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The 5 Most Bizarre Things in K-Pop in November

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Written by On December 1, 2011

Happy belated Gobble-Gobble to all of you folks Stateside. While most of Seoulbeats gang is recovering from heavy doses of holiday tryptophan ingestion, the eternal wheel that is Korean Entertainment Industry keeps on turning – and churning occasional whacky moments. So, the freshly baked November arrivals to our club are (drum roll, please):

1. Nothin’ Wrong (with a little bump and grind)

In the words of Christopher Walken - Wowie, wowie, wowie! Davichi‘s Kang Min-Kyung went public stating that someone has maliciously edited a recently circulated video of her performance. Unless she did an unintentional face-plant, or someone excelled at copy-pasting her face to a body of a stripper chick, I don’t see how any editing could get it the way it is. Another attempt at damage-control aegyo?

2. Hallyu Movie Premiere Getups

Perhaps, we are a bit spoiled by Hollywood’s glamah. But one comes to expect the stars to clean up and wash up for their movie premieres and at least attempt to don their versions of Sunday best outfits. Case in point – recent premiere of an action thriller Special Investigation Bureau. These guys look like they just left the neighborhood pojangmacha (where, in all honesty, they probably did stop by on their way to the shindig).

 3. K-Pop Wedding Attendance Getups


Another gripe, especially after seeing so many Korean stars tie the knot recently – an astounding lack of effort to dress up for the occasion from some of their wedding guests. Prime example – Lee Hyori, whom I happen to love. Unfortunately, she looks downright frumpy in this outfit – definitely not something one would expect to see at a Hallyu wedding – way too casual for the event.

4. Sandara Park

Sandara Park’s gravity-defying hair is so bizarre, it’s actually…… friggin’ awesome!! How cool is that thing? I wonder, though, if all that hairspray makes it a fire hazard. I love it, she looks like one of the characters for Dr. Seuss’ books, and it’s just unbearable fabulosity.

 5. Wei Chen at 2011 MAMA

Ok, I know, I know, Wei Chen ain’t no K-Pop. But when I saw his outfit at the 2011 Mnet Asian Music Awards, standing next to Miss A on the red carpet, it was worth sticking him here. I am at a loss for words. I really am – and it does not happen often. It’s like an unholy cross between S&M overglittered dominator and a high priest of Ancient Egypt – or a Village People version of Medican Examiner garb – it is gloriously bizarre. God Bless you, Wei Chen – only a strong and confident man (or a completely oblivious and style-deaf doofus) – would dare to wear this. Live long and prosper, my friend.

(Star News via Nate, CJ E&M, Mnet, Net to News)

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  • Anonymous

    I thought the guy next to Miss A was a robot when I first saw him…

    • Anonymous

      lol

  • http://twitter.com/chiwawa__ Chiwawa

    “도대체 어떤 마음으로 도대체 왜 그런 편집을… 정말 나쁘다” That’s what KMK said on twitter regarding this whole thing. She isn’t exactly happy with that video.

  • Afufubing

    1. I think that is just an unflattering angle from someone’s fancam and she’s just mightily embarrassed by it  

  • maldita

    From all the celeb wedding coverage I’ve seen over the years, I feel like Koreans in general don’t tend to dress up much for weddings, unless they’re part of the wedding party or a family member. Why chastise Hyori when she’s not supposed to dress up in the first place anyway?

  • http://twitter.com/MonicaDBSK Monica

    I think you mean Dr.Seuss

  • lay

    oooookay … that pictures of Davichi girl looks kinda ‘obscene’ … o_0  Anyways, Hyo Ri is so freaking pretty and Dara’s gravity-defying hair is awesome. what is more awesome is she still looks so beautiful even with such strange hairstyle.

  • http://twitter.com/janellemarie15 Janelle Marie

    I didn’t like Dara’s hair I thought she looked out of place next to her beautifully coiffed band mates. 

  • Animasaurus

    It may not be appropriate for a wedding, I really love Hyori’s outfit tbh, I could see myself wearing that.

  • Butterfly_flew

    Dara and 2NE1 need to learn that it’s about the music, not “OMG how many weird costumes and hairstyles can we cram in this time!?”

    • Anonymous

      You make it sound as if 2ne1 is the prime offender and that no one else does this. In kpop, image usually take priority over music. This is sad, but true.

    • chelle

      Shouldn’t we be able to differentiate costume and the artist?? The costume doesn’t make the artists it is just another reason to criticize with no correlation with talent. For example look at Lady Gaga. People can’t past her crazy get up to take a listen at her talent. What artists wear and what they sing should not be synonymous.

    • xian

      then tell me what SNSD should learn about music? everything?

    • lay

      LOL … i believe you should address that to a different group. just change the part on weird costumes to …. how many hours spent just to look pretty??

  • whatthefrell

    Thank you Madina, 
    I just had myself a good laugh; 
    most especially your comments on Dara, 
    and Wei Chen sent me off the edge, 
    good job! 

  • Anonymous

    I was WTF-ing at Dara’s hair when she first stepped onto the red carpet, but you learn to appreciate how bizarre it is. It looks like her head upside down in hair form. One of my gripes is that their stylists never really style Dara to look pretty, just strange, but I guess it’s a good thing. It makes her stand out when she could easily be overshadowed by the charisma of the three other members. And she genuinely looks like she enjoys looking like that.

    On a side note, I wasn’t a fan of 2NE1′s get up at the award show, with the exception of good ol’ Bommie. I think she looked absolutely fabulous.

    And Wei Chen – yes, live long and prosper. He had the most interesting outfit of the night.

  • Lalalove

    I watched a fancam of miss a arriving an I swear I thought that Wei Chen guy was working at the awards and that all the celebs arrived with some guy dressed in gold. O_O 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/ほしの-あゆみ/100002113624094 ほしの あゆみ

    Dara’s hair looks like shit, it feels like 2NE1 gets away with fashion faux paus because their 2NE1, give me a break.

    • http://profiles.google.com/jcho49 J Cho

      they’re*

  • http://twitter.com/__ngoccie N

    You should check out Wei Chen’s outfit when he went up to get his award. He changed into a different outfit.

  • greenpanda

    Wei Chen–i totally agree..i saw him on Mama and was like “dang –only in Asia a  straight man can pull that off that outfit.” lol did you see the blue out he wore when he won his award..yeah.

  • katwine

    Being used to Sandara’s wacky and out of this world hairstyles, this hairstyle wasn’t a surprise to me. I love the fact that she feels confident donning that hairstyle and manages to still look pretty with all the weird hairdos she had to endure. What I like about her is that you can feel that she actually loves her hair and it wasn’t forced on her. She once said in an interview that her weird hairstyles gives her confidence and it is a part of her. Remember the iconic palm tree hairstyle? YG didn’t like it at all but Dara liked it so much that she insisted on keeping the hairdo. Thank god she has an oval shaped head (and she is naturally beautiful) so she can get away with using excessive hair sprays, hair pins or whatever makes that hair stand! She is the only female idol (that I know) who can pull of alien like hairstyles. Name me one other artist or idol who can sport the palm tree hair, vegetta hairstyle, that exclamation point do, etc and still manages to look gorgeous?

  • Limao Luo

    that ain’t min-kyung; i’ll say that much. unless … well, you can judge for yourself:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB3gzMHOD1k&feature=related

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