‘Nation’s fairy’ Lena Park comments on her nickname

Singer Lena Park joked that fairies are known to live over 100 years.

She recently appeared on tvN‘s interview program ’Taxi‘ and revealed her thoughts on her nickname, “nation’s fairy”.

The MCs for ‘Taxi’ asked how she felt about the adorable nickname considering her age. The 36-year-old singer answered, “It is a little embarassing to be called a ‘fairy’ at this age, but fairies live over 100 years.”

The MCs coached Lena Park on her throw as she had to practice for the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game later that day.

During the ‘car ride’ interview, the singer also revealed stories of her time in the States where she grew up. She mentioned that she had her first kiss, which was less than ideal, with a football player when she acted as the team’s manager during high school.

This episode of ‘Taxi’ aired on July 5th at 12:20AM KST.

Source & Photo: Osen via Nate

Miryo, Verbal Jint, MC Sniper, 45RPM, and more attend press conference for Mnet’s ‘Show Me the Money’

A roster of Korean hip hop musicians, Brown Eyed Girls‘ Miryo, Verbal Jint, MC Sniper, 45RPM, Hoony Hoon, GariOn, Double K, and Joosuc all gathered together on June 19th to attend a press conference for Mnet‘s new hip-hop program, ‘Show Me the Money‘.

The conference was held earlier today in the M-Pub located at Seoul Yeongdeungpo’s Time Square. The eight cast members for the upcoming program all shared the spotlight and answered questions for reporters, discussing their goals for the program as well as sharing a few behind the scenes stories during their recording.

‘Show Me the Money’, the ‘rapper version’ of MBC‘s ‘I Am a Singer‘, will be collaborating with rookie rappers chosen out of a 1,000 participant audition to perform on stage and compete against each other for the top spot.

Don’t miss the premiere of ‘Show Me the Money’ airing on June 22nd at 11PM KST!

Check out a compilation video of past individual performances by the eight cast members below.

Source: TV Daily via Nate

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Viewer ratings for Sunday variety shows, who came out the night’s winner?

On May 7th, AGB Nielson Media Research, a company which logs viewer ratings for TV shows, released the ratings for programs which aired on Sunday, May 6th. The percentages are based on viewers in South Korea.

The variety show with the highest viewer rating was SBS‘s ‘Running Man‘ which gathered 17.7% of the South Korean audience.

The second most watched variety program was SBS’s ‘Laws of the Jungle 2‘ with 13.3% of the audience.

Third place went to MBC‘s “I Am A Singer 2” with 10.5% of the audience.

Furthermore, KBS2TV‘s ‘Qualification of Men‘ and ‘1 Night 2 Days‘, which have had high viewer ratings for several years were surprisingly in fourth and fifth place. ‘Qualification of Men’ had a viewer rating of 8.2% while ’1 Night 2 Days’ had a rating of 6.7%.

Source & Image: Star News via Naver