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TVXQ’s 7th album ‘TENSE’ has topped weekly album charts in both Korea and Taiwan.
Released on the 6th of January, TVXQ’s new album ‘TENSE’ has dominated various Korean album weekly sales charts on sites like Hanteo, Hottracks and Synnara Records (January 6th~12th). The album also topped FIVE MUSIC’s weekly charts for Korean and Japanese music in Taiwan.
The album is not only doing well domestically, but it has also been praised by Billboard.com as ‘an album that will satisfy R&B fans of singers like Michael Jackson and Bruno Mars’ in a lengthy review. The title track ‘Something’ was introduced as ‘a track that successfully combines the sounds of the past and the present.”
TVXQ have been showcasing a complicated line performance in their renditions of ‘Something’, which uses ropes and microphones in its choreography for the first time ever in Korea. TVXQ’s rhythmical dancing and chemistry with their backup dancers makes ‘Something’ look like a scene from a musical.
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TVXQ’s Max Changmin will be leaving ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master’.
KBS2?s ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ announced that Max Changmin will be leaving the program once the show’s basketball season ends, with his last recording scheduled to be on the 15th of January.
Max Changmin expressed his wishes to leave the program in order to focus on promotional activities for TVXQ’s 7th album, and he and the staff came to the conclusion that he would make his departure at the end of the team’s basketball season.
The star has held a MC position on the show for the past 9 months since the first episode aired on the 19th of April last year, and Max Changmin has won the hearts of his viewers over 43 episodes with his passion and energy in table tennis, bowling, badminton and basketball.The staff of ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master’ stated, “We will be saying goodbye to Max Changmin, who has been with us from the start. We would like to thank Max Changmin for the passion and sweat he has poured into this show,” and “We also ask for everyone to show their love and support for him as he returns to his original place as a member of TVXQ.”
With the departure of Max Changmin, ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master’ will shake things up, adding new MCs for every new sports category to stand alongside Kang Ho Dong.
Meanwhile, ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ airs every Tuesday night at 11:20pm.
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KBS 2TV’s variety show ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ is set to attend the Sochi Winter Olympics.
A high-level representative of KBS’ variety sector stated, “The ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master’ team is confirmed to go to Sochi.”
The celebrity team will be flying to Sochi, where the Olympics will kick off on the 7th of February, and stay at the event for one week.
Last May, when the team took on the challenge of bowling, the members requested that they be sent to the Sochi Winter Olympics if they won, and they reached an agreement with the staff that it would happen if the team won four times in a single sports category.
The ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master’ team was unable to do so, until they reached their fourth victory in basketball during the episode that aired on the 24th of December, solidifying their plans to attend the Sochi Winter Olympics.
The staff have been preparing for this trip since last year, just in case the celebrity team was able to secure four victories. The team will be showing their support for Korea during the Olympics in a unique way to fit with the characteristics of their program.
Meanwhile, ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master’ won the Best Teamwork Award at the 2013 KBS Entertainment Awards.
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‘Hallyu icons’ TVXQ will be keeping their promise with their fans. To commemorate their 10th anniversary (December 26th), they will be releasing a special album.
A representative who was present during the process of creating the new album stated, “The members are currently in the final stages of recording tracks for the album. There will be about 10 songs in the new album, and it will be a special album that is close to a new full-length album.”
The release of TVXQ’s commemorative album is to repay their fans for their endless support and love. The singers had promised their fans that they would be preparing a special event for their 10th anniversary during the concert they held at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan in August.
During the concert, U-Know Yunho stated, “December will mark our 10th anniversary. We’ve been thinking of ideas for what to do. Right now, it’s difficult to reveal any specifics, but we will definitely be preparing something for our fans, whether it’s an event or a concert.” Befitting of an album to commemorate the group’s domination across Asia for the past ten years, the group has been putting all their effort into every step of the process, from choosing the songs to recording the tracks.
The representative stated, “The representative composers of SM Entertainment, who work best with TVXQ, have come together for the album. Around twenty songs are being recorded, and we believe that the tracks will be split and released through two separate albums. The first album will be released no later than late-January.”
As well as releasing a new album, TVXQ will be participating in their agency’s music festival and spending their 10th anniversary with their fans. ‘SMTOWN WEEK’ will be held from the 21st of December till the 29th at the Ilsan KINTEX. TVXQ will be joined by five other SM teams, including Super Junior and Girls’ Generation. TVXQ are said to be preparing a special concert to commemorate their 10th anniversary as they will be performing on the 26th and 27th of December.
