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Kim Yuna’s Festa On Ice fitting in Elle

javabeans — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:48:03 +0000

Olympic gold medalist Kim Yuna is currently featured in ELLE atZINE, the fashion magazine’s website. The pictures show the figure skating champion at a fitting with fashion designer Lee Sang-bong, whom she’d sought out in preparation for her ice show last month, Festa On Ice.

Mostly I’m posting because I love that dress. I want that dress. Okay, maybe without the sparkly boobs, but it’s such a witty take on its inspiration, namely an old-fashioned scroll, which also happens to look pretty on its own merits.

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Read the rest of Kim Yuna’s Festa On Ice fitting in Elle (56 words)

Congratulations to gold medalist Kim Yuna

javabeans — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:06:09 +0000

Kim Yuna‘s gold-medal-winning performance at Thursday’s Olympic Games (Friday, Korean time) was another ratings blockbuster event, although the broadcast didn’t quite reach the heights of the ratings for the Tuesday short program.

The event aired in Korea on the afternoon of the 26th, and Kim’s performance (which aired from 1:22 pm to 1:29 pm) brought in an impressive 36.4% viewership rating and 62% audience share. A bit unexpectedly, her competitor and silver medalist Mao Asada‘s program (which aired from 1:30 pm to 1:37 pm) brought in even higher numbers with a 38.2% rating and 63.8% audience share, although that could be due to the fact that Asada skated after Kim (in reverse order from the short program), and interest peaked after Asada’s scores were announced and Kim was virtually assured the gold. Both skaters earned incredible scores, although Asada’s overall 205.5 points put her at a distant second to Kim’s record-setting 228.56.

Kim Yuna is the first South Korean to win any Olympic figure skating medal, much less gold. Congratulations to her on a stunning performance.

Via OSEN

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Kim Yuna is a ratings queen

javabeans — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:06:48 +0000

Much has been made of the incredible pressure surrounding figure skater Kim Yuna‘s bid for an Olympic gold medal, and although the phrase “all eyes are on her” is usually just a figure of speech, with Yuna it’s pretty much true in a literal sense. The television broadcast for her short program performance on Tuesday (Wednesday, Korean time) drew in a whopping 42.5% ratings score (AGB Nielsen numbers) — and as if that number isn’t already pretty impressive, at its highest point the broadcast drew a 77.8% audience share (as in, nearly 80% of viewers watching television at that moment were watching that program).

Kim performed in the second-to-last flight, preceded directly by her biggest competitor Mao Asada. According to the ratings analysis, which can break down the trends by the minute, the five minutes that showcased Asada’s performance (from 12:54 pm to 12:59 pm) drew in a 37.1% rating, which translates to a 71.3% audience share. Kim’s portion, aired from 1:01 pm to 1:06 pm, rose to a 40.8% rating and 75.4% share. The numbers topped out as the competition ended.

A source with SBS, the broadcaster airing the Olympics, said, “At the Vancouver Olympics, interest is growing in our country, and in particular there’s explosive interest in figure skating star Kim Yuna, which we see in the ratings and audience shares.”

I know you can’t directly compare drama programming with non-scripted programming, but those are some impressive numbers and would be incredible even for top drama shows. Plus, dramas have the benefit of higher prime-time viewership to begin with. As the competition aired in the middle of the business workday — prompting much of the country to stop what they were doing to watch, including government meetings and political speeches — it makes the numbers even more remarkable.

With Kim putting in a nearly flawless performance with her killer Bond routine, leading Asada by nearly 5 points even though the latter landed a triple axel cleanly and also had a fabulous program, expect similarly high (or even higher) numbers tomorrow when they skate their long programs.

Via Star News

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Kim Yuna writes book

waterleaf — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:10:51 +0000

Famous Korean skater, 20-year old Kim Yuna, will be releasing a personal narrative book on January 29th, called Kim Yuna’s 7 Minute Drama.

The book walks through her figure skating career starting at the young age of 7 through topics more mundane such as music choice as well as her preparations for the upcoming Winter Olympics and growing pains.

Besides winning trophies on the skating rink, Kim Yuna is also reported to be the highest paid CF-queen, appearing often on the screen. As she is also very much a source a national pride, I think the book will garner interest. Celebrities who have published their books have done well in the past, and it appears this one will as well.

Via Chosun

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Kim Yuna in a rare off-the-ice performance

Swimmer Park Tae-hwan awash in congratulations

javabeans — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:47:48 +0000

As we know, Koreans sure have a fierce sense of cultural pride (sometimes to uncomfortably myopic degrees). So it’s no big surprise that all are elated with Olympic gold medalist Park Tae-hwan‘s win in the 400m freestyle on August 10. In about the half-day since he’s won the medal, his cyworld mini-homepage has amassed over 80,000 congratulatory messages.

