It’s odd being crazy about a particular member of a music group since it leads to thinking about them as “my (insert fave) and his band mates!” whenever the ensemble shows up. The perpetually adorable Kang Min Hyuk was in Taiwan this past weekend with CNBLUE for the two-night leg of its CNBLUE LIVE: Can’t Stop Asian tour. The tickets weren’t sold out but that’s likely due to the band performing two nights rather than just one gig, and even then it was pretty much as packed show for both nights. Goes to show just how popular they are as a quartet. The Taiwan media was noticeably annoyed with member Jung Yong Hwa‘s sour visage during the press conference, keeping a poker face on and being rather curt with answering questions, and reports have been rather snarky about it. He explained that he was just tired having come from filming his upcoming sageuk drama Three Musketeers and hopping right on a plane for Taipei.
I actually thought the whole band was rather serious and dour though Kang Min Hyuk cracked a smile now and then. It likely is just exhaustion setting in after nearly two months of tour dates and promotional activities. The band has one more set left in Kuala Lumpur on August 9th before jetting straight for Los Angeles to perform at KCON. I don’t know how Yong Hwa has the energy for his music commitments plus being one of the male leads in a currently filming sageuk, I’m surprised he didn’t fall asleep at the Taiwan press con. The reviews for their concerts have been uniformly strong since they have a very loyal fan base plus their rock and ballad music is a lovely exception to the overly synthed synchronicity of most other K-pop boy bands out there. They manage to make rocking out in simple t-shirts and jeans look hotter than ripped abs hopping around on the stage for fanservice. I’m hoping with the tour wrapping up soon Kang Min Hyuk will also come back to drama land, hopefully as a male lead for me to have more screen time to droolz over.
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I love him. He's the only reason I pay attention to CNBLUE. I can't wait for him to come back to dramaland. Bring on the pretty!
I think they also get tired of answering the same dumb questions, I know would.
FTIsland & CNBlue are the only group that to me have credibility. One has an amazing lead singer & the other has an amazing song writer!! *duking for cover*
that's ok...agree with you
yonghwa himnae ... he same age as me, but oh my ... his level of job and stress is overwhelming ...
Cn Blue in live is really great ! They have a lot of energy and the arrangements are better than on the cd. And Cn Blue is little shy when they don't speak the language and with the exhaustion...
He was tired bcs he filmed until 4:00 AM then he went home to fix his things for their trip and then straight to the airport. Don't know how he was able to function bcs after they arrived they went to the hotel and got ready for press conference, i would probably sleep on the press con if i was him.
I still cannot get into CNB's music...I'm a FTI fan. Though I like Minhyuk's acting
yonghwa cannot smile cause he's too tired but still he rocks the stage that night.
i like to see minhyuk in dramaland but i still want cnblue world tour concert again *my country pleaseee*
hope they keep being healthy, act in drama and goes anywhere to do a concert is not an easy thing
Omg I'm a huge yonghwa fan so I went to watch them when they came singapore a few months ago and the whole cnblue was so energetic and fantastic ahhhh I watched them last year too haha. yonghwa must be super exhausted with concerts and a drama, I hope he takes care of himself well )-: I'll rather the drama premiere later than see him so tired gosh. But jungshin is filming temptation too, so hope both of them can stay energetic and healthy!
YongHwa must be exhausted shooting action drama, rehearsing drama & rock shows AND performing live. He's lost a lot of weight and says he's now eating 5x daily but can't stop losing weight.
CNBLUE works as a team in concerts, not just the drummer or the vocalist, that's why their live performances are great.
Yonghwa was filming until 4.00am that day then flew straight to Taiwan, the presscon was held shortly after they arrived. If you care to watch the press con vid, yonghwa was only less smiley and less playful as he usually is. But then again, yonghwa is almost always serious in formal press conferences of their concerts.
the problem is not cnblue because they are cool...it's their rabid fans that are a TOTAL turn off...it just makes you NOT want to listen to their music
lol stfu. all celebrities have rabid fans. koala does this on purpose to get page views because her otherwise pathetic website designed in 1998 would not get any.
we've chosen to ignore her drama reviews but now she's writing about their concerts and inserting bullshit. yonghwa was praised in all the post-concert reviews, and if you watch any of their fancams, you'll realize he gives his 100% during concerts. I don't care if koala wants to bash his acting but leave his music career alone.
but hey, here's more page views for you :)
lmao ok I just noticed your comment up there. so you're a fti fan and you're dissing cnblue fans? let me point you to google where you can google "pot calling kettle black"
Lullaby - you nailed it. If you've ever watched ANY CNBLUE press conference, the boys all tend to be pretty serious. That, on top of the exhaustion of coming from filming till 4 am, led to to a pretty stone faced Yonghwa. But it's not something new like Koala is trying to make it out to be.
Also I'm not sure what reports or papers Koala's basing this article off of, because all of the reviews of the con were stellar and from the MUSIC PRESS, not the crazy fans that are being eluded too.
Getting it wrong (or only printing half of the truth to fit your biased views) once again...sigh Koala, when will you ever learn?
Here are just a few of the source articles from the Taiwan media. Sigh, enjoy reading:
CNBLUE來台臭臉！ PSY將接力開唱 - http://video.n.yam.com/20140726446661/CNBLUE%E4%BE%86%E5%8F%B0%E8%87%AD%E8%87%89%EF%BC%81%20PSY%E5%B0%87%E6%8E%A5%E5%8A%9B%E9%96%8B%E5%94%B1
軋戲兩頭燒 CNBLUE鄭容和來台臉臭臭 -
http://udn.com/NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT/ENT5/8828499.shtml
CNBLUE鄭容和軋戲累垮 記者會呆滯面無表情 -
http://www.ettoday.net/news/20140725/382384.htm
I can dig up a lot more news articles but please enjoy spamming them with your complaint. And no, reporting on news articles is not and never will be anything that a writer should shy away from.
How about a little perspective Koala and including the *many* articles that praised the con? Oh wait sorry...that would be unbiased reporting which obviously isn't your strong suit.
Perspective is fine, but you keep changing your accusations. First you claim not to know what reports I based my article off of, insisting I got it wrong, then when I show you the source articles you switch tacks and ask that I report both sides. I never said anything about the concert at all in my article other than it was almost sold out which was amazing since it was two nights rather than just one night, which would definitely have sold out.
This article was only about Min Hyuk being in Taiwan with CNBLUE and the main articles about their press conference was that Yong Hwa looked very poker faced and dour but he explained he was exhausted and I said he was likely exhausted as well. That's it.
If you read Taiwan's number one entertainment online paper, the only two articles written about CNBLUE's arrival was discussing YH looking very serious and withdrawn at the press conference. I'm sure the concert was great, never heard a bad thing about CNBLUE concerts ever and never said as much in this article or in anything I've ever written about YH or CNBLUE. Your complaints are bizarre and unfounded.
http://tw.twent.chinayes.com/tw_music/1/list_2.shtml
god this layout sucks so much that I don't even know if I'm replying to the right person.
koala, are you chinese? if you are, then you would be well aware that the Taiwanese media is bs. Not even the natives take their media reports seriously.
and no, you do have something against Yonghwa and/or his fans. Which is fine but don't act all innocent when they don't sit down and accept your bs. In case you haven't noticed, dramabeans isn't fond of his acting either and yet none of his fans are ganging up on them. why? perhaps because they don't seem to have some kind of personal agenda against him.