[12.12.24] ShinCom Twitter: Christmas messages from the members

[ERIC] 2012 Christmas, together with M Style who’s back as ‘Cool Water’~ Have an enjoyable Christmas~ Mer-Ch!
(Caption on pics: “Grasshopper ah, if you carry on playing like this, what are you going to do when winter comes?”
“Just die, I guess.”)

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[MinWoo] Hello~ This is cutie pie M style^^ Everyone have a happy and pretty white Christmas Eve~♥

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[HyeSung] Hoping you have an enjoyable Christmas with your loved ones, Merry keu-ri-soom-eosseu…. ㅡㅡ; Merry Christmas~^^*

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[JunJin] Hoping you have an enjoyable Christmas with your loved ones, Merry keu-ri-soom-eosseu…. ㅡㅡ; Merry Christmas~^^* Everybody’s Choongjae (that everyone loves)

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[DongWan] Merry Christmas to everyone~ I’m alone at home but I’m not lonely. I’m together with an orange pie, a pear pie, and 6 sets of scripts that I have to memorize. Today’s just Monday. I guess… hehehehehehehehehe

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[Andy] All my beloved Shinhwa Changjos!! Let’s end 2012 on a good note~ I hope you have an enjoyable Christmas… And be with Shinhwa in 2013 too~~~

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Credits: @ShinhwaCompany + Absolut Shinhwa

[12.12.14] Naver Journalists Club review: People of 2012 (featuring Eric)

2012′s Most Anticipated People: Noh Kee Kyung, Kim Yoon Chul / Lee Young Ae / the bands of Top Band 2
2012′s Most Unexpected People: Eric / Psy / MBC president Kim Jae Chul
People who suffered in 2012: Employees of broadcasting stations / Han Young Ae / T-ara
People who did things their way in 2012: Park Jae Beom / Lee Mi Sook, Choi Bool Am / Primary
People we’re most curious about for 2013: Song Joong Ki / Shinee, Lee Hi / Kim Seul Gi

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(unrelated portions omitted)

ERIC: Whether it’s because I’m getting older, but there’s hardly anything new that has surprised me greatly. But if I have to pick a moment when I went blank in front of the TV, was when I saw ‘E-tilda’ in the Fashion Channel episode of jTBC’s ‘Shinhwa Broadcast’. I think I’m not wrong to call it one of 2012′s best parodies. Recently I’ve been worrying if he’d be able to restart his acting activities with the frequent ‘image-wrecking’, but in the ‘Secret Extra Lesson – Villain Acting’ episode, the way his gaze changed in just 2 seconds is really no joke. I can lay these worries to rest now. I heard that his reason for not working on his individual projects is because he wanted to focus on strengthening Shinhwa. Such loyalty and big-thinking, I really like it. (Jung Seok Hee)

Credits: Naver News + Absolut Shinhwa

[12.12.11] A summary of Shinhwa’s drinking capacities and habits

No.1: Junjin (15 bottles of soju) (does not include the beer he drinks to rinse out his mouth… WUT O_O)

- Holding on to his friends and refusing to let them go home
- Keeps on repeating things that he has already said
- Crying while talking about his feelings

(Jinnie defends himself by saying that no one wants to listen to his pent-up feelings, so he has to continue repeating himself. LOL good try. And Hyesung says even Sung Shikyung, famous for being one of showbiz’s best drinkers, says that he is no match for Jinnie. Then Jinnie goes to say that Sung Shikyung doesn’t even answer his calls these days. LOL)

No.2: Andy (6-7 bottles of soju)

- Becomes very courteous (Eric says that Andy speaks to him in honorifics, i.e. very formally, when he’s drunk)
- Starts to laugh a lot
- Keeps on repeating things that he has already said

(Andy explains that he just wants to go home as soon as possible, so he starts behaving very formally to make people uncomfortable so that they’ll let him go home. Smartypants!)

