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Yuzu & Jace release collaborative mini-album Joker & Holly-Queen

7ROPHY’s Yuzu and CHARM’s Jace have released a collaborative mini-album today. Yuzu has recently gotten the chance to show fans more of her individualized music performance through a Dimensions Portal release “Liar” with her groupmate Yoojin, while this is Jace’s first time releasing music outside of his group. Both idols debuted in 2015 and released comebacks earlier this year: Yuzu with 7ROPHY’s Oh My God mini-album and “Uh Oh” digital single and Jace with CHARM’s Heng:garæ mini-album.

Joker & Holly-Queen begins with the radio sample and retro guitar of the track of the same name. The album draws its most prevalent genre influences from R&B, but delves into other sounds throughout, such as the Latin EDM of “Runaway” and the jazz of “Love”. Jace is credited as the lyricist and producer of four of the mini-album’s six tracks: “Joker & Holly-Queen”, “Starlight”, “Runaway”, and “Feel”.

“Starlight”, the single Yuzu and Jace will be promoting off of the mini-album, is described as a 90s retro pop and R&B track. Yuzu and Jace both act in the music video. “Starlight’” will be promoted on music shows through August 22 and b-side track “Runaway” will also be staged for the first week of promotions.

The track list and notable song credits can be found below.

TRACK LIST

Joker & Holly-Queen (lyrics and production by Jace)

Starlight (lyrics and production by Jace)

Runaway (lyrics and production by Jace)

Nov to Feb

Feel (lyrics and production by Jace)

Love

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BC Entertainment and tvN have both released statements that confirm that Lipstick's Hyeju has been cast in the upcoming tvN drama Doom At Your Service. She has been cast in the role of Na Jina. Na Jina is a web story writer who is known for her amazing beauty. She's also teased to be the center of a love triangle with the roles of Cha Jooik and Lee Hyunkyu.

This will be the Lipstick member's second acting project following her debut last year in My Mister, also a tvN drama. She's also been busy both as a soloist and as a member of BC Entertainment's girl group Lipstick.

Doom At Your Service is set to start airing in September.

COMMENTS

1. it's like bc can't decide what hyeju is good at and just throws her everywhereㅋㅋㅋ i vote that she's best on stage though i'll be tuning in!

2. i mean she wasn't terrible on my mister but i'd take an actual actress over her

3. i kind of want new solo music from hyeju instead

4. sounds like a complete different role from my mister. i'm sure hyeju will be able to pull it off!

5. looks like i'll be skipping out on this drama since it's overrun by an idol actress

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This month's cover star for Nylon Korea is Lucid's Jaein. The girl group member is photographed sporting a summer look with vivid colors to fit her youthful and energetic image. Nylon Korea has also released a short clip that shows the sketch of the shoot.

In her interview, Jaein talks about the responsibilities that come with being the leader of Lucid along with the many opportunities she gets individually as well. "I'm always thankful for the chances that I'm given by both Dimensions and others within the industry. It continues to motivate me to work harder and harder each day," the girl group member shares.

Her full interview and the rest of the shoot can be found in the August issue of Nylon Korea, available now.

COMMENTS

1. i love jaein's attitude. she motivates me to work harder as well

2. at least she knows how to be thankfulㅋㅋㅋ i'm sure there's a ton of idols out there who think that such opportunities are a definite thing

3. i'm not even a fan of lucid, but i love seeing jaein on tv because she brightens up my mood!

4. i'm younger than jaein but a lot more immatureㅠㅠ i should try to be thankful for everything i get as well!

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Following a sudden departure in the middle of CHARM’s August 1 concert in Fukuoka, fans of CHARM have been speculating about the state of the health of the group’s youngest member Yuanjun after it was announced halfway into the concert he would not be joining the group for the rest of the performance. This sparked concern among fans, especially as CHARM’s youngest is known to have a history of health complications. After an initial silence, BC Entertainment has finally released a statement regarding the wellbeing of Yuanjun and its implications on the rest of the tour and CHARM’s schedules going forward. Read the official statement below:

Hello. This is BC Entertainment.

After the events at the CHARM 2021 Japan Dome Tour concert in Fukuoka on August 1, we wanted to update and reassure the fans of CHARM that have been anxiously awaiting news regarding CHARM’s Yuanjun. We apologize for the delay on the news and appreciate the wait as BC Entertainment has been in discussion with the artist regarding the best course of action while putting the artist’s health first.

After feeling unwell during the concert, Yuanjun, with a heavy heart, opted to sit out for the rest of the concert in favor of getting a check-up and to preserve his health. After further medical attention, the artist has been diagnosed with a lung infection and thus BC Entertainment and Yuanjun have come to the mutual agreement that, for now, he will be taking a break from his schedules, including the remaining tour dates left on the CHARM 2021 Japan Dome Tour, and focus on recovery before rejoining CHARM again at their group schedules.

