[OTHER] 130226 Music B.B - UKiss

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[OTHER] 130224 KNTV - Exclusive Interview with U-KISS

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[NEWS] 130119 U-Kiss at the Press Conference for the 2013′s Dream K-Pop Fantasy Concert

Guess who is back?
U-Kiss was in Philippines for the FOURTH TIME and will be one of the acts head-lining the Dream K-Pop Fantasy Concert in Manila. K-popped! was fortunate enough to attend the press conference where they talked about how Filipino Kiss-Mes, their comeback, cheesecake and making chocolates!

Do they miss the Philippines?

Why, of course they do?! Kevin mentioned that he missed their fans since they have not been able to visit the Philippines for a while now. He also missed Filipino food and has yet to sample anything this time around as they have just landed not too long ago. Despite that, he still manages a “mahal kita” (I love you”) when asked if he remembers any of the local phrases. Additionally, Kevin said he feels that there is a special connection between U-Kiss and their fans here because the country is where the group had their first major solo concert, “U-KISS First Kiss Tour in Manila”. Kevin also mentioned that the group hopes to return for a “Second Kiss Tour”.

Eli was also glad to be back adding that he is happy to enjoy the warmer weather in the Philippines. He realises it is the cold season here but it is much colder in Korea now!

What does Hoon feel about being in the Philippines for the first time?

Hoon shared Kevin’s enthusiasm and was excited to see so many fans as it is his first visit to the country. Besides that, he was excited to show off his best side at the concert.

How different is U-Kiss from the last time they were in the Philippines?

Eli stated that there has been a lot of growth, evident especially in DongHo, who is now officially an adult (“and is able to legally purchase alcohol now”, Kevin jokingly pointed out)! Adding to that, although AJ is now studying in America, the members have been able to spend more time together and bond with one another.

SooHyun also mentioned that they have been touring quite a bit and definitely matured, “hopefully it will show during the concert to be held on January 19th”. Moreover, U-Kiss is in the midst of recording for their comeback set for March! Hence, fans will be able to gauge their changes then.

Fan Question: If you are able to describe the person to your left as a dessert, what would it be?

Kevin: Well, Hoon is like a cheesecake. Soft, gentle on the mouth (whoops, just gentle, I mean), easy-going and generous!

Hoon: Soohyun is chocolate! Because his voice is sweet and velvety, just like chocolate, especially when he sings!

Soohyun: I would describe Kiseop as a strawberry; sweet and sexy! 

Kiseop: DongHo is like soft ice-cream because his hair and his eyes/stares are very soft!

DongHo: *contemplates* Eli is like coffee because he is addicting and handsome. Similar to the unforgettable aroma of a good coffee, Eli is unforgettable as well, once you have met him.

Eli: Wow, thank you, Dongho! I would say Kevin is like apple pie because when it is baked, it is very sweet and warm, just like Kevin. A very sweet and warm-hearted person.

Before you go, any messages for fans for the coming Valentine’s Day?

DongHo cheekily says it would be great if Kiss Mes make chocolates for him! As much as he would like to spend the V-Day with all their fans, he couldn’t. So, he reckons the best way fans can celebrate the Valentine’s Day would be to spend time making chocolates for him and then enjoying them while thinking about U-Kiss. That way, the fans and U-Kiss will be in each other’s hearts.

Last but not least, do they have any advice for aspiring artistes?

“Work hard and don’t give up,” says Soohyun. Wise words indeed. Soohyun thinks it is important to continuously exert your effort into something that you love doing and to keep following your dreams!

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[AUDIO] 121001 KPOPPIN with Isak - Eli and Kevin's Interview Cut

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[VIDEO] 120924 EatYourKimchi's Interview with U-Kiss 2012

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[VIDEO] 120628 U-Kiss Final Backstage on M! Countdown

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[PHOTOS] 120529 UKISS Eli, Kevin, and Aj on Korea Today

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[PHOTO] 120529 Eli on Korea Today

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[PHOTO] 120528 Korea Today's Interview with Eli, Kevin and AJ

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[INTER] 120118 UKISS Interview with Music Japan TV

[INTER] 120118 UKISS Interview with Music Japan TV

1) Introduce yourself in 10 seconds! (About their special skills)

Hoon: Tae Kwon Do.
Kevin: English.
Dongho: Chinese. (All 3 up to now ran out of time and panicked.)
Kiseop: Dance. (Dances a bit because he has time but Soohyun wants him to talk more.)
Soohyun: Songs. If you speak about singing… (Wanted to say more but ran out of time and Eli laughs like crazy at him.)
AJ: Raps that he wrote. (Had problems expressing himself, ran out of time and hugs Soohyun.)
Eli: Animal imitations. (Does an elephant sound.)

