Last month, Boyfriend made the hearts of fans flutter with a charming black and white pictorial. They’re back again with a color pictorial along with news that they’re now endorsement models for cosmetics brand ‘dearberry‘!

‘dearberry’ recently opened up a teaser website along with fresh images of the boys modeling the essence of their new cosmetics line, inspired under the slogan, “Berry You, Berry Me, dearberry, Like Me, Like You, dearberry.” The line encourages young women to find a color and charm all their own through the various choices they have to offer.

The color choices are perfect for the current weather and their line, as the boys’ styles are comprised of bright pastel colors along with bold reds and greens that would make anyone stand out in a crowd, just like the brand hopes to do.

‘dearberry’ launches on May 10th online, and the pop-up store will open on the 26th, which will also be celebrated with a fan signing launch event by Boyfriend.

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Rookie group Boyfriend recently gained much attention in the online world through a black and white photoshoot.

In the shots, the six members showed off a look that contrasted from their familiar cute image by sporting chic suits. The juxtaposition of their innocent and boyish faces with the manly and mature outfits created a look that sent many fans’ hearts aflutter. This black and white photoshoot is rumored to have been shot for a large cosmetics company advertisement.

Netizens who viewed the photos commented, “Are they making a comeback soon?” , “What is the photoshoot for?” and, “They certainly matured a lot!”

In related news, Boyfriend recently signed a contract with Japanese management agency ‘Bing‘, which houses major artists like B’z, ZARD, and Kuraki Mai, and will be launching a debut showcase on June 30th.

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After hitting a home run with their title tracks, “Boyfriend“, “Don’t Touch My Girl“, and “I’ll Be There“,Boyfriend is ready to enter the Japanese market with ‘Bing‘!

The boys recently signed a contract with Japanese management agency ‘Bing’, which houses major artists like B’z, ZARD, and Kuraki Mai. Boyfriend will be marking their debut with a 10,000 seat showcase on June 30th at the Budokan.

It’s certainly an exceptional case for a rookie group to hold a showcase at the Budokan, which is largely considered a venue of dreams for most Japanese artists.

Representatives of Starship Entertainment commented, “We’ve been receiving a lot of love calls from Japanese agencies since their debut, but we decided to finally sign with ‘Bing’, one of Japan’s largest agencies, to create a synergistic effect together.”

‘Bing’ noted Boyfriend’s handsome looks and modern musical color as their positive points and assured that the group will be debuting under the best possible conditions with them.

Their Japanese special album will be released on June 6th.

News Source: allkpop

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Title: “Flower boyband” Boyfriend – Ambassadors for the 20th Women’s Football Match

Six member “flower boyband” group Boyfriend has started promotions for the 20th Nationwide Football Match as ambassadors. They took the baton from last year’s ambassadors, Rainbow, to promote the beauty of women’s football to football fans. Made up of six members, Jeongmin, Youngmin, Kwangmin, Donghyun, Hyunseong and Minwoo, Boyfriend happily said: “Seeing girls of our age show off their superb football skills, we feel really immersed in the magnificence of football, and we’re honoured to be the ambassadors for women’s football, which has a long history.”
Although they are not national players of football, but they have played football before, and also watched football matches on television as fans. To be precise, group maknae twins Youngmin and Kwangmin excitedly said: “Now the women’s football team’s key player has a beautiful smile that suits her nickname Meixi really well, really superb.” During the photoshoot for the promotional poster, the members wore national football jerseys with their names on it, completing it with football shoes and a football. The members of Boyfriend said: “The players participating in this match are all really confident, and the best is that they will have good memories of the match. To ensure that they are able to play to their best during the match, we appeal to football fans to support them.”
Due to the fact that an idol group is the ambassador, the female players are all really excited. A participant of this match said: “I only watched singers on TV and have never seen them so up close. It’s really magical. We hope to gain some power from them, and hopefully we’ll end our failures.” This match, started in 1993, is South Korea’s first women’s football competition, and was hosted by Sports Seoul and Korea’s Football Association. Into it’s 20th year, this time there will be 56 teams, and the competition will be held from the 13th to the 22nd (of April) in schools in Korea.

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Translated by: MiNi | www.bf95linecn.net (Kor-Chi)
honeyrinayu | weloveBoyfriend.wordpress.com (Chi-Eng)

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Boy group Boyfriend finally arrived in Taiwan according to Jeongmin.

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It is indeed impossible to stop time.