Actually, currently there are ~~82,204~~ ~~82,357~~ 82,505 messages (that’s how fast the numbers climbed in the time it took me to write this post), although only the last 75,000 or so have come post-win. It’s kind of cute, actually, there are some messages reading, “I’m watching you on TV now,” and then, just a few messages later, “Just… a little… farther…” to be followed with, “Congrats on the gold medal!”

Of particular note are congratulatory messages left by members of girl groups Wonder Girls, Girls Generation (SoShi), and even figure skater Kim Yuna.

Kim Yuna’s message read:

“오빠 대박 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 추카해!!”
“Oppa, jackpot! Kekekeke Congratulations!!”

His site’s background music was the boy band 2AM song “아니라기에” (“To say it’s not”), to which 2AM’s Im Seul-woong wrote:

“(배경음악 선택에) 너무나 감사하고 올림픽 금메달을 석권한 박태환 선수처럼, 저희도 열심히 해서 가요계의 금메달을 따겠다”
“Thanks so much for choosing our song. Like you’ve won the gold medal at the Olympics, we’ll work hard and do our best to win the gold medal in the music industry.” (Whatever THAT means!)

Another 2AM-er, leader Jo Kwon-do, wrote:

“금메달 소식에 홈페이지에 와 봤는데 ‘아니라기에’가 흘러나와 깜짝 놀랐다. 금메달 따길 2AM모두 기도했는데 너무 축하 드린다”
“I came to the site after hearing the news that you’d won the gold medal, but I was startled to hear ‘To Say It’s Not’ playing. Everyone in 2AM had prayed you’d win the gold. Congratulations.”

Park Tae-hwan sure wasn’t shy about his gold-medal hopes; his cyworld address is http://www.cyworld.com/freestylewin.

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News bites: May 15, 2008

javabeans — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:19:57 +0000

Tablo addressed erroneous rumors that he’s retiring from the music biz by posting a message on his homepage: “I’m not retiring.” He’s not happy with the state of the industry and its focus on singles over albums, but he assures his fans, “I’ll make music forever.”
Ha Jiwon was invited to the New Zealand embassy in Seoul to welcome Prime Minister Helen Clark on the 15th. She’s been active in promoting films from New Zealand in Korea, and vice versa (Korean films in NZ). She also films her next movie in New Zealand at the end of the year.
First it was a Girls Generation song (sung here); now figure skater Kim Yuna says she’ll be performing Jewelry’s “ET dance” next, using their chart-topping hit “One More Time” (song here) in one of her skating routines at the KCC Switzen Festa on Ice. Maybe she just really wants to be a pop star.
MBC’s popular variety show We Got Married has brought several stars into the limelight, including Shinhwa’s Andy, dubbed “top husband material.” But did you know he’d already gone on a formal “seon” (marriage set-up date) years ago at the tender age of 25? His mother tricked him into going, saying it was merely dinner with a friend, but when he showed up the woman was there with a “young girl” — and the mothers quickly got up and left the couple behind.
And with SBS gearing up to launch two new series, the promotion blitz sure is kicking in. All of a sudden, everything is about Iljimae (Lee Junki, Han Hyo Joo) and Gourmet (Kim Rae Won, Nam Sang Mi). Seriously, Lee Junki is everywhere.

SONG OF THE DAY

Andy – “Love Song” [ Download ]

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Kim Yuna in a rare off-the-ice performance

javabeans — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:06:53 +0000

Wow, that was fast. World-famous figure skater (and reigning — two-time — world bronze medalist) Kim Yuna showed her little-known singing skills when she recorded a segment as a guest on SBS’s new program The Star Show on May 8. The segment is to be broadcast on the May 12 episode, but the clip is already online.

Kim Yuna professes to enjoy going to karaoke rooms (noraebangs) frequently, and sang the song “만약에” (What if), originally performed by Girls Generation’s Tae Yeon — which you may recall receiving significant airtime in the recent drama series Hong Gil Dong.

Granted, it’s not exactly a perfect performance, and she chose a difficult song to perform live — but dude, I’m not going to rip on the singing skills of anyone who can propel themselves more than their own body length through the air while spinning multiple times and landing upright on the edge of a blade. Mad respect to skaters (figure and otherwise).

(And besides, she still sounds a lot better than, say, any or all of the Wonder Girls live. Talk about nails on a chalkboard. Screeeech.)

Via Hankyung

SONG OF THE DAY

Tae Yeon – “만약에” (What if) from the Hong Gil Dong OST. Used most prominently in Episode 7.
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