Kara Honey

Kara Pretty Girl - Hara

2009-10-30T12:41:00.003-04:00

Call her Hara
Her full name: Koo Ha Ra
She was born January 13, 1991
She is a backup vocalist in KARA
She goes to school like the rest of her bandmates. She's at Dongmyeong Woman's High School of Industry and Information

Hara is a fan favorite. She made her debut with KARA along with Kang Ji Young in the summer of 08 with the mini album "Rock U". Before KARA she worked as an online shopping model, similar to appearing as a department store model in the US. She also appeared with KARA on an episode of "That Person is Coming" playing a female gang leader surprisingly. In addition she was cast on a reality TV show called "Invincible Youth" in October of 2009. The shows concept is based on "The Simple Life". The cast consists of 6 other girls, together forming a show based girl group called G7 (Girl 7 duh).

Kara Pretty Girl - Kang Ji Young

2009-10-29T19:41:00.002-04:00

Call her Jiyoung

Her full name: Kang Ji Young

Born On: January 18, 1994
She is a supporting Vocalist
She goes to school. She can be found at Muhak Women's High School

On a Korean show called "Come to Play" she was noted as being the band mate with the worst temper. In April of 09, Jiyoung collaborated with another group called JUMPER on the song Sparkling Eyes. She made her debut with Kara along with new member Koo Hara in July 08 with the release of the first mini album. She was chosen by a public adudition run by the music label that owns KARA, DSP.

Kara Pretty Girl - Nicole Jung Bio

2009-10-27T09:16:00.000-04:00

Call her Nicole
Her full name: Nicole Jung
Born on October 7, 1991
She is a vocalist and th rapper of the group
She goes to Laurel Springs School in California

Nicole wrote the rap lyrics for KARA's first album. Nicole also joined Star Golden Bell. She hosted a segment called Level With Me in which the contestants have to guess a term or title from the clues given by Nicole, the difficulty comes from Nicole's lack of skill and experience with the Korean language. The segment ran from December 2008 to October 2009. In August of 09 she became the new MC for historical culture variety show Bonanza. She also sang a duet with Kang Kyoon, a member of boy group Noel.

Kara Pretty Girl - Han Seung Yeon Bio

2009-10-26T08:47:00.002-04:00

Call her Seungyeon
Full Name: Han Seung Yeon
Born on: July 24, 1988
Position: Vocalist
She attends Kyunghee University

Seung is a child actress. Her first cameo was in "Star in My Heart". This was followed up and appearances in the music video for Lucky Days by SS501. In 2008, she was apart of a reality TV series called Family Need. The premise of the show was that a group of celebrities would live together as a family and take the roles of mother, father, daughter, son. From here, she became part of MBC's entertainment news show. Think EXTRA! in the US. She was the pop music columnist. She then went on to become the co-host of Sonyeo Sonyeon Gayo Baekso. This role ended in May of 2009. In addition to her work with Kara from 2007-Present she also became part of an idea to form the perfect girl group, made up from the best players from a variety of different girl groups. This new groups name is 4Tommorow. Their first single called "Tomorrow" was released October 6, 2009, and the accompanying music video followed on October 12, 2009.

4Tomorrow - Tomorrow Music Video

Kara Pretty Girl - Park Gyr Ri Bio

2009-10-25T08:15:00.003-04:00

Call her Gyuri
Full name: Park Gyu Ri
Born on: May 21, 1988
Kara Position: Shes currently the lead vocalist and the band leader.
She attends Dongduk Women's University.

Gyuri was a kid actor. Her first ever television appearance was on a show called "Today is a Nice Day" way back in the nintes. where she played the part of girlfriend to one of the lead characters. Her next gig was in early 2001 where she played the teen version of Kim Jung's character in "Ladies of the Place". This was followed by the formation of Kara, where she became band leader and eventually lead vocalist with the departure of fellow Kara Pretty Girl Kim Sung Hee.

Kara - If U wanna

2009-10-24T20:15:00.000-04:00

If U wanna is is a track of the first album of the band Kara. Their first album featuring Kim Sung Hee as the lead is a very good hip and R&B track. It starts out with a quick rap in english, "K.A.R.A Do you wanna love, yea I know you wanna love, holla baby boo!" Then it jumps into Korena for the majority of the lyrics and the chorus. The only other English part is when Nicole Jung raps. The rap makes for a good musical bridge to end the song with Kim bringing it home with a powerful octave at the end.

The music video for If U wanna shows the pretty girls of Kara strolling through town, stopping at a cafe for a drink, and riding a train. The song is equally sung amongst the members, with Han Seung Yeon carrying the chorus, Nicole Jung rapping, and Gyu-ri and Kim Sung Hee sharing the lead, though Kim shows off of here vocal prowess at the end of the song. The video also features the band mates looking very natural, in contrast to there much glammed up look currently. Also a purple dinosaur mascot make an cameo during Nicole's rap section.

If U wanna is a one of the few R&B sounding tracks put out by Kara. The band is currently known and more famous for there Pretty Girl, Honey, and Wanna tracks (different from "If U Wanna"). The song is quite good, though most of it is in Korean. Definetly check it out.

Kara - If U wanna Music Video

Kara - What happened to Kim Sung Hee?