SNSD (Girls’ Generation), Wonder Girls, Kara, T-ara, B2ST, and MBLAQ‘s members that were born in the later half of the 1980s and the early 1990s have led the boy group/ girl group craze the past few years. However, the once young and fresh idols have now become mature sunbae stars, and the younger members have taken their places.

In the music industry, the new leading faces of the idols are the ones born between 1994 and 1996, and the ones born in the mid- 90s. It has now become the norm to meet the mid 90s idols on any music show.

At the forefront of the mid-90s idols are stars born in 1994, or high school seniors this year, such as f(x)‘s Sulli and Krystal, miss A‘s Suzy, 4Minute‘s Kwon So Hyun, and Dal Shabet‘s Subin.

After only 2-3 years since their debut, with their charming looks and innocence being a given, these stars have a prominent presence in not only the music industry, but also in dramas and variety shows. They have already become top star grade. Furthermore, showing constant improvement and endless possibilities, these 1994 stars are gaining fandom day by day.

Furthermore, there are plenty of idol singers even younger than the 1994 stars.

A Pink‘s Kim Namjoo, Boyfriend‘s twin brothers Kwangmin and Youngmin, as well as Minwoo,B.A.P‘s Jongup, and other stars that have been very active since their debut last year and this year are at the forefront of the 1995s.

Rookie group Nu’est will be debuting this month from Pledis Entertainment (company of After Schooland Son Dambi). Four of the five members, J.R, Len, Baekho, and Minhyun are 1995s, attracting much attention.

The youngest of the mid 90s idols are the 96 stars A Pink‘s Oh Hayoung, and B.A.P‘s Zelo.

However, while the mid 90s idols have an advantage of having started the idol lifestyle early, they also have disadvantages.

The lack of harmonious development of skills and character due to experience are one of them.

One expert in the music industry commented, “Even if they debuted at a young age, a pro ought to be a pro” and “especially if they pass the age of twenty, the industry and the fans both have higher standards, and if the stars do not constantly concentrate on improving their skills, they could die out, just like that.”

Furthermore, he advised, “After becoming a star at a young age, if even temporarily, they start losing popularity, there are instances where they will stray majorly. To prevent this, both the stars and the recording company must do their best to develop their emotional growth.”

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[Source: Star News via Naver]

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[Title] First time in Singapore for a fan-meeting – Boyfriend’s cute and funny image, Sistar’s sexy performance!

How do we strike a balance between “sisters” and “boyfriends”? Korean idol groupsSistar and Boyfriend flew to Singapore for a fan-meeting on the 26th of February, letting fans have the best of both groups!

However, it is a pity that during the press conference, maybe due to the fact that they couldn’t understand the questions or the translator did not translate accurately, the members seemed to not answer the questions of the journalists directly, making the journalists puzzled.

For example, when Boyfriend was asked what kind of boyfriends they wanted to be, leader Donghyun mistook the “boyfriend” in the question for their group’s name, and replied, “We hope to be the best Boyfriend group.” When further questioned, Donghyun simply replied: “We hope to be boyfriends that can be there for their girlfriends always.”

Similarly, when Sistar was asked which member in their group had the best figure,Soyu seemed to understand the question as “How do you girls maintain your figure?”, and replied, “I don’t think that we’re really skinny, but we always exercise and eat healthily.” The answer and the question did not match at all!

Sistar’s amazing sporting skills

In the Idol Sports Athletes Championships, Sistar always makes a clean sweep of all the champion spots in the short run events. When asked what was the secret to being able to run fast, Bora smiled, saying, “We are also shocked by our own performances! Maybe it’s because we told ourselves that we must shine, and that’s why we were able to beat all the other idol groups.”

Due to the fact that they have amazing sporting genes, has Sistar even wanted to be an athlete? Bora said, “Many people have also asked me the same thing, but because I’m a singer now, I want to put in my best effort in singing.”

Boyfriend’s funny revelations of secrets

Boyfriend gives people a shy and cute impression, but when they reveal each other’s secrets, the members uncontrollably showed their cheerful and funny side. When asked which member likes to sleep the most, all the members pointed at Youngmin. Youngmin then explained, “I don’t think I really like to sleep a lot, it’s just that when I sleep I can’t hear anyone else that is calling me, haha!”

During the fan-meeting, when revealing each other’s secrets, the “worst-off” wasJeongmin! Everyone all agreed that Jeongmin was the most vain, playful and untidy member, making Jeongmin frantically try to defend himself, saying, “I’m vain, only because I want to give my best image to my fans. I’m also not untidy, it’s just that I like to leave packing my room to the last minute.”