For the past 10 years, TVXQ have solidified their spot as the greatest Hallyu group of Korea. They first made themselves known on SBS’ ‘BoA and Britney Special’ end-of-the-year special program on the 26th of December, 2003. The group released their first single ‘HUG’ in 2004 and since then, have had a countless number of hit songs, including ‘MIROTIC’, ‘Balloons’, ‘Catch Me’, ‘Rising Sun’, ‘Why? Keep Your Head Down’, ‘O-Jung Ban Hap’ and ‘The Way U Are’.
TVXQ’s legendary run in the Japanese music market began in 2005. At that time, there were no Korean singers in the market other than BoA, and it was considered next to impossible to succeed there. But the group was able to capture the hearts of their Japanese fans in an instant and became the foundation for K-POP acts that followed them. Having topped the Oricon singles charts twelve times, TVXQ have broken the record for the most chart-topping singles for a foreign artiste or group. With album sales totaling three million copies, they are the best-selling foreign act in Japan.
This year, the group rewrote history when they gathered 144,000 fans at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan. Ticket sales alone brought in an astronomical amount of 16 billion Won for the group. When asked how he felt about TVXQ reaching their 10th anniversary, U-Know Yunho stated, “We’re working hard to show our fans a new side of TVXQ. When I was younger, I’d see my seniors celebrating their 10th anniversaries and thinking they were amazing to have come so far, but now I find myself celebrating my own 10th anniversary. We’ll work hard to become artistes with great depth rather than big stars.” Max Changmin also added, “We’ll try to become singers who are able to over come the barriers formed by nationality and language.”
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The members of ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ have transformed into basketball players.
On the 14th, the staff of KBS 2TV’s ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ revealed a group shot of the transformed team.
The photo shows the five members of the ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master Basketball Team’ wearing a white uniform and posing for the camera. Emcees Kang Ho Dong, Lee Soo Geun and Max Changmin looked like they had come straight from the pages of the comic book ‘Slam Dunk’.
Singer Park Jin Young looked especially masculine with a powerful shock of white hair, while John Park had the expression of someone who was ready to run right into the basketball court.
The group shot was taken on the 25th of September during the first recording of the team’s basketball training session. It was later said John Park and Park Jin Young showed off their basketball skills during the photoshoot.
Park Jin Young has already showcased his talents in the preview that was aired on the 8th. According to the staff, Kang Ho Dong expressed his happiness that Park Jin Young was joining the show as he said, “Our Jin Young is finally joining the team.”
The members’ take on basketball can be seen during the episode of ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ that airs at 11:20pm on the 15th.
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TVXQ’s Max Changmin was an unforgiving table tennis opponent to Rainbow’s Kim Jaekyung.
During the episode of KBS 2TV’s ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ that aired on the 24th, Max Changmin and Kim Jaekyung were locked in a table tennis match as the second players of each team.
With Kim Jaekyung as his opponent, Max Changmin immediately began his unforgiving tirade against her. He didn’t go easy on her for being a girl, and smiled like a ‘table tennis devil’ as he continued to dominate the game.
His team members were even more unforgiving as they watched on, encouraging him for his unforgiving attitude and gameplay.
Victory soon went to Max Changmin and he had everyone laughing when he stated, “It was like a festival for me,” after the match.
Meanwhile, the day’s episode featured regulars Kang ho Dong, Lee Soo Geun and Max Changmin, as well as Jo Dal Hwan, Park Sung Ho, Jaekyung, Lee Sang Bong, Henry, Yoo Nam Kyu, Hyun Jung Hwa, Kim Gi Taek, Kim Wan, Jo Han Sung and Kwon Tae Ho to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1988 Olympics.
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Singer John Park revealed that TVXQ’s Max Changmin is actually older than him.
The episode of KBS 2TV’s variety show ‘Our Neighborhood’s Master of Variety and Sports’ that aired on the 3rd followed Kang Ho Dong, Lee Soo Geun, Jo Dal Hwan, Max Changmin, Lee Man Ki, Lee Jong Soo, Chansung, John Park, FeelDog and Lee Ji Hoon on their badminton match against the Hwasoon team.
Though both singers were born in 1988, John Park has always addressed Max Changmin in an honorific tone. Regarding this, John Park stated, “The viewers are baffled by the fact that Max Changmin is older than Jon Park.”
He continued to add, “It may be really difficult to believe, but Changmin was born earlier in 1988 (T/N: Anyone born before March 1st is considered to be born the year before, so Changmin is considered a 1987er) so he’s older than me,” and “Even the director smirks when he sees us.”
Meanwhile, the celebrity team lost 0:3 to the Hwasoon team and have never won any of their four badminton matches.
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