F4, "Taiwan and Korea are both
passionate countries"
"Taiwan is very similar to Korea in that they are both passionate
countries. I hope there is more exchange between the two from now on."
Taiwan's idol group F4 visited Korea for the first time together and
attended a press conference commemorating being the campaign model for
Taiwanese tourism and commented, "Taiwan has a unique charm and scenery
that is different from Korea. I hope many will bring back a good
impression."
F4 was selected to be the campaign model for Taiwanese tourism in Korea
and Japan. The Taiwanese ambassador attended the event while Kangta and
the Super Junior members delivered congratulatory messages through a
video.
The members of the group F4 who are all separately active as actors and
singers got together for the first time in a while to film the
commercial.
F4 who visited Tokyo, Japan on the 7th and Seoul this day on the 9th
started by saying, "The Korean people would easily be able to enjoy
Taiwanese culture," and continued to introduce Taiwan's nature, tourist
sites, food, fruits, and others.
The group F4 has a large fan base in Korea. The drama series 'Meteor
Garden' which also aired in Korea gathered great popularity. Vaness is
especially known for his collaboration with Kangta under the name 'Kangta&Vaness.'
source: http://www.broasia.com/
credits: francesca of asianfanatics.net
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F4 attracts more than 5000 fans, venue
couldn't accommodate it anymore.
F4 will star in a drama and will promote tourism for Taiwan the strategy
used is a sightseeing tour! It will be on April 22 it will be for the
Japanese and Korean Fans, the travel agencies have presented to the fans
an itinerary to visit Taiwan. The venue has a capacity to accommodate
5000 fans and there is no more space. The ministry of communications of
the Taiwan is trying to look for another place.
The Taiwan Bureau estimates, as spokespersons, F4 output value to the
Japan and Korean tourist will increase 7%, and can attract at least 420
million in business opportunities.
Taiwan Tourism Board International Chief Huang Jing Hui pointed out, F4
fans travel itinerary include accommodation and plane fare prices depend
on the type of accommodation. It ranges from 60,000 to 110 thousand yen.
The tourism material shows tourist from Japan and Korea will reach up to
9 thousand. Originally the fan meet was intended to be at the Taiwan
University Hall but its too small. The Taiwan Tourism Board has
requested the agency concerned to finalize the venue by the 26th of this
month and the number of people coming from Japan and Korea.
China Times
March 20, 2007
Reporter: Huang Ru Ping
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SMAP + F4 spoofed the big mouth ShanCai
Johnny Entertainment's heavenly group SMAP has their own variety show "SMAP
x SMAP" for 10 years now, with non-stop fame and had maintained its high
TV viewership of more than 20%, their guest list included huge stars
from every country promoting in Japan like Madonna, Rain, Andy Lau,
etc, to perform in their program. A few days ago, as F4 went to Japan
to promote Taiwan tourism, F4 guested with host Kimura in a short spoof
on "Meteor Garden", with Shingo Katori as the big mouth Shan Cai.
Its the first time for SMAP and F4 in the same stage. Breaking the
language barriers, they jointly acted in the short classic scene where
DMS bullied Shan Cai and spoofed it. Kimura played a famous TV Ad
Producer and gave instructions to Jerry's acting. Shingo playing "Shan
Cai" was even clad with braided hair, that brought in more laughter.
Fencing Sword strings up the glutinous rice balls
All these big guys then came in to play "Fencing Sword Threading the
Glutinous Rice Balls" game. Ken and the foot-injured Vanness also danced
along Ken Shimura's classic TV ad dance steps. Finally, Kou Wen
producers and Kimura declared " From now on, it's F4 generation!" in
honor of their 4 handsome Taiwanese guests. That episode will be shown
in Japan sometime in April.
Source: TW Apple Daily
March 15, 2007
*****
KEN NEWS HIGHLIGHTS AT THE F4 PRESS
CONFERENCE:
Zhu Xiao Tian said: “I don’t want to die, I still want to get married!
Before arriving at Tokyo, Zhu Xiao Tian just slept in the plane.
F4 are the Tourism Ambassadors of Taiwan for Japan and Korea, they held
a press conference from the Japanese side there were at least 200
reporters who showed up, the host of the affair is an anchorperson from
NHK, from this you can visualize how spectacular the event is. The 11 am
event was delayed for one hour. F4 came out according to age first to
come out was Zhou Yu Min, Zhu Xiao Tian, Wu Jian Hao and then Yan Cheng
Xu. The four of them wore black and dark grey suits. It was Hiro from
Japan who took care of their clothing. The brand they used were from
Dolce and Gabbana and Dior Homme as well as some famous Japanese Brands.
They spent 200 thousand Taiwanese Dollars just for clothes alone.
Zhu Xiao Tian recommended the delicious dish Pork Fried Rice, he said
that this dish is eaten by almost everyone in Taiwan. But he says that
food in the South Western Area has a different flavor to it. He hopes
that you can sample everything.
