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GD: “Japan »»»» Korea”

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:41:27 -0700

GD: “Japan »»»» Korea”

CL: “takeitslowbabytakeitslow”

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:36:08 -0700

CL: “takeitslowbabytakeitslow”

GD @ 130619 Gimpo Airport (Back from Japan)!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:32:49 -0700

GD @ 130619 Gimpo Airport (Back from Japan)!

Daesung @ 130619 Gimpo Airport (Back from Japan)!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:29:42 -0700

Daesung @ 130619 Gimpo Airport (Back from Japan)!

Yang Hyun Suk @ 130619 Gimpo Airport (Back from Japan)!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:25:27 -0700

Yang Hyun Suk @ 130619 Gimpo Airport (Back from Japan)!

For those who are wondering…! Ex-YG Trainee Yuna (Euna)...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:21:00 -0700

For those who are wondering…!

Ex-YG Trainee Yuna (Euna) Kim left Korea for the US to study.

6 members out of many trainees will be debuting in the upcoming girl group.

Source: Yuna’s FB via Newsen

CL - 130619 Star Naver Column (Part 2)! #Falling in Love with...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:44:00 -0700

CL - 130619 Star Naver Column (Part 2)!

#Falling in Love with the Craftmanship of Chrome Hearts

I discovered Chrome Hearts by chance. 1TYM oppas were wearing Chrome Hearts a long time ago before the brand was even known in Korea. On a family trip to Hong Kong before I came to YG, I told my parents that

since Chrome Hearts are expensive “I’ll just by just one item from Chrome Hearts instead of buying several things from somewhere else.”

I bought a hood t-shirt from the store in Hong Kong. I think Teddy oppa was the only person in YG who knew about Chrome Hearts back then. When 2NE1 started recording I wore the shirt to the studio one day and

Teddy oppa said, “Do you know what this is?” I told him it was a brand I liked. Teddy oppa was like, “You know your fashion.” That made me happy.

I love Chrome Hearts because they’re so original. The factory is run by the couple together, and I got to visit it for a shoot when I went to the US. I realized as I talked to them how devoted they were to their craftsmanship. It was touching to see how they believed in doing one thing right, pouring all their passion and love into it. I felt we had a connection. ^^

Their daughter Jesse Jo Stark and I are the same age, and we have a lot in common. Jesse Jo is the

daughter of a mega business owner and seems to have everything, but she’s so pure and real. We talk a lot

and always keep in touch. When she visited Korea for the first time, we said we should sing a song together, and that became the department store impromptu performance. We were just jamming for fun. Jesse Jo is like my other friends overseas, someone I can talk to about everyday things.

The Chrome Hearts business isn’t about inheriting. Jesse Jo just grew up watching her father and mother

working, and grew up to love designing. It’s a very natural environment where mother and daughter

compliment each other’s designs if they happen to like it and try it on. The Starks don’t seem to believe in

handing over the company like a responsibility, but more in letting their daughter do what she loves to do.

That’s why Jesse Jo seems to accept it with an open mind and truly wants to run the company. It’s a healthy system.

#Jeremy Scott is Like a Mischievous Oppa- or is it Unni?

I first met Jeremy Scott when we made the music video for “Fire.” We were wearing his shoes, and he saw the video on YouTube. He was like “Who are these kids?” and came to Korea. We grew close during the photo shoots.

The first time I saw Jeremy I thought he was my kind of person. That was 4 or 5 years ago, so I was 18, and

he had a mohawk like now. The second time we met we ate together and hung out with Teddy oppa and the Big Bang oppas in the studio. It was the first time I hung out with an international designer like we were friends.

Jeremy is a friend with so much love in his heart. He’s always been caring. Now he’s almost like an unni? :-) He’s someone I can confide in.

I used to spend a lot of time with adults since I was a kid and I believe in “soul age.” Age is just a number.

Since I was a kid, I used to love hearing adults tell me about their lives. Jeremy’s life has been a roller coaster. I really love hearing about it.

Jeremy learned from Karl Lagerfeld, who called him “my man” and thought of him as a successor to Chanel.

Jeremy said, “I could have taken over Chanel but I didn’t want to. I’m me and I want to be mine. I want to be Jeremy Scott.”

So he made his own brand. He’s very strong-minded. He designs clothes for celebrities in America like

Beyonce, Madonna and Katy Perry. I’m not a famous person like them, but he treats me like a star and I’m

really thankful for that. Sometimes, for no reason at all, he’ll say, “I love you so much.” I think I have a really

great friend, and even though we might be somewhere far apart, our friendship feels very special and even romantic.

