I found these magazine scans about the lost sci-fi movie “Age of Peace (평화의 시대)” (2000) by the group H.O.T. (에이치오티), and I’m not sure if these have been shared before. I've checked all the subreddits and I couldn’t find any matches, so just in case.

파스텔(PASTEL) / 2000, April issue

They held a press conference on February 25th, 2000, at the 12th floor of the Diplomatic Center in Yangjae-dong, the Korea-Japan joint venture 21st Century D.

On one page, we can see sketches of some characters from the movie, like mascot robots, and soccer players with their uniforms (alien and human), and some scene frames sketched. Also some renders of the main stadium where the teams played soccer matches.

Here’s some information answered by H.O.T.’s members:

• The main theme was about soccer and it was chosen in order to coincide with the co-hosting of the 2002 World Cup. Their main message was to express peace and reconciliation.
• The plot was set in the year 2200, where H.O.T. will hold a space soccer match on Planet Zeus, representing the Republic of the Earth Federation, and compete against players from alien galaxies.
• Since soccer is played by 11 players and they were only 5, they all played on offense and on defense.
• The group’s leader, Moon Hee-joon (문희준), was the goalkeeper.
• A soccer field was installed on a space aircraft carrier, and their soccer shoes were equipped with jet engines.
• There was a surprise event in the movie where the stadium gates open to introduce H.O.T’s new song, and they dance and sing.
• It featured things like war and train accidents.

And some technical information:

• Although not revealed by the members, it’s reported that the total production cost for the movie was about 7 billion won (around 5 million dollars).
• They used live-action footage with graphic processing.
• It was the first Korea-Japan co-production 3D movie. It was expected to be exported to the US and Europe, and it was scheduled to be released in Asian countries, including Japan.
• The movie was produced by the Japanese 3D digital computer graphics production team, Shirogumi Co., Ltd. (しろぐみ、英), and the Korean team, MyNet Korea Co., Ltd. (마이넷).
• They filmed the movie during 1999; in Tokyo, Japan, at Daiei Studio between April 20th and May 10th, and in Korea between May 10th and the end of May.

During this event, they screened a demo tape, which served as a prologue for the movie. The article’s reporter said:

>“To describe the feeling, you know those 3D theaters at amusement parks where you wear black glasses? Apples were falling down the stairs, and it felt like riding the 88 Train... You get the idea, right? But the sense of depth and realism was on a completely different level compared to what you can enjoy at an amusement park theater. Various characters moved right up to your face, and the movements were incredibly precise. The members couldn't stop exclaiming in amazement while watching the demo tape.”

토마토(YO!TOMATO) / 2000, June issue

On one page explains the whole movie’s plot chronologically. Here’s the translation:

>In the year 2200 AD, the Galaxy Cup qualifiers—a five-a-side soccer tournament held every four years between representative teams from each planet—are taking place on every planet across the galaxy. The Earth representative team, the runner-up of the previous tournament, has been on a winning streak in the Solar System qualifiers and finally secured a spot in the finals, plunging Earth into a festive atmosphere. Just before departing for Planet Zeus for the finals, H.O.T, the Earth Federation representative team, is invited to the Presidential Palace, where the President urges them to win the championship this time for the honor of Earth. The President's only daughter, Dana (다나), is also present at the gathering, and the H.O.T members are all completely captivated by her beauty, losing their composure...

>Finally, the Earth Federation director and H.O.T depart from Earth aboard a private spaceship, but everyone's hearts flutter when they discover that the President's daughter, Dana, is unexpectedly on board. They also show off their singing and dancing skills, as well as their dazzling soccer abilities, in an effort to impress Dana. In particular, Kangta (안칠현)  tries his best to win Dana's favor.

>Representative teams from each planet arrive one after another at Zeus, and as a spectacular opening ceremony and special performances are held, dazzling celebratory stages featuring singers representing each strangely shaped planet unfold. However, when the singers scheduled to represent Earth fail to arrive on time due to a spaceship malfunction, the organizers are in a panic. Upon hearing this news, H.O.T tells the Earth Federation coach that it is a matter of Earth's prestige and asks to be allowed to take the stage in their place. The coach refuses, stating that they must focus on practice to win the championship, but H.O.T sneaks onto the stage behind the coach's back and delivers a magnificent celebratory performance, receiving praise from the numerous spectators. The coach is furious but lets the issue slide for the sake of player morale.

