Ghana (chocolate)
Ghana (Katakana: , ) is a brand of chocolate manufactured by the Korean company Lotte Confectionery since 1964 and South Korea since 1975. Its name is a homage to the country Ghana, one of the world's largest exporters of cocoa beans from which chocolate is made. The confectionery has a creamy texture, and is a popular brand in both South Korea and Japan. Japan's Ghana chocolate is made by Lotte in Japan and unlike Korea's Ghana chocolate, it uses cocoa butter by using the microglind method. Like Korea, the Japanese Ghana chocolate is written as 'Ghana' in English. Ghana has four kinds of chocolate wrapped in red, black, white and beige. Selected varieties * Ghana cacao milk chocolate * Ghana black excellent * Ghana excellent bite size * Ghana black * Ghana toppo * Ghana mild cacao mild chocolate * Ghana Air (Air light) Notable endorsers *Lee Mi-yeon (Korea, 1980s) *Masami Nagasawa *Emi Takei *Mao Asada, Yuzuru Hanyu, Tao Tsuchiya, Airi Matsui (Japan, 2014) *Miwa Yoshida ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lotte Confectionery
Lotte Confectionery Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean confectionery company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The company was established in 1967. Currently, it is the third-largest chewing gum manufacturer in the world, and its plants are located in Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Belgium, India, Russia, Myanmar, and China. History Bubble gum beginnings in the 1940s Although later considered one of South Korea's largest companies, Lotte's origins actually traced back to post-World War II Japan. During the war, Shin Kyuk-ho, a native of Korea, went to Tokyo to study at a technical college in 1941 at the age of 19. After graduating, Shin remained in Japan, adopting the Japanese name of Takeo Shigemitsu. By 1946, Shin decided to go into business for himself, launching the Hikara Special Chemical Research Institute. This company produced soaps and cosmetics from surplus chemicals stocks left over from the war. That company, although small, provided the basis for Shin's first fortune, and wit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miwa Yoshida
is a Japanese musician, and the lead singer for the band Dreams Come True. She is also a founding member with bassist Masato Nakamura and keyboardist Takahiro Nishikawa. Yoshida also fronts a Dreams Come True side-project, Funk the Peanuts, and has released two solo albums, ''Beauty and Harmony'' and ''Beauty and Harmony 2''. Both albums took their name from the English translation of the name Miwa. Life and music career In 2004, Yoshida married videographer Ken Sueda, who had shot several of Dreams Come True's Wonderland concert videos. Sueda died in 2007 of brain cancer, and it came out at the time that the marriage was never officially recorded. In March 2012, she announced that she had married Juon Kamata, the lead singer of the Japanese rock band Fuzzy Control A fuzzy control system is a control system based on fuzzy logic—a mathematical system that analyzes analog input values in terms of logical variables that take on continuous values between 0 and 1, in c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chocolate Bars
A chocolate bar (Commonwealth English) or candy bar (some dialects of American English) is a confection containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. A flat, easily breakable, chocolate bar is also called a tablet. A wide variety of chocolate bar brands are sold. A popular example is a Snickers bar, which consists of nougat mixed with caramel and peanuts, covered in milk chocolate. The first solid chocolate bar put into production was made by J. S. Fry & Sons of Bristol, England, in 1847. Cadbury began producing one in 1849. Released in 1866, a filled chocolate bar, Fry's Chocolate Cream, was the first mass-produced chocolate bar. In 1912, the Goo Goo Cluster was the first mass-produced combination bar; it included marshmallow, nougat, caramel, and roasted peanuts. In some varieties of English and food labeling standards, the term ''chocolate bar'' is reserved for bars of solid chocolate, with ''candy b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Chocolate Bar Brands
This is a list of chocolate bar brands, in alphabetical order. Flavour variants and discontinued chocolate bars are included. A chocolate bar, also known as a candy bar in American English, is a confection in an oblong or rectangular form containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nut (fruit), nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. Key: 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z See also * List of bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturers * List of confectionery brands * Candy bar, which includes a list of candy bars that do not contain chocolate References {{Chocolate, state=collapsed Brand name chocolate, * Lists of brand name foods, Chocolate Bar Brands Lists of foods by ingredient, Chocolate Chocolate bars, * Dessert-related lists, Chocolate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amerado (musician)
Derrick Sarfo Kantanka, (born 14 February 1995), best known as Amerado, is a Ghanaian rapper from Kumasi. He is the curator of Yeete Nsem, Ghana's first news casting rap series. Early life and education Derrick Kantanka was born and raised in Ejisu, Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He attended KNUST Senior High School. Music career After placing third at the Solid FM Freestyle Show in 2015, Amerado caught the attention of music producer, sound engineer and A&R, Azee Ntwene, who signed the rapper to his label MicBurnerz Music. Amerado was featured on a song by Mix Master Garzy intended to promote peace around the 2016 Ghanaian general election. The following year, Amerado released his first single ''I AM'', which ''Pulse Ghana'' included among their top 10 Ghanaian songs in January 2017. He released his first EP ''Rapmare'' that November. In 2018, Amerado was featured on Sarkodie's hip-hop song "Biibi Ba", which was nominated for the Best Hiphop Song at the 2 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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IU (singer)