Soohyun thinks this was hard to do.

2) Tell us what’s the “best” thing about yourself!

Hoon: Soohyun says it’s his body. Kevin says he has a lot of muscles and a big/strong chest. Everyone is touching him, AJ thinks this is kind of perverted.

Kevin: He’s the prettiest, as said by Soohyun. Kevin thinks that being “cool” type would be better but Soohyun prefers “pretty” type. Soohyun asks him to show us his “pretty” aspects, so he does “Moe moe~” [cute thing to do in Japan] and ends up too embarassed.

Dongho: He sleeps for a very long time, as said by Kevin. Soohyun thinks there’s nothing good about that. Kevin says it’s not a really good thing but it’s the best/longest thing he can do. Dongho apologizes for not being able to do anything else.

Kiseop: Hoon says he’s the coolest but his face is…. (everyone laughs at this point) Soohyun says it’s because his heart is pure. Kiseop has no comments about that, but confirms that he’s strange.

AJ: Soohyun says he’s the smartest. He writes songs and lyrics all by himself. AJ is happy about that and says he’ll keep doing his best.

Eli: Kevin says Eli is the one who can eat the fastest. Dongho says Eli doesn’t eat food, he pretty much DRINKS food, that’s how fast he eats. Eli is so shocked that he can’t say anything.

Soohyun: Hoon says Soohyun likes girls. Soohyun doesn’t like where this is going, tells Hoon to stop because he’s wrong, says he only loves all of the fans and complains that everyone is mean.

3) Somewhere you like or somewhere you want to go in Japan?

Hoon: Likes Tsutenkaku (landmark tower in Osaka). He thinks the scenery is pretty but very scary!

Kevin: Likes Dotonbori (famous downtown street in Osaka), because there’s a lot of different food.
Dongho: Likes Osaka Castle. He only got to see it from outside once when they went biking in Japan.

Kiseop: Likes Sapporo. He really was surprised at how delicious the misoc ramen was.

Soohyun: Wants to go to Okinawa (southern islands in Japan.) Everyone agrees with him. He wants to go to the sea.

AJ: Wants to go to Tokyo Tower. He’s already seen it but he never went inside it.

Eli: Wants to go to a hot spring. He likes it when he goes there and his body feels warm on the bottom and cold on the top.

4) YES or NO!?

Q1: Do you arrange your date plans?
YES: Hoon, Kiseop, AJ.
NO: Soohyun, Eli, Kevin, Dongho.

AJ: I’m an extremely specific person. [I’m not sure how to say this in English! It’s like someone who really follows a set plan?]

Kiseop: Me too.

Eli: He thinks differently. During the date, he’ll evaluate the situation and quickly think of what would be good to do.

AJ: (Suddenly) We both think of Hawaii.

Eli: Hawaii?

Hoon: I wanna go to Hawaii!

Q2: If you see a girl crying, does it make you automatically forgive her?
YES: Hoon, Dongho, Kiseop, Eli.
NO: Soohyun, AJ, Kevin.

Hoon: It makes me really worried if a girl cries.

Soohyun: That’s wrong. Girls can fake cry too, when they did something wrong.

Hoon: Please trust girls!

Dongho: Please trust them!

Soohyun: Watch out from bad girls!

Hoon: Dangerous!?

Soohyun: I only trust the fans!

Everyone in the YES section: ME TOO ME TOO ME TOOOOO~

Q3: You have a secret that you haven’t told the members.
YES: Hoon, AJ, Eli.
NO: Kiseop, Soohyun, Kevin, Dongho.

Soohyun: The 3 of you aren’t our family because you’re hiding secrets.

Hoon: Then, I’m fine with telling you my secret now. When I was a kid… (THE STAFF OMITTED IT)

AJ: Since you told it, you’re family now.
(Hoon changes sides)

Eli & AJ are ~secretive~

AJ: No comment (on the secret)

Eli: A secret is a secret.
Soohyun: GOOD BYE. U-KISS IS NOW A 5 MEMBER GROUP.

Q4: Prefer to be with members than alone.

YES: Kevin, Hoon, Kiseop, Soohyun, Dongho.
NO: Eli, AJ. (AJ started laughing because he ended up with Eli again)

AJ: After all, I feel at peace when I’m alone.

Eli: I can reduce my stress a bit.

Soohyun: What are you talking about! You feel stressed when you’re with us?

Dongho: Aren’t we family!

Soohyun: Dongho, what are you doing right now? (Dongho has one foot on each side of YES/NO). WHA- WHAT ARE YOU DOING.
Hoon: Why you doing that! (Osaka dialect)

Dongho: I like both (alone/together).