>Soon, the Galaxy Cup finals are divided into Groups A and B, and H.O.T, representing Earth in Group B, easily passes the preliminaries under the coach's seasoned guidance and advances to the finals as the top team in Group B. Meanwhile, the Reebok Planetary Team, the defending champions and strong contenders for this tournament, plays a rough game led by their captain, Muka, resulting in numerous players from other teams dying or suffering severe injuries. With the final match between H.O.T and the Reebok Planetary Team just two days away, the Earth Federation coach summons H.O.T for a meeting and expresses his determination to win.

>Meanwhile, Kangta places a virtual clone of Director Olle in his place and follows Dana, who is touring the famous landmarks of Star Zeus, constantly looking for an opportunity to approach her. However, he witnesses Dana being kidnapped by armed thugs who suddenly appear, and although he chases after them to rescue her, he ultimately loses her. Consequently, Kangta rushes back to the lodgings and informs the Earth Federation director of the incident.

>While the director is anxious about the fact that the President's daughter has been kidnapped, he receives a call from unknown assailants who identify themselves as ILA agents from Planet Takar. They state that they will release Dana if H.O.T forfeits the finals and also releases their commander, who is currently imprisoned on Earth, before hanging up.

>Just then, a call comes in from the President asking to speak to Dana, but the Director brushes it off by saying she had briefly gone sightseeing in the city, thus narrowly escaping the crisis. After hanging up, the Director and H.O.T hold a strategy meeting, but racking their brains trying to come up with no good idea, when suddenly Kangta comes up with an idea.

>They decide to send virtual clones into the finals in their place and rescue Dana in the meantime, so they transform into the Earth Special Forces and set out. Eventually, H.O.T finds the assailants' hideout and succeeds in rescuing Dana.

>However, the virtual clones participating in the finals suffered a crushing 5-0 defeat in the first half alone. The commentator and announcer broadcasting the match live to Earth criticized the players, stating they could not understand H.O.T's listless performance, which was unlike their previous matches.

>Barely arriving at the stadium just as the first half was ending, H.O.T eliminated the virtual clones and entered the second half determined to win. Amidst a breathtaking close match against the notoriously rough Reebok Planetary Team, H.O.T mounted a massive comeback by scoring consecutive goals. Commentator Shin Mun-seon repeatedly shouted, "Goal! Goal! It's a goal!" delivering his signature commentary, as H.O.T finally achieved a crushing 6-5 comeback victory and lifted the Galaxy Championship Cup.

>The people of the Earth Federation who witnessed this were swept up in a festive atmosphere, and having completed all their schedules, H.O.T returned to Earth aboard their private spaceship with Dana.

Along with these snapshots from 2004 that I found on their website, I saved too all these images and made gifs of some pages of their website that were well archived (shoutout to LoveyDovey9885 who made this post).

These are dated between 2002-2004, which are from their first few years since their debut. They would later disband in 2006.

I thought it would be nice to share them since I don't see them uploaded anywhere (that I know of! I do a lot of research but sometimes things slip past me). I also found pictures of the 5-member male group, 리오 (Leo), since they were managed by the same agency, and I will share them later when I finish my research. Enjoy!

Yam Ya Ming (얌야밍) was a short-lived co-ed three-member dance group that debuted in 1999.

Formation

The group was formed and selected by the brand Yam Yaming (얌야밍), with first year high schoolers, ranging between 15 and 16 years old. The concept was based around the cheerful and lively music trend that was going on in the late 1990s.

The name’s group was created by the actor and fashion designer Ha Yong-soo (하용수), which “Yam” meant “asian boy” and “Yaming” meant “asian girl,” combined it meant “Boys and girls of the East.” 

Debut

They debuted in 1999 with their first and final album, ‘Yam Ya Ming,’ with the title track ‘랄랄라 (Lalala)’, a dance song which was exclusively promoted on KBS Music Bank and SBS Inkigayo. For their project, they hired composer Kim Hyung-seok (김형석) as the main producer.

During the promotion of the title track, they temporarily suspended their activities due Su-hyeok’s knee injury. Then they resumed their activities following-up with ‘거짓말 (Lying),’ a reggae-style dance song. They released a music video, in which they had a little incident while filming because they almost fell from the third floor of the cafe.

However, no broadcasted stage activities were carried out, although it was planned according to an article from 신드롬(SYNDROME), which mentions that they created a choreography, reminiscing a musical, that had a “dog dance” inspired by the act of skateboarding and the costumes were inspired by the 1970s.

Also, another article from 뮤직라이프(MUSICLIFE) mentions that each member had a dance tailored to their image in synch with the lyrics. Su-hyeok would do a “jump rope dance,” Jinuri would do the “floating dance,” where she is lifted high surrounded by members and dancers, and then Young-woo would do the “forgive me dance.” 

