(Group) KARA (카라)

[greyface]

04. What do men do to make your heart beat faster?
Things that help me to become more confident, radio DJ, diet…

LMFAO, what a creeper, sniffing people like that Mama wants to be bubba's lover... weeeeeeeeeird~ Number 4 is a strange answer... makes me think she's crushing on Shindong? Maybe Heechul? That radio DJ seems like such an oddly specific answer...
Her answers are so sexy

I don't normally like to nitpick other people's translations (because somebody else put in the time and trouble to do it!), but the question is mis-translated.
She was asked about the things that she's recently doing all the time, that she's stuck on, and enjoy. (マイブーム= my boom = a fad or trend but for her personally, rather than the country or whatever)  It has nothing to do with men.  The answer is fine though.

The -next- question (5) is about things men do that make her excited (things that show the man thinks of her nicely/gently without saying anything, like patting her head or hugging her tightly) [and isn't about what country she likes]

9 also, obviously, has a highly abbreviated answer, nobody takes 6 lines to write "Japan."  It says something more like, "I really like reading blogs and magazines, so I see a lot of new and recent fashion.  I don't feel tired to any particular style, so I like to try many different things, but recently I like Japanese fashion."

(For the record, I can't read even one syllable of Korean, so everything I've written here is based on the Japanese)

[greyface]

01. Habits that you do not know how to quit?
1) Shrinking my neck too much

-Stretching- her neck to much

02. Things that you always carry with you?
Wallet, Faouzi, Mp3, Books, Handphone

"pouch" (usually people in Japan use them for makeup) not an Algerian footballer

04. What do men do to make your heart beat faster?
Can cook by himself, study about (or care about) nutrition ♥

The question is mistranslated, so the answer was misconstrued.  The question is the stuff that she herself is "into" these days, and the answer is cooking and studying nutrition (nothing to do with men)

Thanks to the people at Karaholic for the original translation , I probably wouldn't have taken the time to do one from scratch, but I do think these are fixes worth making, rather than small nitpicks...

[greyface]

Now that I'm doing my 3rd one, I finally realize what's going on!  They got a (mildly incorrect) translation of the questions somewhere, and then translated answers based on the Korean!  So answers of "(jap)" weren't saying that the answer is "Japan" the answer is that it's untranslated because the translator doesn't speak Japanese!  That explains it rather neatly!  It also makes it probable that my English, based on the magazines Japanese, based on the member's Korean is less accurate than the OPs English based on the Korean...  But, I'll still poke where I feel comfortable.

04. What do men do to make your heart beat faster?
Play guitar! Play sports!

05. What are you currenty falling in love with?
When I hear compliments!
When people said that I was so cute!! So pretty ♥_♥~!!

Question 4 and question 5 were transposed.  5 is "What do men do...", 4 is "What are you into"

06. Your cellphone current background?
(Jap)

THIS, fingers with faces on them [you can see the picture she drew]

[lollipopgirl]

^ Oh they answers that say "Jap/Japan" mean that it wasn't translated to Korean and so wasn't translated to English, they just mean it was written in Japanese and left it at that.
Thank you for your help though! Translations are confusing when they go from one language (Jap) to another language (Korean) and then to another (English). Sadly thing sometimes get mistranslated. Thanks for translating straight from the Japanese part seeing its the original (Or at least I figure thats how it was done... I don't understand why they would put Korean in a Japanese magazine for any other reason....)

[lollipopgirl]

^ Lol yeah, I said the same thing in Gyuri thread before I saw your reply here xD I think the Japanese to English as opposed to Japanese to Korean to English is probably a more accurate way to do things... less room for mistranslation, the latter has double the chance. Thank you once again!

[greyface]

Mentioned it on other similar posts... when I figured it out, the translators transposed question 4 & 5, so I got confused a bit.  This time, unlike the previous ones, the answers fit the questions, but are in the wrong order, so it's almost not worth fixing .

*fixed*

04. What are you currenty falling in love with?
Learning guitar, Eating nuts, Health

05. What do men do to make your heart beat faster?
Joking in cold way

[greyface]

Thank you for your help though! Translations are confusing when they go from one language (Jap) to another language (Korean) and then to another (English). Sadly thing sometimes get mistranslated. Thanks for translating straight from the Japanese part seeing its the original (Or at least I figure thats how it was done... I don't understand why they would put Korean in a Japanese magazine for any other reason....)

I'm pretty sure that the members mostly answered the questionnaire in Korean, and the magazine producers had it translated into (the typed) Japanese below it.  Where the Japanese is in hand-writing, it's presumably because they are learning Japanese, and knew the right Japanese words to answer.  Where the Japanese is typed, but there is no Korean (question 9) my guess is that with the Korean AND the Japanese, it would take up too much space, so they just editted out Gyuri's handwritten answer.

So, I'd guess that the original poster (who was translating from the member's own, actual Korean) into English are MORE accurate than my English (which is based on Japanese, based on the Korean), except where the English is tailored to smoothly answer a mistaken question.  Like I said elsewhere, the mistake in questions was just transposing questions 4 & 5...

[greyface]

As mentioned on the other girls' threads, questions 4 & 5 got crossed...

*Fixed*

04. What are you currenty falling in love with?
Smartphone, hedgehog

05. What do men do to makes your heart beat faster?
Cute text message?

(The Japanese says, gentle/caring text message, not cute, but I don't read a lick of Korean, so I don't know which Seungyeon wrote...)