For the time being, we ask for your patience and thank you for your continuous love and support for both Yuanjun and CHARM. We will continue to release updates on the artist’s condition.

COMMENTS

1. please make a speedy recovery, our maknae!

2. he must have been struggling so much while performing ㅜㅜ

3. yuanjun always gives his all on stage, it must have been really bad for him to not finish the show

4. a lung infection? I can’t believe bc only caught on so late!

5. it is not the first time this has happened but I can’t help but worry every time

6. people accusing bc of overworking yuanjun... how? he literally never has solo schedules anymore these days

7. in the middle of a concert? couldn’t he just have kept it together a little longer? this is so unprofessional

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Studio Choom released a new dance cover video featuring the former Element member Sun. As an ongoing series, Studio Choom platforms dancers in order to express their talents. In 2019, Sun released a video under the YouTube channel with a dance to “No Guidance.”

This performance sees him covering Christopher’s “Bad” utilizing a sensual concept. Split between two sections by costume change between an open suit and a greaser’s jacket, the video shows the difference between Sun’s restrained versus unrestrained sexiness.

Sun’s “Bad” cover can be found on Studio Choom’s YouTube channel now, while several other cover videos by the idol are available for viewing on his personal YouTube channel SunShine.

COMMENTS

1. sun’s dance skill has improved so much from the first video, and the first was already so good. he must be practicing hard

2. how can i see a difference between restrained and unrestrained sexiness when it’s all this attractive?

3. he gets more attractive and talented with age

4. this kind of charisma deserves to be seen

5. though i try, it’s difficult to watch content from element members now. it feels as if they’re better at moving on than i am... i’ll always be supporting you, sun, even if from a distance for now!

6. dancing is an art form, but here, sun is the art

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Yoojin releases Dimensions Portal song “Hazy City”

7ROPHY’s Yoojin has released a new song through Dimensions Portal! Other than the Dimensions Portal single she released with fellow member Yuzu, “Liar”, in June, the rapper has recently been busy with her group, 7ROPHY. Their last release was the single “Uh Oh” and they’ll be making another comeback this month. Her new Portal solo single, “Hazy City”, is a rap track with a new sound than 7ROPHY fans may be used to hearing from Yoojin. The music video features dark, horror-like visuals. Yoojin wrote, composed, and produced the song.

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This month, Gal.actic’s youngest member Yena graces the cover of the latest issue of W Korea. The idol has been notable for both her acting and modelling work and throughout 2021 with several brand deals, magazine shoots and a lead role in hit drama The World of The Married, continuing to branch out past singing and performing and gaining attention for her various activities.

In the photoshoot with W Korea, Yena flaunts a different summery style, dressed in flowy shirts, colorful patterns and stark whites that suit the rising temperatures of the season well. The spread contains an interview with the idol where she speaks on her favorite summer trends and reflects on ten years of being an idol in lieu of Gal.actic’s upcoming 10 year anniversary at the end of the month.

COMMENTS

1. she suits every type of visual, sexy, classy, cute

2. if only she wasn’t in gal.actic she’d have a much further reach

3. she’s totally my style inspiration

4. why did she ever become an idol if all she does is act and model?

5. i forgot gal.actic still exists…

6. if yena is on the cover of a magazine, i must simply buy it

7. i hope she does another drama before the end of the year

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Chanel, the French fashion house in womenswear, announced today that they have extended their partnership with Haon. Haon has been serving as the brand’s ambassador since January of this year. The Knight member has been notorious for his distinctive style and his own hand in the fashion industry after the release of his clothing line Otakgyu, which launched back in March.

A representative for Chanel explained that they admire Haon’s ability to bend the stereotypical fashion rules, and his own creative vision paired with his passion for fashion have driven their decision. The brand has also declared that “[Chanel] hopes to keep this a longlasting partnership as Haon serves as the perfect piece to complement their brand.” In response, BC released their own statement in which Haon himself replies, “I really hoped to be able to attend Chanel’s avant fashion week in Paris as an ode to this extension, but regardless, I remain honored to serve as a brand that has constantly served as the beacon of fashion.”

To commemorate this extension, Chanel has released a video, showing the idol pairing Chanel’s Gabrielle bag with pieces from Chanel’s latest line, alongside backstage clips of the idol before Knight’s concerts.

Besides serving as Chanel’s ambassador, Haon has been keeping busy with his own Otakgyu clothing line and his current stint in the Amazing Saturday DoReMi Market cast. The rapper has shown off his vocal talents in a recent collaboration with “Can’t Love You Anymore” as Knight Light continues to promote “1 Billion Views” and “Telephone” on music shows.

