Musician, athletes, and TV stars have been participating in the "Pray For Japan"photo support campaign, run by Naver.com the Korean search engine and Japan's NHN.
Their mission states"Many celebritie are also stretching out helping hand in a time when heartfelt consolation is needed. Celebrities from various fields- music,sport,movies and so on- have sent their pictures with a 'Pray For Japan' message to Naver.com for quake-stricken people in Japan. 'Exhibition N' now introduce photos sent in by celebrities with cheering messages.Naver.com truly hopes that our prayers will reach people in Japan and give them courage to be able to reconstruct what was destroyed."
Over 70 celebrities- such as Big Bang, Wonder Girls,2NE1,Dal Shabet, Infiniteand JYJ- has taken part in the campaign thus far, adn many more contributions are bieng added each minute. Their Heartfelt messages were also translated into japanesse for them to read.
Source+Photos: Mydaily Via Naver
The wonder Girls whom currently busy preparing for their album had also left their messages on Naver.
Yubin: "It is really dishearting that disaster had happened to our neighbouring country recently. I pray that all these negative things will come to an end soon, for the country to regain its stability back"
Sunye:"Let us unite together & not forget to say oir prayers. espeacially to all people in Japan. Our heart & thought go out to them"
Yenny: Right now,there are lot of pain &difficulties on in Japan, let us all not give up hope on them,but belive that they will pill this through. We will always pray for them"
Sohee: "Let us all wish Japan for a speddy recovery! Also, to cheer for everyone in Japan! Cheers.
Lim: "It is painful to hear about the terrible news that has happened to Japan. Let us all pray & wish for pease in Japan once more.
Other than "Pray For Japan" champaign there a lot donation came from the big companies and individual artist.Actor Bae Yong Joon has decide to give away 1,000,000,000 WON which comes up to approximately $900,000 USD after hearing that Japan had limited relief sipplies and equipment.
Bae Yong Joon is not the obly actor who donating money to Japan,as Kim Hyun Joong ang Jang Geun Suk,who also receiving much love in Japan,has decided togive away $100,000 and $120,000 respectively. Korean actor Won Bin has donated around 1405 million Yen ($172,000 USD) to the Japanese earthquake disaster relief through UNICEFF. While My Princess actress Kim Tae Hee also donated around 7 million Yen(~$86,000 USD) via Japanese Red Cross Society.On March 14th,the top hallyu actor Song Seung Hyun direcctly deposit a donation of 200 milliion won into the charity's fund raising account. Song Seung Hyun stated, "It's so heartbreaking to see what happened in Japan, so i had to help at least a tiny bit, and i figures Salvatian Army would be best. If everyone can donate somethng small, a big positive change can occur."
As well as the korean famous girl group at Japan, KARA will be donating all their income from their new single “Jet Coaster Love” towards disaster relief efforts.
A representative from DSP Media stated, “…for the victims of the earthquakes and tsunamis, all of the proceeds from KARA’s new single will be donated.”
On March 18th , JYPE announced that they will be donating $300,00 USD towards relief efforts in Japan throught the Korean National Red Cross.
In sumarry, the three biggest companies of the industri SM Entertainment (1 million USD), YG Entertainment ($500,000 USD), and JYP Entertainment, have donated a total of $1.8 million USD together in the past few days to aids Japan's recovery.
Other than that,On a special SBS broadcast titled, “Keep Your Energies High, Japan!“, many of Korea’s top idols gave their words of support to their Japanese fans who are ravaged by the earthquake.
Rain, SS501’s Kim Hyung Joon, Brown Eyed Girls, TVXQ, Super Junior’s Leeteuk andShindong, 2PM, SNSD, CNBLUE, MBLAQ, 4minute, B2ST, and SHINee’s Minho and Taemin appeared in the clip and gave words of encouragement to tell Japan not to give up and still hope for the best.
2PM’s Junsu said, “What we need the most are your support and interest. Please keep supporting the issue.“, while SNSD’s Yoona stated, “If we gather our love and sincerity, we can find the power and bravery to recover from a tragedy.”Korean idols send an ecouraging video message to Japan.
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There's many ways how Korean idol show their support to Japan and encouring them after the disaster. Some of them send a picture messages, some of them helping by donating and some of them send a video message, the
point is their are asian and we help people around us without care about our religious, race or language. No matter how hard we fighting, we still one family as long as we live in the same earth.
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