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Posted on: Saturday, March 10, 2007

K-pop music stars set to spice things up

Pop star J talks about what she'll sing at the K-Drama Music Festival II
Sample song: "Perhaps Love" by Howl and J

By Mary Kaye Ritz
Advertiser Staff Writer

Korean vocalists are ready to spice things up at Waikiki Shell.

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Jung Jae Wook

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Howl

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J

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K-DRAMA MUSIC FESTIVAL II

Featuring Howl, Tak Jae-Hoon, Jung Jae Wook and J

6 p.m. today

Waikiki Shell

$50-$100

(877) 750-4400

www.ticketmaster.com

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Could singer Jung Jae Wook make it in the movies? He'd be happy to — if anyone would ask him.

Don't ask K-drama and K-pop music star Tak Jae-Hoon, though.

"His face is too common," Hoon said. Or at least we think that's what he said. We can't rightly tell, since most of the panelists were giggling too hard to get a good translation at that point during Thursday's press conference at the Royal Hawaiian hotel, which included other K-Drama Music Festival II headliners Howl and single-initial singer J.

"He'd need cosmetic surgery," he went on in Korean as the chortles from the Korean speakers grew. Then came the word everyone in the room understood: "Botox."

Yes, it's true, Hoon fills a room — with his entourage — with easy laughter and with some good old-fashioned celebritude.

Hoon regaled the room with info on his upcoming project. He's playing the title character in "The Worst Boyfriend Ever." Or something like that. (Again with the giggles.)

The married Hoon doesn't have to worry about such things offscreen. But when the others were asked their relationship status, Howl (real name: Kim Dong Wook) admits he's about a year away from being hitched, and J has a boyfriend. (J, real name Jung Jae Young, grew up in America, speaks English as her first language and helped translate. When she wasn't laughing, that is.)

Then all eyes turned to Wook.

"He's still fishing," J explained.

They seemed a bit overwhelmed at their reception in Hawai'i. J said she was so covered with lei, "I literally looked like Mr. T."