BIGBANG’s Seungri Explains How He Introduces Korean Food To International Friends

BIGBANG’s Seungri guested on the March 28 episode of tvN’s “Wednesday Food Talk,” where he talked about how he introduced Korean food to his international friends.

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Seungri first expressed his pride for all things Korean. He commented, “I have pride as a Korean man. If someone says Korea’s not fun, my eyes get fired up. I ask, ‘Who said that?” and tell them to come find me.” He then talked about the specific strategy he has. “First, I show Korea’s high-quality side. I buy them elegant and expensive Korean food. Then I show them the local food.”

He also shared tips on how to eat certain foods in the best way. During the octopus episode, he explained that the tastiest way to eat octopus is to grill it and eat it as a wrap with soybean paste and garlic. He then joked, “I feel a sense of kinship with the octupus. It’s got a big head so it’s similar to me.”

He further added, “I actually have a pretty packed presence in BIGBANG. It’s the type of presence where you think the group can exist without me, but if I’m not there, it feels empty.”

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BIGBANG And Wanna One Sweep Weekly Gaon Charts

On March 29, Gaon revealed chart results for the week from March 18 through March 24.

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BIGBANG topped the overall digital chart for the second consecutive week with “Flower Road,” and Wanna One’s new release “Boomerang” came in at third place. The rest of the top five are previous releases with MAMAMOO’s “Starry Night” in second, iKON’s “Love Scenario” in fourth, and Heize’s “Jenga” in fifth.“Boomerang” came in at first place on the download chart, and “Sudden Shower” by Highlight’s Yong Junhyung entered at fourth. “Flower Road” and “Starry Night” remain strong at second and third place, respectively. “Drum” by Webster B and Chin Chilla from “High School Rapper 2” rose 22 spots to fifth place.Previous releases dominated the streaming chart. “Flower Road” is No. 1, “Starry Night” is No. 2, and “Love Scenario” is No. 3. “Jenga” and MOMOLAND’s “BBoom BBoom” round up the top five.  “Flower Road” also took first on the mobile chart for ringtones, followed by “Starry Night.” Lee Seung Chul’s “Painful Love,” “Love Scenario,” and “HandClap” by Fitz & the Tantrums maintained their positions. Wanna One’s new album “0+1=1 (I Promise You)” topped the album chart recording physical album shipments. UP10TION’s “Invitation” took second. “NCT 2018 Empathy” took third, GOT7’s “Eyes on You” took fourth, and BTS’s “Love Yourself: Her” took fifth.



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BIGBANG’s Seungri And Wanna One Generate Most Buzz With “Radio Star”

MBC’s “Radio Star” was named the most buzzworthy show of the week thanks to BIGBANG’s Seungri and Wanna One!

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Good Data Corporation revealed their ranking of the most buzzworthy TV shows for the fourth week of March. They analyzed netizen reactions to dramas and non-dramas by looking at the number of news articles, blog posts, communities, social media posts, and video clip view counts for each show.

“Radio Star” took first place in the non-drama category for its episode with Seungri and Wanna One. “I Live Alone” moved up seven spots to No. 2 with TVXQ’s episode, and “Infinite Challenge” came in third.

The top 10 buzzworthy variety shows are as follows:

  1. “Radio Star”
  2. “I Live Alone”
  3. “Infinite Challenge”
  4. “High School Rapper 2”
  5. “Sugar Man 2”
  6. Happy Together
  7. “Hyori’s Homestay 2”
  8. “Heart Signal 2”
  9. “Weekly Idol”
  10. “Ask Us Anything”

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NCT’s Doyoung Shares How He Reacted To His Brother Gong Myung Crying On “Hello Counselor”

NCT’s Doyoung Shares How He Reacted To His Brother Gong Myung Crying On “Hello Counselor”

NCT’s Doyoung Shares How He Reacted To His Brother Gong Myung Crying On “Hello Counselor”

Mar 26, 2018

NCT member Doyoung talked about his brother, actor Gong Myung, on “Hello Counselor”!

Members of NCT appeared as guests on the March 26 episode of the KBS 2TV show, and the hosts were quick to mention that Doyoung is Gong Myung’s brother during the introductions.