No.3: Dongwan (5 bottles of soju)

- Becomes aggressive
- Starts to laugh and aegyo a lot
- Asks to be pecked on the cheek, and gets angry if he doesn’t get it (Wannie says he even asked strangers before. I wanna be near him the next time he gets drunk.)
- Drunk-dialling ex-girlfriends
- Keeps on talking about uninteresting things (To which the members say that he does that even when he’s not drunk. LOL poor Wannie)

(Wannie says that he recently went drinking with the writers and the director and when he got drunk, he CUT THE FILM. Yikes. And he even confessed that he visited an alcohol addiction clinic in Gangnam with his manager. Oh Wannie….

Thankfully Hyesung quickly changes the topic to talk about how he asks to be pecked on the cheek – not playfully, but forcefully i.e. shaking the other party and saying ‘I want a kiss!’ Y’know.. I’d love to see Wannie drunk one of these days.

Moving on to the topic of drunk-dialling his exes, Dongwan says none of the calls have ever turned out well. Erm, understandably so? Anyway, he ends off with some advice to the girls who gets drunk-dialled by their exes: When an ex-boyfriend drunk-dials, he’s just in pursuit of some sweet comfort – so never take the call. Aw.)

Joint No.4: Eric (3 bottles of soju)

- Exposing himself
- Falling asleep on the spot
- Going on and on about lengthy conversation topics e.g. the past and future, contemplating about life
- Rapping in English
- Starts to act cute

(Dongwan relates a past incident where he was staying at the studio, and he brought a drunk Eric back. While Wannie went off the to the washroom, Eric said he was feeling warm so he started to strip himself naked (!!!) and ran around. Then he fell down and hurt his toe, and rolled on the ground grabbing his toe, yelling in pain…. Ok I really really LOVE Eric, but the mental image I have of him now is NOT pleasant… But I’d still like to see him in action. Keke.

Eric then apologized and agreed that no one should have done that… But if you really want to do that, wait til you’re alone to do it. HAHA.)

Joint No.4: Minwoo (3 bottles of soju)

- Starts calling his friends
- Excessive skinship (I wanna be near him too the next time he gets drunk.)
- Starts playing tough
- Sings his own songs if at the noraebang (that’s when Dongwan reveals that Minwoo brings his own music recordings to play and sing along too. Hee. Junjin joins in and said that because he does that because he’s part of Shinhwa and he just wants to impress – there was even once when he called his dancers to join him in his ‘performance’… LOL but how true this is I don’t know, that depends on how much Jinnie’s tremendous variety sense is at work here. Ha.)

No.6: Hyesung (2 bottles of soju)

- Keeps on repeating things that he has already said
- Disappears after paying the bill
- More skinship

(Junjin rightfully points out that Hyesung only listed his ‘good’ habits, and the others quickly chime in to add that he has lots of bad habits too. Andy recounted a time during a meeting among the members, a tipsy Hyesung went up to him and asked if he’s feeling down, and asked him to join him for a drink later, just the two of them. And after that, Andy waited for Hyesung at a street stall while grilling lamb skewers for an hour, but Hyesung didn’t appear. People recognised him and fellow celebs who saw him asked, “You…came alone?” – i.e. ‘Don’t you have any friends to hang out with?’

HAHA aww Andy. Hyesung goes into a long explanation which can be summarized as: he lost his belongings at another place before meeting Andy. Okaaaay… If you say so.)

In any case, their livers must be screaming – this much alcohol can’t be good for anyone… Drink in moderation guys! >.<

[12.12.03] The Evolution of Shinhwa’s Ideal Types

From yesterday’s (2 Dec) episode of Shinhwa Broadcast, where they were discussing why none of them has managed to get married and subsequently delved into an analysis of how their ideal types have evolved over the years… And it’s a complete riot LOLOLOL.

