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The Kung Fu Hustle
Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Location: Incheon
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 Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:19 am Post subject: What the hell is a TVXQ? |
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| Why is ����ű� called TVXQ in English? Is this a Vietnamese romanization? |
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Universalis
Joined: 17 Nov 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:45 am Post subject: |
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As part of SM's efforts to brand Dongbangshingi as a pan-Asian pop group, their name was put together using Chinese characters; the initials TVXQ stand for the Chinese pronunciation of the characters (which is, roughly, Tong Vfang Xien Qi). There is very little consistency in the English-language media in Korea regarding how exactly their name is written... sometimes it's in "Korean" English, and sometimes in "Chinese" English.
Perhaps someone with a better understanding of Chinese characters can tell us what the characters mean. I know it's East, something, something, something...
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Or they could use a word that translates easily in all languages and is a perfect description of their music:
Crap |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| Dong Fang means "eastern" or "Oriental"... i'm not familiar with the brand you're talking about but that's a good bet. Also, "xin" (prounounced "shin") means "new" and is popular in brand names, too. |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:10 am Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| Dong Fang means "eastern" or "Oriental"... i'm not familiar with the brand you're talking about but that's a good bet. Also, "xin" (prounounced "shin") means "new" and is popular in brand names, too. |
Here is the "brand":
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:13 am Post subject: |
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| Jebus, the Backstreet Boys look like Marines compared to these ladies. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| I'm speechless. That picture says so much all by itself |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:22 am Post subject: |
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You think that's bad - check out their stupid nicknames!
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| The five members are, from eldest to youngest, Kim Jae Joong (HERO), Jung Yun Ho (U-know), Park Yoo Chun (Micky), Kim Jun Su (Xiah) and Shim Chang Min (MAX). |
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVXQ |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| This is the hanja for ����ű�: ��۰���� |
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vlcupper
Joined: 12 Aug 2004
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| Ekuboko wrote: |
You think that's bad - check out their stupid nicknames!
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| The five members are, from eldest to youngest, Kim Jae Joong (HERO), Jung Yun Ho (U-know), Park Yoo Chun (Micky), Kim Jun Su (Xiah) and Shim Chang Min (MAX). |
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVXQ |
 
Good Lord. I'm actually embarrassed for them.
And Korea wonders why their "music groups" aren't popular in the West. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Gayest.......band.........ever! |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Ladies of the board: aren't ANY of them doable? |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| The five members are, from eldest to youngest, Kim Jae Joong (HERO), Jung Yun Ho (U-know), Park Yoo Chun (Micky), Kim Jun Su (Xiah) and Shim Chang Min (MAX). |
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVXQ[/quote]
MUSIC STUBS...CRAP MUSIC...KOREAN BANDS...FEMALE IMPERSONATERS. |
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thursdays child
Joined: 21 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Ladies of the board: aren't ANY of them doable? |
Nah, they are strictly for the middle school girls! My high school girls pretty much have the same opinion of them as we do - "�ٺ� and so, so, so not cool" But the middle school girls I sometimes teach go crazy for the Dongban.... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| thursdays child wrote: |
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| Ladies of the board: aren't ANY of them doable? |
Nah, they are strictly for the middle school girls! My high school girls pretty much have the same opinion of them as we do - "�ٺ� and so, so, so not cool" But the middle school girls I sometimes teach go crazy for the Dongban.... |
I was about to post the same thing. When we were making Christmas cards one of my MS girls drew a glitter-glue tree on her card and was hanging up little cut-outs of them for ornaments to hand on her tree. |
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