Interviews

[Interview] Excite Music

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Source：EXCITE Music
Jap-Chinese translation: VIKI (Sukbar)
Chinese-Eng translation: aphrael
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As a new Hallyu star who has garnered much attention in Japan, Jang Keun Suk has liked music since young. With a passion for Japanese visual rock, his wish is to release his first album “Just Crazy” under his own name.

During the one year of production, even when he is working as an actor, thoughts of his album were often on his mind. A work of confidence, “Just Crazy” album is invested with much feeling which is conveyed through the first Excite Music interview.

“Purple Concept”, a purple-mood album

Excite: Before we talk about the much-anticipated first album “Just Crazy”, let’s ask about JKS’ music experience to date. How did you initially come to be interested in music?

JKS: I think I became interested at the age of 4 or 5 when I watched TV programmes with dance and music. After that, when I was a high school student, I became interested in Japanese culture, and what was trendy then was Japanese visual rock. From then on, I listened to rock music from various countries. These few years, I also listen to dance music and not just only rock.

Excite: The opportunity for you to make your own music?

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[aritcle] 04-28-2012 PD Yoon: Love Rain DVD – Director Cut (70’s part)

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Credit: Sukbar
Source: Innolife.net
English Translation: Sarah Ye
Interview with PD Yoon Suk Ho, Love Rain DVD –director cut (the 70s part)
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PD Yoon, the director of Love Rain revealed that there will be a director cut DVD coming out.

April 27th, at Sangsu-dong, Mapo-gu Seoul, KBS2 drama Love Rain did on site open filming. PD Yoon Suk Ho expressed that he had special feeling (nostalgia) towards 70’s part of the drama. He also said even the shooting of that part was slow, but he had put lots of emotions in it. So he would like to edit this part again and make DVD out of it.

“Love Rain” is a drama that combines 70’s analog era pure love and 2012 digital era modern fashion love (passion and romantic). The story goes over generations and crossed the time lines to narrative the nature of love.

PD Yoon said the 70’s love is more concentrate on “slow aesthetics”. He also said that he planned to make 10 episodes of 70’s part and would run through the young generation love story and middle age love story together. At the beginning, he planned to make 70’s part for 10 episodes, but at the end, they only edited 4 episodes of it. They shot lots of very beautiful scenes (means the parts that didn’t show in the 70’s part as drama aired), so he will make a DVD out of it.

Since September to December last year, he used 4 months to shoot 70’s love part in Keimyung University, Daegu. He said he has put lots of energy to shoot 70’s love story part that really showed 70’s romance – “the fond of memories is hard to let it go”. He also said: “The pace was slow, but that was how it was and I didn’t want to change it but keep it as it was. Compare to just follow the modern steps I would rather to put all my efforts to make something that I want.” He said: “In Japan, for some important friends I gave out “Winter Sonata” DVD as gift. That means to treasure all the feelings, music and scenes in the work. This time I will do the same thing to Love Rain. This drama will not be just an electrical wave pass through, but more like a prepared gift for someone you like. Then he/she will remember this works for a very long time.”

[27.04.2012] Love Rain’s open press conference at Sangsu-dong

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Source: Sukbar
Korean-Chinese translation: 小v
English translation: Aphrael
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On 27 April at 11 am in Korea, many Japanese tourists gathered in the vicinity of Mapao, Sangsu-dong, Seoul to catch a glimpse of the filming venue of Keun-chan, Jang Keun Suk. They could not move close to him, but were still very happy that they saw him.

On 27th morning at Sangsu-dong, KBS 2TV drama “Love Rain” airing on Monday and Tuesday had a open press conference at their filming venue. The filming cast only had a short sleeping time from when they ended filming at Chuncheon, Kangwon province at 3 am and travelled to Seoul and started their filming in Seoul at 6 am.

At the press conference, JKS mentioned, “Basically, we have started live filming (*broadcast speed caught up with filming speed). Only sleep 2 to 3 hours a day. It feels like a dream when I’m awake.”

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[Video] KBS2 JKS Interview_20120414

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Credits: KBS2/ Sukbar
English Translation by Sarah Ye.

Since it is only 30 seconds long video, I just put text translation here.

Q: What’s the advantage of starting as a child star?
Suk: I think the biggest benefit is that I collected lots of experiences from practicing acting. Because during acting, Seonbae and directors gave me lots of advice, so in my situation (as a child star) this is the most memorable part.

[Introduction] Team H members

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UPDATE: adding some of their activity videos
As Team H reunited after years of separation according to the latest twitter, I post here to introduce them.

Team H was formed by Hanyang University students. They introduced themselves in the video below. Please check it out! 😉
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Every member has a nickname on their T-shirt. Suk has ‘nachesama’ that means ‘Mr. naked’!
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[ENG-SUB] Kuwazugirai-Ou_20120202

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English subs: tenshi_akuma

This TV program is that guests eat their favorite food, which includes their least favorite. So each guest tries to figure out what the other hate. The MC are Japanese comedy duo, “Tonneruzu （Tunnels）”. Their talk includes a lot of adult talks… It’s their style. So I try to translate it into moderate expressions. I’m sure they likes Sukkie. They likes nasty jokes to entertain their guest. Anyway, let’s enjoy! 🙂

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