The PV for Ai Otsuka’s song “360°” is so weird and yet so visually appealing 
Happy Fr-Ai-day!
I’ve been wanting to take a Korean course for a while, but there are no classes where I live any more. I’ve previously checked out Pimsleur’s Korean and Rosetta Stone. Both are OK, I guess, but I wanted to go to a class. Mostly because I want to practice speaking with other people, but also because the previously mentioned courses felt incomplete.
A few weeks ago I, as I do some times, searched for a Korean course and I bumped into a set of audio files from KoreanClass101. I listened to a couple of lessons and was pleasantly surprised. I found the lessons to be very good. The teachers are very nice to listen to. They speak a lot about the dialogue in the lesson and you get good information about what’s being said and why.
After listening to a couple of lessons I went to KoreanClass101.com to see what the site was like, and to my surprise I found that all audio lessons are free for as long as you want! You can download them to your MP3-player if you want. On top of this you can pay for a subscription of the extra features that exist in the Premium Learning Center. There are many nice features. The one I like the most is the quiz for each lesson. The PDFs are also very useful. They are making new lessons all the time, so it’s good to know that you can listen to them even if you’re not subscribing any more.
You can check out the lessons for free and also get a 7-day trial of the premium features if you head over to KoreanClass101.
One funny thing is that Seol looks almost exactly like how I imagined from hearing her voice in the lessons
PS. Right now (until the 7th of July) they have 25% off on new subscriptions. Look for the “summer gift” after you’ve signed in.
I’ve been bugging my neighbours this weekend by playing 소원을 말해봐/Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) by Girls’ Generation over and over. It’s the title track of their latest mini-album Genie, in case you’ve missed that.
Credit: source video from soshified
Yoon-a looks great in this PV. I didn’t think I’d like her shorter hair, but it looks good. Jessica should let her hair grow long again. Perhaps some day the stylists will find a good hair style for Hyo-yeon 
As an experiment, I’m including BitTorrent as an alternative download method.
Have you heard Younha’s version of Girls’ Generation’s song Gee? You can listen to it in the YouTube video or MP3 below.
It’s a nice performance and everything, but ultimately it adds nothing to the original. It’s just an acoustic arrangement, but the song is sung pretty much the same way as Girls’ Generation’s version, which makes it kind of boring.
I just had to get that off my chest . Don’t get me wrong. I like Younha. But this version is like *yaawn*
Girls’ Generation have just released a new mini album called Genie. Here are some promo pictures for that album.
I think the photos of Seo-hyun and Yu-ri came out really well in this shoot.
I’m back! And my first order of business is to reinstate Fr-Ai-days. I probably won’t post a new Ai video every Friday, but at least every second Friday.
It’s summer, and is there a summerier song than Smily?
This is the live recording version of YUI’s again music video. It’s the live footage that was partially used in the PV, with the original live audio.
Credit: source video from gryzze@jpopsuki
This will be the last post I’m making for a while. I’m taking an indefinite break from this blog while I go back to passively consuming again.
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Right now I’m watching a Korean drama series called You are my destiny/You are my life (너는 내 운명). The main story is about a girl, called Sae-byeok, who was blinded but got her vision back thanks to a cornea transplant. She finds out who the donor was and wants to thank her family, only to find out that not everyone knows that Na-yeong (the donor) has died. The drama ensues.
I started watching this drama because Yoon-a from Girls’ Generation is in it. She plays Sae-byeok. She’s been in a few drama series, but this was the one I found first. The series is 178(!) episodes long (that’s even longer than Be strong, Geum-soon), but the episodes are only 30 minutes long.
I like this drama for similar reasons as why I liked Be Strong, Geum-soon: the main character (Sae-byeok in this case) maintains a positive outlook on things although she gets into all kinds of trouble. There is plenty of romance and […] there’s more! »
Momo no hanabira was the first Ai Otsuka song I ever heard. An online friend sent it to me shortly after it was released. I remember listening to it on my 128 MB MP3 player 
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