AJ: He thinks like me so, Dongho you’re over here.

Kevin: It’s fun when we’re all together.

Dongho: (Runs back) After all, we’re familyyy~

Eli: (Runs to the other side) Me too!

AJ: I’M ALONE!~

Hoon: I feel bad for you…

In the end, they made up and became a happy 7 member family.

5) Talking about “Tick Tack”

Hoon: The song has sad lyrics, so we sing it with a sad feeling.

Kevin: The dance is nice too, so please check that out too!

6) What about Japanese was hard for you?

Dongho: Since I haven’t rapped in Japanese a lot up to now, it was hard.

Kiseop: And, also, pronounciation was hard. [Korean speakers tend to have problems with t/d, s/z and such in Japanese]

Kevin: Sa Shi Su Se So (pronouncing sylabbles in Japanese)

Hoon: Za Ji Zu Ze Zo. Ta Chi Tsu Te To?

Soohyun & Dongho: We’ll do our best!

7) What’s the highlight of the dance?

Kevin: The highlight is the leg dance. At first, our bodies huuuu~rt.

Hoon: But now, we’re perfect.

8) What are your plans for your activities…?

All: Country wide tour!

Soohyun: Our tour starts in March, since we prepared a lot of different stages and events, everyone, please come in great number!

Kevin: I’m looking forward to it~

Soohyun: Since we’re always working hard, please support us.

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[INTERVIEW/TRANS] 111227 U-KISS: Christmas Premium Talk and Mini Live Q&A.

[INTERVIEW/TRANS] 111227 U-KISS: Christmas Premium Talk and Mini Live Q&A.

Q: When you were a kid, what was that gift from Santa that made you the happiest?

Hoon: At the top of my head, a robot

Kiseop: Like Hoon, it was a toy..a small car I think?

Kevin: Pikachu

Soohyun: Not from Santa Claus, but my mom. Tamiya mini 4WD and letters

Dongho: A big game

Eli: CD player

AJ: Playstation

Q: If you were to spend Christmas alone, what would you do?

AJ: Write songs

Eli: Drive?

Dongho: Play video games

Soohyun: Like Dongho, play video games

Kevin: Watch "Home Alone"

Kiseop: Go for a drive

Hoon: Climb Mt. Fuji

Q: What Christmas present would you give to the person next to you?

Hoon (to Kiseop): A car.......a small car..

Kiseop (to Kevin): Looks good in a hat, so..a hat.

Kevin (to Soohyun): Shoes

Soohyun (to Dongho): A Chopper watch

Dongho (to Eli): A lot of Red Bull

Eli (to AJ): Microphone used for recording

AJ (to Hoon): A bag

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[INTERVIEW] 111224 U-KISS Interview with K-FAN

[INTERVIEW] 111224 U-KISS Interview with K-FAN

U-KISS, debuted in Japan on December 14th with “Tick Tack”! We have a long interview with them!

U-KISS debuted in Japan on December 14th with “Tick Tack”. How is their enthusiasm towards their Japanese activities? What is the message they put into their song……? We’re going to press the members one by one for their strong feelings!

―― What is the concept for your Japanese debut single “Tick Tack”?
Soohyun: The melody is powerful and upbeat, but the lyrics are like “telling a lie your girlfriend” and has a sad theme, so this is a song that has two sides.

―― Did you have troubles with recording this time?
Soohyun: Of course there were. We saw the translated version of the lyrics in Korean, and with the members, we even had a talk wondering, “what’s the meaning of this song”, although it wasn’t difficult to that point, still, the pronunciation part was difficult. Even so, when we compare it with the Japanese version of “0330”, I think we didn’t take as much time to finish it.

―― Around how much time did it take?
Soohyun: We received the lyrics and the melody before the recording, since we recording after I made an image in my head, the recording itself didn’t take that much time, we recorded it in less than a day.
Hoon: For me, I think that I can become better in Japanese from now on but, as I thought, pronunciation is…….
Eli: Within the members, my Japanese skill is the lowest, and the person who carried out the day recording this time was a Japanese person, since everything related to pronunciation was said in Japanese too, there was a part where I couldn’t follow their words, and that was the most difficult.
Kiseop: Also, for me too, pronunciation was a bit difficult.
Dongho: I couldn’t sleep from the morning of the day before the PV shooting until the morning of the day after.
Kevin: Since the person who carried out the day recording was a Japanese person, and our translator came in during the middle, there was a part that couldn’t be transmitted and that was difficult. Even so, after hearing the end result of the song, I thought that our performance was good.
AJ: I do the rap part, and since that part was quick, I couldn’t say the words quick enough, my tongue wasn’t moving that well. But, I think the whole thing was completed really nicely.

