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[13.03.30] Quick News - T-ara presented a plaque from the Korean Tourism Organization T-ara received an award from the Korean Tourism Organization for their participation in KBS 'Let's Go Dream Team Season 2' in Hanoi, Vietnam and how they have in the past actively promoted '2013 Visit Korea Campaign' as performers. Along with T-ara, the only idol group awarded the plaque, the MC Lee Changmyung, Son Hoyoung and Park Jaemin were also there and praised for their efforts. KBS "Let's Go Dream Team" will broadcast on April 7th. *** Source: http://t-arafan.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=news&page=1&sn1=&divpage=2&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=12366 Translated by: Nathaniel @ Diadem

[13.03.30] Chart Ranking - T-ara's "Bunny Style!" on Billboard Japan's various charts "Bunny Style!" is currently #3 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100: ...#2 on the Hot Singles Sales chart: ...and #83 on the Hot Top Airplay chart: *** Credit: Billboard Japan, TiaraUpdates @ Twitter

I'm so happy to see the girls being accepted by the public again.

[13.03.30] Chart Ranking - T-ara's "Bunny Style!" #2 on Oricon's weekly singles chart *** Credit: TiaraUpdates @ Twitter, Oricon Sorry this so late I thought someone had posted it already

But here's the thing though, if Core Contents Media didn't issue anything official about a sub-unit, why should there be any need to disagree with it? Sort of a waste, won't you agree? Yes, there are still some antis, but there are also still some who support them over there. Despite their over-reactions and misjudgments into matters, why should we advocate the antis' point of views, in the first place, especially when realizing the utter futility in it? Won't it be more productive to support them, when in part of the antis goal is to convince the supporters to stop supporting T-ara and leave the fandom? Yeah, I'm not going to bother with that ridiculous nonsense prior to this, but anyways, . . . 1. So, basically, Hyomin can't redeem herself then? Who ever said she couldn't? So a child, let alone a teenager has absolutely no chance to make things right in life? That doesn't make sense. 2. That assumption that every member in a fandom is a fanatic is invalid and dead wrong. Yes, there are those who do lots of things to support the girls, but that doesn't describe every fan though. And showing their bad sides is not going to change that, ever, not the entire history of music around the world. In time when the artists themselves are no longer able to perform at the peak level when they were younger, sure, the extremism will eventually die down, but to lie to them into abandoning like this, is wrong. Any person who has ever made a mistake is suppose to be encouraged to correct it, and become a better person. Not condemn severely beyond the fairness of responsibility. Any gang that crosses that line that murders someone, is no different than any other gang that does the same thing, if not way worse. Why these unnecessary scary tactics? Why make Hyomin the poster child of these, when the criminals themselves are suppose to be? Makes no sense. This is in her past, and it's pretty obvious that she's moved on to become a better person, otherwise, if she stuck to them, she won't have been a celebrity at all. 3. Good that the gang doesn't resort to such criminal activities. 4. They are young, right? They do criminal activities, correct? Henceforth, a gang. It's in the dictionary. 5. It still doesn't rule out unauthorized access into the accounts, and mutual circumstances though. 6. Their problem doesn't even come close to T-ara's, because the whole thing was mostly about false evidence and misleading conjecturing by impersonators. Asking T-ara to apologize for unconfirmed events? That doesn't make sense. Shaving their hair off for an internal conflict and not some international incident? Again, that's way out of line. Their sincere apology matched the severity of their own responsibilities in their ordeal. I don't think reliable and trustworthy is accurately described here, more like vindictive and spiteful. 7. Going after every member is going after the entire group. It didn't leave no one out of that. Eunjung, Hyomin, and Jiyeon had more projects to fulfill than the other members, that's why they got that much flak. Each member got hated on, right down to Dani, who didn't even officially debut with the group, and only managed to get in a single music video at the time. Therefore, there's no grounds to even say that Eunjung, Hyomin, and Jiyeon got it more, while saying at the same time the entire group was hated, on based on the antis ultimate goal. That's a contradiction already. 8. It's not illogical nor stupid to point out that South Korea did and still does pay attention to celebrities in the U.S., and that point of view to deny such is already idiotic. Also, there's no where in my posting that stated that the world is the U.S. So again, such irrational thinking is being demonstrated once again in your argument. Especially when there already artists in K-Pop who are born and raised in the U.S. As the "artist" label, I don't see an "idol" label any where on their music. Perhaps reading the definition for "artist" will better assist this utter confusion of hatred. Now, as for the culture and society, it is well known that societies and cultures do grow and change over time, and even learn from different ones periodically. Given how the internet is able to share such knowledge and experience, it doesn't negate one from another country to learn about the society and culture from another part of the world, who is connected online too. Do you honestly believe that bullying, suicides, and all those bad things happen only in South Korea? That would be very foolish to think so. Okay, there's some flaws in this irrational reasoning here. Firstly, it's not a requirement to experience bad things, in order to know bad things. There's education to inform and lessons to teach, that won't result in using a firearm in a classroom, in order to better demonstrate the realities of using a device. Such line of thinking is actually a bad thing, because it's curbing against education, and making everybody to become more of a victim, when they should be more responsible and aware to avoid such pitfalls. Bullying and performing their jobs are 2 different things here. Contractually these employees are required and expected to uphold their employment agreement. Should the job requirements overstep its' boundaries, the employee has the right to refuse. In the bullying application, it is simply a means of harming and intimating, in order to feel empowered with no retaliation whatsoever, plain and simple. And again, supportive comments are just supportive comments. Committing a crime in order to find a crime, that's what I was saying. Do you understand? Why are you comparing me to someone else online? As for the rest of the nonsense, I only have this to say, which accurately describes antis. Thus, I do know antis.

Well Ryu This did start from the topic of not putting certain members into a subunit because of their past mistakes it might be a bad idea from a financial point of view as they have quite a big group of antis. And not just antis or us, Stars, I myself (don't know about you) and I'm sure many of us here did stupid/retarded/xxxxed up xxxx when we where in HS etc. but you have to understand the Korean public love to point fingers and be Hypocrites 24/7, I'm not kidding. SK socially is very different from the world we live in mate, to us at some point it might even look messed up. And that's why scandals are seen very differently in SK especially when it involves idols. While the general public might let go of it over time, and we the fans will mostly forgive them, (if not immediately then after a while) there are always those antis who like to dig these things out of the closet every now and then when the idols are vulnerable and then hammer away. And let's face it even though CCM said that the subunit isn't happening, it wouldn't exactly have been out of line to considerate folly because these things would have resurfaced. SK still resents T-ara and we the fans can't say much to change their minds sadly.

[13.03.13] T-ara perform in front of 100,000+ fans, Japanese promotional tour met with great success After a 15-city promotional tour in Japan, T-ara has returned to Korea. T-ara departed for Japan on February 20th and toured over 15 locations including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo and Fukoka. On the 10th, they came back to Korea. In the 15 showcases in front of Japanese fans, T-ara caught the attention of over 100,000 fans and met with the Japanese fans to give them cards. Hyomin was unable to attend the showcases because she is filming for the movie "Jinx" in Japan. On the 14th, T-ara will depart at 5:15 PM for a Bangkok concert. *** Source: http://news.nate.com/view/20130313n09298 Translated by: Nathaniel @ Diadem

Wow that's crazy! T-ARA must have been very happy to see how many fans of theirs had shown up

Miss their cuteness in 'Daily T-Ara'. Really hope Hyomin was there.