Changmin Has Gotten #1 For Watching Special Videos

[mousapelli]

No work again today~! YATTA. Just keep snowing baby. it's really ridiculous how all the tension leaves my body as soon as I don't have to show up at the job.

I am having DBSK (or whatever the hell their name really is) pimped at me, and I have to admit that they do have the sexy, sexy PVs. on the other hand, I absolutely cannot remember their names.

Not like usual, where I can't tell the guys apart, but I can at least list my options? For some reason, because they're names are Korean, I just cannot get my brain to hang on to them! I had no idea that my mental saturation of foreign names was totally limited to Japanese only.

Watch as I fail:

Arashi: Ohno, Nino, Aiba, Jun, and Sho (roughly ten seconds, I blanked out on Sho).

DBSK: Jae-...something (Draco), Yunho, Chang-...(the one who looks like ryu), Jonsha...or Junsha..., and...that...last guy...the one with manboobs? Or did i already name him. Man, what is my PROBLEM. (at least 30 seconds, to come up with that sort of crap).*

Sigh. Anyway. gmail is still eating my comments.

*The correct answers, if you wanted to know, are Yunho, Changmin, Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu. Maybe typing it a bunch of times will help.

Comments

[yabamena]

Oh lord. DBSK. The pretty. SWEET GOD THE PRETTY. *wibble*

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

I have this same problem in my class. I can always remember the names of important Japanese people (they just seem easier to remember), but when it comes to important Chinese or Korean people I'm like...is it Chen? or Jeng? Or was it Ban? Who am I talking about again?

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

MOUSE. GUESS WHAT I GOT IN THE MAIL TODAY. *FLAILS IN LOVE* ♥ ♥ ♥

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

I... have been trying to remember all their names for two months and... I think I can do it? I always forget one, but it's not always the same person. They're in almost every magazine I buy.
And I was really confused for a long time because apparently I'm the only person who calls them Tohoshinki. Because I always see their name written out in Kanji. Why do they have so many NAMES? Both for the band and for themselves? D:

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

they aaaaare! They're videos are SO COOL. I was watching a bunch of them on youtube, but the quality was so poor i need to dig them up somewhere else.

And then I watched the clip where there was casual kissing at the end o.O;;

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

I mean, i guess it has to do with how much Japanese I have listened to at this point (jpop in the car really helped develop my ear for the language), but it's simply crazy how anything from another Asian country is like completely incomprehensible to my brain.

My brother took an East Asian History politics glass last semester, and it sounded really really cool. but I have no doubt I would have exactly the same problem XD

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEEEEE. i love how excited you get about my utter dorkery.

♥♥♥

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

My friend said that too, about listening to Japanese music in the car and how it helps your ability to recognize words. I should try that.

I think a lot of it has to do with all the animes I've watched. I'm taking Japanese history right now, and every once in a while he'll talk about someone and I'll be like "Oh! Thats that guy from [insert historical anime]!". Though I tried to talk to my professor about the Shinsengumi, and he had no idea what I was talking about. I wasn't sure if I should be embarrassed or proud.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

the name thing is driving me CRAZY. For fuck's sake PICK A NAME. I'm just sort of looking at the Japanese releases now (where their name actually is Tohoshinki), because I don't understand the Korean or anything.

But they even call each other by both their korean names and their international names, and that's driving me bananas. I find the international name thing to be completely unnecessary.

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

Me, too. I use Tohoshinki because that's what I first saw them and, for the most part, continue to see them referred to as.
But even in the Japanese magazines, they still use their Korean names. So I don't really know what their international names ARE, other than JJ's "Hero." But yeah. UNNECESSARY. They should have stuck with the original name for the band, too. Oh well.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

It has everything to do with saturation. Even if you don't really understand what's happening, hearing japanese some each day really does help.

Once I get myself together at my job, i really want to audit some classes like that. So cool!

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

Yay for Japanese!

And you must! Japanese history is the best. Like, at the beginning of the Meiji era all the peasants were really confused about what was going on, so in protest they started having spontaneous, naked mass dancing and yelling something like "Who cares!". Best way to protest EVER.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

Jemz explained it to me:

Junsu=Xiah
JaeJoong=Hero
Yoochun=Micky
Changmin=Max
Yunho=U-Know

Hey, is there a comm or something that's got the PVs in decent quality? I've got a handful (begin, sky, o sei han go, and miss you), but I was looking for the others.

[yabamena]

And then I watched the clip where there was casual kissing at the end o.O;;

Heywhatnow? I missed this somehow! O.o

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

BUT IT'S SO CUTE.

IT'S A KITTY, RIGHT.

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

it's here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQN79ggBu8Q&mode=related&search=).

I wasn't warned, so it had about double the effect because i was caught off-guard. My jaw was like on the floor! The whole thing is funny though, as they get more and more into the song.

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

From what I have discovered, they have different names because they debuted in each country under the translated version of their Korean band name, "Dong Bang Shin Gi"/"Dong Bang Shin Ki" (depending on which romanization system you want to use). In Japan, the translated version is "Tohoshinki" and in China/Taiwan, it's "Tong Vfang Xien Qi". Which is all nice and pretty when the names all mean "Rising Gods of the East".

And the reason why they have so many names is because the band name has four words and that the members should have 4 letters in their name. It's all very philisophical meanings behind their international name and so forth but I like simplifying things.

Their Korean names are redone in Katakana when they are in Japan, having focused more of their attention on the Japanese market (because from what I have found, Japanese market > Asian market in the same vein U.S. market > European market).

so their names:

YoongWoong(Hero) JaeJoong
Micky Yoochun
U-Know Yunho
Choikang(Max) Changmin
Xiah Junsu

They'll generally introduce themselves with their stagenames when in Korea. They'll use their first names in Japan.

Uhhh...hope that helps a bit. ^^;

[swtjemz.livejournal.com]

XD

Yunho has the manboobs. XD

Glad you like the moment where JaeJoong kissed Yunho's cheek. :3

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes, you should type their names many many many times. in fics. with much Jaeho pairing.

PS those man boobs are very much acknowledged, if you haven't seen this already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4OZOCijeP4