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For a music group that want to last long without any big discord or disbanding, it's good to have a popularity that not excessively depend on 1 member only. A group that only depend on the popularity of 1 member, he/she can maintain the group but it also possible to became a minus. A member that relatively got less spotlight can feel deprivation and the member with high popularity can think "I'm the one who fed and make this group live". Even one of the way to prevent a war between nations is the balance of power. Even one particular nation get more military power the war risk will become bigger. The fact that all 5 members of girl group KARA getting an equal popularity can be felt during the recent Tokyo Dome Concert. This is important because KARA was once facing the danger of disbanding, and the time left of their contract with their company was less than 1 year. Han Seungyeon have great contribution to prevent KARA from getting disbanded after their failure in KARA's 1st album and even revived after that. She is the one who wandered around on making appearance in cable TV and making people know the existence of KARA. However as time goes by both Nicole and Goo Hara also getting lots of popularity while making appearance in various variety program overrunning Han Seungyeon's popularity. Especially to the extent that some producer want to make 'Ant waist' Goo Hara doing solo. People also thought that Goo Hara has exceptionally high popularity in Japan. But it's not as much as expected. On the day of Tokyo Dome concert, among the merchandise that being sold, the fan that have picture of each members on it are sold out. Instead, Japanese fans that holding fan with Han Seungyeon's pictures can be seen a lot. On the concert, Han Seungyeon said in Japanese "I had a nightmare that there are no one who came to the concert but i'm really thankful that a lot of people have come today" and be moved to tears while getting great responds from the fans. On the other side, Goo Hara and Nicole confidently showed their existence through powerful choreography. Park Gyuri showed her singing ability with her solo part which stands out the most between 5 members. However the response for 'cheerful girl' Kang Jiyoung's stage are bigger. They showed responses to each of Jiyoung's words. Kang Jiyoung who wore pink sailor uniform and sang Japanese sports cheering song title "School of Heaven" said "everyone and us are like the two wheels of a bicycle that need both to be able to move forward. I hope everyone and us can keep on become a pair of wheel that running forward." The audience greeted her words with thundering applause. The fact that KARA's members, 5 people gaining even popularity and receiving spotlight equally, it shows the promising future that this group will be able to last long. Source: http://news.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20130120000179&md=20130120142012_AN

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^ ooh he's a part of double sidekick ♥~♥ i wonder if he is working with the girls on a new song! i really like his work~

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Hara goo started following "thechancellors" chance on instagram and he follows back credit cr:peanutbutterwithjelly & OH kara thread

Gyuri is such an independent woman. Imagine,she prepared a fan meeting without a manager or staff? Very impressive!

I love Nicole, but her dog just creeps me out.

Hammie will be mc with Kim Jihoon - her drama oppa - in some music festival on August 2nd http://www.fnnew.com/view?ra=Sent1901m_View&corp=fnnews&arcid=140627100718&cDateYear=2014&cDateMonth=06&cDateDay=27

I can't wait for this!!!!!!

Gyuri in Brazil Credit: tumblr

i think the girls performed Lupin and Mister really well.and when they were doing their solo thing i enjoyed Sojin rocking out!she's good!and so are Somin and Youngji.right now it's a three way battle but of course you never know if their will be a surprise finish.i'm already starting to, feel sad knwoing that the girls will start to be eliminated.i hope they will continue to perform.and become idols.best of luck to all seven girls!go Kara/Baby Kara

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I just have received my Bluray copy !

T.T So.... touching. AHHHHHHH!!!! MY FEELS!!! I'm so glad Kara got through and is equally popular with each other. Let's support each other! Kara and Kamilia ♥ We're always moving together!!! ^0^

It's true that each KARA member has a strong popularity on their own. JiYoung who hasn't had many solo activities until last year just zoomed up in popularity to catch up. I still think Hara's popularity is the highest among the members but it's not something that DSP plays off too much to over-shadow the other members. It does make me appreciate the lack of media play DSP does hahaha Yes, 2014 will come sooner than we hope. My wish is for KARA to be successful in their solo activities and maintain being KARA as a group. DSP doesn't have a good track record of keeping their idol groups, but KARA's a gold mine for DSP. Who knows, though. For now, let's support every member in all their endeavors as we always have (biases aside).

Less than a year? I'm not ready!!! Guys let's not think bout that yet nae...I know the day will come but *sobs* let's just enjoy for now.

LOL @ balance of power between nations thingy. Nice article about equal popularity and opportunity. There are some groups in kpop that already have an inbalance of popularity between members.

this is the KARA i love♥♥♥ really touching concert♥ it's pity that i cant go and stand there to support my dear girls but there would definitely be a chance someday:) KARA fighing♥

It is something that I've noticed about Kara in comparison to other groups, how all of the members seem to get almost the same amount of love and have about equal popularity. It is true that Hara was becoming more popular than the others a few years ago, but you can't really see that anymore. And I mean I haven't been a fan of kara for long (about a year maybe?), but in all this time I haven't been able to really pick a favorite member ><. (while reading the first paragraphs it felt like they were talking about miss a \o/)