While they continued promoting, it was very minimal, and they disbanded in 2000 after February due low popularity.

Members

• 김수혁 (Kim Su-hyeok), May 5, 1983:

He played sports, and his favorite singers were 2Pac and 드렁큰타이거 (Drunken Tiger).

After the disbandment, he retired and his whereabouts are unknown.

• 지누리 (Jinuri), born on September 3, 1983:

Before this group, she was a child actor in the EBS drama “언제나 푸른마음 (Always a Blue Heart)” in 1994. She sang and danced. Her favorite singer was Michael Jackson.

After the disbandment, she appeared on the sitcom “세친구출 (Three Friends)” in 2000 and also on the KBS2 children’s program ‘치키치키 붕붕 (Chiki Boong Boong)’ in 2001 as MC for four months. Then she took the same role for Mnet’s ‘와이드 연예뉴스 (Wide Entertainment News)’ in 2006.

Since then, she left the entertainment industry and it’s unknown her whereabouts currently.

• 도영우 (Do Young-woo), born on November 15, 1983:

He liked playing video games, watching movies and listening to music, and he could dance and make voice impersonations. His favorite singers were X-Teen (엑스틴) and Honey Family (허니패밀리).

After the disbandment, he retired and his whereabouts are unknown.

Links

• 얌야밍 (Yam Ya Ming) - ‘랄랄라 (Lalala)’ MV
• 얌야밍 (Yam Ya Ming) - ‘거짓말 (Lying)’ MV
• Live performance of ‘랄랄라 (Lalala)’ in 쇼!뮤직탱크 (Show! Music Tank). September 18, 1999. Timestamp: 26:38
• Live performance of ‘랄랄라 (Lalala)’ in SBS. October 31, 1999.
• Commercial Ad for 빙그레 (Binggrae) promoting 빅비비빅 (Big Bibibig), an ice cream. Broadcasted in May 5, 1999.

Sources

• Blog Naver Post ‘860. 얌야밍 1집’
• 신드롬(SYNDROME) 2000년 2월호
• 뮤직라이프(MUSICLIFE) 2000년 1월호
• Namuwiki

^(Disclaimer: I don't own the pictures attached, as they are from Korean blogs and their respective owners. Since some of them aren't scanned, the quality is quite low-medium and may have some subtle differences in format and colors. They are edited by myself, enhancing its quality, deleting some texts, and editing the colors in order to be more faithful to the original media as closely as possible. If you own high-quality album scans, I can clean out the text, grains, dirt and folded cracks, and improve its quality, so it can be shared here for the public.)

I found these archived pictures on their website, taken during May 2004 with the original line-up.

To give more context of the pictures, they were probably promoting in Japan as they debuted officially there in February 2004 with the release of their first album* "Double Rainbow," along the single 'Go The Distance.' Between March and July, some songs from the album were featured on the anime Kaleido Star (カレイドスタ) as the soundtrack.

Despite being a South-Korean group, they were more successful in Japan.

Months later, they released in South Korea their 2.5th album titled "Secret" in October. At the end of the same year, in December, the leader of the group, Jung Eum (정음), would leave the group to become an actress, and would be later replaced by Ha Rin (하린).

^(* It was their first album in Japan, but they already released two albums in South Korea before their debut in Japan.)

Hwang Dae Il (황대일) was a male soloist that debuted in 1995.

Pre-debut

Born in 1972, he measured 1,77m (5'9.7’’), and before his debut he modelled in commercial films. He graduated and majored in International Trade, and studied Physical Education as well because he was an athlete.

Debut

He debuted in 1995 with the release of his self-titled first and final album, “Hwang Dae Il” in July 1995, a full-eurodance album sprinkled with ballads. He was 23 years old at that time.

His title track was a house-dance song titled ‘강요하지마 (Don’t Force Me).’ It was about feeling lonely and confused in a world that is constantly changing while he is unable to adapt. It’s unclear whether a MV was made; in one of his performances we can see some random stills, one of them being cartoon scenes if I’m not mistaken, but since the quality isn’t good at all it’s hard to tell. Probably it’s lost media.

In 1999, the song was remade by the male Korean-Japanese group Y2K under the title ‘헤어진 후에 (After We Broke Up),’ a rock-ballad popular song that was a massive hit and became their first number one on KBS’s “Music Bank.”

Although he performed live several times in public broadcast shows during the last months of 1995, he didn’t get much attention and disappeared at the end of the year.

There’s very little information about him, and his whereabouts are unknown to this day.