When Gong Myung was on “Hello Counselor” in 2016, he burst into tears of frustration over one of the stories, and the hosts reminded Doyoung of the scene in this latest episode.

Doyoung cracked everyone up when he replied, “There was video of it in the main part of a portal site, and I took a screenshot of it and sent it to him as a text message.”

“He replied to say, ‘It looks like I made the variety show serious,'” Doyoung continued. One of the hosts said, “He seems like he’s very sensitive,” and Doyoung agreed.

NCT made a comeback this month as an 18-member group with their full album “NCT 2018 Empathy,” while Gong Myung has recently acted in dramas including “Bride of the Water God” and “Revolutionary Love.”

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BIGBANG’s ‘FLOWER ROAD’ at No. 1 in Weekly Charts for 2 Consecutive Weeks


[SBS funE=이정아 기자] BIGBANG’s ‘FLOWER ROAD’ maintained its no. 1 spot in weekly charts for 2 consecutive weeks. 

On the weekly charts announced on March 26, ‘FLOWER ROAD’ dominated no. 1 spots in 7 music platforms including Melon, Mnet, Bugs, Naver Music, Olleh, Soribada, and Genie. The song swept no. 1 spots in various real-time and daily music charts as soon as it was released on March 13. ‘FLOWER ROAD’ is currently maintaining its no. 1 spot for 14 consecutive days in Melon, which is Korea’s largest music platform. 

On the 22nd of last month, the song won 3 titles in Gaon Charts. The song was ranked at no. 1 in Digital Comprehensive, Downloads Comprehensive, and BGM Charts, receiving the honor of winning the triple crown. 

BIGBANG fascinated fans not only in Korea, but also listeners in foreign music markets as well. The song was ranked at no. 1 in US Billboard’s ‘World Digital Song Sales’ Chart and in Japan’s iTunes Comprehensive ‘TOP SONG’ Chart. Furthermore, ‘FLOWER ROAD’ became the fastest Korean track to reach 1 million sales in China’s largest music platform, QQ Music. 

BIGBANG’s ‘FLOWER ROAD’ is a song made with BIGBANG’s enlistments in mind while creating the album ‘MADE’, which was released on December 2016, and contains sincerity of members towards their fans. 

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BIGBANG’s Seungri Chosen As Special MC For Dating Show

BIGBANG’s Seungri will be a special MC on the dating variety show “Romance Package”!

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On March 24, a source from SBS stated that Seungri will appear on the show as a “romance guide” for one day. The idol is currently filming in Busan.

“Romance Package” is a show where guests stay at a hotel for three nights and four days to go on blind dates. It started out as a pilot show last month and successfully became regular programming after receiving positive feedback from viewers.

The pilot episodes were hosted by Jun Hyun Moo and Han Hye Jin, but for the upcoming episodes, actress Im Soo Hyang will be filling in for Han Hye Jin.

“Romance Package” will air in April after the show “Single Wife 2” comes to an end.

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Talented fan creates a beautiful album for BIGBANG's 'Flower Road'

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A talented fan created an album for BIGBANG's "Flower Road".

 

Recently, BIGBANG released a surprise single around the time the members enlisted in the military. The song immediately topped the charts and fans were delighted to hear their voices again. But one tiny disappointing(?) factor was the lack of a physical album. 

 YG Entertainment isn't printing physical copies of "Flower Road" so a fan has stepped up to self-create the album on their own. 

 The flower concept image for "Flower Road" takes the cover of the fanmade album. 



The flower print continues on the inside with the CD. 

 


 

It also comes with the lyrics page. 

 



Nicely and clearly printed.




 

You can't forget the photocards when it comes to albums. 

 



Netizens are expressing amazement at the supreme quality of the fan-created album. Comments stated, "Hul, daebak", "Wow so much respect for this VIP", "YG needs to hire this fan", "Please put this on sale TTTT", "So pretty."


