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'2009 Yahoo! Asia Buzz Award' netizen vote Popular Artist 'Asia region artist' section, 'Boys over Flowers' actors were at the higher rankings. SS501 leader Kim Hyun Joong is 1st in the 'Asia region artist' section.

Yahoo! Korea, Yahoo! Taiwan and Yahoo! Hong Kong jointly held this yearly popular Asia Star selection, Kim Hyun Joong currently is '2009 Yahoo! Asia Buzz Award" Taiwan netizen vote 'Asia region artist' section's No. 1 ranking. He has the champion look. In addition, Kim Hyun Joong's group SS501 also ranked No.2, showing their high popularity in Asia region.

These votings show the popularity of 'Boys over flowers' which was currently broadcast. Consisting Kim Hyun Joong as the lead, the other actors/actresses that in the ranking are Goo Hye Sun (No. 6), Lee Min Ho (No.11), Kim Bum (No.22). 'Boys over Flowers' actors gaining very good results, showing the level of popularity for 'Boys over Flowers' in Taiwan fans.

Other than Kim Hyun Joong and SS501, Super Junior currently is ranked No.4, also actor Lee Junki was rank No.8, Yoon Eun Hye is ranked No. 9. Out of the top 10 artists, there are 6 Korea artists, showing the rise of hallyu wave in Taiwan. Super Junior in Yahoo! Hong Kong votings was ranked No.5, their popularity in Taiwan & Hong Kong and other chinese market is quite equal.

Yahoo! Korea personal revealed: "From this voting result, we can see the Hallyu wave level in the chinese area including Taiwan. In the rest of the voting days, please promote Korea artist!"

In addition, '2009 Yahoo! Asia Buzz Award' is scheduled to hold their award ceremony together with netizen on 14 December.

Netizen voting will end at 4 December and final result will be revealed. In mid December, the artist internet search ranking will be released.

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Super charming Korea Top Heavenly Group SS501,
really returned again to Taiwan!
2nd visit in Taiwan, SS501 not only practiced their mandarin diligently,
but even changed to a shiny & charming new image.
They also fulfilled their promised made during June with fans,
and going to give them a glamorous Taipei Concert....



Best Heavenly Group SS501
2nd visit to Taiwan
SS501 in Taipei




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It shouldn’t be too much to say that the second half of 2009 is Taiwan’s 'Pea Princess' happiest and most dreamy time! In a short span of four months, not only could Taiwan see SS501’s 'real person' twice, but was also the third stop for SS501’s 2009 Asia Concert Tour, after Korea and Japan. With such "자다가 떡이 생긴다*" (jadaga ddeok i saengginda*) happiness, stop asking the pea princesses to calm down, how can it be possible to remain calm! Because even Trendy wants to shout with the Pea Princesses “Mansae!”

(*자다가 떡이 생긴다 literally means "How lucky I am to have ddeok unexpectedly in the dark of night/or when sleeping". Ddeok/Tteok 떡 is rice cake, and rice cake is a celebratory food that are only being eating during sad or happy occasions, like wedding, birthday, new year's day, funerals and etc. So in some way, it means that it is an unexpected happiness. Thanks SaengiePB for explaining this)


Pick up at the Airport: Taiwan Peas’ Creativity, trying to win SS501 laughter

When Trendy and the cameraman reached Taoyuan Airport, there was already a large amount of fans waiting. The cute pea princesses (SS501’s fans), to welcome SS501’s arrival, had prepared all types and kinds of banners and signs in large amounts. Their out of the box creativity, made the airport looked like an enjoyable carnival. Just as everyone’s neck was stretching longer than a giraffe’s, finally we see a red fedora wearing, flashing his very bright smile, Jung Min appearing at the arrival gate! After him was Hyung Joon and KyuJong and behind Kyu Jong was Prince Young Saeng all dressed in white and Hyun Joong wearing his super cool dark shades. Five of them were surrounded by the large number of media and fans, hence they could only move forward slowly. However, the five of them were still very friendly and waved to the fans continuously, causing the airport to be filled with screams which were like waves, one after another.

OOH! Suddenly, it seemed like something caught the eye of the five simultaneously, not only causing the five of them to constantly look back and it seemed like laughter was erupting from the midst of the five, which were even louder than the screams at the airport.

