[TRAILER] "Subaru" Movie feat. Bolero as Theme Song

Released 12/18/08 HQ Trailer:

[I ripped the video and the trailer is up for DOWNLOAD in the Videos section!]

This is just a short trailer featured on the newly launched website for the movie "Subaru" set to be released on March 20th, 2009. You can see in HQ on the official website here.

And its not your eyes tricking you. Surprisingly, the trailer shows the cameo appearance Tohoshinki/DBSK in the movie in this first short trailer (rather than the other actors starring in the movie). Seems like the producers know how to atleast hook the DBSK fans early on and not ignore the band's following.

With the great interest generated towards the movie through the release of the preview of "Bolero" on the internet and BigEast station, it is likely the producers noticed a surge of traffic coming to check out the website to learn more about the movie from many different countries. It seems they launched a make shift website to avail this opportunity to do some promotion. DBSK's international fans, Cassiopeia, and BigEast are the ones most aware about the movie right now and it's a smart move to cater to these international fans, since Subaru is planned to be released in other parts of Asia and Western countries as well.

By the way, DBSK will only be doing a short performance in the movie during a scene at a bar, no talking parts.

DBSK/Tohoshinki invited to Kohaku: Japan's Most-Watched Music Concert

In many interviews, the boys had mentioned that it was their dream to be invited to Kohaku, the biggest annual Japanese end-of-the-year music show, boardcasted on New Year's Eve by NKH on radio and TV. Lots of big entertainers are invited to this concert and split into teams. In the end, viewers can vote for the team they believe should win. Sounds pretty exicting!

According to Wikipedia:

Literally "Red and White Song Battle," the program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The "red" team made up of all female artists , while the "white" team is all male. The honor of performing on Kōhaku is strictly by invitation, so only the most successful J-Pop artists and enka singers can perform. In addition to the actual music performances, the costumes, hair-styles, makeup, dancing, and lighting are also important. Even today, a performance on Kōhaku is said to be a big highlight in a singer's career because of the show's large reach.

Finally, it was revealed today that DBSK will be attending!
CONGRATULATIONS BOYS!


Sources:
http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/news/20081125-OHT1T00021.htm
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081125-00000047-spn-ent

DBSK is a Trend in Japan

(I know this is 2 weeks late but I want to document this nonetheless because it is such an awesome feat)

TVXQ / Tohoshinki is becoming a trend in Japan. TVXQ was listed as a trend on November 14th's NHK's Zoom In Super Show.

On the show they were revealing the results of a survey poll for "The biggest Trends of 2008." Number 1 was the Iphone 3G, Number 2 was Nintendo, and TVXQ was listed as Number 3 on the poll. TVXQ was the only living thing on the poll. I thought this was pretty funny and cool, thanks to amy for the tip.


Credit: AllKpop

Watch the video here:

[FEATURED] 10/10/08 Brazilian news article about DBSK! Latin countries FTW

You can now add Brazil on the growing list of Latin American countries showing strange interest for DBSK in their media, after Peru, Spain, Chile, Mexico!

Check it out:

DBSK vende 350 mil cópias de seu quarto álbum em apenas um dia
Fenômeno coreano arrasta legião de fãs por onde quer que vá, inclusive no Brasil


Na Coréia, no Japão e em Taiwan eles já são sucesso. A banda coreana Dong Bang Shin Ki, apelidada pelos fãs de DBSK, já é tanto sucesso que vendeu somente no primeiro dia 350 mil cópias do seu quarto álbum lançado no dia 26 de setembro.

A boy band formada por Xiah, Micky, Hero, Max e U-Know é famosa por suas coreografias combinadas com um figurino perfeito. De acordo com o site da revista CAPRICHO, os meninos fazem lembrar de Backstreet Boys e N´Sync.

As músicas dos caras são todas em coreano e japonês, mas em alguns sites de vídeo é possível encontrar as canções com legendas em português.“Teríamos que treinar muito para cantar em inglês. Somos péssimos”, revelam.


Source: http://www.abril.com.br/noticia/diversao/no_345628.shtml

Thanks to Maryz@soompi for the tip!
And thanks to all those Brazilian fans for commenting on their website article to show your fandom.

Judging by the lingo I read, it basically says similar stuff from the previous Spanish news sources (about how they are similar to Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake lol) but hey, I am totally not complaining!

