Kpop News – Music and Video

When it comes to music and school, 2PM’s Jun.K wants to have his cake and eat it too.

The idol star will be entering Kyunghee University in 2013 to study in the Public Arts and Culture Contents program at the Media Information Graduate School. JYP Entertainment explained the young star always had a passion to expand his knowledge on music composition and lyric-writing, which are all related to public arts. Jun.K will be a student at the graduate school while also continuing to participate as a member of 2PM for all their activities.

Also notable was that Jun.K didn’t take the special exemption exam which is open as an option for idol stars, but opted to apply like the average student by taking the regular graduate school exam.

The singer had received a full scholarship to Dongah Institute of Media and Arts while majoring in Media Entertainment back in 2009.

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After a successful season 1, the popular competition show “Voice Korea” will be returning for season 2 with a new roster of coaches. The big names too look forward to are Yoon Sang, Seo In-young, and Yang Yo-seop of BEAST.

The upcoming season will shift its focus to zone in more on the younger age group. The coaches are thus expected to show a more humanistic, soft side for the contestants, expected to mostly range from 6-14 years of age.

The head producer for the show, Oh Kwang-seok, explained the reasoning behind the show’s change in direction, noting that while working on shows like Super Star K and Voice Korea, he realized how many talented youngsters there were out there. Thus he wanted a separate show to focus more on this age demographic. Aside from that, the format of the show is expected to be the same as season 1. This will consist of preliminary rounds, followed by the assignment of coaches to each team via blind auditions.

The first episode of season two will air January 4, 2013.

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