Shin-Brief presented a table containing descriptions either taken from past interviews or mentioned during their TV appearances, and I thought it’s a timely update from that old one that I’ve translated years ago – I hope I managed to capture everything that was listed… ^^

ERIC
1998: Long hair, with tanned skin (Eric said that there could be a mistake here because this description sounded more like himself when he first made his debut. HA.)
1999: Small hands and feet, with a nude make-up look
2000: Height above 170cm, slim and cosmopolitan (by ‘cosmopolitan’ I think he means something along the lines of a city girl)
2006: A girl who’s more mature than her peers
2009: A pretty girl who treats my parents well
2012: Intellectual, cosmopolitan (He mentioned that his ideal type is someone like actress Kim Nam Joo, with a sharp and sophisticated dress sense)

MINWOO
1998: I like all female celebrities
1999: Chubby (Yaaaay….? LOL.)
2002: A girl who’s pretty even when she’s just wearing a white t-shirt and jeans
2004: Chubby
2005: A girl dressed in sportswear and is doing stretching (I think that was the year he was working out and hitting the gym a lot for his 2nd solo album. Hee.)
2007: Good at making money and at housekeeping
2008: Cute and chubby

DONGWAN
(Dongwan got a lot of flak from the other guys because his descriptions seemed to be kinda contradictory LOL. At a point they riled him up so much that he just went, “YA! That’s up to ME!” HAHAHAHAHAHA.)
2000: Height of 170cm (Apparently at that time he was dating a girl with a height of 170cm)
2006: Like girls who study a lot / Doesn’t like girls with big hands / Likes girls who don’t smile easily / Ideal occupation: Kindergarten teacher (Eric pointed out that it doesn’t sound right for a kindergarten teacher to not smile in front of the kids, to which Wannie said, ‘The kindergarten teacher part is fake.’ LOL)
2008: Blood type A, conservative & modest / With a lot of dating experience
2011: A girl who doesn’t have sharp features (Jinnie asked if he meant girls who look like Mona Lisa and proceeded to break into a laughing fit. HAHAHA.)
2012: A girl who makes her own choices and is driven / Doesn’t like girls who confess first

ANDY
2007: Any girl will do
2008: A girl who’s good at making kimchi
2009: I like any girl who’s kind
2011: Any girl will do as long as she just looks only at me
(Oh poor lonely Andy. LOL.)

JUNJIN
2000: A girl who’s able to cry heartfelt tears for others
2002: A girl who’s cheerful and bright in front of others, but quiet in front of me (Even Jinnie himself said that sounded like someone with a bipolar disorder LOL.)
2007: A girl who can be a good wife and mother
2008: A girl who treats my parents well
2009: A girl who can be a good wife and mother

HYESUNG
1998: Kind and does a lot of aegyo
2000: A girl who always carries knitting tools in her bag / Carries a handkerchief / Does a lot of aegyo
2002: Cute and does a lot of aegyo
2005: Cute and does a lot of aegyo
2006: Feminine and does a lot of aegyo
2008: A girl who can connect with the right feel and does a lot of aegyo
(The guys notice Hyesung’s penchant for aegyo and they go into HILARIOUS simulations of aegyo, including a very annoying rendition of ‘Apeunya? Na-do apeuda’ / ‘Are you hurting? I’m hurting too’ from MinJin. HAHAHAHAHAHHAA gotta watch it to experience it)

I’m not sure when the SFSubs team will release the Eng subs for this ep (on a related note, kudos to the SFSubs team. Subbing is seriously a laborious and unfortunately (sometimes) thankless job. :( So go to their site/Twitter and thank them if you’re reading this!) but here’s the unsubbed episode to whet your appetite for now^^

Credits: Shinhwa Broadcast + Absolut Shinhwa

[12.11.30] Trans: Eric’s rap part on Ga In’s ‘Nostalgia’


Part 1 (0.03)
Yeah
You and me
Til the day we die, you heard me
Nothing can ever change us
You already know
Check it

Part 2 (1.42)
네가 구름위를 걸을 때, 날개가 돼줄께 / Niga gureum wi-e georeul ttae, nalgae-ga dwaechulkke
When you’re walking on clouds, I’ll be your wings

바다위를 걸을 때, 배가 돼줄께 / Bada wireul georeul ttae, bae-ga dwaechulkke
When you’re walking over the seas, I’ll be your ship

