BEAST, “takes off towards the new year, jumping up and down like a rabbit”

Group BEAST’s jumps into 2011.

Having risen to the heart of the nation after “Bad Girl”, “Shock”, and “Soom”, these boys have recently traveled around Asia, performing in showcases. They have laid the foundation to grow to be Asia’s representative group. In November, 20,000 fans watched as BEAST opened the showcase that publicized their debut in Japan. They are to make their full Japanese debut in March.

BEAST members, who say they will make this coming year theirs, are overflowing with confidence. To the point that they cannot control their facial expressions, they explode with laughter and their every action is filled with energy. BEAST members, who are knocking on the hearts of Asia, send a special New Year message to the readers of Sports Korea.

Let’s make a warm, rich, and hopeful new year with the BEAST members.

# Lee Kikwang

=This year was bright. I hope that everyone can have a year in which they can spring into the year, hopping one step at a time, like a rabbit, and I hope that everyone receives a lot of luck this year. During New Year’s, I can spend time with my family, and I think I will be filming for . Although it is a small role, I thank you for giving and sending me so much love. I will show you a better image. Although the New Year holidays are cold, I hope that you will have heartwarming times.

# Yoon Doojoon

=For us, the new years and the holiday is a precious and thankful time in which we spend time with our family. I am happy, because I think I can spend this short time with my family this year. I hope that you will all spend a peaceful and fun time with your family. In this new year, BEAST will come find everyone again with a more handsome image. I ask for lots of support.

# Yang Yoseob

=The encore concert in February awaits us, I believe that we will be practicing for the concert during the holiday. As much as the number of fans and family that will come, I want to show the best of stages without any embarrassment. Receive lots of luck this year, and eat many delicious things. Be careful not to get any stomach aches!

# Son Dongwoon

=I hope that this New Year, one can feel happy as they spend their time sharing stories with their family that they were unable to share before. I especially hope that the girls will stop dieting during the holiday and spend a peaceful and delightful holiday. Please enjoyably watch over BEAST in the New Year special programs!

# Jang Hyunseung

=Although it is the New Year, I want to spend time with my family and spend enough time practicing for our encore concert this holiday. I will practice, gaining strength as I think of our fans who are anticipating it. Don’t forget to receive lots of luck this year. BEAST’s Hyunseung will wish for you to have a year in which you will always be happy and smile fully.

# Yong Junhyung

=I want to spend my time sitting around with my family for the first in a long time. I am feeling more and more that one of the happiest things in the world is to be able to enjoy the simplest pleasures. I hope that everyone spends this holiday staying at the side of your precious family. I will work diligently to make this coming year BEAST’s year. Please watch over us! Receive lots of luck this year! /Sports Korea

CREDITS: Sports Hankooki (SOURCE); musiclovex3@B2ST RISING (TRANS)

Okay I think the things they say are awfully sweet and all. But. Yang Yoseob and Jang Hyunseung! You two! It's Lunar New Year! Spend as much time with your family as you can! Because you get so little time with them as it is! Take this chance to spend a good holiday with them! Don't worry about the concert so much dammit ><

BEAST's maknae, Son Dongwoon, accepted into Gunkook University's Movie & Arts Department

Beast's Son Dong Woon became a new student of Gun Kook University's Movie and Arts Department.
Dongwoon qualified in Gun Kook University's 2011 entrance exams. Because of group activities, he delayed his entrance into university by one year, but this time after passing the entrance exams, he has become a true university student.

Cube Entertainment stated, 'Even with his busy schedule, Dongwoon managed to fork out time to prepare for the entrance exams. All the other members are congratulating him on his qualification.'

Beast are now at the final stage before their Japanese debut. Many kinds of preparations are in progress.

CREDITS: NEWSEN, BEASTCHINA (SOURCE); Yang Ting@mybeastyboys (TRANS)

Congratulations Dongwoon!! Study well and work hard! But make sure that you don't overwork yourself! Because that's bad ><

B2UTY will support you 110% =D

Also, that picture they used for the article. LOL! I can't help but look at Doojoon every time I see the picture xD No offense Dongwoon! xD

After some fiery last minute voting, BEAST is still first place for the Seoul Music Awards Bonsang Awards

Who will be the winner of the Muse Trophy in the 2011 High1 Seoul Music Awards?