So what exactly was it? Actually it was a humorous signboard prepared by the pea princesses. There is a picture as proof, isn’t it really creative and humorous?! No wonder they could make SS501 so happy the moment they landed. Taiwan pea princesses, all of you are too good! From the time SS501 reached, most of their time were spent on rehearsals, even their request towards food were simple lunch boxes, instant noodles and soft drinks, all focused on preparing for the concert.



Finding out about SS501’s Style

Comparing to their 1st visit, returning to Taiwan for the 2nd time, they looked more relax and happy, this can be discovered from their dressing style

Hyun Joong’s Doraemon

Kim leader, Hyun Joong who has just recovered, didn’t have much expressions after landing, in addition to the black cap and large shades he was wearing, adding the cool factor. However, Trendy had a very cute finding – there was a Doraemon’s head fan hanging from Hyun Joong’s neck! Amazingly, the Doraemon fan on the very cool Hyun Joong didn’t look out of place, but instead there was an odd sense of suitable combination, maybe it’s because of the 4D and child-at-heart nature Hyun Joong has!


Jung Min is Peter Pan

Since the Seoul Concert, Jung Min has been keeping the pretty and cute fringe hairstyle and appeared with matching his style with red fedora. This hat seems to be a favourite accessory of Jung Min’s, as during the last fan meeting in Beijing, Jung Min also wore the same hat when he landed! The lively and friendly Jung Min resembles the fairytale’s Peter Pan immensely, as he couldn’t wait to fly next to everyone the moment he landed.


Hyung Joon’s low profile luxuries

As compared to the four other hyungs, Hyung Joon seem much more plain, aside from the slightly attracting cowboy hat, there wasn’t really much eye catching accessories. However, Hyung Joon’s black tee is actually a branded Italian good, simple but fashionable and stylish, seems like the low profile luxury type of style suits Hyung Joon very much!


Super Stylist Skateboarder Youth Kyu Jong

Wearing the stylish cap with a skull design on the opposite side and a loose jacket, the skate boarder style of dressing, Kyu Jong was even more handsome and shinning. In addition, when leaving the arrival hall, there were huge headphone around his neck, maybe he was happily listening to music on the plane? Probably visiting Taiwan for the second time allowed him to be more familiar, Kyu Jong was less shy and always had a smile on his face. He even playfully stuck his tongue out at Trendy’s cameraman.


Young Saeng’s Angel Wings

Prince Young Saeng always took the quiet approach and this time he appeared in an all snow white Prince Charming style. Young Saeng really likes the brightness and cleanliness feeling of white, even though he was all dressed in white, his shoes with the pair of “angel wings” were exceptionally eye catching. The sports shoes’ special wing design and matching with Young Saeng’s shy smile resembles a cute angel a lot!

SS501 Kim KyuJong confessed for the very first time on an incident that made his father felt heart broken.

Kim KyuJong talked about his father during the filming of SBS ‘Strong Heart’ recently, making the other guests almost moved to tears.

Kim KyuJong said “My father was a full-time National Archery Team player and was also an Archery coach” And he talked about how he quit archery later on.

Kim KyuJong said after his father stopped playing archery, there had been an unexpected incident that came upon his father and family, his father watched by his side and held back his tears alone. This story made the guests present at the filming to swell with tears.

Episode will be broadcast on 01-Dec at 11.05pm.

Credit:ss501ufo.blogspot.com

In the 2009 Melon Award, there are 3 categories which are related to SS501
1. '2009 Star' - SS501

2. '2009 Mania' - 'Love Like This' - Rebirth album

3. '2009 Special Album' - 'Boys Over Flower' OST

The following list the instruction to vote for them in the Melon Award.

1. Go to http://www.melon.com/svc/awards/index.jsp

2. Click on the 'Vote' icon as pointed in the picture below.



3. Select the artist you want to vote by and clicking on the radio button beside the artist name, follow by clicking on the confirm button as pointed in the picture below.



4. Repeat the steps until you have completed all sections.


Don't forget to select SS501 in the sections listed above.

5. You will receive this pop up message once you completed all the section.

The meaning of the message is: "You have voted today. Please vote again tomorrow." (Thanks XiaoChu from Quainte501 for translating this message for me)

Click 'OK' to complete the voting.