2009-10-23T00:37:00.001-04:00

The Korean Girl Group know on the internets as Kara actually started out as a 4 person R&B group,with Kim Sung Hee as the lead singer. Then the group then made a comeback as a tween group with Kara - Pretty Girl and Kara - Rock U, and has now finally found an identity that fits as a young adult group with 5 members, two of them new. So what happened to Kim Sung Hee? There is not a whole lot of information on this, it is reported that she is currently attending the Han Yang Girls' University. She was apparently forced to leave on her fathers demand that her school work was suffering. The girls in Kara, are all between the ages of 15-22, so clearly many of them are still in school. Also there from South Korea, not the US. There are different attitudes towards performing and school, and also different expectations of girls and different expectations of what will lead to the most success and wealth.

Kim Sung Hee was the lead vocalist for Kara. With the loss of the lead, that usually spells disaster for any group or band. Kim Sung Hee has had the most powerful voice of any of the Kara girls to date and many fans miss her. However, with the loss of Kim Sung Hee, this allowed for a re-branding of Kara. The first thing the record company did was make the quintuplet a 5 girl group with the addition of Koo Ha Ra and Kang Ji Young.

Koo Ha Ra

Kang Ji Young

According to a press release:

Kara debuted in the K-pop industry in March 2007 with the release of their first album The First Blooming. Promotions ended in the summer of 2007. Because of their similarity to Fin.K.L and the fact that both were under the same company, the two were often compared to each other; in response, Kara stated that they wanted to work hard enough to deserve the comparison.

The group was scheduled to have their comeback in March 2008 with their second album. However, Kim Sunghee left the group suddenly due to parental pressure, as her participation in the group was contingent on the maintenance of her grades. She failed to pass her college entrance exam, and as a result, she was forced to leave the group. In response, DSP stated that the second album would be shelved and replaced by a mini-album to come in May; in addition, two members would join the group, chosen through public auditions, to be chronicled by music television station M.Net.

The two new members were eventually revealed to be Gu Hara and Kang Ji-young; their comeback was on July 24, 2008, two months after scheduled.

Anyway, if you want to see Kara, back when they were a quintuplet, check out the two videos below. If U wanna and b

IF U WANNA MUSIC VIDEO

BREAK IT MUSIC VIDEO

Kara - Honey

2009-10-22T23:29:00.002-04:00

Honey is a killer song by the pretty Korean Kpop girl group Kara. Honey has amazing electronic instrumental and good vocals to go along with it. The song was Kara's first number one single according to M.Net's M Countdown. It achieve this number one spot in March 2009. The song was released in February 2009, so its rise to number one was fast. Compared to the previously release mini album, Kara - Pretty Girl it was a huge success. Pretty Girl while successful, but did not quite achieve the comercial success that Honey did. Also noticeable, the style and sound of Honey compared to Pretty Girl and Rock U is a stark comparison.

Honey shows the girls: Park Gyu Ri, Han Seung Yeon, Nicole Jung, Koo Ha Ra, and Kang Ji Young as young femine mature girls, compared to the tween marketing approach of Pretty Girl and Rock U. So what is the song about? Honey right? Yes honey. Just kidding.

Honey is about a girl having a crush on a guy. Simple as that. A rough translation shows the song to be about how nervous they get arond the guy they like and how they try and hide it, but it is no use they want there one and only honey. If this song was translated into English I have no doubt that it would be a big hit here in the states as it was in South Korea. The song rose much faster than Pretty Girl, according to Kara's band leader Park Gyu Ri because the song appeals to an "older audience" which is quite apparant.

If your reading this, then more than likely you have no idea how to speak Korean, but I am sure you will find these songs terribly addictive though you have no idea what they are saying. Honey by Kara is just one of those songs. You will be thinking in your head "oh baby, honey, honey, honey". Check out the video below

KARA - HONEY

Kara - Pretty Girl

2009-10-22T22:25:00.006-04:00

Kara the kpop South Korean girl group, released "Pretty Girl" on December 4th. The song, with the new band members Koo Hara and Kang Ji Young is a distinct departure from there debut album's more urban hip hop based theme. Pretty Girl was released as a mini album after the song Rock U.

The new rebranding of Kara, and the groups attractive and natural appeal has made the group a popular search term on many Korean portals as well as on YouTube, where many of there videos can be found. This has exposed this Korean group to a much wider audience, and also inadvertently a male curiosity for the five young girls and their bio and back ground.

Pretty Girl was announce as a second mini album after Rock U in November with a fun happy concept. After watching the video myself, it is targeted at a tween age group, much like Miranda Cosgrove's music in the United States. The popularity of Kara in the English speaking world is small, but the advent of YouTube has allowed westerners to be exposed to Kpop. Kara's Pretty video has received over 70,000 views. There music is admittedly very addictive.

Pretty Girl as well as other Kara songs like Honey, Rock U, Wanna, have allowed the group to go viral on digital music sites. It has also allowed the girl group to rivial other popular Kpop girl groups such as Girls Generation and the Wonder Girls. So what is the song about? Kara - Pretty Girl is simple but uplifting and motivating song towards young girls about not just thinking your a pretty girl, but thinking that your a beautiful girl, not simply by the way you look, but by how you think and carry yourself.

If you want to see Kara - Pretty Girl, check out the video below.

KARA - PRETTY GIRL - MUSIC VIDEO