Gangnam Style tops chart for 5th week


GANGNAM Style is here to stay, topping the ARIA singles chart for a fifth week in a row, while Taylor Swift's new album has debuted at No.1.

The new collaboration between Calvin Harris and Florence Welch, Sweet Nothing, continues to trail Korean one-hit pop sensation Psy at No.2.

Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia, featuring John Martin, has climbed eight spots to No.3. The song hails from what is likely the last album from the electronic dance trio.

English songstress Birdy's rendition of Skinny Love has fallen five spots to No.9, while Bruno Mars' song Locked Out of Heaven has climbed eleven spots to No.10.

On the ARIA albums chart, American country music star Taylor Swift's new album Red has debuted at No.1, pushing Pink's album, The Truth About Love, to No.2 after four weeks at the top.

There are three new Australian albums in this week's top 10.

Last year's X Factor winner Reece Mastin's second album, Beautiful Nightmare, ends its first week at No.3, while Paul Kelly's first album in five years, Spring & Fall, has debuted in eighth place.

Behind Kelly is Australian country music singer Lee Kernaghan's latest offering, Beautiful Noise, at No.9.

Kernaghan pushes back Matchbox 20's fourth album, North, to No.10.

Continuing her success on the albums chart, Taylor Swift has topped the ARIA country chart with her album Red, followed by Lee Kernaghan's Beautiful Noise at No.2.

Kernaghan's Ultimate Hits compilation is also featured in the top 10, up eight spots to No.9.

Swift's other albums, Fearless, and Speak Now, are No.5 and No.10 respectively.

Last week's chart topper, Wreck & Ruin by Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, has fallen three spots to No.4, while Keith Urban's The Story So Far is No.7, down four spots.


Kang Soo Yeon photo and im soo yeon picture

Kang Soo-yeon (born 18 August 1966) is a South Korean actress. She was born in Seoul, South Korea  and was one of the best known and internationally acclaimed stars from South Korea from the mid-eighties to the end of the nineties.





Kang made her acting debut as a child actor in the 1970s. She acted in a number of low profile movies before making a breakthrough performance in the Im Kwon-taek directed 1986 movie, The Surrogate Woman for which she was honored with the Volpi Cup Best Actress award at the 1987 Venice International Film Festival and Best Actress Award at the Nantes International Film Festival. This was the first time a Korean actor has been given the award at the major film festival and at the time people did not even know that South Korea has a film industry. Two years later, she again took the limelight by winning the Best Actress award at the Moscow International Film Festival for her role in the Im Kwon-taek directed 1989 Buddhist theme movie, Come, Come, Come Upward. In the movie, Kang played the role of Sun Nyog, a young student who sought refuge in the monastery to escape from her troubled home and study to become a nun, and later fell in love with the person who tried to take away her modesty. Kang actually got her head shaved on-screen in the scene when Sun Nyog became a nun. In the same year, she was invited to serve as a juror in the Tokyo International Film Festival.
In the 1990s, Kang appeared in a number of movies, the best known of which are Jang Sun-woo's acclaimed Road to the Racetrack which won her the Chunsa Film Art Awards and Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, the box office hit movie titled That Woman, That Man by Kim Ui-seok, Lee Myung-se's film about adultery titled Their Last Love Affair and Im Sang-soo's debut film Girls Night Out. By the end of the 90s, she had acted in 32 movies and after her movie Rainbow Trout was released in 1999 winning her the Paeksang Arts Awards for Best Actress, she cut down her work in movies and took to acting in TV drama. Kang was invited to be a juror in the 5th Pusan International Film Festival in the year 2000.
In 2001, Kang starred in the popular 150 episodes TV Drama aired on SBS TV titled Ladies of the Palace (Yeo-in Cheon-ha). The TV drama managed to garner her new visibility among mainstream audiences. Her performance in the TV Drama as Jung Nan-jung enabled her to win the Performance Award awarded by SBS TV. After a brief hiatus from the movie scene, she make her comeback in the movie The Circle playing the role of an attorney. Kang has since then appeared in another movie titled Hanbando in 2006. In 2007, she make another foray into mainstream TV after a gap of six years by acting in the MBC TV Drama by the name of Moonhee. In the TV Drama, she played the role of a woman who is forced to leave her child she had when she was only eighteen and thus the TV Drama seeks to portray the travails of the woman's life


Lee Ji Woo – Sensational Korean Race Queen part 2

We’ve introduced two of “Korea’s Top 3 Race Queens”, Im Ji Hye ( 임지혜 ) and Hwang Mi Hee ( 황미희 ). Another stunning and sensational race queen and model is Lee Ji Woo ( 이지우 ). With her angelic looks and almost perfect physique, Ji Woo has been honoured the “Most Beautiful Korean Race Queen” in 2010.









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