K-Pop Obsession: After School's Flashback

So this week's obsession is After School's comeback song, "Flashback." Now the leader of After School, Kahi, has officially "graduated" and has gone on to do solo things. I miss her so much! I really think she put a lot of creative energy and input into the group (like Bang and Shampoo). I wasn't too impressed with After School's comeback this time, they usually do something that requires a lot of training for a great performance. Yes, they are one of the hottest girl groups out there, they really turned up the heat in this one. But the song is only meh. Nothing extraordinary or really exciting...just really really sexy and confusing...why is that guy tied up? Why did you shoot him sexy Uee?

Visual Concept: ♥♥♥/5 Video Concept: ♥♥/5 Singing Talent: ♥♥♥.5/5 Music/Sound: ♥♥♥.5/5 Dancing: ♥♥♥♥/5 English Usage: ♥♥.5/5

Overall Rating: ♥♥♥/5

Drama - You're Beautiful

Alternate Names: He's Beautiful / You're Handsome
Genre: Music, Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Network: SBS
Broadcasted: 2009-Oct-07 to 2009-Nov-26
Lead Actors: Park Shin Hye, Lee Hong Ki, Jung Yong Hwa, Jang Geun Suk, Uee

My Rating: ♥♥♥.5/5












Awwwwww, the start of the New Year and the first drama I want to feature is You're Beautiful!!!! Awwwww, takes me back...one of the first girly Korean dramas for me. So wonderful! So fresh! So exciting! Both leaders of FT Island and CNBlue are main characters! This is the first time I ever saw them and why I got into their music.

With that, the storyline is very typical. Girl cross-dresses as a boy, falls in love with bad boy while nice guy loses out. Add that they're all in a band and you have an drama filled chaos that involves music and paparazzi. This is a drama that really launched the careers of everyone involved, both CN Blue and FT Island have been doing great in the music scene and you always see Jang Geun Suk and Park Shin Hye in other movies/dramas as well as commercials. And the fictional band in the drama, A.N.Jell, really does have a fan group too! For a while I was signing, "I will promise you~~~~~~" around the house for a while.

Basic Synopsis: Go Mi Nyeo grew up with her twin brother, Go Mi Nam, at an orphanage of a Nunnery. She is trying to become a nun when her brother's chance to make it big as an idol is threatened by a botched eye surgery. She agrees to stand in his place because as an idol they both might have a better chance at finding their mother.

K-Idol Commercials

So I was surfing around, bored out of my mind, on YouTube and I came across this really funny commercial featuring BigBang's G-Dragon and TOP. It led me to even more commercials in which idols endorse certain products in really funny ways. Check out some of the best I've found:

GD & TOP - Sparklingade


SNSD - Banana Milk


SHINee - Chicken


CNBlue - Experia Mini


2PM - It's Skin Ver B


2AM - BHC Chicken


2NE1 - 11st


Uee - Cool Soju

She asks, "Are you my first?"

BONUS!!! Britney Spears for a Japanese Candy (1999)