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Showing posts with label Kara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kara. Show all posts

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Kang Ji-Young: Her intro post #2....





 Thought why not throw a few older Kara songs into these posts and have to admit they were much better than other K-Pop groups. Say were as the gals are no longer together or really what happened was that the members didn't renew their contracts with their agency so it's been over two years since Kara's last release and perhaps that's the last we'll hear from them as a group.
 Above is their March, 2013 single "Bye Bye Happy Days" and they were such a popular group in Japan as the song hit #2 on the charts. The video is of them performing the song live back in 2013 at a fan meeting session, don't know how they could meet all of the thousands of fans....


 Have more of those stunning pics of Ji-Young below, will give you time to catch your breath. Will take these posts a little bit slowly, don't want to have seventy pics or more in them and run out of things too quickly but do have about forty unsurpassed pics for today.


 Ji-Young still does appear in Korean mags but not as many since she relocated to Japan three years ago, think she still lives in Korea too. That means most of the mags and events will be from Japan and have two mag sets today with the first being from the January issue of 25ans.





 That was way too small of a set but do have a much bigger spread here which is from the September 1, 2016 edition of Tokyo Walker Plus.













 Could have done a whole post devoted to this happening and it's one of my fave sets of pics from any event. Ji-Young's first Japanese film was "Assassination Classroom", really wacky movie but do recommend it and the film was released on March 21, 2015.
 In Korea though the film didn't come out until August 27th, on the 17th Ji-Young was in Seoul for a press conference and special screening of the film. No adjectives can accurately describe her flawless looks so will let the pics do the talking plus there's a video of it after the dazzling pics.



















Monday, October 23, 2017

Kang Ji-Young: Her intro post #1....





 May take it slow for a day or two, there's been a post for almost forty straight days which is a record for me. Usually have taken one day a week off and these Korean drama posts have worn me out so if there's not many posts these next few days you'll know why.
 Not too tired though to introduce someone and hard to say how to classify Ji-Young. She's from Korea, many know her from the K-Pop group Kara but the last three years she's been based in Japan and her acting career is becoming popular. She's also continued her singing career and did have two top ten singles last year. The last single Ji-Young did with Kara was "French Kiss", not to be confused with the J-Pop group.
 That song came out on November 27, 2013 and in April of the following year Ji-Young left the group soon to relocate in Japan where the group was/is very popular. Actually their songs are okay and to me they're better than most other K-Pop groups. Above are two covers of the single and the video isn't the PV but a behind the scenes one of Ji-Young for it's making.


 To date I've only seen Ji-Young in one thing though that'll be changing. The film I saw her in was the first "Assassination Classroom", there's a part two which I haven't viewed yet. The first movie was extremely off the wall but it was a really fun watch, did recap it and gave it a positive review. In the film Ji-Young played a teacher named Irina Jelavic and it was hard not to notice her curves....








 Ji-Young is turning 24 in January and there should be plenty of her activities from the last 3-4 years to post about Seems the past few months I'm starting to like Korean actresses a bit more than their Japanese counterparts and who would have thought that would ever happen. There will be no order to these intro posts but all will be packed with some ultra fabulous pics. Have three mag spreads for today and will go old to new with the first set being from volume 78 of High Cut from 2013.








 High Cut is a Korean mag while these next two are from Japan issues, because of Ji-Young's move to Japan she appears in more of their mags. This set is from the August 17, 2015 Big Comic Spirits.










 Another Big Comic Spirits spread and this is a newer one from their June 5th edition.








 One thing there will never be a shortage of are Ji-Young pics from promo events or premieres, she appears at so many of them and always looks stunning to the Nth degree. On October 21st she was at the Japanese premiere of the "DC Super Heroes vs. Hawks Claw Team", in the anime film she did the voice of Hawley.
 Also there was a premiere of the Japanese anime film "Secret Society Hawks Claw" which is kind of a spoof on the other movie. The event took place at the Shinjuku Picadilly, Ji-Young was dressed down a bit but doesn't she look just so appealing???? The answer to that is a huge YES and after the pics you can enjoy viewing a video of the event.