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The MTV actress exclusively tells Billboard about her love for powerful females and YG Entertainment acts.

The 3rd Annual DramaFever Awards took place in New York on Feb. 6 to honor international television, films and actors shown on DramaFever, the populair streaming service for global TV and film.

Kim Jong-kook (host of populair Korean variety toon Running Man), Seo Kang-joon (of Korean drama Sly and Single Again), and Yuki Furukawa (of Japanese drama Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in Tokyo) were on hand to receive their awards at New York's Hudson Theater at the Millennium Broadway Hotel that also brought out Fresh Off the boot ster Hudson Yang and SBS International CEO Yunjeung Jo. Meanwhile, newcomer K-pop boy band 5urprise -- who were created with the concept of being actors-turned-singers -- performed twice for the audience.

George Hu (the NYC-raised actor who starred in Chinese TV toon Prince of Lan Ling) and Arden Cho (of MTV's Teen wolf fame) hosted the ceremony. Billboard caught up the latter host, wearing an elegant sherry heuvel japon, jurk on the red carpet, to get Cho's five favoriete K-pop acts. While she at first jokingly whined that there were "soooo many," the starlet managed whittle it down to her top, boven faves.

1. BIGBANG
"I love BIGBANG, I'm a huge BIGBANG fan. I like G-Dragon, TOP, Taeyang, all the guys."

2. 2NE1
"I'm a 2NE1 fan as well. I just love the YG Family!"

3. MFBTY (Tiger JK, Yoon Mi Rae and Bizzy)
"I know it's the hip-hop world and it's a little different, but I like them a lot. I like their new track 'Angel.'"

4. IU
"I really like IU...I just think she has the most adorable everything. Her voice is beautiful, she's talented at writing music, guitar, everything. I fell in love with her when I watched her on that drama Dream High, that's probably when I first really fell in love with her. I always thought she was cute in muziek videos, but once I saw her on Dream High I was like, 'This girl's not just a talented singer, she's a talented actress, she's beautiful.' Big fan."

5. Ailee
"Ailee to me is just such a talented, powerful voice. She's sexy, she's beautiful. I'm a huge fan, I like her a lot. I really hope she keeps going at it. I really like her song 'I Will toon You.' To me, she has that Beyonce vibe. We don't have a lot of those big singers in Korea, so she excites me."

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IU has personally apologized for the controversies surrounding her latest album 'CHAT-SHIRE'. Her bonus track "23" made headlines for allegedly sampling Britney Spears's voice without permission, and quickly afterwards, IU's lyrics for the song "Zeze" received criticism for its connection to 'lolita' themes.

IU herself wrote a letter of apology. The letter is as follows:

"Hello. This is IU. Though I knew that there were a lot of opinions about my lyrics recently, it took longer than I thought to get the nerve to speak up. I apologize for being late. I sincerely apologize to everyone who was hurt...
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Leave it up to IU to debut at the top, boven of muziek charts for her newest titel track "Twenty-three"! The song and MV is a unique style for IU and for the whole muziek industry, and people are really responding to it.

"Twenty-three" has ranked number one on all 8 main real-time muziek charts. That includes Melon, Genie, Naver Music, Olleh Music, Mnet, Soribada, Bugs and Monkey3!

Her other songs in her album 'CHAT-SHIRE' are also ranked very high on charts.

Congratulations to IU!

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One of the most highly recognized songstresses in South Korea is currently IU and many are looking vooruit, voorwaarts to her Fall comeback.

In a recently published post on online community board Pann, a netizen asked others which IU song they loved the most, commenting, “Link me to your favoriete IU songs!!! I know they’re all good but could u give me one each!!?”

The original poster than goes to say that their favoriete IU track is “Don’t Like Her.”

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IU has had a very successful jaar with her appearance as the cold but lonely K-Pop ster Cindy on KBS‘s variety-drama hybrid Producer along...
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We have some mind blowing news to report. Nation's younger sister IU may be off the market! Dispatch has reported she and musician Chang Kiha (age 33) are currently in a relationship.

The two are zei to have officially began dating this past March, and Dispatch caught several foto's of the two together on dates, which took place mostly at each other's houses. Even with busy schedules, the two are zei to have made time to meet each other.

It's a bit of surprise, as the two have a large age gap, 11 years to be exact. But the coupe were zei to have gotten close through talking about music. Chang Kiha is a member of the indie rock band Kiha & The Faces.

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Well, this pairing was unlikely!

Local news media Dispatch is reporting that singers IU and Jang Ki Ha (of the band Jang Ki Ha and the Faces) have been dating since March this year. They have been making the time to see each other despite their busy schedules; for example, IU would immediately go see Jang Ki Ha after returning from her trip to Shanghai on August 30 before going to practice for her fan meeting. The same goes for September 7, when IU would go straight to Mapo after returning from Hong Kong. Their usual dating location was at home pagina at each other’s houses (Jang Ki Ha’s located...
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Composer Yoo Jae Hwan was a guest on MBC FM4U’s “Kim Shin Young’s Hope Song at Noon” which aired on October 6.

On the radio show, Yoo Jae Hwan described his experience being a guest on variety toon “Radio Star.” He explained that he was extremely nervous and felt like his hart-, hart was going to burst.

“I felt like I was having a panic attack,” described Yoo Jae Hwan, “Park Na Rae spoke very well on the toon and that made me even meer nervous. I had no idea how I would be able to answer any questions.”

He further stated, “Recently, I was a guest on Sunny’s radio toon and she...
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It was revealed that populair singer IU is working towards a new album in the fall.

According to a number of industry insiders on September 21, IU is working on a new album towards a fall comeback. While the exact datum for the release is not yet confirmed, it was reported that she is currently in the final stages of preparation.

This will be the first comeback for IU since her last comeback with her collaboration album “Flower Bookmark” in May of 2014.

It was also revealed that IU will have not only composed and written the lyrics to every song on the new album, she also participated in producing...
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