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July is a massive comeback month for girl groups with AOA, SISTAR, Girl's Day and Nine Muses already making their comebacks and Girls' Generation following soon. On the flip side, T-ara has been excelling in China as proven by their fanclub just recently surpassing 1,000,000 members! T-ara is the first group to reach over 1,000,000 members - they experienced a surge in members after news that Jiyeon was dating actor and co-star Lee Donggun. After reaching an immense amount of popularity in 2011 and 2012 with "Roly-Poly" and "Lovey-Dovey" in Korea and breaking girl group records, T-ara has proven they are a global power artist when their Japanese debut single "Bo Peep Bo Peep" broke records on the Japanese Oricon chart. Now, they are continuing to break records for Korean groups - but this time in China. Despite that, they still continue to cater to fans in each country as proven by their 6-episode web-drama which will be simultaneously released in Korea and China. T-ara is currently in the middle of their Great China Tour and just released a new promotional video for it as shown above. They will hold a press conference on July 10th in Beijing ahead of their July 11th concert date.

Girl group T-ara’s (Boram, Qri, Soyeon, Eunjung, Hyomin, Jiyeon) Jiyeon (22) and Hallyu actor Lee Dong-gun’s (35) dating news were revealed recently. Jiyeon will be MC-ing for the live broadcast of Music Cable TV’s SBS MTV The Show Season 4 today. This will be Jiyeon’s first appearance after the revelation of her relationship with Lee Dong-gun and had attracted a lot of attention. Before the recording and broadcast of today’s The Show, Star News asked Jiyeon questions regarding her relationship with Lee Dong-gun and she answered with a shy and nervous heart. When asked about Lee Dong-gun’s charms, Jiyeon answered while giving a shy smile, “Lee Dong-gun is caring and he treats me well.” Jiyeon made her debut in the music industry in 2009 as a member of T-ara. This is the first time where news about her relationship is revealed by an external source. Jiyeon responded with awkward smile, “Everything is still quite surreal to me so I don't really know what to say.” Jiyeon also had some words for fans. Jiyeon said, “I’m really thankful because the fans have always been here and giving me strength. It (the relationship) is still in its starting phase so I’ll be thankful if you could give me your blessings. I will continue to work harder too.” Meanwhile, news about the truth of Jiyeon and Lee Dong-gun’s dating relationship were revealed earlier on 4th July. Jiyeon and Lee Dong-gun just finished the filming of the Korean-Chinese collaboration movie “Encounter”. After the filming, Jiyeon and Lee Dong-gun became close after sharing experiences about acting and they are currently getting to know each other better. *** Source: Star News

[15.07.07] Video - Elsie (Eunjung) Meet & Greet *** Credit: FC T-ara Việt Nam.

[PRESS] Jiyeon at SBS Mtv The Show (07/07) *** credit: mydaily + newsen + tv report + sarnews + bnt news + dispatch + ily_shannon + tiaradiadem

Correction, TARABar didn't hit 1M because of the dating news. (It should be "despite" rather than "after", in the second paragraph.) To summarise, the numbers started to surge after the June rankings were out on 1st July. And on 6th July and officially, T-ARA has the number 1 fan club in China. (Besides, T-ARA Number 9 still holds the most views on YinYueTai with 128M. We lost it briefly few months ago but we took it back.)

[iG] Official Mwave Update feat. Eunjung (07/07) Credit: Official Mwave Instagram + red4summer + TiaraDiadem

I watched both of these videos with no clue what she was saying a lot of the time, but that makes no difference. Her mannerisms and style just kkeep me enthralled. I would LOVE to see them with subs, but for now her actions and tone are enough for me.

Jiyeon (22) is revealed to be dating actor Lee Donggun (35)! On the 3rd, a Chinese fan uploaded an intimate picture of Jiyeon and Lee Donggun showing skinship at a restaurant with staff members from the movie "Encounter". "Encounter" is the Korean-Chinese movie that Jiyeon and Donggun have been filming since May together and slowly they developed a crush on each other. According to a source, the two are not scared to show their affection for each other after the movie filming process. Lee Donggun entered the entertainment industry in 1998 as a singer but since then he has been popular as an actor in various dramas and movies including "Lovers in Paris". Jiyeon began appearing in the industry during 2007 but debuted as a singer in 2009 as a T-ara member.

[iG] haein86 Update feat. Qri (07/07) Credit: haein86 Instagram + red4summer + TiaraDiadem

[PRESS] Hyomin at 'Guest' VIP Premiere(07/06) *** Credit: mydaily + kankyungdotcom + starnews + segye + osen + issuedaily + news1 + chicnews + tv report + herarldkyungjae + starn + ily_shannon + tiaradiadem