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Kim Samuel
Samuel Arredondo Kim (born January 17, 2002), better known by his stage name Samuel, is an American singer who was a part of the short-lived hip hop duo 1Punch in 2015. In April 2017, he participated in the reality television series season 2 of ''Produce 101'' during the first half of 2017. In the final episode, he ranked 18th and was not able to join the show's project group. One month after the show ended, he began his solo career as Samuel, with the release of his first EP ''Sixteen'' on August 2. Early life Samuel was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Mexican father (José Arredondo) and a South Korean mother. Career 2012–2013: Pre-debut Samuel made his first appearances to the public at the age of eleven, when he appeared in the live broadcast series '' Seventeen TV'' as a trainee under Pledis Entertainment. In 2013, he left the agency. 2015–2016: 1Punch and collaboration with Silentó In 2015, Samuel debuted as a part of hip-hop duo named 1Punch (with r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-pop
K-pop (), short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. The term "K-pop" became popular in the 2000s, especially in the international context. The Korean term for domestic pop music is ''gayo'' (), which is still widely used within South Korea. While "K-pop" can refer to all popular music or pop music from South Korea, it is colloquially often used in a ''narrower'' sense for any Korean music and artists associated with the entertainment and idol industry in the country, regardless of the genre. The more modern form of the genre, originally termed "rap dance", emerged with the formation of the hip hop boy band Seo Taiji and Boys, in 1992. Their experimentation with different sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BtoB (band)
} BtoB ( ; ; acronym for Born to Beat; often stylized as BTOB) is a South Korean boy band formed in 2012 by Cube Entertainment. The group consists of Seo Eun-kwang, Lee Min-hyuk, Lee Chang-sub, Im Hyun-sik, Peniel Shin and Yook Sung-jae. Originally a septet, Jung Il-hoon departed from the group on December 31, 2020. BtoB debuted on March 21, 2012, performing "Insane" (비밀) and "Imagine" on ''M Countdown''. The group's debut EP, ''Born to Beat'' was released on April 3, 2012. They released their first full-length album, ''Complete'', in June 2015. In November 2014, they made their Japanese debut with "Wow" under the Japanese agency Kiss Entertainment. Since the group's 2012 debut, they have received multiple awards, including the 30th Golden Disc Awards Best Vocal Group in 2016, 2017 Melon Music Awards Top 10 Bonsang and 25th Seoul Music Awards Ballad Award in 2018. Five of their albums topped the Gaon Album Chart, and nine of their singles peaked in top ten on the natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross (TV Series)
''Cross'' () is a 2018 medical thriller South Korean television series starring Go Kyung-pyo, Cho Jae-hyun, and Jeon So-min. It aired from January 29 to March 20, 2018, on tvN's Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:30 KST time slot. Synopsis A gifted young man learns medicine out of a desire to avenge his father who was brutally murdered fifteen years ago. Cast Main * Go Kyung-pyo as Kang In-gyu, a genius first-year resident doctor working in the organ transplant department of Sunrim Hospital who graduated atop of his class all throughout medical school and passed his doctor's licensing exams with a perfect score. * Cho Jae-hyun as Go Jung-hoon, a world-renowned expert in liver transplants and chief of the organ transplant center. * Jeon So-min as Go Ji-in, an organ transplant coordinator who is the only daughter of Jung-hoon. * Jin Yi-han as Lee Joo-hyuk, an organ transplant specialist. * Yang Jin-sung as Son Yeon-hee, the daughter of the hospital chairman. She is a first-year fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kriesha Chu
Kriesha Ziskind Teo Tiu (born December 20, 1998), better known by her stage name Kriesha Chu (Korean: 크리샤 츄), is a Filipina-American singer based in South Korea. Life and career Early life Tiu was born on December 20, 1998, in Makati, Philippines to Filipino parents of Chinese heritage who relocated from Cebu to Manila. At the age of 2, Tiu migrated with her family to San Francisco. She then got scouted by her current company, Urban Works Entertainment. She speaks English, Cebuano, Tagalog and Korean, and holds both Filipino and US citizenships. 2016–2017: ''K-pop Star 6: The Last Chance'' and ''Kriesha Chu 1st Single Album'' In 2016, Chu entered ''K-pop Star 6: The Last Chance''. She was eliminated on the seventh episode, but was brought back as a wild card contestant. She became a member of Kwins, which consists of Kim So-hee and Kim Hye-rim, where they finished as runners-up of the competition. After ''K-pop Star 6'' ended, Chu released her first single alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cha Tae-hyun