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BIGBANG – ‘뱅뱅뱅(BANG BANG BANG)’ M/V HITS 300 MILLION VIEWS

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10 Times BTS Members Couldn’t Hide Their Fanboy Feels For BIGBANG

As more and more BIGBANG members complete their national duties, we begin to realize how much we’ll be missing them these days. But we’re not the only ones out there who will miss them. Over the years, we have seen many artists express their admiration and gratitude towards the BIGBANG members for their leadership and contributions to the K-pop scene, and BTS is definitely at the forefront of this. While this list barely grazes the surface of the BIGBANG fanboy instances, here’s a list of times the BTS members let their VIP status show.

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1. Original Soundtrack by Golden Maknae

There wasn’t any background music planned, but Jungkook took care of that. How many BIGBANG songs can you count in this clip alone? There might not even be enough fingers!

2. “Eyes, Nose, Lips” obsession

This is one of those moments when you love a song so much that you create your own music video to it. For the members of BTS, they created one in the waiting room and made multiple “Bangton Bombs” to capture just how much they like Taeyang’s “Eyes, Nose, Lips.” You can see how it takes Jungkook a little time to warm up to singing on camera. But once he’s comfortable, he can’t stop singing!

3. Waiting room adventures

Leave it up to BTS to use up every free minute to dance along to BIGBANG. And they sure are into it! Here we have V almost falling off the couch, Jin sneaking in his moves between shots, and Suga taking a break from getting his makeup done; all this just to jam out to their favorite tunes.

4. Karaoke room adventures

If you’ve never gone to a karaoke room before, these videos might serve as a great tutorial. They exhibit passion, energy, and a lot of top of the lung shouting and singing! And of course the members of BTS would choose multiple BIGBANG songs when in these rooms.

5. “Ringa Linga” dance time

Here we have another “Bangtan Bomb” dedicated to covering a song of Taeyang’s. You can joy and cheesiness in their eyes, and how much they’re loving making this bomb!

6. “I Need A Girl” cover

This isn’t your typical radio visit. This considered a serious homage to an artist they highly respect as they’re singing another artist’s song for a radio show. Can you imagine how excited they were to do so?

7. This tweet

맨날천날 자기전에 이세곡은 꼭듣고자는데 너무 좋아서 맨날 부르다보니 입에 붙어서 상받자마자 너무 기뻐 저도 모르게 에고고..ㅠㅠ 사랑합니다 정말 멋지십니다! pic.twitter.com/Ey4Kk2nqpy

— 방탄소년단 (@BTS_twt) May 7, 2015

It has become quite normal for the BTS members to share with us what they’re listening to, which helps us further understand their style and inspirations. Who here is surprised that BIGBANG’s music is in their heavy rotations?

8. The answer to who they look up to

There’s absolutely no question that if you ask the members of BTS who they look up to, they will answer with the members of BIGBANG. They have truly been inspirational to BTS and many other artists out there.

9. This wild behind-the-scenes clip

This is a perfect example of VIPS jamming out to a song that gets them all excited. You can tell the members absolutely cannot contain themselves and rightfully so. The song is just so catchy!

10. The live reactions

Lastly, this list wouldn’t be complete without capturing BTS’s live reactions when they see BIGBANG! It’s a guarantee that you’ll find the members out of their seats dancing along or with their jaws dropped to the floor in awe of their seniors.

What are your favorite moments where BTS members showed their love for BIGBANG? Let us know in the comments below!

amycwang93 loves eating, sleeping, and reading. When she’s not catching up on BTS’s V Live shenanigans, she is listening to “Flower Road” on repeat!



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BIGBANG’s “Bang Bang Bang” Becomes Their 2nd MV To Achieve 300 Million Views

BIGBANG has reached another YouTube milestone!

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The group’s music video for “Bang Bang Bang” passed 300 million views on March 22 at about 6:27 p.m. KST.This is about 2 years, 9 months, 21 days, and 18 hours after the release on June 1, 2015 at 12 a.m. KST.

“Bang Bang Bang” is BIGBANG’s second music video to surpass 300 million views, following “Fantastic Baby” in June 2017. The only other K-pop music videos that have achieved this feat are TWICE’s “TT” and BTS’s “DNA” and “Fire.”

Congratulations to BIGBANG!

Watch the “Bang Bang Bang” music video again below:



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