Fan service – breaking the barriers of language

Even though there was a bit of a miscommunication during the press conference, but during the fan-meeting, both idol groups gave in their all in their singing and dancing and giving fan service, making fans extremely happy. Boyfriend constantly threw heart shapes to their fans, and often gave aegyo expressions, and also warmly hugged the fans that got up onto the stage, and their warmth successfully captured the hearts of fans. Although Boyfriend is still young, their ability to sing and dance is extremely evident, and although they performed six songs in a row, they were still as good as ever.*

Sistar’s sexy image and dance also made the atmosphere high, and besides teaching male fans the sexy wave dance to “Ma Boy” and drawing caricatures with female fans, main vocalist Hyorin’s astounding vocals were top notch, and singing and dancing at the same time was no feat for Sistar!

Boyfriend’s Donghyun and Sistar’s Soyu also celebrated their birthday with their fans during the fan-meeting, accepting gifts prepared by the local fans, making the atmosphere warm.

*(T/N): Basically it means that Boyfriend is really talented and could perform six songs in a row without losing their charm.

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[Image credits: fyeahkwangmin on twitter]
[Translations by: honeyrinayu on weloveBoyfriend.wordpress.com]

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We recently shared a summary of the average heights of girl groups in K-pop, and it looks like this time, a netizen has completed the same report on K-pop boy groups. Similar to the previous report, the boys were categorized into five different groups: Giant, Tall, Average, Short, and Shortest.

The tallest was X-5 at 186.2cm (6 feet and 1.30 inches) while the shortest was TEEN TOP at 175.1 (5 feet and 8.93 inches).

Where does your favorite male idol group rank? See for yourself below!

Shortest

TEEN TOP – 175.1 (5 feet and 8.93 inches)

B2ST – 175.6 (5 feet and 9.13 inches)

The BOSS – 176.4 (5 feet and 9.44 inches)

FT Island – 176.6 (5 feet and 9.52 inches)

Dalmatian – 176.6 (5 feet and 9.52 inches)

N-Train : 176.6 (5 feet and 9.52 inches)

Short

Big Bang – 177.2 (5 feet and 9.76 inches)

Boyfriend – 177.3 (5 feet and 9.80 inches)

Block B – 177.4 (5 feet and 9.84 inches)

INFINITE – 177.8 (5 feet and 10.00 inches)

Average

Twi-light – 178.0 (5 feet and 10.07 inches)

Super Junior - 178.0 (5 feet and 10.07 inches)

ZE:A - 178.2 (5 feet and 10.15 inches)

MBLAQ – 178.4 (5 feet and 10.23 inches)

MYNAME - 178.4 (5 feet and 10.23 inches)

SHINee - 178.8 (5 feet and 10.30 inches)

B.A.P – 178.8 (5 feet and 10.30 inches)

Tall

CHAOS - 179.0 (5 feet and 10.47 inches)

TOUCH – 179.0 (5 feet and 10.47 inches)

BoM - 179.0 (5 feet and 10.47 inches)

M.I.B – 179.2 (5 feet and 10.55 inches)

B1A4 – 179.4 (5 feet and 10.62 inches)

HITT – 180.1 (5 feet and 10.90 inches)

U-KISS - 180.5 (5 feet and 11.06 inches)

AA - 180.6 (5 feet and 11.10 inches)

2PM – 180.8 (5 feet and 11.18 inches)

Giant

2AM – 181.1 (5 feet and 11.29 inches)

TVXQ - 181.2 (5 feet and 11.33 inches)

SS501 - 181.2 (5 feet and 11.33 inches)

CO-ED School (SPEED) – 182.6 (5 feet and 11.88 inches)

CNBLUE - 183.0 (6 feet and 0.04 inches)

Supernova – 183.0 (6 feet and 0.04 inches)

FOCUS - 183.0 (6 feet and 0.04 inches)

X5 - 186.2 (6 feet and 1.30 inches)

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K.Will, who’s been steady at the top of the charts with his single “I Need You“, amused fans with photos of himself with idol group Boyfriend posing the “apex dance”.

The singer posted on his personal Twitter, “We’re 2012′s hot new idol group I.O.S (Idol of Starship),” referring to the fact that he and Boyfriend are labelmates under Starship Entertainment.

Fans who saw the photos commented, “K.Will’s pose isn’t killed by the idols!” “I approve of this group,” and “Boyfriend came to cheer on the oldest hyung! It’s good to see you guys get along.”

[source: allkpop]

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