Zhu Xiao Tian said there was one time the four of them flew to Kaoshiung,
Taiwan to have an autograph session they didn’t know what was wrong with
the plane, they had to do a forced landing at the Tainan Airport when
the aircraft personnel opened the door he was wiping his perspiration
and said: “its okay, its okay.”
Kimura Takuya thought of a special segment in their SMAP x SMAP program,
they prepared their own version of Meteor Garden the taping started at 4
pm and lasted until 11 pm.
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F4 were divided into two groups
As F4 goes to Japan and Korea , the four kept a coordinated appearance.
Yet however, in order to clearly understand, Jerry and Vanness stays in
one room while Zaizai and Ken are in another room. Not only were their
suits were colored dark gray and black, even at the airplane seating and
hotel accommodation they were into two groups. In addition, during the
live interview,they had selected their seating according to their
division.
Although F4 says that they all get along well, yet there is still an
installed division. When Vanness went solo in his album signing event,
Jerry surprisingly appeared to support him, letting Vanness deeply
touched. The two was also once photographed together eating hot pot in a
restaurant. ZaiZai and Ken once worked together in "Love Storm" they
became close and had friendly bonding. This time, as they went to the
airport to go to Japan , they rode the same car together and used each
other's comb and makeup.
In Japan , the 4 stayed in the executive suite of Cerulean Tower Tokyu,
which costs NT$100,000 a night. The entire floor only has two rooms,
Jerry and Vanness stayed at the 36th floor while Zaizai and Ken stayed
at the 35th floor. At the press con, the 4 are also divided into 2
groups, and even their suits are divided into two colors. Jerry and
Vanness were both wearing gray while Ken and Zaizai were wearing black,
clearly marking their division. Yesterday as they ended up their
Japanese tour, they would proceed to Korea to continue their Taiwan
promo. Besides their scheduled press conference, they have also accepted
8 major network and print media interviews.
After Jerry went solo, he changed his manager-consultant again. This
time in his Tokyo trip, he had with him Hong Jun Chen (Billy) as his new
manager.
Source: Apple Daily
March 9, 2007
*****
Ken Chu succeeded in his very first
solo concert
The silhouette of the musicians who start projecting on the stage
curtain were revealed one after another as the concert starts. Ken Chu
then appeared singing with a very gentle voice, doing acappella to a
Japanese song "Beaches", and the whole auditorium suddenly echoed to
such tune. Ken Chu's 2007 [I KEN] 1st Concert', tarted in that manner,
his first Japan performance which spans 2 days of 2007 February 24th 25
day.
For ken, in the new solo concert, the feeling of nervousness &
insecurity was enormous. Even in the press conference after the concert
ends, [ken] says he ws still very tense. But he gained confidence when
the auditorium was filled up with fans encouraging him with cheers &
holding blue penlights to make the occasion even grand.
The stage of [ken]'s concert was simple. Songs were chosen from his solo
album and other British songs , but like in their Hongkong concert, he
was accompanied by band members, but this time with no elaborate stage
device, simple ones and he was donned in a shirt,cardigan , at times he
wore jacket & embroidered shirt & jeans. There was also no dance
performances unlike in their concert at the Hong Kong coliseum. It
emphasize greatly on music, which has the kind of warmth where his
personality oozes out. The concert was divided into 3 parts.
Following to an Acapella of the first song, it was followed by his song
, "The Good Person", "Trap", in addition, he performed the song from his
tv drama City of Sky, "Heard Love",and so other tunes that were familiar
to all the audiences present. If you look around the place,there were
also fans coming from, Thailand and Taiwan . He talked mostly in
English, but being an F4 member & an ambassador of the sight-seeing
attraction project of TaiwanTourism board, he also commented in some
Japanese words, to the delight of the fans.
As for the second part of the concert,he started out with a Beatles
number which is his music roots, and some of the Beatles pictures where
shown on the slide show."SOMETHING" , "ACROSS THE UNIVERSE" and so on,
where he learned these songs from his stay in Singapore during his teen
years, and according to him some of his favorites, and the Beatles has
great influence in his music. Then he sang "AND I LOVE YOU SO"for his
younger sister who was watching among the crowd. The he sang a song of
his friend, which he knew 3 years ago when he was 24 years old, who died
from an illness, and he was writing a song for him which was hardly
finished, moving everyone into tears. In this concert, he invited the
sister of his friend as his guest, and likewise his friends'family to
watch the concert.
As for the third part of the concert,which again featured some of his
songs in his solo album. He was wearing a black eye mask/cloth, and
urged everyone to wear it, since it was distributed before entering the
auditorium. With just 17song numbers, he finally said he wanted to
perform this new version of his song "Never Stop", but afraid the
company would not allow him. But with his persistence, he was finally
able to perform the new tune of "Never Stop" and urge everyone not to
upload it on the internet. As for his encore "Meteor Rain" of F4, he
wore a white jacket , with the stars as background ,making him appear
like the little prince. Then there were fireworks at the end of his
performance.