자유롭고 싶음, 한발 뒤에서 걸을께 / Jayuropgo shipeum, hanbal dwi-eseo georeulkke
If you want to be free, I’ll walk one step behind you

널 위해서 한발먼저 뛰어가 있을께 / Neol wihaeseo hanbal meonjeo dwi-oga isseulkke
For you, I’ll run a step ahead

심장을 매일 뛰게해 / Shimjang-eul mae-il dwigehae
My heart beats for you everyday

눈높여놔서 바람도 못 피게해 / Nun nopyeo-nwaseo param-do mot pi-gehae
My sights are raised and I can’t look at nobody else

중독이 심한 너란 게임에 난 이미 폐인 / Jungdogi shimhan neoran ge-im-e nan imi pye-in
Addicted to a game by the name of you, I’m already ruined

문제가 없어 우리 둘 사이엔, 우리 둘 사이엔 / Munjega eopseo uridul sa-i-en, uridul sa-i-en
There are no problems between the two of us, between the two of us

Translation credits: Absolut Shinhwa

[12.11.30] Eric features on rap for Ga In’s new digital single ‘Nostalgia’

What is it with Eric and songs called ‘Nostalgia’… (He featured on a Yozoh song called ‘Nostalgia in 2008 too, which I absolutely adore^^) UPDATE: Seems that it’s exactly the same song as the Yozoh song – which is playing in the background on this blog – but Eric made some changes to his rap part. On a personal level, I prefer Yozoh’s version (sorry Ga-In fans… everyone’s entitled to her own opinion right? :) )

And if Eric ever compiled all the songs that he has rap-featured for all these years, he probably will end up with a 2 or 3CD album…

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Ga In’s new digital single ‘Nostalgia’ will finally be released today (30th Nov) on major music portals such as Melon, Olleh Music, Mnet.com, Bugs, Soribada and Naver Music.

‘Nostalgia’, a gift to Ga In’s fans for their unwavering love, was written by Kim Do Hyun and with lyrics penned by Bang Seung Chul. The song expresses the faint yearning during the beginning moments of a fateful encounter.

(Introduction to Ga In’s album omitted)

In particular, Shinhwa leader Eric also features on the song with a rap part. With an acoustic jazz guitar sound, ‘Nostalgia’ beautifully combines Ga In’s pastel vocal tones and Eric’s bassy rap that captures the ladies’ hearts. The accompanying music video will also include previously unreleased footage.

(Statement about the song from Ga In’s management company omitted)

Ga In’s new digital single ‘Nostalgia’ will be released at noon today (KST) on major music portals.

Credits: Osen + Absolut Shinhwa

[12.08.22] Minwoo’s FB status update: Nosebleed from exhaustion… (added Eric’s comment)

The 3-day schedule in China~ It was totally tiring from the first day and after getting back to Korea the nosebleed just hit~!! I must be really exhaustedㅜㅠ Hehe it’s been a long time since I had a nosebleed because of exhaustion ㅋ Tomorrow there’s the recording for Shinhwa Broadcast, phew… What I need now is sufficient sleep and an aromatherapy massage ㅠ Ah…. My eyelids are getting heavyㅡㅡI have to sleep early and soundly today.


Eric: If you didn’t buy me any presents, I’m not going to say a word to you during the recording~

[12.08.11] Minwoo’s FB update: Watching the Korea-Japan match

Must win the Korea-Japan match at all costs~ Daehan Minguk (i.e. the Republic of Korea)!!
(note: Korea did win the match 2-0, with goals scored by Park Chu Young and Koo Ja Cheol)

Lee Minwoo: Everyone please give some words of support~^^
Park Ji Young: Dae~han Mingook fighting!
Mun Jung Hyuk: Don’t tell me to do this and do that.
Lee Min woo: I hope Park Chu Young will stop getting scolded and become a hero~^^
Mun Jung Hyuk: Koo~~~~Ja~~~~~~~~~~Cheolㅜㅜㅠㅠㅠㅠ!!!!
Lee Minwoo: Grow up, Erook ah.