Links

• Live performance: Hwang Dae Il (황대일) - ‘강요하지마 (Don’t Force Me)’ on TV가요 (TV Gayo). October 8th, 1995.
• Live performance: Hwang Dae Il (황대일) - ‘강요하지마 (Don’t Force Me)’ on TV가요 (TV Gayo). November 19th, 1995.
• Live performance: Hwang Dae Il (황대일) - ‘강요하지마 (Don’t Force Me)’ on TV가요 (TV Gayo). December 17th, 1995.
• [Fragment] Live performance: Hwang Dae Il (황대일) - ‘강요하지마 (Don’t Force Me).’

His album is blocked on Bugs and isn’t available anywhere unless you own a CD copy.

Sources

• Naver Blog: “황대일 1집 - Hwang Dae Il”
• Naver Blog: “<Y2K - 헤어진 후에 >의 원곡 < 황대일 - 강요하지마>”
• Naver Library: News article published on August 16th, 1995

^(Disclaimer: I don't own the pictures attached, as they are from Korean blogs and their respective owners. Since some of them aren't scanned, the quality is quite low-medium and may have some subtle differences in format and colors. They are edited by myself, enhancing its quality, deleting any text, and editing the colors in order to be more faithful to the original media as closely as possible. If you own high-quality album scans, I can clean out the text, grains, dirt and folded cracks, and improve its quality, so it can be shared here for the public.)

The last time when the duo Sue (수) reunited publicly was for the wedding of one of the members, Lee Joo-Hyun (이주현) in 2007.

At that time, Joo-hyun was 34 years old and married Kang Yu-seok (강유석), aged 41, who was a foreign car dealer, on December 24th, which was also Joo-Hyun's birthday.

While the bride was still active as a theater and musical actress until this day, 박지원 (Park Ji Won) actually left the entertainment industry and it's unknown her whereabouts. The wedding marked her last public appearance.

They had finally a wedding march after nine years, uh? (Get it? hehe)

Context

T@GENERATION, also known as TG or 티지, was a co-ed Korean cyber group active between 2000 and 2003. The group had 3 members:

• Rigina (리지나), portrayed by a real person, Park Eun Hee (박은희).
• Iguma (이그마), initially a digital avatar and later portrayed by a real person, Ahn Myung Ha.
• Ajan (아젠), initially a digital avatar and later portrayed by a real person, Choi Yongho.

During their short-lived trajectory, they produced a high-maintenance website which followed the millennium cyber trend (it's partly archived in Wayback Machine, although we can see original live fragments on this video). Researching, their website contained a Webtoon, which we can see on the aforementioned video.

The search

Via Wayback Machine, some pages from the Webtoon have been partially recovered, which can be seen on this Reddit post. However, there's no track about its title, story or characters, not even the artist or studio - whoever drew or produced it. It may be only one webtoon or multiple webtoons.

What we know so far is that the Webtoon followed their sci-fi cyber theme, and the plot may be about a villain that is planning to invade Earth. Also, it seems that story-wise was music and dance based or connected around these elements.

It was digitally published on their website during 2000 and maybe until 2003. On the recovered pages, three characters are mentioned:

• Tantu (탄투)
• Yoo Jae-woo (유재우)
• Captain Igma (이그마대장)

And that's all I could find.

Can anyone help to find more information or find the missing pages? I attach some main sources:

• TG's website via Wayback Machine
• TG's 'Web Toons' section on their website via Wayback Machine
• TG's fan Daum Cafe
• TG's Reddit post about their story

Following this video showing TG's web in Mnet, there was a Webtoon created for the group hosted on their website. Researching through Wayback Machine, these are the only archived pages that have been preserved, and the rest is lost media. I've been trying to search information about its story or the artist/studio name but no luck so far.

According to the speech balloons, in some pages talks about a villain that is planning to invade Earth and some characters are opposing to it, asking for main force. It seems that story-wise was music and dance based.

Some characters are mentioned;

• Tantu (탄투)
• Yoo Jae-woo (유재우)
• Captain Igma (이그마대장)

Researching about Atoum-ra (아툼라), I found a link from a physical design magazine, 'Web Design 2002.08', which mentioned their website and was published by 웹디자인 편집부 (Web Design Editorial Team) in August 2002.

I asked on r/AskAKorean how to find this magazine and someone found that one copy was on the National Library of Korea. So luckily I have a friend who's living there and I asked to go there and make pictures if there's anything about the group. This is what they found!

Their website had a very simple layout, with pyramids in the desert on the background and Net and Nout's silhouettes in black. It's very orange-colored.

There was a gallery with the album's photoshoot, the same that appears on the album's booklet but without the lyrics and texts. We can see too a fanboard and a Net's description.