He was really tense on the first day hence he talk more in English . "I
have not performed alone in a concert for quite some time now, so I was
really nervous." But on the 2nd day ken chu said he was already relaxed
& accustomed on the stage. He was able to speak few Japanese lines than
the 1st day. He was appearing calm & composed and thought that this show
is really meant for the music lovers.
After his performance on the first day, a press conference was
organized, and there was a lot of media present. "This concert is a big
thing and is important for me", he said.There was a Japanese translator
present for him to communicate with the Japanese media. "Japanese
audiences have several music influences across, but in this concert I
was able to unite Japanese fans thru my music. You think that only the
fans enjoyed, I enjoyed the concert ,too!" Ken said smiling.
He added, "When doing a concert, you must adjust to the circumstances,
to the culture,to the people of that place, but, this time, everything
was possible without doing that so much, because the fans liked the
tunes that I chose. The most delightful thing is that, I was able to
express & perform freely what I like, on the stage, here in Japan . In
addition,my energy was really upsurged with the support of the fans. The
passion of everyone changes into power. That's why I really appreciate
what everyone has done to me, and I wanted the fans to know that they
are always on my mind."
credit to
www.livetaiwan.jp news + kensworld
thnx KCIFC PHILL
*****
MBC Section TV interview with F4
Host's voice over: I'm Sheulgi, arriving at the airport to welcome them,
and welcomers are loudly screaming at them. Even though my voice is
already very loud, it cant still compete with the fans' screaming.
Vanness suffered a leg injury when he made a concert, but very courteous
in greeting Hello, I followed this man and waved together with the
fans."Jerry!!!" I interviewed him, "You really can't remember me?
Jerry!! "
They are now visiting Korea for the first time together as a group in
order to promote Taiwan tourism.
Host: I'm Korea's Shan Cai, DaSheulgi. Hello! <The four guys are still
not used to her big voice>
Host: Brother Jerry, you still cant remember me. Do you remember me?
Jerry: I remember you.
Last time he went to Korea, I was also the one who interviewed him.
<Jerry is still not used to her the last time and until now>
Host: Yesterday, I really called very loudly on you. Did you see me? I
just passed at you. < She is talking about the airport yesterday and
then told it to Jerry>
Jerry: I didn't. Because yesterday there were many people...
Host: I was waiting for you to notice me.
Jerry : There were too many people
Question: What can you say about Korea?
ZZ: I feel very happy to see....
Host: that one shouting is me.
Question: What about your April Fan Gathering in Taipei?
Host: I heard you wanted to hold a huge gathering. Would you invite me,
the Korean Shan Cai? Take a look at his face!
ZZ: No!! < doesn't know her>
Host: As a substitute for Taiwan's Shan Cai. How about this person?
ZZ: As pretty as you
Host: Really?I can be suitable for you.
ZZ: ? ? ? ?
Question: Which type of woman do you like?
Ken: I like the fairly mature types, quite stable, and relatively
intelligent.
Host: those are a bit, tremendously different from me. I wont do to this
man. I feel embarrassed.
Ken: Ouch! its really a pity.
Question: Who among the very many Korean artists do you know?
Vanness: Kim Jo Han, Park Mi Kyeong nuna (older sister)
Host: You speak the Korean "Nuna" word so naturally. I'm the younger
sister!!
Vanness: Right!!
Host : Can you call me Sheulgiya?
Vanness: Sheulgiya - <very considerate>
Host: Oh, you are really gentle and considerate!!
Question: Do you know that we also have F4 in Korea?
F4: No, we don't know.
Host: You really haven't heard about it? I have prepared a picture here.
They are formerly in the theater before they copied F4. They are also
four in the group but from the looks they are really different from you.
< other than the staff, they are a completely different F4.
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JK: At this point, look at Jerry's Reaction
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/364/mbccg6.jpg
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Ken: For someone who are seeing us in this way, its actually alright
with us.
<The Great handsome guys, would now often come to Korea from now on>
Source : [email protected]
http://www.im.tv/VLOG/Personal/384479/1240142
thanks to joyce of jerryilya.com
transcripted in Chinese by oilincanvas of
www.jerryya.org
translated in English by Jerry's Kingdom
*****
F4 Goes to Korea to promote
F4 arrived in Seoul yesterday and this afternoon, they will come
together for their 2nd press conference in promoting Taiwan tourism.
Yesterday 3:30 pm, F4 arrived at the airport but compared to the
6000-strong fans who welcomed them in Japan, there are only about 600
Korean fans who showed up.
However, not to lose to Japanese fans, the screams and crowd-pushing was
as high as those in Japan. In addition, Korean fans were clad with
expensive gifts which they scrambled in the crowd to offer to F4. They
made cakes with F4 faces in it, and F4 accepted some of them. It so
happened that a high-ranking Malaysian official was also visiting Korea
and staying at the same hotel of F4, so there were police securities
everywhere. As a result, when F4 arrived, four fans ran in the
restricted site that alarmed the police to respond immediately.
Source: Liberty Times
March 9, 2007
summarized by Jerry's Kingdom
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