Cha Tae-hyun (; born March 25, 1976) is a South Korean actor, singer, television personality, radio DJ and director. He is best known for his lead roles in the box-office hit comedies ''My Sassy Girl'' (2001), ''Scandal Makers'' (2008), ''Hello Ghost'' (2010) and fantasy drama action hit '' Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds'' (2017) as well as the television series ''Jeon Woo-chi'' (2012), '' The Producers'' (2015) and '' Police University'' (2021). He made his directorial debut with the variety-drama ''Hit the Top'' (2017), in which he also starred. From 2012 to 2019, he was a cast member of the variety show '' 2 Days & 1 Night''. He is a co-founder of the talent management agency Blossom Entertainment. Career 1995–2000: Beginnings Cha Tae-hyun started his career as a silver medalist in a 1995 KBS Talent Contest. Over the next several years he would star in a large number of TV dramas such as ''Sunflower'' and '' Happy Together'', while also appearing in numerous TV com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kyung-min
Hong Kyung-min (; born February 9, 1976) is a South Korean singer and actor. As a singer, Hong has released 10 albums and is best known for his 2000 hit song "Shaky Friendship" (). Music career 1997–2000 He made his debut as a rock-ballad singer in 1997 with the song "Now" ("이제는"). Hong Kyung Min's style of rock was much unlike any other rock singer. Different from rock singers with loud high-pitched tones, Hong Kyung Min's mid-to-low voice color and stable tone approached listeners with a more comforting sensation. Although he was acknowledged as a talented singer with his strong husky voice appealing to many music lovers, his place in the pop music market was not significant. However, in 2000, the single "Shaky Friendship" ("흔들린 우정") was released from his third album and became a strong success. The single's release marked a change of style, as Hong broke away from his previous rock-styled songs and moved into the Latin music genre. His third album was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Chung-ha
Kim Chung-ha (, born Kim Chan-mi []; February 9, 1996), known mononym, mononymously as Chungha (stylized as CHUNG HA), is a South Korean Pop music, pop singer, dancer and choreographer signed under MNH Entertainment. She finished fourth in Mnet (TV channel), Mnet's girl group survival show ''Produce 101'', becoming a member of the resulting girl group I.O.I. Following the dissolution of I.O.I in 2017, Chungha debuted as a solo artist with the extended play '' Hands on Me''. Early life Chungha was born as Kim Chan-mi () on February 9, 1996, in Seoul. Under her English name Annie Kim, she lived in Dallas, Texas, for eight years before returning to South Korea to become a singer. As a result, she speaks both English and Korean. She graduated from Sejong University, majoring in dance. She auditioned for YG Entertainment and was a JYP Entertainment trainee prior to joining MNH Entertainment. Kim trained for three years before debuting, and had been dancing for 6–7 years. She reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaon Music Chart
The Circle Chart (), previously known as the Gaon Music Chart or the Gaon Chart (), tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in South Korea. It is produced by the Korea Music Content Association and sponsored by South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Founded in 2010. History Gaon Chart was launched in February 2010 by the Korea Music Content Association, under the sponsorship of the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, with the aim to create a domestic national chart similar to the ''Billboard'' charts of the United States and the Oricon charts of Japan. The word ''gaon'', which means "middle" or "center" in Korean, was chosen to represent fairness and reliability. The chart started tracking sales from the beginning of that year. A small awards ceremony was held in conjunction with the launch ceremony on February 23, at the Westin Chosun hotel in Seoul. Girl group Girls' Generation was awarded the Top Artist of January, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas (, "Saint Luke Cape"), or simply just Cabo, is a resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As at the 2020 Census, the population of the city was 202,694 inhabitants.2020 Census of Mexico. Cabo San Lucas together with the famous San José del Cabo are collectively known as Los Cabos. Together, they form a metropolitan area of 351,111 inhabitants.2020 Census of Mexico. Rated as one of Mexico's top five tourist destinations, Cabo is known for its beaches, scuba diving locations, Balnearios, the sea arch El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, and marine life. The Los Cabos Corridor has become a heavily trafficked vacation destination for tourists, with numerous resorts and timeshares along the coast between Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo. The waters around Cabo are home to marine wildlife including rays, sharks, mahi-mahi (dorado), and striped marlin. History Archaeological excavations have shown evidenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