Its design is not really groundbreaking, but it's a big new information about the group despite being obscure and their website being not well archived. I thought that we maybe we would see some 'It's Holy Night' MV stills but no luck this time.

Enjoy a bit more about new Atoum-ra's lore!

Following this post about a recovered video which showed bits of the group's official website, researching I found these screenshots on their fan Daum Cafe page, uploaded in 2005, which I believe they're from their CD album.

It contained the lore behind the group, explaining each character and their mission on Tampa, their virtual world, and some visual and interactive contents. Its cyber-futuristic design is more tamed and simple compared to their official website, but it gives us an insight of TG's world-building.

Penny was a solo female who debuted in 2002, dubbed as the "Korean Christina Aguilera."

Pre-debut

'Penny' (Penelope) Chon, was born on June 26, 1985, in New Jersey (USA). She lived in Hawaii until she was seven, before moving to Atlanta, and then moved to Korea with the dream of becoming a R&B singer, despite her parents' opposition.

Her childhood was characterized by having boyish tastes such as playing cops with boys, which influenced her way to portray herself as kinda androgynous on her debut. Also she played a lot of sports such as Taekwondo and baseball.

Solo debut

She was recruited by an entertainment agency, Star World, through an internet site, which posted an ad searching for “a child who sings as well as Christina Aguilera” and Penny auditioned. Due to her soulful, deep voice, she didn’t need special vocal lessons and started recording for her first album.

Before her solo debut, she recorded one song for the movie, '아프리카' (A.F.R.I.K.A., 2001), titled 'Precious Love.'

She released in November 2001 her first and only album, ‘Penny The First album,’ with the R&B title track ‘Set Me Free’ (셋 미 프리), and debuted early 2002. At that time she was 16 years old. Besides singing, she could dance as well as rapping, a rare trait for a female singer during that time.

According to one source, it seems that a MV for ‘Set Me Free’ was filmed and released too, but there’s no track online about it. Probably it’s lost media.

After two months of activity, appearing only twice on terrestrial TV and broadcasted in cable, she was left out by her agency because they fully focused to promote a girl band that was under their management, 슈가 (Sugar), due their popularity.

Group debut

Five years later, she debuted again with the short-lived girl group 에스블러쉬 (S-Blush) in 2007. Formed in 2005, by February 2007 they debuted with the single ‘It’s My Life’ and reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club. However, 손담비 (Son Dam Bi) left the group due to investment problems, and then the group disbanded following another member’s abandonment.

Nowadays her whereabouts are unknown.

Links

• Live performance: Penny (페니) - ‘Set Me Free’ (셋 미 프리) on 음악캠프 (Music Camp). February 02, 2002.
• Album playlist: 'Penny The First Album' (2002) - YouTube

Sources

• Naver Blog: “페니(Penny) 1집 - The First Album”
• Penny’s Official Website (via Wayback Machine)

^(Disclaimer: I don't own the pictures attached, as they are from Korean blogs and their respective owners. Since some of them aren't scanned, the quality is quite low-medium and may have some subtle differences in format and colors, although one of them is digital. They are edited by myself, enhancing its quality, deleting any text, and editing the colors in order to be more faithful to the original media as close as possible. If you own high-quality album scans, I can clean out the text, grains, dirt and folded cracks, and improve its quality, so it can be shared here for the public.)

Some random snapshots from their cafe, where fans used to upload pictures and the duo interacted with them. I've only been able to get a few since access is restricted.

The guy from the second picture, 엄태경 (Um Tae Kyoung), is a rookie singer that debuted in the same year as them, as they were from the same label, Prime Music.

Hephzibah was a short-lived female duo who debuted in 2003, composed by Aeri (애리) and Angie (엔지).

Debut

Their name comes from the Hebrew word, “Hephzibah,” which means “My joy is in you,” as it was a reflection of the members’ Christian faith. They wanted to differentiate from the cute and light groups at that time. According to their company, the K-Pop market was gradually shifting to groups that prioritized vocals over beauty and dance and was setting Hephzibah to follow this route.

They released a mini-album, composed of five R&B & dance tracks, titled “Dance! Dance! Dance…” in July 4th 2003, with the title track ‘춰봐! (Dance!).’ It was produced by 박해운 (Park Hae-woon), a known composer who worked with DJ DOC, 쿨 (Cool), 강성훈 (Kang Sung-Hun), 샾 (The S#arp), and 채리나 (Chae Ri-Na). Angie wrote three songs for this album.

It was promoted with some appearances on live music shows, but the response was lackluster and they were active for roughly 2-3 months. There was some criticism regarding their image, saying that they resembled as an auntie (Angie) and her niece (Aeri).