Lee Ji-eun (; born May 16, 1993), also known by her stage name IU (), is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with her first extended play (EP) ''Lost and Found'' (2008). Although her follow-up albums, '' Growing Up'' and '' IU...IM'', brought mainstream success, it was only after the release of " Good Day" ( ko, 좋은 날), the lead single from her 2010 album ''Real'', that she achieved national stardom. "Good Day" went on to spend five consecutive weeks at the top of South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart, and in 2019, it was ranked number one on ''Billboard''s "100 Greatest K-Pop Songs of the 2010s" list. With the success of her 2011 albums, ''Real+'' and ''Last Fantasy'', IU established herself as a formidable force on the music charts of her native country and further cemented her girl next door image as Korea's "little sister ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wanna One
Wanna One () was a South Korean boy band formed by CJ E&M through the second season of ''Produce 101''. The group was composed of eleven members: Kang Daniel, Park Ji-hoon, Lee Dae-hwi, Kim Jae-hwan, Ong Seong-wu, Park Woo-jin, Lai Kuan-lin, Yoon Ji-sung, Hwang Min-hyun, Bae Jin-young and Ha Sung-woon. The group debuted on August 7, 2017, under Swing Entertainment and CJ E&M. Their contract ended on December 31, 2018, but their final activity as a group was their last concert on January 24–27, 2019. History Pre-debut: ''Produce 101'' Wanna One was formed through the 'survival' competition series ''Produce 101'' (season 2), which aired on Mnet from April 7 until June 16, 2017. Out of an initial 101 trainees representing various agencies, the final 11 were chosen by audience voting and announced via live television broadcast. Before appearing on the program, several members had already been active in the entertainment industry. Park Ji-hoon was a child actor and had appeared ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jun Ji-hyun
Jun Ji-hyun (born Wang Ji-hyun on 30 October 1981), also known by her English name Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model. She has received multiple awards, including two Grand Bell Awards for Best Actress and a Daesang (Grand Prize) for Television at the Baeksang Art Awards. Jun rose to fame for her role as ''The Girl'' in the romantic comedy film ''My Sassy Girl'' (2001), which became a tremendous sensation across Asia and sparked an international breakthrough for Korean cinema. Other notable films include ''Il Mare'' (2000), ''Windstruck'' (2004), ''The Thieves'' (2012), ''The Berlin File'' (2013) and ''Assassination'' (2015). She also starred in television series ''My Love from the Star'' (2013–2014), ''The Legend of the Blue Sea'' (2016–2017) and '' Jirisan'' (2021), as well as the Netflix series ''Kingdom'' (2020–present). Jun Ji-hyun's success in film and television has established her as a top Hallyu star. She is referred to as one of "The Troika" along ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Park Bo-gum
Park Bo-gum (; born June 16, 1993) is a South Korean actor. He gained recognition for his diverse range of roles in film and television, notably, a psychopathic lawyer in ''Hello Monster'' (2015), a genius Go player in ''Reply 1988'' (2015–2016), a Joseon Crown Prince in ''Love in the Moonlight'' (2016), a free-spirited man who falls for an older woman in ''Encounter'' (2018), and a model who overcomes various hardships to become a successful actor in ''Record of Youth'' (2020). Park was the youngest artist to be named Gallup Korea's Television Actor of the Year. He was also the first ever actor to top the Korea Power Celebrity list by ''Forbes Korea''. Early life and education Born in Seoul on June 16, 1993, Park is the youngest of three siblings. "Bo-gum" (寶劍) means 'precious sword'. His mother died when he was in fourth grade. He started learning to play the piano when he was in kindergarten and was a pianist and choir member at church. He was also on the varsity ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lee Hye-ri
Lee Hye-ri (; born June 9, 1994), better known mononymously as Hyeri, is a South Korean actress, singer, and television personality. She rose to fame as the youngest member of girl group Girl's Day, and was named as the "Nation's Little Sister" by the South Korean media due to her immense popularity after appearing as a fixed cast member on '' Real Men'' (2014). She later became known for her award-winning performance as the female lead in ''Reply 1988'' (2015), which was the highest-rated drama in Korean cable television history at the time. After back-to-back success in variety and the small screen, Hyeri ranked third in ''Forbes'' Korea Power Celebrity list in 2016 and became one of the highest-paid commercial models in South Korea. Hyeri was a regular cast member on ''Amazing Saturday'' (2018–2020). After leaving the show to focus on her acting career, Hyeri starred in the popular iQiyi series ''My Roommate Is a Gumiho'' (2021)''.'' Early life and education Hyeri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jo Bo-ah
Jo Bo-ah (born Jo Bo-yoon on August 22, 1991) is a South Korean actress, model and host known for her roles in ''Goodbye to Goodbye'' (2018), ''My Strange Hero'' (2018), ''Forest'' (2020), ''Tale of the Nine Tailed'' (2020), and ''Military Prosecutor Doberman'' (2022) . Early life Jo Bo-ah was born Jo Bo-yoon on August 22, 1991, in Daejeon, South Korea. Jo graduated from Sungkyunkwan University, majoring in Performing Arts. She has a sister, Jo Yoo-ah. Career Jo made her acting debut in 2011 with a small role in the daily sitcom ''I Live in Cheongdam-dong'' on cable channel JTBC. This was followed by a hosting gig on the audition program ''Made in U'' (also on JTBC), and an appearance in the Korean-Japanese co-production ''Koisuru Maison ~Rainbow Rose~''. In 2012, Jo landed her first major role as a former rich girl who falls for a rocker in tvN's coming-of-age series '' Shut Up Flower Boy Band''. Later that year, she appeared in her first network TV series with a supporting ro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |