Running Man Brothers
Running Man Brothers | |
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Running Man Brothers, Haha and Kim Jong-kook in Dallas, December 14, 2014 | |
Background information | |
Origin | Seoul, South Korea |
Genres | K-pop, electropop, hip-hop, reggae fusion, Dance, Ballad, Trot |
Years active | 2014โpresent |
Labels | Urban Works ENT (2014-Present) |
Members | Kim Jong-kook, Haha |
Running Man Brothers is a South Korean pop duo, which is named after the South Korean television show Running Man. The group is composed of Kim Jong-kook and Haha and was formed in 2014.[1]
History
Kim and Haha are regular cast members on the Running Man show, which started airing in 2010, and they have been called it's favorite "duo."[2]Although Yoo Jae-suk is the star of the show, Kim and Haha have been written of as the "spice" of the show, with references to Kim's "boyish likeability, upbeat personality and masculinity" and Haha for "his insatiable sense of humor and free spirit," and together are called "the musical duo."[1]
The two have been friends for a long time. Haha said he first met Kim when he was 19, when Kim was "super famous", "a legend" in Turbo[3]and which Kim responded, "I was in Turbo, and he was nothing, soโฆ" and then said, "I love him. He is literally like my real brother."[4]
Career
In addition to their individual musical careers, with Haha's "reggae style music" and Kim's "melancholic and soothing ballads,"[5]the two have performed together during their work for the Running Man show, at fan meet gatherings and concerts.[6]
Kim's 2012 comeback, break from his hiatus from the music industry album, "Volume 7 - Journey Home" included the track "Words I Want To Say To You" featuring his Running Man members Haha and Leessang's Gary.[7][8]
Debut and U.S. tour continued
On July 12, 2014, the two variety show stars debuted together in concert at the Fantasy Springs Resort, Palm Springs, California, singing their hit songs, which was noted as a "return" to their musical roots.[9][10][11][12]
Again, in December 2014, they collaborated with Tune Entertainment for a second leg of their concert tour in the United States,[5][13]for concerts on December 12, at Queens College Colden Auditorium, New York and on December 14, at Gilley's in Dallas. [14][15]These two concerts, advertised in posters as "2014 Kim Jong Kook and Haha Running Man Bros' US Tour,"[2]started off with a video shoutout from Running Man fellow cast members Yoo Jae-suk, Lee Kwang-soo, Ji Suk-jin, Gary, and Song Ji-hyo with their congratulations for the duo's first U.S. tour. The concerts included some of their songs like Haha's "You're My Destiny," Kim's "Lovable," and older hits from Turbo; along with English covers of Bruno Mars's, Just the Way You Are, and Jay-Z and Alicia Keys's Empire State of Mind, to interest the American audience. The two exhibited their Running Man friendship, where they call each other "My Dongsaengโ and โOur Hyung," and showed off their close friendship, "often man-hugging it out to the delight of the concert crowd." The two hour long concerts included songs and fan interactions, "pioneered by fluent English (Jongkook) and adorably simplistic English (Haha)."[16][17]
Members
Stage name | Birth name | Date of Birth | |||
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Romanized | Hangul | Romanized | Hangul | Hanja | |
Kim Jong-kook | ์ข ๊ตญ | Kim Jong-kook | ๊น์ข ๊ตญ | ้้ๅ | April 25, 1976 |
Haha | ํํ | Ha Dong-hoon | ํ๋ํ | ๆฒณๆฑๅณ | August 20, 1979 |
References
- โ 1.0 1.1 Dodley, Lewis (December 10, 2014). "Running Man Brothers Bring K-Pop to Queens College". Time Warner Cable News NY 1. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
- โ 2.0 2.1 "Kim Jong Kook & Haha To Hold US Concert". Yahoo! News Singapore. November 27, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ Bae, Keun-min (January 1, 2006). "TV Networks Hand Out Awards". Hancinema. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ benightedxflame (December 13, 2014). "Exclusive: Kim Jongkook and Haha Talk Body Swap (With Lee Kwangsoo), Joining BIGBANG, and Favorite Running Man Moments". Soompi. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ 5.0 5.1 Lee, Sarah (October 24, 2014). "'Running Man' Kim Jong Kook And HaHa To Perform At New York's Queens College In December". KPopStarz. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ Ramli, Bibi Nurshuhada (October 15, 2014). "Not running out of steam yet". New Straits Times. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ "Kim Jong Kook pre-releases songs off his 7th album ft. Haha, Gary, & Mighty Mouth". Allkpop. October 23, 2012. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ "Kim Jong Kook releases "Men Are All Like That" MV + 'Journey Home' album". Allkpop. November 1, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ "Kim Jong Guk And Haha Hold Successful U.S. 'Running Man' Concert". KPopStarz. July 14, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ ๊น์ข ๊ตญ, ์ ์น ํํ์ ็พ '๋ฐ๋๋งจ' ์ฝ์ํธ ์ฑ๋ฃ..3000๋ช ์ด๊ด [์ถ์ฒ] ๋ณธ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ ์กฐ์ ๋ท์ปด์์ ์์ฑ๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌ ์ ๋๋ค (in Korean). The Chosun Ilbo. July 14, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ ๋ฐ๋๋งจ ๊น์ข ๊ตญ, ํํ ๋์ฃ LA์ปจ์ํธ ํฐ์ผ $45 (in Korean). Korea Daily. June 18, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ ๊น์ข ๊ตญ-ํํ ็พ ์ฝ์ํธ โ3์ฒ๋ช ๊ด๊ฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ด์ ํ์ง ํฌโ (in Korean). JoongAng Ilbo. July 14, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ alim17 (November 14, 2014). "Kim Jong Kook and HaHa to be in New York and Dallas for 'Running Man Bros' US tour". Allkpop. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ Lee, Jung-hyuk (December 13, 2014). '๋ฅ๋ ฅ์' ๊น์ข ๊ตญ, ็พ 'NY1'๊ณผ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์ ์์ด๋ก '์ ์ [์ถ์ฒ] ๋ณธ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ ์กฐ์ ๋ท์ปด์์ ์์ฑ๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌ ์ ๋๋ค (in Korean). The Chosun Ilbo. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ ssiwoorain (November 27, 2014). ๊น์ข ๊ตญ & ํํ KIM JONG KOOK & HAHA Runningman Bros' Concert (in Korean). Korea Economic Daily. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
- โ benightedxflame (December 13, 2014). "Recap: 8 Best Moments of Kim Jong Kook and Hahaโs โRunning Man Brothers...". Soompi. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
- โ ๊น์ข ๊ตญ&ํํ ๋ฐ๋๋งจ ํ์ ์ฝ์ํธโฆ "k-pop ์ดํ, ์ ์ ์ ์ฐ๋ค" ๋ฐ๋๋งจ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ค์์๋ ํ์ธโฆ ๊ด๊ฐ ์ฒ์ฌ ๋ช '์ด๊ด์ ๋๊ฐ๋' (in Korean). News Korea. December 15, 2014. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
External links
- Kim Jong-kook's Official Website (Korean)
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