The word 'idol' first meant an inanimate object of worship, but it has evolved to include modern celebrities. On the Korean pop music
scene, 'idol groups' are bands consisting of boys or girls in their
teenage years or early 20s. And in recent years they've dominated the music
industry. But these stars aren't built in a day. To become a member of one of these
bands, young children go through years of grueling training - all
without any guarantee of success in the end. Being an idol usually calls for tough schedules and dance practices, but
many have revealed what they’ve done to go the extra mile and get that
distinguished ‘oomph’ in their figure. How far do these idols go to obtain and
maintain their sexy and fit bodies?
Actor Lee Jung Jea ate ginseng chicken soup 3 times day for 4 months to help achieve his amazing core
Remember Kim Ah Joong from 200 Pounds of Beauty? She has the sexy, most
desired body of the post-surgery Kang Hanna. She, along with Oh Yoon A
and Cho Han Sun jump rope about 3,000 times everyday! I don’t even think
I can count or think straight once I get that high.
To train for Ninja Assassin, Rain hired trainers who trained the actors
of “300.” He trained eight hours a day for eight months! As for diet, he
only ate skinless chicken breast, raw fish, potatoes and salad. If he
wanted spice, he would add some black pepper. Occasionally he treated
himself to beef cooked in plain water. He cut his body fat from 12% to
5%!
After Secret’s Zinger showed off her V-line, netizens began looking
for the “Zinger Diet.” A supposed diet plan stated, “Morning 1 piece of
toast with fat free milk, afternoon 1 sweet potato, evening 1 cucumber.”
The menu varied from apples or chicken meat but most of the foods had
very little calories and supplements to an insufficient full day meal.
Fortunately, Zinger posted these wise words on her minihompy, “The diet
plan that was revealed through media is not my daily meal plan. I
definitely did not diet that way. You could ruin your health with that
diet plan so please don’t follow it. Please lose weight slowly with
constant exercise and food intake control. Through hard practice and
diet, I will work to be Zinger who shows her good side.”
Well said, Zinger!
The Wonder Girls
, the girl group whose debut became the first by any Korean musicians to make it onto the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart, lost a member to the stress of idol life. Sun-mi
announced she was leaving to focus on her studies. The 19-year-old's
decision came during the group's U.S. tour in 2009.
"It was such a happy and precious experience for me to be on the tour of
50 U.S. cities and perform on the stage, but I came to wonder, can I go
on living like this?' Sun-mi said in a statement later released by the
group's management agency JYP Entertainment.
Sun-mi's announcement not only jolted fans, but also stirred up
controversy about the pressure on idol performers - either yet a trainee
aspiring to be an idol star or already such a one - to maintain a
schedule some say is too hard for a teenager to bear.
Korean entertainment agencies look out to create idols, which they
then also manage, maintain well-ordered training programs. Prospective
talents in music or acting register with an agency, then, if accepted,
undergo four to five years, on average, of training before their debuts.
During that process, the company may require the aspiring star to live
in a boarding house with colleagues (or rivals), go on a strict diet
with regular weight checks and put in more than 10 hours of practice a
day. The trainees under the entertainment label of their choice don't exactly know when they will debut,if that ever arrives
Jo Kwon(2AM) and Min(Miss A) go way back as they had trained under JYP Entertainment for 8-10 years
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