeteuk hope the stadium will be full of fans, so they can share happiness altogether. This wish comes true. The stadium filled with ELF loyally enjoying the show from start to finish, which took around three hours.

Filled with Satisfaction, Laugh, and Tears of Joy
The concert really started. Donghae came on stage with sling in the middle of the stage wearing a white suit. Then one by one other members showed up and sang hit song “Sorry Sorry”. Flashes of light and colorful lamps made the situation even brighter. Bintang who’s watching under the stage can feel the excitement. Suju live performance was way better than what we’d expected – plus their faces are very handsome and never got bored to stare at them, hehehe. Choreography by Nick Bass, the man who used to collaborate with Beyonce, Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake, and many other famous musicians, amazingly practised by Suju members.
No less than 35 songs were sang by the whole Suju. Each shown their talents. Sungmin with his guitar. Eunhyuk, Donghae, and some other members made our eyes wide open with their astonishing dance abilities. Yesung, Siwon, Kyuhyun, Ryeowook, Henry Lau, and Zhou Mi who had the opportunity to do solo performances were also shown their beautiful voices. Two thumbs up for Henry who unexpectedly sang “Baby” of Justin Bieber with playing piano at the intro. We’d never guessed that that song was the one to sing – with super lively choreography. Audience can’t help but to sing a long. Can u imagine how cool it is?
No wonder in almost every song, up roaring scream from the audience made the concert sounds much more alive. Started from “Super Girl”, “Don’t Don”, “No Other”, “It Has To Be You”, until “Bonamana”, all were sang out loud by the audience. The most up roaring is a surprise from Lady Hee Hee aka Heechul who dressed up as Lady Gaga ((I) swear Heechul is handsome as a man, pretty as a woman, hahaha) and sang “Poker Face”. This hilarious scene continue with the presence of Shindong, Donghae, and Eunhyuk who danced supersexy with hits “Single Ladies” and “Crazy In Love” by Beyonce. Audience’s emotion goes up and down. There were times when we’re laughing out loud – like when Heechul showed up and said his signature slogan: Singapore clean clean and Singapore it’s my life! There were times when we’re silent and touched, especially during video tribute to beloved best friend, Kangin, who is in military service.
This missing feeling symbolized with Suju members playing violin – only in imagination – with such beautiful melody and cuts right through audience’s deepest bottom of the heart. The message is so spot on; they may not able to touch directly, but Kangin always and will be in their hearts. Then Kangin showed up on the big screen, reaching for his best friends one by one. Situation is heartwarming and friendly. At the end of the video, white heart-shape confetti were spread out and makes our hearts felt tighter. We really miss you, Kangin!

Concert of All Kinds of Super
In short, the title phenomenal held by Suju is not a joke. Bintang is a witness of how they kept their stamina from start to finish. Even though there’re a lot of jokes, their vocal and dance live performance is very special. Each member has their own ways to please the fans. They’re walking and running around here and there to get close to the audience. That kind of hysteria is very hard to put in words. You really have to experience yourself with this watching experience. Superfun, supercool, super up roaring, super touched, super excited. No mistake on calling this as “Super Show”!
Bintang even felt the atmosphere of running around, caught up with audience’s wave who stood near the stage, always on the move to get the best position, wherever the favorite member is. But from all of it, the most memorable moment is to see all kinds of reaction and response of the audience after the concert finished. Even though they’re tired, smile and laughter kept showing in their faces. And don’t be sad, some even got teary eyes because they’ve cried a lot of tears of joy. “Finally the dream to see Siwon came true. Tonight I’m gonna have a good sleep and wonderful dream,” said Wulan, one of Siwon’s fans who can no longer hold her tears of joy. Bintang also has a wonderful dream. Thanks for the great show, Suju! Hopefully we can meet again in Indonesia soon, right. riz/yoci

* all in italics were originally written in English
** writer’s mistaken Yesung with Sungmin

Source: Bintang Indonesia Tabloid Edition 1.029 Year XX First Week of February 2011
Translated by rrongrrong@soompi.com

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{INTERVIEW} 110201 – The 7 Membered Group, Infinite, Who Released Their 2nd Album ‘Evolution’

The idol group ‘Infinite’, who is getting ready for their Japanese debut. From the left: Sunggyu-Sungjong-Sungyeol-L-Woohyun-Hoya-Dongwoo

The trend of our music industry are idols. This flow has started a few years back. Many idol groups are trying to shine in this flow. The struggle to survive being intense is obvious.