―― Did you have troubles with understanding the Japanese lyrics?
Soohyun: It’s not that it was difficult because it was Japanese, but the subject of the lyrics was really deep, as in, “you tell a lie for the sake of the girl you love, because you really don’t want to break up”, the first time I heard it, I didn’t understand it at all, I kept listening to it and looking at the lyrics many times, and little by little, I was able to understand it.

―― Which part of the lyrics interested you the most?
Kevin: “We can’t spend tomorrow like we did today” (Kyou no you ni, asu wa sugosenai)
Hoon: “I only love you” (Kimi dake wo aishiteiru)
Soohyun: “You haven’t realized it yet, you don’t know anything, I’m the liar who’s deceiving you” (Mada kitzukanai, nanimo shiranai, kimi wo damasu liar)
Eli: How much, how much, are you going to be hurt by these lies, baby (Dono kurai, dono kurai, kono uso de kizutsuku baby)
Members: Because it’s your own parts!
Kevin: “I’m just going to tell you a big lie” (Tada ooki na uso wo tsuku tame ni)
Dongho: Since now on our home page we have the short version of the PV, you haven’t seen this but, in the PV, the adlibs that Soohyun and Hoon do are a cool highlight.
Kiseop: The adlib part was cool. It’s a production that’s like when a high part and a low part cross.
Soohyun: Dancing with the silver powder was a really pretty production. Since you love your girlfriend and even if you don’t want to tell a lie, you have to tell it, it’s like all your complicated feelings just come out, it’s a painful and powerful scene.

―― What’s the highlight of the dance this time?
Eli: There are 3 points in the dance part. The first one is, at the part in first chorus that everyone does, it’s a dance where we use our legs, I think it’s easy to imitate.
Kevin: The 2nd one is, when the dance where we shake our heads at the same time as the sound

of the clock ticking.
Eli: The 3rd one is at the part of the bridge, at the time of the dance break, up until now, all of us did the same choreography, but at this part, we’re separated into 3 and 4, we’re doing different dances while competing with each other, from there we finally go back together, and finish it with a cool image.
Kevin: In the very end part, it’s like the world really stopped, they aimed to make it as if time stopped, that’s a highlight too.
Members: That’s the part where Kevin becomes the centre (laughs) Is that why he spoke about it?

―― Please give a message for the Japanese fans!
AJ: After we debuted (Neverland comeback) in Korea, we debuted in Japan and since we didn’t have much time, I was nervous and felt anxious. But we worked very hard, and I want to show all the fans that we are always growing. Also, if we don’t grow, I don’t want the fans to think that we always look the same, so we’ll continue to grow, and I will do my best so that the fans won’t be disappointed.
Kevin: We waited for our debut too, and I think since the fans waited too, we probably kept you waiting long, I want to show you a cool image on stage. And, I want to be with U-KISS, who always making great efforts and always grows. Also, after this Japanese debut, since we are continuing activities in Japan, we come in contact with the fans, I would like to be able to interact a lot with you. As always, thank you. I love you.
Dongho: Our official Japanese debut has come, I feel that this is an honour. Also, I think that there’s a special meaning for us to be singing Japanese songs infront of the Japanese fans. Also, since we worked very hard for this song, I think it would be nice if everyone would give us a lot of love for it. I think that if you love this song, our next single or album will also be related to this, so please make sure you listen to it. I love you.
Kiseop: I’m really happy that our Japanese debut came, but I’m also nervous. If we had a little more events, then we could have more chances to meet all the fans but, we can meet the fans now anyway. Also, since from now on, I think we’ll be doing more of these activities, I want us to become a U-KISS that the fans can love more. I really love you!
Eli: I think that it’s an honour for us to have been able to debut with this song called “Tick Tack”. We did a lot of preparations so that we could release this CD, so I’ll be happy if the fans will give us a lot of support. I think that this time the events increased so we’ll have more chances to meet with the fans, and I want the fans to anticipate it. Please make sure to give “Tick Tack” a lot of support. Thank you. I love you.
Hoon: First of all, I want to say, thank you very much to all the fans. Because even when we were in Korea, the Japanese fans supported us. I think that our song “Tick Tack” is a really cool and good song, so I want to show it to the fans as soon as possible. If it’s for the fans, then U-KISS will do their best.
Soohyun: To the fans, thank you for always supporting U-KISS. We really worked hard, so please make sure you listen to “Tick Tack”. And, I miss you. We’re here thanks to all the fans.

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