There were rumors that they were scheduled to release a new single by fall but it was canceled and ended-up disbanding in the same year.

Members

• Angie (엔지): Main Vocalist.

Born in August 23, between 1975-1980, her real name is 이은지 (Lee Eun-ji). She previously debuted with another duo called Autom-ra (아툼라), being her stage name Net, and after Hepzhibah's disbandment, she debuted again as a soloist in 2007 under the stage name Asura (아수라), but she didn’t succeed and now is retired and married.

• Aeri (애리): Sub-Vocalist.

Born in October 18, 1982, her real name is 박애리 (Park Aeri). She was highly noticed and praised by her beauty. After their disbandment, she appeared on YTN Star in 2005 as a MC, and then she left the music industry and started working in banking.

Links

• Live performance: Hephzibah (헵시바) - ‘춰봐! (Dance!)’ in KBS. July 05, 2003.
• Live performance: Hephzibah (헵시바) - ‘춰봐! (Dance!)’ in Showking M. July 11, 2003. Timestamp: 33:40
• Live performance: Hephzibah (헵시바) - ‘춰봐! (Dance!)’ in 인기가요 (Inkigayo). July 13, 2003.
• Live performance: Hephzibah (헵시바) - ‘춰봐! (Dance!)’ in Showking M. August 15, 2003. Timestamp: 26:05
• Live performance: Hephzibah (헵시바) - ‘춰봐! (Dance!)’ in 인기가요 (Inkigayo). August 24, 2003.
• Live performance: Hephzibah (헵시바) - ‘춰봐! (Dance!)’ in 비디오탱크 (Video Tank).
• Hephzibah’s interview video from their album’s CD
• Album playlist: ‘Dance! Dance! Dance…’ (2003) - YouTube

Sources

• Hephzibah’s Cafe: there's a lot of snapshots but I can't access them, although I was able to get some that I'll share later: here.
• Hephzibah’s Website (via Wayback Machine): sadly, it hasn't archived well, we can see only the navbar and that's it.
• Naver Blog “헵시바 싱글 1집 - Dance! Dance! Dance…”
• Prime Music’s Website (via Wayback Machine): there's a couple of articles news and a link to their website.

^(Disclaimer: I don't own the pictures attached, as they are from Korean blogs and their respective owners. Since some of them aren't scanned, the quality is quite low-medium and may have some subtle differences in format and colors, although some of them are digital. They are edited by myself, enhancing its quality, deleting any text, and editing the colors in order to be more faithful to the original media as close as possible. If you own high-quality album scans, I can clean out the text, grains, dirt and folded cracks, and improve its quality, so it can be shared here for the public.)

Back in the day, between 2009-2013, I used to spend a lot of time on this forum! I remember searching every franchise to check every photoshoot they released in real time, reading a lot of gossip and doing edits. It was really very entertaining!

When I started to watch ANTM, it was during cycle 10 so I was around 2009 in this forum. My user was allantmmodels, if I'm not mistaken, and my icon had Abbey Lee Kershaw during a Victoria's Secret runway, with a colorful fluffy jacket.

And I loved Cassie C3 so bad that I made an edit of her beauty shoot with the tarantula one and posted it there lol If you remember it, that was me haha

It made feel so nostalgic, that I'm curious to know if you remember your experience there and how it was for you. What did you like doing the most? Share your good memories!

Tammy (태미) was a short-lived female solo artist who debuted in 2000.

Pre-debut

Born on January 13, 1979, Tammy —it’s her real name, by the way— played the piano and guitar since young age and studied vocal music and classical harmony. As she grew up, she wanted to become a pop singer.

Before her solo debut, she was in a co-ed four-member group called Grammy T (그래미-티), which debuted in July 1998. It was a group that was aimed for the Grammys, literally. They released their first and only album, “Grammy T,” along the title track ‘널 위한 사랑 (Love For You).' However, they weren’t promoted much and after performing two times on terrestrial music shows, they disbanded in the same year.

Right before her debut with the forementioned group, she was already working in the music industry, recording the theme song of the SBS drama “남자대탐험 (Great Adventure for Men)” in 1996, and also for “모델 (Model)” and “여자 (Woman)” in 1997.

Her repertoire consisted mostly of timeless old pop songs and R&B ballads, but she also touched multiple genres such as hip-hop, new jack swing, rock, and techno dance.

​Debut

Ahead of her solo debut, she started working as an exclusive model for the computer company SeHyun Computer in 1999. Then in the same year she recorded her first album in September and was completed by February 2000.