The 7 membered idol group, Infinite, is standing in between that competition. They debuted last June. Their debut song, ‘Come Back Again’, was a hit, but they couldn’t grow as a group in the megaton range. They recently released their second mini album, ‘Evolution’. Will they have results that will surpass their debut album?

When we met them on the 24th, they started to speak in restless voices.

“Truthfully, our debut album fell short of our expectations. We weren’t satisfied with the performances or the lives. That’s why we gave all our passion in making the second album.” (Sunggyu)

This album’s music and dances became more fierce. Their title song, ‘B.T.D’ leaves an impression with its strong beat, vocals, and angled dances. Their dance is called the ‘scorpion dance’ and it is receiving attention on the internet. It’s in a ‘group dance’ form where all 7 of them match their moves perfectly.

“Instead of making the dance really descriptive, we made an effort to give a strong dance feel. The scorpion dance is a difficult dance, where we had to practice for 18 hours a day to match the breathing.” (Hoya)

Infinite is going to have their Japanese debut in April. Their Japanese debut single, ‘TO-RA-WA’, shown on the 26th, received attention as it because it was 1st on the ringtone daily chart (KPOP section) on Japan’s largest mobile site (music.jp). They’re planning to open their first showcase in Roppongi, Tokyo.

“The debut in Japan will become a very important turning point for Infinite. We’re in the middle of preparing, and we are straightening up our Japanese skills that we learned as trainees. We are planning to do our best so that we can lead the new Hallyu Boom.” (Sungjong)

It’s been a bit over 7 months since their debut. Besides the holidays, they are pushing off meeting their family to try hard and survive in this intense competition.

Their dream for the future is to become a ‘self producing’ team that does their own lyrics, composition, arrangements, and choreography.

“Rather than being a cool team, we want to be a group that is acknowledged for their musical abilities. And we would also like to not be far from our fans, but be a friendly group like the past G.O.D seniors.” (Dongwoo)

CREDITS: Joongang Daily (Source) ; Hyejin @ Endless Limits / Infinite Updates (Trans.)

[TRANS] TOP’s “Goethe” Japanese Magazine Interview!

‘I want to become that kind of person who ‘will devote all of his youth to his work’
This busy and supreme Korean artist has attracted attention from us as an artist now. He might not be so familiar to our readers. However, his insatiable passion and ambition towards his career is really outstanding and appreciative.

I want to be those pioneers who can initate changes in the traditions
Has he ever suffered because of it? No matter what, TOP still chose to take this path. He made such a surprising confession in Japan despite the fact that he has becoming more and more popular in Japan, not to mention in Korea.

‘There has been such a period of time that after I had finished all of my acting and shooting, I returned to my room which I have no companion. Suddenly, I could no longer distinguish whether I was in the reality or not. Yes, I have had experienced such a period of time before. I have suffered insomnia because of this too. The frequency was not low too.’

We have known TOP beforehand for his brilliant standard of singing and his charming stage performance. He is also a member of the very popular band ‘BIGBANG’ in Japan, not to mention in Korea. He is characterized by his handsome look and surprisingly distinguished ‘tenor’ voice. His performances are always fashionable and masculine which gives us an unique feeling of existence. He is not only popular among girls but also boys.

Moreover, his talent is not only limited to music. In the drama ‘IRIS’ which have also been shown in Japan,TOP was the cool killer and he broke the stereotype of ‘singers cannot act’. It is unimaginable that in a person like him, we can find the trace of loneness that is beyond description.

‘I had to be TOP when I was on the stage and had to transform into the character in the drama. When I returned to my own identity after transforming to and fro these two characters, I would ponder, ‘Who am I actually?’ There were times that I did not know how my original self looked like.’
Perhaps it maybe due to his being in such an exciting showbiz, he would have such an identity crisis. When the lime light dimmed, then so did his real self and so he lost his direction too. In such a period of time, he was granted the chance of acting in ‘Into The Fire’.