COMMENTS

1. no wonder you have all these rappers now sporting women’s bagsㅋㅋㅋ they all want to be haon

2. definition of bc visual.. bc’s lucky to have signed on his face...

3. i wish our oppa released more music ㅠ seems all he cares about is fashion these days... ㅜㅜ

4. does he really have good fashion? he looks like he’s dressed in rags all the time ㅋ

5. the celebrities of celebrities... agreed.

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COLLA3ORATE releases “Zero:Attitude″, sponsored by Pepsi Zero Sugar

base’s COLLA3ORATE project has released the final pairing single for COLLA3ORATE season 1.5 today. The track is executive produced by BC Entertainment in collaboration with Pepsi Zero Sugar. “Zero:Attitude” is a confident dance pop track co-written, co-composed, and co-produced by Knight’s Haon. The project single includes Lucid’s Jeonghwa and Alice, former Element member Yujin, Chroma’s Ahri, Fuse’s Sooah, 7ROPHY’s Eunah, and Unity’s Sunghee. The project group will be holding a special mini-concert later this month on July 31 at Nodeul Island Live House.

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Netflix and Gold Star Media have confirmed that Silhouette’s Mirae has been cast to play the main role in the upcoming Netflix original anthology series Persona. Persona is a series of four episodes, each directed by one of four different directors from Korea and each episode will star Mirae in the lead role. A press release states that each episode will have different themes and concepts to tell the unique story of the main character Mirae will play in each.

According to the press release, Mirae has already been hard at work filming the series since the beginning of June and Persona is scheduled to be released onto Netflix on September 24.

Mirae starred in the Netflix-distributed film Space Sweepers earlier this year and recently gained attention for a viral performance video on her YouTube channel. Mirae is currently promoting with Silhouette for their latest comeback “Kill Bill”.

COMMENTS

1. is she really ready to carry a whole project?

2. two acting projects in a year is a first for mirae! as a mirae fan, i feel spoiled

3. netflix must have taken a liking to mirae

4. mirae’s never acted the same role twice, so this is the perfect series for her

5. too bad... this is the kind of project that would have been really strong if they’d picked a real actress

6. she should stick to dancing on her little youtube channel

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Hyeju, Yena, and Jeonghwa releases Dimensions Portal song “Get It?”

Lipstick’s Hyeju, Gal.actic’s Yena, and Lucid’s Jeonghwa have collaborated on a new single released through Dimensions Portal. “Get It?”, lyric-written in part by Jeonghwa, is a fearless track with an in-your-face cool, instructing the subject of the song’s lyrics to “beg for mercy” after what they’ve done to the three idols. All three of the artists on the track take on their own unique personas in the music video, from Hyeju, who starts the track donned in white at a crime scene and ends it dressed more boldly, to Yena’s tipsy enraged persona, and Jeonghwa’s intimidating stance in black and red.

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Gold Star Media and BC Entertainment have confirmed that BEE’s upcoming comeback mini-album will include a b-side featuring Origin’s main dancer Max. According to the confirmation, Max will lend his rapping skills on the track “Don’t Be Such A Baby”.

Max recently made an appearance as a featuring artist on Gal.actic member Kami’s album Me, Myself, & You, his first gig as a featuring artist since Origin’s 2013 debut. In May, he made his solo debut with the mini-album MAXimum.

COMMENTS

1. i never thought i’d see an origin member featuring on a bee song. i wonder what it will sound like.

2. that b-side is going to do really well with genesis and the general public who loves bee streaming it

3. see, kids, stop complaining about how long it’s been since an origin comeback. they’re always working hard on stuff we haven’t seen yet

4. his generation grew up crazy for the girls in bee, didn’t they? ㅋㅋㅋ he’s the lucky one

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Dazed Korea has released photos from their August issue, including cuts from a pictorial featuring Lipstick’s Hyeju in partnership with fine jewelry brand Tiffany & Co. Hyeju was originally announced as the Korean face of Tiffany & Co. in January with a pictorial in Elle Korea, and has been confirmed by representatives to be continuing her partnership with the brand.

For her Dazed Korea pictorial, Hyeju wears different types of jewelry from Tiffany & Co.’s T1 collection. The T1 collection is a reinvention of the brand’s Tiffany T collection, meant to symbolize courage, strength, and optimism. 

Hyeju is currently promoting “Hurt Locker” with the rest of Lipstick.

COMMENTS

1. hyeju looks so effortlessly cool no matter what she’s doing

2. wow, i saved these pictures right away. min hyeju is crazy pretty

3. tiffany & co. knows what they’re doing. as a woman, there isn’t anyone i want to be more like

4. she has such a cool aura. why did bc wait years to let her start shaping her solo image?