The 20th High1 Seoul Music Awards will be held on the 20th of January at the Kyunghee University Peace Centre. As of now, cellphone and ARS popularity voting is still going strong for the three main award categories, which are the Bonsang Award, Newcomer Award and Popularity Award respectively. Last year’s awards saw current girl groups getting the upper hand but current boy groups and rookie groups were not daunted by this. There was also close competition by solo singers with both strength and qualifications.

For the Bonsang Award category, since 14 January, Beast is in first place with 30.2 % of the votes, Super Junior comes in 2nd with 20.5 % of the votes while Girls Generation is in 3rd place with 10.9 % of the votes.

To vote in the 20th High1 Seoul Music Awards, send 3321+NATE/SHOW/OZ or **3321+SHOW via your handphone. For ARS dial 060-900-0999 to vote. Results can be viewed at the official Seoul Music Awards website which is http://www.seoulmusicawards.com/

The awards ceremony will be held on the 20th of January from 7-10 pm KST. Besides that, this event is held in conjunction with Visit Korea 2010-2012′s Korea Grand Sale ( January 10 ~ February 28, 2011). Overseas fans are invited to attend.

CREDITS: NATE, beastchina (SOURCE); yangting1302@mybeastyboys (TRANS)

BOOYAH! That's what I'm talkin' about! Haha! Go K-B2UTY's! Go! BEAST is actually beating SM in the voting, this feels like a very big deal to me haha! The boys would be so happy if they won the award (: We would be very proud B2UTY!

"My Princess" Lee Gi Kwang, a Surprising Wink to Kim Tae Hee, An Explosion of 'Dainty Charm'

I'm incredibly sorry for the late update. I tried to take pictures to make a post last night but the lighting was horrible and then my camera died this afternoon when I tried. So here's another news article until I post it tomorrow (:

“Mother’s womb Idol” Beast’s Lee Gi Kwang has risen as Kim Tae Hee’s strong reinforcement.

In the Wednesday-Thursday drama that will be broadcasted on the 13th, “My Princess”, (written by Jang Yung Shil, produced by Kwon Suk Jang, Kang Dae Sun) Lee Gi Kwang will first appear as a worker at a seafood restaurant near the ocean.

Lee Gi Kwang was casted as Kunnie for his extremely friendly and amiable personality, and will now debut in a legitimate drama. He is starting full-scale acting in “My Princess” after exposing his unique charm by acting in the sitcom “High Kick through the Roof” and participating in variety programs.

Lee Gi Kwang sends a wink and makes cute face expressions for Lee Seol (Kim Tae Hee), who visits the ocean-side seafood restaurant, and in order to comfort Lee Seol, who is sad, he purses her on his motorcycle and shows his unrestricted affection towards her. As expected from a “Mother’s womb Idol”, Lee Gi Kwang’s cute expressions and wink made the filming site turn into a wave of laughter. On this day, Lee Gi Kwang perfectly played the lively and sweet role of Kunnie, even rumored to have shown acting that was “100% real Kunnie”

Because he is working with top stars including Song Seung Hun and Kim Tae Hee, Lee Gi Kwang did not forget his thoughts of “It seems like a dream”. Because of the challenge in being his first full-scale drama, one is looking forward to the acting fervor of Lee Gi Kwang, more than anybody else’s.

Lee Gi Kwang’s agency said, “Although it is his first tackle at a legitimate drama, he is acting out his lively and sweet character comfortably, thanks to you. The role is one in which Lee Gi Kwang’s usual personality has casually seeped through” and “He will show a bright and warm side of him as Kim Tae Hee’s strong reinforcement.”

Meanwhile, in MBC’s “My Princess”, Kim Tae Hee and Song Seung Hun’s turn to comic acting has immediately risen as a strong Wednseday-Thursday program, gaining full support from viewers. MBC’s “My Princess” airs every Wednesday and Thursday night at 9:55PM.