‘When I was invited to take part in the film, I was doing a Japan tour and preparing my SOLO album at the same time, so I once thought that I should reject the offer. However, after I had read the script, I changed my mind. I thought it might be not easy to handle all the things at the same time but it might be another opportunity for me to discover something.’

The Korean War which was portrayed in the film was really existed. It is a story about the Korean army and student soldiers. The film set against the background of the attack of the North Korea, although they did not have any war experience, they still chose to fight in the war to protect their country. The film also depicted the cruelty and instability of war. TOP’s character moved the audience to tears by his story. In Korea, there are many people whose heart chord are struck by his role who suffered of insecurity and fright but at the same time upheld his identity as the students leader and finally transformed into a strong character. He also won the best newcomer prize of ‘Oscar of Korea’ – The Blue Dragon Film Festival but what he got not only limited to a prize.

‘Comparing to showing how my character suffered physically, it was more difficult to portray the helpless feeling that he was forced to join the war. I had practiced my facial expression in front of the mirror many times and I did not go out. I had also wondering why the students had to join the war and what kind of feelings they were having at that time. There were nights that I could not sleep since I was thinking about all of these. However, I got a lot of inspirations from this procedure,for example, what courage is, how much sacrifice that people has made to achieve the world peace that we are enjoying now and what I should do,etc. I feel that I have really enlightened a lot. The story is about how the character was growing but I myself has also transformed into a more mature person after the filming.’
He is also happy about there are youngsters who pay attention to this film for he has taken a role in it. For him, who has always been surrounded by the scream of girls, it was not easy for him to take up such a challenge and even worse, films about wars are those would be dodged by the younger generation. However, when he heard that his fans and the younger generation have discussed the film on the internet, he was really touched and grateful.

‘As a new born generation, we don’t understand what a war is but we cannot say because of our ignorance, then the things are not existed in the world. If my taking part in this film can make youngsters feel something about the wars, I do think I have done a really meaningful job.’

‘Yes, I am a singer but I have not taken my image and popularity into consideration when I decided to take the role in the movie. What I was thinking is I really wanted to yell and convey some messages to people.’
‘ I have always had strong feelings about conveying messages through my songs or acting. However, I do not think that I should always be the role model of others. As an artist, there are times that I want to change the world and speak out the truth of things happening around us. I always want to present something new to the audience and sometimes, I do feel the pressure of it is very strong.Maybe,it is the destiny of an artist.’

What we feel about these sentences is TOP is really proud of being an icon of the generation and a singer. He should be able to make clear of his identity now, right?
‘However, even until now, I would also reflect what I have done within a day on my own. Yesterday, today, and the stuff which is going to happen tomorrow, I remember all of them one by one. It seems that I like torturing myself. (laugh) However, I think, if I do not accumulate such kind of reflection, no new ideas would be come up in my mind no matter it is lyrics or acting skills. Therefore, I am that kind of person who cannot stop torturing himself. There is pain in such a process but I know such kind of suffering would be transformed into a great source of power. That’s why I am not scared or unsecured.

He really enjoys what he is doing now. TOP said comparing to falling in love and playing, he prefers totally obsessed in his work.
‘For example, when I was recalling my past memories, I have also the memory of ‘loving someone so crazily’. But when compared to love memories, I want to become that kind of person who will ‘devote all of his youth to his career’. Then, when I recall my memories in the future, I can proudly say I have not wasted even 1 day of my life since I had worked really hard ’

There are loads that I want to do. There are loads that I want to achieve.
‘What do I have to achieve then I can be called to be achieve success? I do not really know but I think the definition of success is different for each of us. And it varies according to our value system too. No matter who we are, only we know what we are striving for.’
Although he thinks like this but we really want to know to him, who enjoys great popularity in both Japan and Korea, what successful means to him—For this youngster who has just been 23, he said with a shy smile wearing on his face,

‘I think it would not be appropriate for me to define what success is since I am just too young and immature now. However, I want to bring great influence to the world like what Beatles and Rolling Stones did. I want to affect the generation like what they did to us and be an ‘era turner’. I want the history can mark down the era ‘before and after BIGBANG’ and ‘before and after TOP’. I think it is a really worthwhile target for me to strive for.’