01. Habits that you do not know how to quit?
Pull my sleeves up high.

Again, I don't know what the Korean says, but the Japanese here says she stretches out her sleeves (like pulling them down over her hands, which is a totally cute thing girls do!)

What the hell is a Hedgehog that she likes in guys? xD

I think... because of the question-crossing, she actually just like hedgehogs!  Which isn't normal... but makes more sense than getting fluttery in the stomach when a guy "hedgehogs" around her!

[daigong]

kddi au Smart Sports pimping!


and they performed too


 
     
source:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JIJIPRESS
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/entertainment/82971/full/
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20101213_414012.html

[daigong]

^ WOW greyface you do translation for Karaholic forum? I echo Pops by saying Props! I just seen you in LLF

Jiyoung singing “Merry Love” with dude (lol a little help please! someone)





 
     

[greyface]

^ WOW greyface you do translation for Karaholic forum? I echo Pops by saying Props! I just seen you in LLF

Err, no!  I've never been to KARAholic before.  I don't do Korean, so I'm MOSTLY useless for KARA translations, since most of their interesting material is in Korean!  But when I see somewhere I can lend a hand, I do.

Other than LLF, I poke around the KARA stuff ehre, and vaguely lurk a few H!P threads.

[daigong]

lol ahh I gotcha man. BUT that's what is, just whatever the fuck you feel like pimping - PIMP IT. We Community Before the Fandom. so hey, you take a chance on KARA, I did and I ain't looking back

more photos, the single is dropping Dec. 16!
 
 
     
Merry Love MV TEASER feat. Sungje (Supernova)


source via 2ch

SHE's going hollywood tonight!

[lollipopgirl]

Mama & bubz for Daemul soundtrack

[daigong]

jiyoung giant baby song

[lollipopgirl]

FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Girls just won third freaking place for the year end Music Bank with Lupin! That song is so epic, so freaking deserving, kyaaaaaaaaaaa~

[janeberryblue]

how come no one's putting up their trades here?? i guess i'll start!

i'm going to borrow the template i use for SNSD star card trading over at soshified because it is the neatest and easiest for me to follow ^^
please note, i use the girls' first 2 letters instead of writing all the whole name

KARA Star Cards
Username: janeberryblue
Card(s) wanted:
Rare
Color Foil Rock U Heart (011-015) : 012NI, 013SE, 015JI
Color Foil Pretty Girl Chu (016-020) : 016GY, 017NI, 020JI
Holo Pretty Girl (021-025) : 022NI, 025JI
Color Foil Honey (036-040) : 037NI, 038SE, 040JI
Holo Color Foil Black Music (051-055) : 051GY, 055JI
Holo Color Foil Black Red (071-075) : 071GY, 072NI, 074HA
Matte Pink Sparks (086-090) : 087NI, 089HA, 090JI
Matte Silver Sparks (091-095) : 091GY, 092NI, 093HA, 095JI
Matte KARA Rainbow (096-100) : 099HA, 100JI
Holo Gold Dots (101-105) : 101GY, 102NI, 104HA, 105JI

Normal
Pretty Girl (026-030) : 028SE
Group Album (031-035) : 035Lupin
Black Swirl (056-060) : 056GY

Card(s) willing to trade:
Rare
Color Foil Rock U Heart (011-015) : 011GY
Color Foil Pretty Girl Chu (016-020) : 019HA
Holo Pretty Girl (021-025) : 021GY (x2)
Holo Color Foil Black Music (051-055) : 053SE
Matte Pink Sparks (086-090) : 088SE
Matte KARA Rainbow (096-100) : 097NI

Normal
Rock U Shapes (001-005) : 002NI(x2), 004HA(x2), 005JI
Rock U Paint Drop (006-010) : 006GY(x4), 008SE, 009HA(x2), 010JI(x2)
Pretty Girl (026-030) : 026GY(x5), 030JI(x2)
Group Album (031-035) : 031RockU, 032RockU, 033RockU, 034Lupin
Honey (041-045) : 042NI(x2), 043SE, 044HA(x3)
Lupin (046-050) : 046GY, 047NI(x2), 048SE(x4), 049HA(x2), 050JI(x2)
Black Swirl (056-060) : 057NI
Black Angel (066-070) : 066GY(x3), 067NI(x3), 068SE, 070JI
Black Lines (076-080) : 076GY, 077NI(x2), 080JI(x3)

Other Info:
I'm from the US and I TRADE INTERNATIONALLY.
I have already had almost 20 SUCCESSFUL SNSD star card trades from many users on Soshified including those from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, UK, USA, Vietnam
the only unsuccessful trade i've had was with someone from the philippines (neither of us received the other's card)
NOTE:will trade MULTIPLE normals for any one rare!

[lollipopgirl]

By the time I get around to getting these cards, no one will want to trade anymore Ditto to SNSD season 2.5

[ishiyoshiftw~^^]

Nicole~~~ 
She's DEFINTLY my favorite member of Kara. So adorable and sexy at the same time~
The interview thing is... interesting... No~ Why doesn't she say Hara for lover?? D:
And omg the Vocamaster making of is so cute! >.< I love her laugh

[SNSD1234]

Nicole's the cutest among the members 

[SNSD1234]

wish she sticked with longer hair