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CREDITS: Break News (SOURCE); musiclovex3@B2ST RISING (TRANS)

If you haven't watched the cut, you should, Kikwang is really adorable and the preview for the next episode is to die for.

BEAST reveals the teaser videos for their encore concert

Ahh isn't the teaser beautiful?? Yes I know I am horribly late with this update but I was at the SUPER K-POP Concert with SHINee and I got home 2 hours ago. I'm still too spazzy to be blogging properly so this is all I'm leaving for now I think haha!

For the fans who have been waiting for the opening of the ticket sales on the 12th at 2PM KST, BEAST’s management had posted the first version of the teaser for the encore concert via their official Youtube channel and the official fan café to hype up the mood for the special event.

BEAST will be posting up the corresponding teasers for the BEAST encore concert 'Welcome BACK to BEAST Airline' that will be held on February 18th and 19th at the Seoul Olympic Gymnasium. The first one was the ‘Yoon Doojoon Version’ and along with the release, the official promotions have begun.

Also, the management stated that they will be revealing the concert teasers for each member for six days starting with Yoon Doojoon. The teasers this time will display the stage videos for each member along with the narration of comments that each member experienced about the first solo concert with their own voice.

There is an importance on the fact that BEAST members showed no hesitation choosing the first concert as the moment that was their happiness and joy and that the encore concert will be a rerun of that moment.

Also, at the end of last year, BEAST had shown intense popularity with their first solo concert selling out the first day. Not only that, this concert had been on the ranking for the ‘Must Go-to Concerts’ making the anticipation rise even more with the ticket sales opening.

In addition, Interpark, the system that will be selling BEAST’s concert tickets, had decided to upgrade their servers and run maintenance in order to handle the influx of fans on the 12th at 8PM KST.

Meanwhile, BEAST members are currently practicing and preparing for the spectacle appearance and formations they will be displaying at the encore concert.

CREDITS: SPORTS TODAY (SOURCE); aoistars@B2ST RISING (TRANS)

Check out the teaser video here:

BEAST's Yang Yoseob, "There is a clear definite line between criticism and hate comments"

BEAST’s Yang Yoseob has risen as the ‘manner idol’.

Recently with the rumors that ‘BEAST member Yong Junhyung and Rainbow’s Kim Jaekyung will be on ‘We Got Married’, BEAST fans have visited Kim Jaekyung’s cyworld mini homepage and had left bashing comments. To this, Yang Yoseob had posted on his personal twitter, “The scars that I received from the someone who had randomly spat out some comments still hasn’t healed. This probably doesn’t only apply to me, but others as well. No matter what the method is, someone should never have to inflect such deep scars on another person. Apologize. Should I do it instead?” This had struck the fans and also received attention as a star was telling his own fans to apologize to another star.

To this Yong Junhyung stated, “I have no idea why there was a rumor like that. I asked my company after hearing that I might be a couple with Jaekyung, but they told me that it wasn’t true. After hearing that it wasn’t true, I thought everything was okay, but I was really surprised. Early in our debut, we faced a lot of hateful comments. And of course we still face those comments. However, even when we tried hard to ignore them, we ended up crumbling many times due to this.”

Yang Yoseob revealed, “There is a clear definite line between criticism and hate comments. Since debut, I have been scarred many times due to hateful comments. Right now I have become much more immune to it, but back then I was really in pain. At least I can hold it in because I am a guy, but she is a woman. I think she would have been really hurt by this. That is why I decided to leave that comment.”

Currently BEAST is filming their music video for Japan and will be holding their encore concert on Febuaruy 18th and 19th at the Olympic Fitness Arena.

CREDITS: SPORTS CHOSUN (SOURCE); aoistars@B2ST RISING (TRANS)

Really this is just way too awesome. I am so proud of Yoseob. Really to think that B2UTY could do something like that, we really did used to be a respectable fan club. Yoseob and BEAST love us a lot and I can only hope that we don't upset him again over something like this.

Yoseob has proven to be so humble and this is just one of the many reasons he's loved. He's even dubbed the most respected idol in Korea for this, Yoseob we're proud of you~