Broadcast Date: Jan. 4
Starring: Jeon So-min of K.A.R.D, NCT, Jo Woo-chan, Park Hyun-jin, Achillo

Jeon So-min of K.A.R.D

(Naver V app)

Jeon So-min of South Korean mixed gender band K.A.R.D communicated with fans in a live broadcast held via Naver’s V app Thursday.

“I miss you everyone. It’s been a while,” the singer said. “I started this broadcast just because I wanted to say that I miss you.”

As she looked very tired in the broadcast, fans asked her what happened.

“My niece came to sleep over,” she answered. “Because her parents had to leave early I had to take care of her.”

“I had to wake up early in the morning. She whined a lot so I had to have a fitful sleep. But she’s still so lovely,” she said.

“As she whined, I hugged her to make her sleep again. It was so lovely to see her sleeping in my arms!”

“Oops, it’s been 10 minutes already. I need to go to eat dinner. I started the broadcast to see you but it became longer than I thought,” she said wrapping up the broadcast. “I will do longer next time. Happy New Year! Be careful not to catch a cold!”

(Jeon So-min's Instagram)

NCT

(Naver V app)

K-pop boy band NCT took to the V app Thursday to release some footage of its pre-debut days.

The video showed the NCT bandmates performing “Under the Sea” -- a soundtrack from Disney’s full-length animation “The Little Mermaid,” BoA’s “Who Are You” and f(x)’s “All Night” when they were still known as SM Rookies.

SM Rookies is a pre-debut program by S.M. Entertainment which unveils their trainees to the public to increase their public profiles before their debut.

NCT consists of Taeil, Johnny, Taeyong, Yuta, Doyoung, Ten, Jaehyun, Winwin, Mark, Renjun, Jeno, Haechan, Jaemin, Chenle, Jisung. The group is divided into sub-units NCT U, NCT 127 and NCT Dream.

Jo Woo-chan, Park Hyun-jin, Achillo

(Naver V app)

OG School Project, the project group consists of “rap geniuses” Jo Woo-chan, Park Hyun-jin and Achillo took to the V app Thursday to communicate with fans ahead of the release of their first project album “OGZ.”

When asked whether they wrote the lyrics themselves, Jo said, “We worked really hard and put great effort into the details. I worked harder as I was stimulated by Park Hyun-jin and Achillo.”

“I can’t describe this feeling. We three worked really hard preparing this (album). I hope we can get good reactions,” Achillo said. “Please look forward to ‘OGZ.’”

“OGZ” was originally scheduled to be released on Dec. 20, 2017 but was delayed to Friday after the tragic death of Jong-hyun of boy band SHINee.

Jo appeared on the sixth season of Mnet’s survival hip-hop audition program “Show Me the Money” and made it to the semifinal.

Park appeared on the sixth season of SBS’ survival audition show “K-pop Star” as a member of the duo Boyfriend and won the season.

Though there was not much known about rapper Achillo, the collaboration of three caught the public’s attention for the group being the youngest hip-hop group in Korea, formed with those who were born in 2005. The group is produced by the veteran producer Groovyroom.

Naver’s real-time broadcasting app V allows fans to interact with their favorite K-pop stars through live broadcasts. The app is available for Android and iOS. For more information, visit http://www.vlive.tv.

By The Korea Herald (khnews@heraldcorp.com)

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