His dream is big but we know from his manner, he is not arrogant. In Japan, if possible, he would go to have sushi and if he can get one more BE@BRICK, he would be so happy. Instead of saying he like things that are Japanese, we should rather describe him as being close to the Japanese youth of his age.
‘But I have not had any in-depth conversation with any Japanese artists. If there is a chance, I want to discuss with them about how we think of music, acting and future plans, etc.’

What will the Japanese artists tell him at that time? Will their hearts be captured by this very self-displined youth?

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Chinese Translation: 肉肉@bigbangfamily.com
English Translation: Rice@BigbangWORLD

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[News] 101231 TVXQ’s Changmin is Peru’s Sexiest Man of The Year?

Peru’s Revista Privilege magazine recently held an online poll open to its readers to vote for 2010′s sexiest man of the year. With a total of 90 sexy worldwide candidates, it was one of South Korea’s top idol group members that took the top spot!

With a grand total of 227,742 votes in favour, TVXQ‘s Max Changmin took the number one spot as 2010′s Sexiest Man of The Year. With the young age of 22, Changmin’s transformation from cute maknae to elegant and charismatic singer has managed to capture the hearts of a worldwide audience.

Changmin is set to begin promotions alongside U-Know Yunho early next month as they release their comeback single Keep Your Head Down. SM Entertainment has recently released three exclusive teasers to the music videos, which have driven fans wild with anticipation. TVXQ’s comeback is sure to bring more worldwide popularity to the idol group.

Not only did Changmin take the number one spot, but fellow DBSK members were also in the rankings, Hero Jaejoong in 3rd place, U-Know Yunho in 6th place, and Xiah Junsu in 13th place followed by Micky Yoochun in 14th place.

Meanwhile Asia’s top stars also made the list among American and European actors and singers, check out the list below:

1. Shim Changmin 20.9% (227,742 votes)
2. Hyde 20.1% (218,956 votes)
3. Kim Jaejoong 19.87% (216,493 votes)
4. Kim Hyun Joong 8.21% (89,433 votes)
5. Bill Kaulitz 6.68% (72,756 votes)
6. U-Know Yunho 3.91% (42,590 votes)
7. Jun Matsumoto 2.98% (32,485 votes)
8. Morten Harket 2.37% (25,812 votes)
9. Jin Akanishi 1.94% (21,148 votes)
10. Park JungMin 1.55% (16,915 votes)
11. Yamashita Tomohisa 1.11% (12,140 votes)
12. Daniel Radcliffe 1.02% (11,101 votes)
13. Xiah Junsu 0.83% (9,082 votes)
14. Micky Yoochun 0.83% (9,015 votes)
15. Johnny Depp 0.78% (8,537 votes)
16. Tom kaulitz 0.77% (8,342 votes)
17. Kamenashi Kazuya 0.69% (7,488 votes)
18. Hangeng 0.69% (7,487 votes)
19. Lee MinHo 0.4% (4,382 votes)
20. Mike He 0.34% (3,680 votes)
21. Robert Pattinson 0.32% (3,507 votes)
22. Gackt 0.3% (3,292 votes)
23. Tom Welling 0.24% (2,602 votes)
24. Jared Leto 0.22% (2,376 votes)
25. Sho Sakurai 0.21% (2,236 votes)
26. Choi Siwon 0.2% (2,197 votes)
27. Nishikido Ryo 0.16% (1,714 votes)
28. Nick Jonas 0.16% (1,703 votes)
29. Jiro Wang 0.13% (1,388 votes)
30. Kim Heechul 0.12% (1,317 votes)
31. (Bi) Rain 0.12% (1,313 votes)
32. Taylor Lautner 0.11% (1,197 votes)
33. Nick Carter 0.1% (1,073 votes)
34. Joe Jonas 0.1% (1,054 votes)
35. Zac Efron 0.09% (966 votes)
36. Ian Somerhalder 0.08% (882 votes)
37. Kimi Raikkonen 0.07% (784 votes)
38. Jang GeunSuk 0.07% (779 votes)
39. Jude Law 0.05% (579 votes)
40. Brad Pitt 0.05% (573 votes)
41. Cristiano Ronaldo 0.05% (545 votes)
42. Colin Farell 0.05% (522 votes)
43. William Levy 0.05% (512 votes)
44. Hugh Jackman 0.05% (505 votes)
45. Kim Bum 0.04% (459 votes)

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