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KOREA: Pop diva tops Internet news
American celebrities Christina Aguilera and Chris Benoit top search engine's 10 most-searched list
The Korea Times
Sunday, July 1, 2007
By Park Chung-a
American pop diva Christina Aguilera topped the nation's No.1 search engine Naver's most searched keyword list last week. She wowed Korean audiences during her two concerts in Seoul, living up to her reputation as one of best talents in the pop music world.
Chris Benoit, one of the best professional wrestlers of his time, was found dead in his home on Wednesday along with his wife Nancy and their son, placing him in second place on the list. Subsequent investigations have since confirmed the suspicion that the Canadian wrestler Benoit strangled his wife and 7-year-old son, placing Bibles next to their bodies, before hanging himself using cable from a weight machine in his home.
Six-member boy dance group Battle's broadcasting accident took third place. While they were singing live on a music show on cable television June 21, the music accompaniment machine suddenly went out of order, producing the wrong rhythms and melodies. The group seemed embarrassed at first but soon recovered their composure and sang to the end of the song, which drew a big round of applause from the audience.
Fourth on the list was Japanese television personality Junko Sagawa, who revealed her experience of being subject to sexual harassment. The 22-year-old student from Japan on Monday said on the local TV show "The Beauties' Chatterbox," that her university instructor called her and said that he would give her a full grade if she slept with him. The instructor was dismissed.
Cambodia came in fifth after 22 passengers and crew, including 13 Korean tourists, on PMT Air flight U4-241 that crashed in southern Cambodia on Monday, were found dead. Officials said the plane had been flying at too low an altitude after changing course in bad weather.
Sixth place was taken by FT Island, a five-member boy band who have been emerging as idols since their debut. As their title song was embroiled in a plagiarism controversy, and some of the members' photos taken in a bar were spread on the Internet, public attention escalated even more last week.
"War of Money," a popular television drama focusing on the nation's private money lending market, came in the seventh place as its hero and heroine had their first kiss -- while eating cucumbers in a truck. They previously had a hostile moneylender-debtor relationship.
Pop stars Kim Hee-chul and Ivy took eighth place together as news broke out that the two were romantically linked. Both denied the report.
A killer crocodile took ninth place as the movie "Primeval," inspired by the true story of a real man-eating crocodile named Gustave, who has killed up to 300 people over the last century or so in Burundi, was previewed on a television show.
Actress Eom Ji-won came in tenth after being cast in renowned director Kim Ji-woon's new film "The Good, the Bad and the Weird."
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