The biggest news this past week in Korean entertainment were sexual assault charges filed against actor Park Si-hoo. A female trainee claims that Park assaulted her in his house after she passed out drunk after a night of drinking together. Park claims that anything that happened that night was by mutual consent.  Conflicting stories and ‘evidence’ have been released with speculations and rumors abounding. Park Si-hoo will go in for questioning with the police on February 24th. In the end I hope truth and justice is served, but with the frenzy that the Korean media often whips itself up into with a scandal like this–no one gets out unscathed.  (Naver, OSEN)

The Love We Share… 

  • In what seems to be the new trend of 2013, two more power couples were revealed: former g.o.d. member and actor Yoon Kye-sang and former Miss Korea Honey Lee admitted to be dating after being caught by paparazzi in pics and Cloud Atlas co-stars Bae Doo-na and Jim Sturgess are reportedly dating—but no official statement from either actor has been released.
  • Looks like F.T. Island‘s Lee Hong-ki‘s huge clues on Twitter were valid as it was announced that he will appear on the international version of We Got Married with Japanese actress Fujii Mina.  Mina is also reportedly trying to break into the K-drama scene having had bit parts in Panda and Hedgehog and King of Dramas. (Newsen)

 
Seems To Go Nowhere…

  • As part of label Amoeba Culture‘s project album Gaeko of Dynamic Duo released the track “Rhythm is Life.“

  • Jang Geun-suk‘s project group with DJ Big Brother, Team H,  released it’s latest single “Feel the Beat” which is sung in both Chinese and Korean, Kim Tae-woo came back with a new album T-Love and released the MV for the title track “Cosmic Girl,” CCM is making the most out of SPEED‘s debut momentum and has released their latest MV for “Pain,” Orange Caramel released the PV for their latest Japanese release “Cookies, Cream & Mint,” Verbal Jint released “If It Ain’t Love” featuring Ailee with the MV starring Nam Gyuri of the disbanded SeeYa, Fat Cat released “Tears Rain” for the Queen of Ambition OST, Tritops released “Too Foolish To You,” Weekly Idol‘s MCs Jung Hyung-don and Defconn (Yu Dae-jun) released their latest musical collab “Get Out,” K-indie group Standing Egg released their new album on the 2oth and the MV for the title track “The Time is Different Now,” and a little group named SHINee finally made their Korean comeback with “Dream Girl.”

 

And I’ve Lost My Light…

  • More sad news in the realm of K-pop as Sung In-kyu, former member of disbanded DSP boy band A’ST1, passed away this week after succumbing to his fight with thymus cancer. A’ST1 are probably best known for their song “Yearning Heart” which was featured in the Boys Over Flowers OST.  Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Sung In-kyu. (joinsmsn, SSTV)

  • Many fans were disappointed when it was announced that Su Pearls, the much loved girl group from season one of K-pop Star made up of  Lee Michelle, Lee Seung-ju, Lee Jung-mi and Lee Hi (the group originally included K-pop Star winner Park Ji-min, but when she signed with JYPE, she was replaced by Lee Hi when the whole group was picked up by YG Entertainment) had disbanded and consequentially dropped by YGE. (joinsmsn)
  • Block B‘s legal representatives and those of their former (?) management company Stardom Entertainment appeared in Seoul Central District Court to fight out their contract dispute.  Block B was given two weeks to provide documents to support their claims that Stardom violated the terms of their contract which would allow them void it and Stardom has three weeks to bring in documents to refute those claims.  The court will make their decision after reviewing the documents after those three weeks. (hankooki, SportsSeoul)

 

 For I toss and turn I can’t sleep at night…

  • On days like that, I usually scour Twitter, tumblr or YouTube for some juicy tidbits, pictures, gifs, or videos of all my fave K-pop idols, actors, etc. During one of those sprees, I came across this video by Lunafly doing a cover of Bruno Mars‘ “Locked out of Heaven.”

 

  • I also search through Korean media sites for news and came across an article about Kim Woo-bin that featured the cutest ever photo set of the up-and-coming actor from A Gentleman’s Dignity and School 2013. Recently, he and Lee Jong-suk have been featured in TONS of interviews after their successful performance in School 2013. (TheStarChosun)