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With Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun forming the group JYJ, they successfully finished their Taiwan showcase on October 30. They accepted interviews before they left Taiwan, exposing secrets of one another.

When asked what the biggest challenge for them since they debuted, and when was their most exciting moment, Jaejoong answered with, “can we just talk about what happened this year?”, trying to avoid talking about TVXQ.

When asked about his tattoos, Jaejoong replied, “I have the letters of TVXQ on my back. Most of them are words, and I only put things on that have meaning to me.” He showed off the tattooed wings while bending over, which makes one think of his current rumor with Ayumi Hamasaki.

Trivia question: Who’s the biggest boy band in the world? Backstreet Boys? *NSYNC? New Kids? Hanson? Take That? Menudo? Nope. According to reliable source Guinness World Records, it’s JYJ.

Never heard of JYJ? Well, obviously you haven’t been to Korea lately, where the group’s singers, Kim Jaejoong, Park Yoochun, and Kim Junsu, are bigger than Justin Timberlake. Their popularity in their homeland landed them in Guinness in 2008 and 2009 for having the world’s largest official fanclub (more than 800,000 members in Seoul alone) and for being the most photographed celebrities on the planet (they’ve been snapped professionally approximately 500 million times).

And now JYJ are going global, as they release their first English-language album, The Beginning, on Atlantic Records. The disc features production on two tracks, “Empty” and “Be My Girl,” by superstar studio guru Rodney Jerkins (Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige), and the album’s lead single, “Ayyy Girl,” actually boasts vocals and production by a little American artist named Kanye West.

Yunho at Cesare Paciotti event

Wow… Changmin looks like a sexy, grown man in Chorus Mag.