She debuted in March 2000 with a futuristic, cyber-themed concept, portraying as a cyber-angel, due the start of the millennium and Internet’s popularity rising, releasing an album titled “Voice of Angel” with the title track ‘미래 (Future),’ a house dance song.

The album was produced and mainly composed by 이정수 (Lee Jung-soo). Despite its theme, the album is made mostly of ballads and just a couple of dance songs, like ‘UN,’ which is a remake of ‘Grammy Box (UN),’ a song from her ex-group's album. ‘나의 기도 (My Prayer) was also another remaked song from the same group’s album.

She promoted heavily and performed in some music shows. However, she usually ranked in the lower places and after two months of activities, she left.

Post-debut

Now she’s still somewhat in the music industry, producing and composing for stage productions and artists, and also working mainly as a K-pop Vocal Trainer and teaching Korean.

Links

• Live performance of  ‘미래 (Future)’ in SBS 인기가요 (Inkigayo). March 19, 2000.
• Live performance of  ‘미래 (Future)’ in 음악캠프 (Music Camp). March 25, 2000.
• Live performance of  ‘미래 (Future)’ in 탱크스페셜 (Tank Special). Timestamp: 34:19
• Live performance of  ‘미래 (Future)’ in 탱크스페셜 (Tank Special). Timestamp: 4:42
• Live performance of  ‘미래 (Future)’ in 탱크스페셜 (Tank Special). Timestamp: 9:19
• Live performance of  ‘미래 (Future)’ in 탱크스페셜 (Tank Special). Timestamp: 23:06

Right now, her album isn’t fully uploaded and is blocked in Bugs. Also, the MV of ‘미래 (Future)’ is currently lost media. We can see some scenes on her performance in Music Camp and Tank Special; she appears riding a motorbike while eating ice cream, and then appears with a guy as a her love interest, having a date and visiting the city. Very summery vibes. There’s a link on Bugs but it’s blocked by copyright.

Sources

• Tammy’s Website (2000)
• Tammy’s Teacher profile
• Tammy’s current YouTube channel
• Tammy’s old YouTube channel
• Naver Blog: “2319. 태미(Tammy) 1집”
• Naver Blog: “태미 1집 - Voice Of Angel”
• Magazine 포토뮤직(PHOTOMUSIC) 2000년 5월

^(Disclaimer: I don't own the pictures attached, as they are from Korean blogs and their respective owners. Since they aren't scanned, the quality is quite low-medium and may have some subtle differences in format and colors. They are edited by myself, enhancing its quality and editing the colors in order to be more faithful to the original media as close as possible. If you own high-quality album scans, I can clean out the text, grains, dirt and folded cracks, and improve its quality, so it can be shared here for the public.)

고구려 (Goguryo) was a co-ed five-member group, composing of four males and one female, debuted in July 1997.

Debut

Their concept was based about the spirit of the continent during the Three Kingdoms of Korea (삼국시대) period, more specifically the Goguryo Kingdom (고구려), so they showcased music that embodied the spirit of the Korean people. Each member had a stage name based on figure characters from that period.

They released their first and only album ‘환생 (Reincarnation)’ in 1997. Besides the official cover, there's also two different covers used for promotion.

The title track, ‘A형 C형 (Type A Type C)’ was a club-style dance song with a trot rhythm that expressed the psychology of love regarding blood types. It was composed by 윤일상 (Yoon Il-Sang) and written by 이승호 작 (Lee Seung-ho).

At first they focused their activities on cable broadcasting, and their record of appearances in terrestrial television was only on MBC. Then, they followed-up with ‘명월관 (Myeongwol-gwan)’, a slow dance with a rock style.

However, the group was disbanded early 1998 due conflicts with their management agency. Nowadays there isn’t information about their whereabouts. They left the entertainment industry except Young-hyun, who is now an actor.

Members

• 김영현 (Kim Young-hyun), born on March 22, 1977: Leader, Main Vocalist, Visual.

He was 21 years old during their debut. His stage name was 연개소문 (Yeon Gaesomun).

After their disbandment, he became an actor. He was the lead on the EBS’s youth drama “네 꿈을 펼쳐라 (Unleash Your Dreams),” during 1999 until 2000. Had some minor roles in movies and shorts, but had also lead roles such in "힘내세요, 병헌씨 (Cheer Up, Mr. Lee)" (2013).

• 이양희 (Lee Yang-hee): Dancer.

He was 19 years old during their debut. His stage name was 주몽 (Jumong).

• 송현석 (Song Hyeon-seok): Rapper.

He was 20 years old during their debut. His stage name was 광개토 (Gwanggaeto).

