SBS Inkigayo unveils poll for the celebrities fellow idols want to have an outing with

G-Dragon and Nana top another poll, selected by their fellow idols, as the male and female idols who they want to have a spring outing with.

Last April, SBS Inkigayo made a popularity poll targeting the idols and the staff who have guested on the program. Additionally, they asked female idols to select the male idol they wanted to have a spring outing with and vice versa.

The results were announced on the 20th of May and it was revealed that G-Dragon was selected as the top male idol that female idols want to have an outing with. He was then followed by TVXQ's Yunho and ZE:A's Kwanghee which both shared the second spot. Third place was shared by Big Bang's TOP and CN Blue's Yonghwa, while Beast's Doojoon and Kikwang ranked fourth and fifth respectively.

Meanwhile, Orange Caramel's Nana ranked first for the female idols whom male idols want to spend their spring outing with. She was followed by IU and 4Minute's HyunA in second and third respectively. Ranking fourth and fifth on the poll was Girl's Day's Mina and f(x)'s Sulli.

What do you think of SBS Inkigayo's poll?

Source: BreakNews and BigbangUpdates

G-Dragon ranks 1st in 'the musician mostly wanted to create school song' poll

Music website Monkey (www.monkey3.co.kr) has held a survey about ‘Which musician do you want him or her to create your school song most?’ from 12^th to 18^th, May.

There are totally 484 votes and among them, an overwhelming rate of 54 %(262 votes) went to BIGBANG’s G-Dragon whom captured the 1^st spot in the poll.

The talented idol group BIGBANG’s leader, G- Dragon is the composer, lyrics writer of ‘Love Song’, ‘Tonight’ and ‘Haru Haru’, etc. He can be acclaimed as the representative of the singer cum songwriter of Korea.

The people who have casted their votes in the poll commented on the self-produced idol, G-Dragon as  follows, ‘ I wonder how he produces songs’ , ‘If G-Dragon was to make the school song, the old style of it would be replaced with something new.’ And they feel sad because they do not have such a song now.

The second place is taken up by Jung Yonghwa, the lyrics writer, song composer, arranger and also the singer cum songwriter of CNBLUE. (23 %, 109 votes). The 3^rd place is taken up by JYP (10%, 50 votes) and the 4^th place is captured by the leader and composer of BooHwal, Kim Tae aWon (7%, 32 votes). Ranking 5^th is Baek Ji Young  (4%, 18 votes)who has composed the famous song ‘Monkey’ and the song has been performed by 2am. Finally the 6^th place is  Kim Yoon Ah (3%, 13 votes) who is also a singer cum songwriter. 

More information about the poll can be found at monkey 3 's website. 


Source: Jkstars
Translated by: Rice @bigbangupdates 

T.O.P and Lee Hyori, #1 on Clio Eyeliner Poll

Make-up brand, Clio, held a poll on "Which male and female stars best match with eyeliners?", to celebrate Clio's sales of its Kill Black waterproof pen liners reaching the 300K mark.

Singer Lee Hyori received a total of 2,136 votes (74%) ranking 1st among female stars while BIGBANG's T.O.P got 1,318 (45.6%) giving him the 1st spot among male stars. The top 5 male and female stars that ranked in the poll are as follows:

Males

1) T.O.P

2) B2ST's Lee Kikwang

3) Model Jang Younjoo

4) 2AM's Jo Kwon

5) Jay Park

Females

1) Lee Hyori

2) Kang Seungyoon

3) T-ara's Ji Yeon

4) 2NE1's CL

5) Chae Jeongan

Netizens' reactions:
"Lee Hyori, the eyeliner-girl who uses different eye make-ups to her full 100%!"

"Obviously! The eyeliner terminator Lee Hyori"
"T.O.P's eyes maximize the effects of eyeliners"

"T.O.P, the best at eye-charisma!"
Source: Newsway, Arts News + Translations by ydj_love@B2ST Rising

Edited by vic @ Big Bang Updates

SHINee Become New Faces for Maypole in 2011

It was announced on Dec. 31 that SHINee, an idol group that has led this year’s Korean Wave, will become new faces for Maypole in 2011. Maypole, a casual wear brand for European Neo-preppy looks, is one of the fashion brands led by IN THE F, a leading total fashion company in Korea.

A source in the company said that they chose SHINee, Korea’s top idol group, as new models with name value, star quality, and fashion sense to appeal the brand’s neo-preppy image to the public as well as to increase sales and expand the business.

Maypole also selected Yi Som, a model called “2nd Jang Yoonjoo” as a new face in addition to SHINee. They plan to maintain the existing customer base by continuing the brand’s comfortable everyday wear style with Yi Som, while securing new teen customers through an aggressive star marketing using SHINee.


Source: Joy News
Trans by jujugal

Taemin is in 1ST Place as Student entertainer whom uniforms suit best

Source : as tagged
Cr : taeminism

1. Taemin (SHINee)           6. Yoo Seung Ho              11. Dongho (U-KISS)        16. Kwon Sohyun (4Min)
2. IU                                  7. Suzy (Miss A)                 12. Park Eunbin                  17. Nam Jihyun
3. Sulli [f(x)]                       8. Kim Hyuna (4 Minute)   13. Goo Ah Seong              18. Shim Eun Kyeong
4. Kang Jiyoung (KARA)   9. Luna [f(x)]                     14. Hyerim (Wonder Girls)  19. Park Jibin
5. Jiyeon (T-ara)                10. Lizzy (After School)     15. Lee Hyun Woo              20. Gita

Onew leading in High Cut Poll

In an Article, A High cut poll was conducted & Onew from SHINee gets the most number of votes.
Second was Super Junior's Siwon, Third was SS501's Kim Hyunjoong & last but not least, 2PM's Taecyeon.

After SHINee Onew's lead, they also talked about the change in SHINee from Lucifer to Hello, comparing their styles, music, concepts.



Credit: paprii @ soompi

Seungri #2 on "Secret Lover" Poll

Monkey3.co.kr held a poll from September 23-29 on "Which idol would you pick to be your secret lover?" and T-ara's Jiyeon got the first place with 155 votes (32%).

BIGBANG’s Seungri followed her with 116 votes (24%) and MBLAQ’s Joon got the third place with 97 votes (20%). The idols who claimed the next spots are Doo-joon of Beast (11%), Sandara Park of 2NE1 (9%) and Afterschool's UEE (5%).

Source: StarMT + Monkey3
Translations from Rice @ BigbangWorld

Shared by Vic @Big Bang Updates

Rain has topped a survey of the male star who could make ssongpyon well

Musical site, Monkey3, from last 16th to last 22nd, conducted a survey, "Who do you think would be the most appropriate one among male stars for making ssongpyon well?"

(Songpyun is the special food that Koreans eat on Chuseok, Korea's Thanksgiving Day)


1,706 out of 2,692 responding to the survey said that they selected Rain, as a result, he ranked first.

Rain has topped the survey (58%, 1706 votes), and 'Kim Hyun Joong' was voted second(26%, 764votes), followed by Mickey Ucheon (10%, 285votes).


credit to TV Daily Nate

Brief translation by rain bird.
credits: rainlegend.com + DKP

based on k-popped songpyon is a korean rice cake. here the pic.