World Domination: Mexican magazine features DBSK (after previous coverage from Peru, Chile & Spain)

Yet ANOTHER special feature article on the great phenomenon & sensation called DBSK / Tohoshinki / TVXQ, by another completely far off and non-Asian country that one would never have thought would consider covering Kpop/Jpop.

A weekly Mexican entertainment magazine recently had a large page dedicated to the group, mentioning their immense popularity around the world in countries like Korea, Japan and Taiwan. They even went as far as to suggest that DBSK is ready to conquer Mexico!

Might we suggest ... that DBSK totally take up some Spanish classes and consider a debut in the Latin/South American countries, more so than the US itself seeing how much greater media interest is being shown there. These media outlets are literally calling out to them to come over. Ofcourse, this is all thanks to the hundreds of fans who made their fandom known.

Translation:

For some reason, these boys from South Korea have cause commotion in many places around the world with their pop music and their peculiar style. They sing in their mother tongue, just one or two (N: “una u otra” in this is like some few songs…) or some chorus in English or Japanese, but even with that they are a sensation. The acronym that shapes their name means “Rising gods of the East”. The five young men were choose carefully between hundreds of thousands of people, five years ago, for one big Asian label. All of them are child prodigies in music, and all of them have an interesting life; One of them grew up on EEUU, another lived in extreme poverty. This boys and their fashion look (big hairstyles and dying) are protagonist in hundreds of commercials and advertisements in the Asian continent, they have conquered Japan, China and even Thailand, and are one of the few bands that have been able to bring together more than forty thousand people in one Korean concert. Now with their 4 disk and after training as actors on TV, their next aim is to conquer our country.

Translation by: hollyhockyuu@LJ

Credit: uchihahikari@dbsgLJ + luffa@DBSKer

Featured on Spanish National TV: http://dbsker.blogspot.com/2008/08/world-domination-dbsk-featured-on.html
Featured on Peru's National News (full report) + Radio: http://dbsker.blogspot.com/2008/02/featured-dbsk-on-peru-national-news.html
Featured on Chile's entertainment show + Mirotic: http://dbsker.blogspot.com/2008/10/dbsk-on-international-tv-in-chile-south.html

Tohoshinki sings opening song for popular anime One Piece: "We Are"

Despite heavily promoting Mirotic (SPELL) in Korea, DBSK still has not forgotten their Japanese fan base.

The 5 member band took part in the remake of the opening theme "We Are" (the original song aired first season) for popular anime show One Piece, which kicks off its tenth season this month.

One Piece was recently voted as all-time #1 manga in an Oricon poll, beating the likes of other highly popular mangas such as Dragon Ball, Naruto and Death Note.

With over 140 million copies sold, One Piece is the third highest selling manga in the history of Weekly Shōnen Jump. It is considered their most acclaimed and all-time third-best-selling title in Japan.

Considering the reach of this anime and it being a staple for the Japanese, no one’s going to forget these boys for a long time to come.

Tohoshinki's remake will be called the "One Piece Animation 10th Anniversary Version".

Watch the NEW 10th anniversary (DBSK version) of "We Are":


The original 1st season "We Are":




They had previously done an ending song for One Piece "Asu wa kuru kara" a few years back when they were not as well-known in Japan as they are today:



Credits: seoulbeats + Nikki@AF.net + luffa@dbsker.blogspot.com

[FEATURED] DBSK on international TV in Chile (South America)!

DBSK featured on Chile's "En Serie" program + release of MIROTIC:

credit: DdO blog + tvxqparasiempre@YT + fangirlmitz


Translation & Summary by mistika@soompi + corrections from anonymous:
"Now, let's talk about the second band. They are Korean and everyone keeps on asking for them (their songs). And I wanna tell you about them again, they are TVXQ, also known in Japan as Tohoshinki and Dong Bang Shin Ki. They have different names, but here we're gonna call them TVXQ.

Now we're gonna show you their new material, and this is super cool because it's really new, it was released just a few days ago and this is Mirotic. xD Here is TVXQ on the stage. [Shows video clip]

That was TVXQ with this video named Mirotic, the album has the same name and it's gonna be launched in two different versions, one that is the normal one, we could say standard, and then, there's gonna be one that's gonna have a DVD and a photobook. And like you saw in the video, TVXQ came up with a new look because they have a new stylist. They are gonna present a look that is actually more modern and aside from that, they are really good-looking because they all are deportists, dancers, gymnast; so this is their style. "

...Then the guy says, "they're Korean, they're Korean" (seems like he doesn't believe Chileans are drooling over Korean boys lol). The girl then confirms it. The guy asks if the album is also gonna come out in Chile or if can you buy it online... (SM they're asking for CD's in Chile!!!)