• 이성화 (Lee Seong-hwa), 1975: Choreographer, Maknae.

He was 19 years old during their debut. His stage name was 을지문덕 (Eulji Mundeok).

• 문관순 (Moon Gwan-soon): Vocalist.

She was 23 years old during their debut. Her stage name was 평강 (Pyeonggang).

Notes

They made a special appeareance on the film “짱 (Jjang)”, released in 1998.

There’s an unconfirmed rumor that one of them developed a mental illness after their disbandment and accumulated a lot of debt. And another one was an English teacher during the 2000’s.

Right now their music isn’t available at all online. It’s blocked on Bugs and just some songs from their first album are on YouTube.

Links

• 고구려 (Goguryo) - ‘A형 C형 (Type A Type C)’ MV
• Live performance of  ‘A형 C형 (Type A Type C)’ in 쇼!뮤직탱크 (Show! Music Tank). October 10, 1997.
• Live performance of  ‘A형 C형 (Type A Type C)’ in 쇼!뮤직탱크 (Show! Music Tank). September 20, 1997. Timestamp: 20:40
• Live performance of  ‘A형 C형 (Type A Type C)’ in MBC Top Music (인기가요 베스트50). October 4, 1997.

Sources

• Naver Blog: "Goguryo Vol 1. Reincarnation (고구려 1집 - 환생)"

Hello!

There is any online sites or archives (even public libraries, for example) to search magazines that date back to this date?

I'm searching specifically this magazine published in August 2002, titled "Web Design 2002.8" by 웹디자인 편집부, but I got no results on Daum or Naver. I'm interested to read this magazine issue especially because it contains information about a website that is lost to this day and I want to see if there's something like pictures.

Any lead will be helpful.

Thank you!

@ (골뱅이, Golbaengi) was a hip-hop male duo debuted in 2000.

Debut

Composed by Eddie and Tony, the duo was quite peculiar at the time because they were foreigners with U.S. citizenship and mixed heritage. It was formed by SM엔터테인먼트 (SM Entertainment) and Cia 엔터테인먼트 (Cia Entertainment), leaded by 신철 (Shin Chul, as known as DJ Chully), with the intention to expand the K-pop market overseas.

Their concept was based on the symbol “@ (at),” which was used to mark the start of the Millennium and the increasing use of the Internet. Also it’s derived from “golbaengi,” the Korean word for “snail.”

Their title track was ‘Queen of Night’ from their first and last album, ‘@,’ released in September 2000. It was fully hip-hop, with Eddie mostly rapping in English and Tony singing in Korean. They first released the album and then dropped a MV for the title track, promoting it on music shows such as 음악캠프 (Music Camp) and 뮤직뱅크 (Music Bank), also in MBC 일요일 일요일 밤에 (MBC’s Sunday Sunday Night).

For their album, 정연준이 (Jung Yeon-jun) was the producer, and also had collaborations with composers and lyricists such as 이승호 (Lee Seung-ho), 윤일상 (Yoon Il-sang), 유유진 (Yoo Yoo-jin), 조은희 (Jo Eun-hee), Q, 이건우 (Lee Geon-woo), 변종혁 (Byun Jong-hyuk), and 서정일등 (Seo Jung-il).

However, they didn’t succeed at all due South-Korean’s prejudices about their origins and the broadcasting industry companies, producers and media rejected and discriminated against them, which that’s why they ended-up disbanding.

Members

• Tony (Anthony Louis Vergantino), born on February 10, 1978. He has mixed heritage; his father is Italian-American and her mother is Korean. He currently lives in South Korea and owns a restaurant.
• Eddie (Edward Adam Brown), born on February 5, 1976. His father is British and German-American, and his mother French and Dutch-American. He speaks Korean fluently. He is married, has three children, and currently lives in the United States. Now he still does some music under his real name, Eddie Brown.

Links

• @ (골뱅이) - ‘Queen of the Night’ MV
• Live performance of ‘Queen of the Night’ in 음악캠프 (Music Camp). September 16, 2000.
• Live performance of ‘Queen of the Night’ in 음악캠프 (Music Camp). October 7, 2000.
• Live performance of ‘Queen of the Night’ in KBS 뮤직뱅크 (KBS Music Bank). September 12, 2000.
• Live performance of ‘Queen of the Night’ in SBS. October 8, 2000.
• Tony's YouTube channel
• Eddie's YouTube channel

Sources

• The story of the K-POP group '골뱅이’
• Namuwiki: 골뱅이
• Tony’s Instagram
• Eddie’s Instagram

^(PD: All the pictures attached are retouched and cleaned by myself, except the last two magazine pages.)