Kpop Breaking news 2016 Jan

             Starts from 2016 January, I will update my blog a bit different. Instead of kpop girl group update, I will write something which is more relevant to general public., which is kpop breaking news for each month. And this is the first blog about that topic. (I would like to get the feedback from my new  blog for the first time, if it is good, I will continue this topic, otherwise I will go back kpop girl group update again).

                        Pink MEMORY: Apink North American Tour 2016

              Everyone will know the first topic I will write. Yes, it is Pink Memory: APink North American tour. APink had a concert at Vancouver at Jan 5th 2016. I was so exited for this concert that I couldn't sleep the night before the concert. I still feel so lucky to get meet & greet ticket for this concert and also for one of my friend. (the M&G Ticket sold out very fast online) Even though it's a bit expensive like almost 300 CAD, it's a once in life time opportunity, and it really worth it...

             So before the concert, M&G ticket fans actually got chance to have High-Touch and take picture with APink. It's like very first time to get so close to my fav idols. And I was just so lucky to get hug from one of my bias Yoon Bomi from APink during the meet& greet session.

(I was standing right behind Bomi when taking the picture with APink and other Pink Pandas, it's still kinda funny...also I am glad some other fans could stand besides their fav member in APink as well like Eunji, NaEun, Chorong panda)....

        The concert is really amazing, I will probably never forget this concert in my life. It's just amazing. I sit in the 3rd row, every fans are like cheering like crazy....

        After that, APink held concert at Dallas, San Francisco and LA, they had a very successful tour in North America...

      Also, I cannot sleep again after the APink concert as well, sigh....

                                   My ultimate bias Eunji or Bomi ?

          I start to listen to APink songs since 2011 when My My just came out, since then Eunji became my bias, and I actually watched the whole Reply 1997 drama partially because of Eunji as well. For people who actually follow my blog, my blog is called EunjiPanda before as well until May last year. When remember came out, Bomi's Pink hair, OMG....and also I start to watch a lot of Bomi stuff in various shows.... I would say both Eunji and Bomi are my bias, I am just more focus on Bomi these days than Eunji...I am glad Eunji and Bomi are actually good friends in APink, yes, Eunmi !!!.

                         Infinite Effect World Tour

                               

          

     Similar to APink, the current hot boy group Infinite also has their own world tour. They performed in Vancouver 2 days after APink. After that, they will perform in Vancouver, LA, Mexico City and New York. 

      I'm not a big fan of Infinite,but they are one of the boy group who is currently in trend right now. And before my graduation, me and 6 members actually perform their BTD in front of around 200 people at school. Their dance is pretty hard, I would say.

        after talking about the concert and feel so excited about APink, now let's see what's the real breaking news in Kpop at Jan 2016......

                              Disband of KARA (2007 - 2016)

                                  

          On Jan 5th 2016, on the same day when APink have concert in Vancouver, one of the biggest kpop girl group in the past KARA officially announced disbanding from DSP Media. So member

Gyuri, Seungyeon and Hara, 3 members contract expired, and another member YoungJi will still stay in DSP Media, but promote without the name KARA. 

  Reports are saying that KARA hasn't had promotions since this past fall with their Japanese tour. It's also being said that Hara, Seungyeon and Gyuri have already decided to leave

         In speaking of KARA, since 2007, they are one of the biggest competitor with SNSD and Wonder Girls. They also break into Japanese market and became one of the most popular kpop girl group in Japan along with SNSD. However in recent years,

        Early KARA pretty girl period....

  KARA's 2011 single "Step", immediately topped various music charts in South Korea hours after its release. So from 2007 until 2011, KARA was one of the most popular kpop girl group, and definitely ranked top 3...

         Also KARA had one of the biggest impact on kpop in Japan since 2011. They are actually the best selling kpop girl group of all time in Japan. 

             
          After the announcement, a lot of KARA fans feel very disappointed.  Even they didn't do very well in recent years after 2013, I still remember they were the biggest rival of my fav SNSD for the past few years. Even as a old SONE, I miss the days when argue with KARA fans.
         Such achievement reserve KARA a spot as one of top 10 of the most popular  kpop girl group of all time in the history of kpop.
         (I could write a separate article just talking about KARA if anyone request....)
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                          Tzuyu Incident and JYP 

               

           so let's start with who is Tzuyu?....Tzuyu was a Taiwanese member in  the new JYP girl group Twice. So before this incident happened, as a new kpop girl, Twice was one of the most popular new girl group at that time. And as the Visual of the group, Tzuyu draws attention from many fans as well.

           Just 2 weeks ago, actually one Taiwanese entertainer called Huang An report to the China authority that Tzuyu support "Taiwan Independance", and he also post some pics as evidence online, which is absolutely the ban from Chinese government without question.

           After that, Chinese government suspend all of her activity, and then expand to all JYP Entertainment activity in China.  As we all know, nearly 50% of JYP market is in China, and also 2pm, Miss A and all the JYP training center will be suspended as well in China, and their stock is dropped like 2% only in a day, and over 10% in a week.  Due to pressure, JYP Entertainment finally apologize to Chinese government with a statement, and also they forced Tzuyu to make a video to apologize as well.....

         
          For JYP Entertainment, they have to decide if they want the freedom of speech or their business and money. They chose the latter one, which they could survive from this incident and continue promote in China to make even more money. However, they lost a lot of respect from a lot of international kpop fans as well.
          And this thing just happened before the president election in Taiwan, so Tzuyu became the center of the media for many Chinese Media and Taiwanese Media as well.






And there are a few other big things happened in Jan 2016 as well.  I won't list here one by one.
Just a few of them for people who are interested to read.

1 Rapper B Free allegedly disses boy group BTS leading to fury of fans
Summary:  The old incident when Korean Rapper Free B disses BTS fired up again, which causes a lot of problems between Free B and BTS fans. This time is even worse.

2 Turbo celebrates 20th year anniversary with 6th album, 'Turbo Again
Summary: As one of the most popular kpop boy duo Turbo back in 90s , they made a comeback this Jan, and my uncle actually start to watch music core again because of them.

3 And I saw EXO fans try to boycott some other boy groups fandom on music core at the beginning of this year, forgot which group. As I expected, any fandom who are against EXO right now are probably will get into a lot of trouble.....