[News] Sung Si Kyung, Kara most popular in Japan

Singer Sung Si Kyung was on Mnet’s ‘Beatles Code’ on September 29th and raved about Kara‘s popularity in Japan.

Kara has made their comeback with ‘Step’ recently and in Japan, as soon as the album was released, Kara placed in the upper places of the Oricon chart and in the ad industry are treated as top stars. Kara has indeed stepped up as Hanryu stars and has been picked as the #1 preferred Korean singers by the Japanese. Sung Si Kyung commented based on his experience, “In the 2 weeks that I stayed in Japan, whenever I had the TV on or walked around the streets, all I saw was Kara.”

Sung Si Kyung also added really paying a compliment towards his junior colleagues in the music industry, “The way that Kara has been successful is equivalent to a Japanese singer placing 1st place on ‘M! Countdown’. It is really that big a deal.”

Sung Si Kyung also mentioned Kang Ji Young in particular, who is the youngest member of Kara. Sung Si Kyung admired, “Usually she looks cute like a baby but on stage she’s charismatic like she’s going to eat up the camera. She really did practice a lot so that she does not look like a kid. She is a pro.”

On this episode of ‘Beatles code’, Sung Si Kyung talks about many different topics also including how ironically Kara had become super popular just as sung Si Kyung had joined the military.

Source: Sports Seoul via Nate

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LOL.. erm what KARA has done in Japan is more than like winning 1st place @ Mcountdown.