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Gold Star Media recently confirmed that Fuse’s youngest member, Sooah will be joining the cast of Amazing Saturday DoReMi Market.

According to reports, Sooah is set to join the panel of the tvN variety series, and her first episode is planned to air at the beginning of August. The Fuse member appeared in Law of the Jungle with current Amazing Saturday DoReMi Market cast member Knight’s Haon at the beginning of the year, and she’s wrapping the first season of her YouTube show Sooah’s Room soon, making Amazing Saturday DoReMi Market her fourth variety show appearance in 2021.

Amazing Saturday DoReMi Market airs every Saturday, at 19:35 PM. Sooah’s first episode will air on August 7.

COMMENTS

1. i’m happy i’ll be able to see a face like hers every saturday

2. for someone who barely appeared in any shows before, sooah is doing pretty great this year

3. sooah has been appearing on variety more and more often nowadays

4. gold star stans must be very happy. they can watch sun and now sooah every weekend

5. maybe she’ll finally get the attention she deserves and go viral with some silly dance she doesn’t know the choreography to

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After building up a repertoire of acting and modeling gigs within the past year, Gal.actic’s youngest member Yena is branching out from her group’s work yet again. This time, she’s joining the main cast of the upcoming tvN variety program Idol Dictation Contest, making this her first solo main cast appearance on a variety show since the debut of Gal.actic back in 2010.

Idol Dictation Contest is a spin-off of the popular tvN variety series Amazing Saturday: Doremi Market and features an all-idol star line-up. Playing the famous song dictation game, the cast will attempt to correctly guess the lyrics of popular songs in order to win delicious foods. The show will begin airing August 20.

COMMENTS

1. she has such a funny and spontaneous personality she will do so well

2. i hope she appears on more variety shows after this

3. a face as pretty as her makes any show better

4. it’s good she’s found something she better at than singing ㅋㅋㅋ

5. she tends to be so over the top on variety shows, it's very cringy

6. please take good care of our maknae!

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Idol Dictation Contest, a spin-off of tvN's Amazing Saturday: Doremi Market, has announced that Lucid's Jaein will join the main cast. Having guested on Amazing Saturday: Doremi Market before, the producer of the show stated that her bright ears and positive energy was a joy to work with, thus why she was brought up during the casting process and eventually chosen.

Meanwhile, Jaein has just wrapped up “Love Whisper” promotions with her group Lucid and was a part of Olive's Everyone's Kitchen earlier in the year. She is currently also the face of Laneige and Keds.

COMMENTS

1. so happy to see her in another variety show! i love her energy!

2. reverie is so excited to hear this news! more jaein the better!

3. okay but when does jaein ever rest? it's like i turn the television on, and she's always there either with lucid or by herself

4. isn't dimensions overworking her? especially since they don't do nearly enough for the other members

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Eunah makes comeback with second solo mini-album Like Me

Shortly after her group made their return with a new single in the form of throwback track “Uh-Oh” last month, 7ROPHY’s Eunah has released her second solo mini-album today. Eunah was last active as a solo artist as summer turned to autumn with her first full-length solo album re:new. Since then she’s worked as an Inkigayo MC and starred in the drama Cheese In The Trap, further fleshing out her varied portfolio.

Eunah once again greets listeners with her individual solo sound with her new release, the five-track mini-album Like Me. It opens with the music box-like piano melody of the beginning of “Dandelion”, which fleshes out into an acoustic guitar ballad. The track list continues with the same light sound and often acoustic pop production as a glue bonding the mini-album’s songs musically. Even as songs such as “So-So” and “Jealousy”, which features Lucid member Jeonghwa, explore less pleasant feelings, the musical and vocal through line remains, even through the more bouncy and retro “Dancing Cartoon” that closes off the mini-album. Eunah contributed in part or in full to the lyrics, composition, and production of three tracks: “So-So”, “Chocolate”, and “Dancing Cartoon”.

Eunah’s single for this mini-album, “So-So” is a mid-tempo track lamenting the vocalist’s dull feelings of indifference toward love and dating, with everything feeling little more than just “so-so”. “So-So’” will be promoted on music shows through July 30 and b-side track “Dancing Cartoon” will also be staged for the first week of promotions.

The track list and notable song credits can be found below.

TRACK LIST

Dandelion

So-So (lyrics, composition, and production by Eunah)

Chocolate ft. Yoojin (lyrics, composition, and partial production by Eunah)

Jealousy ft. Jeonghwa

Dancing Cartoon (partial lyrics, partial composition, and partial production by Eunah)