#Who is Castelbajac?

Castelbajac is a fashion designer I admire. He is the historical figure who designed rainbow-colored robes for the Pope. When I meet him and talk to him he’s like a living history book.

I always say I believe in connections but not in fate. Connections and ties appear out of nowhere but it’s up

to me to turn it into fate. Castelbajac had an exhibition that someone my friend knows was organizing, and I got an invitation.

No one around me seemed to know about Castelbajac’s exhibition, so went on SNS, which I hadn’t been to in the last two years, just to let people know. I wanted people of my generation to go to that exhibition and feel

things. Later, I got to meet him to dine and talk with him. We became good friends. ^^

#Snoop Dogg, ASAP Rocky, and Will.i.am

Recently I’ve become friends with Snoop Dogg and ASAP Rocky. I met ASAP Rocky by chance at a party after a photo shoot in the UK. He already knew who I was. It turned out he was best friends with Jeremy Scott. We talked, took photos and had a fun time.

I met him again later when I went to America to see Jeremy’s show, and we became better friends. I met the designers he knew, and they were all around my age. Meeting people my age has a different appeal from meeting people who are older. We’d talk about everyday things like what’s fun nowadays or what we’re up to, and I’d think “It’s just like hanging out with Jiyong oppa (GD).” He even liked the purple, grape-flavored gum I gave him, which is the only gum I like. He even said he’d like to feature in my songs one day.

When I first met Snoop Dogg I thought he was cute, like a cartoon character. I told him I’d been listening to his music and watching him since I was a kid and that I really looked up to him, and we spent 4 or 5 hours talking after the concert. I played “The Baddest Female” for him, even though it wasn’t released yet. We actually talk more about everyday stuff. He’ll ask me where to find the best Korean barbecue places or where my accessories are from. Or we just put on music and dance.

Will.i.am is a very futuristic and technology-savvy guy. I learn a lot from him that way. He’s more quiet than Snoop Dogg, but there’s a lot to learn from the little things that he does.

#CL’s Idea of “The Baddest Female”

When I say “bad” I don’t mean evil, more like cool. That’s what “bad” usually means in American slang, isn’t it? I wanted for the title to mean “the cool girl,” in playful Korean, so it turned into “The Baddest Female.” On stage and in the music video, I wanted to depict the cool girl.

Hip hop is really a culture. It comes from life, it expresses who you are, and it’s a sort of recreation and poetry. I grew up with that culture and I was formed by it. So it’s better to think of hip hop as a way of thinking. It’s a recreational way of expressing myself, and not putting limits on myself. I’m expressing my own views of the “cool girl.”

Honestly, I love hip hop and it’s a base for my music, but I don’t want to limit myself as a rapper. I love singing and dancing and want to be a musician who plays a lot of diverse music.

I want other girls to see me and think, “If she can do it, I can too.” I’m speaking from my experience. There is nothing that I cannot do, I’m sure of it. I always see people I admire and think, “If they can do it, I can too” and it makes me try harder. I’d like people to see me and not give up in their endeavors.

Thank you so much for reading this. Stay healthy and be happy. See you again ^^

Source: Naver Column written by CL

CL x Jeremy Scott - 130619 Instagram Reply!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:23:00 -0700

CL x Jeremy Scott - 130619 Instagram Reply!

CL - 130619 New Instagram Profile Picture!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:16:17 -0700

CL - 130619 New Instagram Profile Picture!

CL for GQ (July) Magazine #3!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:40:07 -0700

CL for GQ (July) Magazine #3!

GD for Cosmopolitan (July) Magazine #2!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:35:00 -0700

GD for Cosmopolitan (July) Magazine #2!

Yoo In Na: “I Want to Invite Dara to ‘Volume’” Actress Yoo...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:37:00 -0700

Yoo In Na: “I Want to Invite Dara to ‘Volume’”

Actress Yoo In Na revealed her desire to invite Sandara Park from the four members of 2NE1 [130527] Yoo In Na: “I Want to Invite Dara to ‘Volume’ (Park Bom Sandara Park CL Gong Minzy) to her radio show - KBS 2FM ‘Yoo In Na’s ‘Raise the Volume” (a.k.a Turn Up the Volume).

In a recent star news interview, held in Yeoii-do, Yoo In Na chose Dara as the guest she most wanted to invite. “I think doing the program with her would be really fun. I personally don’t feel a lot of humor in her but I always see her desire to be funny. Each time she does that she’s so cute I could die”.