The girl says TVXQ is focused now on the Korean market, so it'd be difficult to find it somewhere else, but that people can go to Providencia [edit] which according to our reader is "Santiago's (Chile's capital) biggest part of the city where you can find the latest things regarding music, clothes" etc. They also name Eurocentro which [edit] according to our reader is a huge mall where you can also find lots of stores of different kinds, specially when it comes to foreign merchandise. Then she goes on saying that the video of Mirotic is already on the show's website and that everyone should check it out.


- EDIT -

Video ENGLISH SUBBED:

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I totally hyperventilated when I saw this. I have never seen any other Asian singer/artists being covered like THIS on music shows in countries that are not Asian! Totally astounding how AWESOME Chile fans have represented themselves and their poweress!

This is not the first time DBSK has been featured in a show/national news from a country in the South Americas (special mention goes to the Peru fans!)...now I am just wondering how many fans there are over there D: I am totally happy and jealous of you guys ^^ GO international fans!

[FEATURED] DBSK on Spanish TV Atena 3 + Rai.TV

Translation:

They are the rising Gods of the East
Dong bang Shin Ki...
As know as TVXQ or DBSK, and in Japan as TOHOSHINKI.. 4 names for a group form by 5 koreans.
No one is more than 21 years old and since 4 years ago they're kinda the asian BSB.
They sing in korean and japanese but they had to translate their official website to english due their fame is starting to cross frontiers.
They began singing acapella in a christmas tv show in 2003 in which sang Britney Spears as well.. Such success even though they hadn't a disc avaliable and even so they got to have 2 songs in the top charts.
Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan, surrender under their feet.. They Sing, dance, make dramas and of course they start trends..
They are starting to talk about them in Spain, and in places like Peru the fanclubs are growing up in number
Watch out with Dong Bang Shin Ki...the almond shaped eyes pop is starting to come out from karaoke.

Translation & video credits: tvxqparasiempre


On Rai.TV Video - Click here to view

Translation:

"Five boys at world's attaintment. They come from South Korea. They drive crazy thousands of girls and they take inspiration from Justin Timberlake. The group's name is TVXQ, four letters that stand for "The rising Gods of the East", as the leader explains. Their concerts are always "sold-out", on-stage they resemble the pre-eminently boyband Backstreet Boys. And like them, they want to be famous worldwide. And they're succeeding at it, in Italy they already have a fanclub. They have been singing together for 3 years, top-charters in their Country, they are famous even in Japan, where girls wouldn't miss a concert for any reason. The Korean super-group now is touring throughout Asia and for sure we'll hear about them."

Translation credit: kiraghira

LOL I am not sure where she got the part about them taking inspiration from Justin Timberlake, but pretty good nonetheless, won't you agree :D

[FEATURED] DBSK on German MTV - Guinness Record for Biggest Fanclub

A German MTV show about fanclubs did an episode to reveal which artist/band has the biggest one, and hence DBSK popped into the topic. Sadly, hoever, they did not cover them at all. They were brushed aside is more like it.





Translation of they said about DBSK:

"According to the Guinness book a korean boygroup named Dong Bang Shin Ki has the biggest fanclub but since nobody knows them here, we continue.. (with the program..)"
thanks to Elina88xxx


Its too bad they didn't cover them, although I understand that not as many Germans would know about an Asian band. I did hear though that many German DBSK fans wrote in to complain about the offense, because the commentator mentioned them in a very ignorant and offensive tone.

According to SweetLionors , the literal translation is :
"...but because no pig/swine knows them (dbsk) here, we can just go on..."
-in german it's a really depreciative way of talking, just like an insult

[Featured] DBSK and Super Junior on CNN (Thailand fans craze)

Though the news reporter talks about Super Junior, the video footage of fans in red, waving signs and red balloons, hundreds bombarding the starts coming to the airport are all of TVXQ/DBSK/Tohoshinki.

In this clip, the Thailand fanclub is featured. Go Thai fans!

[FEATURED] DBSK on Peru National News Channels + Radio

Special Report on Peruvian craze for DBSK
Special Report Part 1:


Special Report Part 2:




Report by Canal 8 [Peruano] TVXQ


Report by Canal 9:



DBSK on Peruvian Radio 27/08/08
(3rd time featured, after previous air times for "O" Jung.Ban.Hap):