[News] Taeyeon and Sooyoung’s kiss on Music Core was actually for Halloween.

On Saturday’s Music Core, the SNSD girls performed their new song ‘My Best Friend‘ off of their third mini-album, coming on stage in white dresses.

This brought a sense of nostalgia to many fans, as it was reminiscent of SNSD’s innocent ‘Kissing You‘ concept. The members were very playful during the performance, with Taeyeon and Sooyoung’s kiss at the end being a big topic of discussion amongst fans. It now turns out however, the girls’ white dresses and playfulness were all part of their halloween roles to surprise fans – for they were all dressed up as… OTP Killers.

While it was still the 30th on Music Core (and thus not quite halloween), soshi had decided that they likely won’t get a chance to present themselves in such a way during their Inkigayo performances of Hoot and Mistake. Being the fun and mischievous girls that they were, the opportunity to dress up for halloween on Music Core just could not be passed up.

As Sooyoung explains:

We were very excited to come back to Korea for Hoot, and have put lots of preparations into this stage for fans to enjoy. We wanted to show sones that we are not only close with certain members, but that we are all in an open relationship known as soshi bond. 2ny is just as real as Taeny if you look hard enough.

Despite the girls’ efforts to dress up however, many fans had not realized the ingenious costume of OTP Killers and merely passed it off as fanservice. It is only now that the effects have started to appear, as sones are all of a sudden starting to ship SooTae and other less common pairings.

Sunny stated:

Our fans show they love us by cringing and squealing… it’s an odd fanclub, but we try our best to make them happy. Sometimes you just have to surprise them with what they’re not used to seeing. I think we were successful, but Sooyoung better not try that again..

Taeyeon could not be reached for comment, as she unfortunately had a nosebleed when poised with questions.

[News] SM Entertainment clarifies the kiss between Sooyoung & Taeyeon

SNSD’s agency, SM Entertainment, recently clarified the controversy surrounding Taeyeon andSooyoung’s “kiss” on an episode of MBC’s “Music Core“, aired on October 30th.

SM Entertainment stated, “The song is about the friendship between the nine members. They wanted to express their friendship in a loving way.”

Taeyeon and Sooyoung gave a surprise kiss to one another at the end of their “My Best Friend” performance on “Music Core,” confusing viewers with its intent.

Netizens previously gave mixed responses on the issue, with some commenting that it was too much, while others thought it was a cute and friendly gesture.

[News] SNSD wants to cover Asia in pink

On November 1st, SM Entertainment representative Kim Youngmin and SNSD attended the Foreign Press Conference at Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Seoul Press Center to talk about matters pertaining to their overseas activities and future plans.

Kim Youngmin attributes SNSD’s success to three main factors – abilities, planning and adaptability to media changes. SNSD, whose success becomes the envy of many singers in United States and Europe, are committed to conquer the Asian market.

In matters related to the Chinese market, Kim Youngmin said that the girls who had a concert in Shanghai and recently in Taiwan have been learning Chinese since their debut. For their performances in Asia, they have learned many different things as well. He hopes that in the future, there will be opportunites for the girls to perform in China again.

Here are the video clip (up to 2:56 only) and photos of the press conference today :

[VIDEO] Press Conference

[News] Want to try the “SNSD Kimbab”?

SNSD are everywhere, not only in music stores, TV, newspapers, magazines, banners, etc. SONEs basically carry them everywhere all the time.

Now, you can even see them up close while eating your quick meal because the girls are now on Kimbab wrappers. Recently, a convenience store in Korea starts selling Kimbabs with the image of SNSD members in front of the wrapper.

The kimbabs come in many flavors and ingredients. You can identify them by reading the hangul on the wrapper OR identifying it based on the Soshi members. Interesting, right?

Any SONE who goes to the store would definitely grab at least 9 kimbabs.

Note : Kimbab – steamed rice with various different ingredients wrapped in dried seaweed.

[News] “훗” syndrome spreading like wildfire cartoon version of MV produced

Cartoon version of SNSD’s 3rd mini album “Hoot” MV was produced.

On online community site, DC Inside’s “flash site”, a user with nickname “Michook” produced and uploaded the cartoon version of SNSD’s “Hoot” MV. At the beginning of the flash version, the girls appeared in the elevator, which is similar to the actual MV. Like cartoons, the images were divided and placed in sequence.

Netizens who saw the cartoon version of the MV commented :

-”It’s like watching a cartoon”
-”I thought they made a new version of the music video”
-”This is really cool”

Wanna see it for yourself? Here you go : CLICK

[News] Yuri – “It was too hard”

On SBS “Good Sunday – Running Man” aired on October 31st, Yuri appeared as a guest on the show and went through the missions and challenges with the member of the cast.

The “Running Man” members apologized to Yuri before the show as they discussed a strategy secretly to trick her.

In the 8:1 Challenge, Yuri and the members of the cast were supposed to solve 10 questions in 100 seconds. When it comes to Yuri’s turn to act out the answer for the speed quiz, the members deliberately guessed the wrong answer and made Yuri the cause of their failure.

After series of failure, Yuri who felt guilty for letting the whole team down, sat down and cried while saying, “It was too hard”.

However, as soon as they members saw her tears, they revealed the whole situation and the hidden camera. Yuri responded, “What is this?”. Yuri added, “I thought Haha and Gary were really smart as they were able to guess correctly without much clue”. The statement drew laughter from the members.

[Videos] SNSD on Sukira

Girl group SNSD recently made their comeback with Hoot on various music shows, this time, they appeared on Super Junior's Kiss The Radio singing their hit song Hoot as well as Forever and My Best Friend.

Hoot :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz43o5LVUPo&feature=player_embedded

My Best Friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOBDNaw785k&feature=player_embedded

Forever :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xclGLfiQ914&feature=player_embedded

[News] SNSD has eyes on the Asian music market

The SNSD girls who are currently in the midst of promoting their latest single, “Hoot” in Korea, attended a “Girls’ Generation Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club Press Conference” together with SM Entertainment’s CEO, Kim Young Min, to discuss about the group’s future plans.

In the absence of member, Sooyoung, due to injury, the group and Kim expressed their hope of unifying the Asian music market. Kim expressed to foreign journalists,

“With SNSD, we’ll be able to create the biggest market in the world, which is the Asian market. Rather than making a foray into the American or the European music market, the nine-member group presently aims to “unify the Asian market” and build it into the biggest market in the world.”

The group also wants to reach further out to their foreign fans all over Asia, and becoming fluent in foreign languages is essential to that goal, the girls said.

One of the members, Tiffany attributed their rapidly growing presence in Asia to music as “universal language”, “We’ve been really focusing on the language these days, especially since we want to be able to connect with our foreign fans. It takes time, patience and a lot of practice but we really wanna be able to express ourselves to our foreign fans.”

The girls are currently enjoying huge success with their new Korean mini album, “Hoot” which was just released last week while their latest Japanese single also topped the Oricon chart in Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_RQL9mi7Oo&feature=player_embedded#!