Yoo In Na further announced that besides Dara, Actor Ha Jung Woo and Gong Hyo Jin were scheduled for appearances on her show. She exclaimed that, “the two of them are always so busy that I hope they’ll come out some time soon”.

Yoo In Na expressed her gratitude for the success of her show, which began last 2011 in november. Since then she has continued to claim the role as the leading Madame in the Radio industry.

She explained that the feeling she feels when she enters the radio booth is the same as the comfort she feels when she comes home from a long trip. “Reading all the stories are fun and fulfilling. And the fact that she can help listeners is fulfilling. Listeners can become family or friends that stay on my side. I’m just grateful”, she said.

Yoo In Na is also currently appearing as the second daughter in KBS 2TV Weekend special, ‘ You’re The Best Lee Soon Shin’.

Source: http://news.nate.com/view/20130527n23805

Translated by: 2ne1luvr@YGLadies.com

Yoo In Na with Dick Punks @ 130615 KBS Turn Up The Volume!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:29:16 -0700

Yoo In Na with Dick Punks @ 130615 KBS Turn Up The Volume!

GD for Cosmopolitan (July) Magazine #1!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:00 -0700

GD for Cosmopolitan (July) Magazine #1!

CL for GQ (July) Magazine #2!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:33:00 -0700

CL for GQ (July) Magazine #2!

YG Life Update (130619): "MESSAGE FROM YG #2"

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:15:00 -0700

ABOUT ‘NEW GIRL GROUP’

When will YG’s new girl group make their debut?

We are planning October for YG’s new girl group’s debut. The group has been preparing for a long time at YG – their debut is YG’s first one in 4 years since BigBang’s debut in 2006 and 2NE1’s in 2009.

The trilingual members are fluent in Korean, English and Japanese. Despite their young age, an average of 17 year old, they are arousing deep attention not only in Korea but also overseas.

How many members in the group?

The project initially started off with a plan of 10 or more members in the group, but throughout the years there has been a fierce competition among tens of tryout singers and now remain 6 members.

Unfortunately Yuna Kim (also known as Euna), who was discovered on Superstar K, had to be excluded from the team for personal reasons. However, Eunbi Kim, a contestant from the same program, remains as one of the 6 members.

What is the promotional tactic of the new girl group?

We are adopting a debut method that is utterly different from the conventional debuting ways that was applied to other YG girl groups. From October, we will be debuting one or two members at a time to see whether they are apt for the public. When we can see that the audience likes them, then we will move on to forming a proper group.

BigBang’s all five members, on the other hand, made a debut as a group and then started working on their own work. It will help you understand better when I say that we are going the completely opposite direction with YG’s new girl group.

In a nutshell, each member makes a debut first, and then they will come together to form a group.

Right now I am in Japan with Akdong Musician and Lee Hi.

Akdong Musician once said in an interview that Lee Hi would be the most “difficult” artist to befriend. For me, both Akdong Musician and Lee Hi are still a tad “difficult”, since they are the latest comers to our agency. I feel that we still need some ice-breaking to do. So using Daesung’s Japan concert as an excuse, I asked them to accompany me to Japan so that I can spend some quality time with them.

On the first day of arrival, their ice has become a lot thinner, thanks to the visit to Disney Land. I joined them later that day for dinner. Frankly, because Soo-hyun, our youngest (which means Lee Hi is no longer the youngest), just turned 15 and others are also just teenagers, I was worried about the generation gap. But I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with them and was impressed by their bright and positive attitudes.

I will come back with more details of their album release later!

When will Kang Seung-yoon, the ex-Superstar K contestant, be debuting?

To be continued… see you all tomorrow!

2013. 06.19

FROM YG

CL (130617): “truethat”

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:37:55 -0700

CL (130617): “truethat”

Hayana (Evol) - I Don’t Care & Lonely (2NE1) @ 130528...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:28:04 -0700

Hayana (Evol) - I Don’t Care & Lonely (2NE1) @ 130528 Arirang Pop in Seoul!

Park Kyu San & Kang Ui Sik - I Am The Best (2NE1) @ MNET...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:19:04 -0700

Park Kyu San & Kang Ui Sik - I Am The Best (2NE1) @ MNET Monstar Episode 5!

GD @ 130615~16 One Of A Kind Concert in Indonesia #2!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:26:28 -0700

GD @ 130615~16 One Of A Kind Concert in Indonesia #2!