[Pictures] How popular is SNSD's tiffany?Featured in Saudi Arabian newspaper!

SNSD's member Tiffany surprised fans with her appearance on a Saudi Arabian Newspaper.

The brief translation of the newspaper page is as shown below

Member of the Korean girlgroup ” Girls’ Generation “, Tiffany attended a press conference in Seoul yesterday.



SNSD's popularity is really at its peak these days,i guess we will have more surprises in the future!

[Interviews] Girls' Generation Foreign Press Conference Brief Summary

SNSD had a press conferece at the foreign journalist club in Seoul today. They expressed their interest about more oversea activities;
"We'd like to do more activities in oversea countries not only in Japan."

Eight members of SNSD attended the conference, and beside them was S.M. Entertainment CEO, Kim YoungMin. They introduced themselves in Japanese, Chinese, English as well as in Korean.

Asked about their high popularity in Japan, TaeYeon said,
"We owe a lot to our sunbaes who advanced to Japan and paved way for us.
"We can overcome the language difference by communicating through music. Our goal is to convey our energy to as many people as possible."

Asked about their secret of success, Tiffany answered;
"Teamwork spirit,"
putting emphasis on their strong unity.

Sunny said, "(After I experienced activities in Japan, ) I'm prepared now to work hard in whatever country we visit to do activities."

[News] SNSD share their thoughts on the “YongSeo couple”

The SNSD members cried “Jealous~” in unison as the topic of “YongSeo Couple” came up in their interview on November 2nd, causing Seohyun to blush in red.

Seohyun stated, “It seems like my unnies are interested more than me. They monitor the show often for me. Their attention must be due to the uniqueness of the relationship, right? Unnies keep telling me to take his hands. I’m embarrassed.”

The SNSD members elaborated on Seohyun’s change after the marriage. Tiffany said, “This album has tracks where her changed vocals really shine, she really improved. I guess there is emotion behind her voice? Her vocals and feel improved. I told them, ‘We have all got to date’.”

The romantic teasing did not stop even as Seohyun shoot her hands in denial. In fact, Seohyun turned redder with each shout of “Oh!!“, “Really?” and “yoohoo“.

Tiffany continued, “Truthfully, this has never happened for our maknae. These changes are really funny to us. She’s changed. She’s changed.” Taeyeon stated in her softest voice, “I was married too (to Jung Hyung Don), but forcefully divorced”, cracking up her members.

[News] Yuri & Tiffany battled for “Mistake”

SNSD’s latest track on their “Hoot” mini-album, “Mistake,” earned much attention after its release for being written by member Yuri herself.

The members revealed in a recent interview that Tiffany and Yuri had to battle one another in order to get their lyrics included in the album. The members stated, “They both battled until the very end, although Yuri won. Yuri’s lyrics about a heart breaking crush must’ve fit better with the song than Tiffany’s lyrics about never ending love.”

Yuri stated, “I’ve always wanted to personally contribute to the album. Lyrics that I had already written up fit well with our new song, so it was a great chance and opportunity. It was very different watching us perform a song that I wrote, as it almost made me choke up.”

When asked whether her lyrics stem from personal experience, Yuri shook her head before answering, “I have a habit of writing down things on a memo while reading. These lyrics were influenced by some notes I took from a book.”

Member Tiffany added, “I like writing as well. Should I receive another opportunity, I will take it and go with something stronger.”

The remaining members expressed their desire to participate in their next album production as well.Taeyeon has been busily studying about writing music, while Seohyun has been taking lessons on jazz piano.

The group claimed that their goal was to produce an album with nine different songs written and composed by each of them. The title track will be decided by a game of rock, paper, scissor.

[News] SNSD talks about their Japanese experience

Having made their comeback with “Hoot,” the members of SNSD recently met with reporters on November 2nd in order to share their thoughts on their achievements as the new Hallyu leaders.

- Do you feel the level of your popularity in Japan?

Taeyeon: “I was really surprised when I heard ‘Gee‘ as the ring tone of a random passerby. One time, a French person even noticed who we were.”

Tiffany: “I left the house with my face covered and went into the city. I saw a crowd of about 10 or so teenage girls taking a picture with our SNSD pose.”

Sooyoung: “I never feel our popularity so I always ask our manager. ‘Are we really that popular?’ We never meet anyone other than celebrities so it’s hard to feel it for ourselves. It still makes me proud when I see people that go, ‘Wow, it’s SNSD’ whenever we go to broadcast halls.”

- Do your Japanese fans acknowledge each member like your Korean fans?

Taeyeon: “They can go on the internet so it’s easy to find out stuff about us like our personal nicknames and whatnot. I recently saw some fans that were holding up placards with my nickname, Taenggoo, and Sooyoung’s nickname, Piggy. There are even some fans that are trying to learn Korean as well.”

Seohyun: “Because of ‘We Got Married,’ I became known as sweet potato. Even in Shanghai, I saw a board that had ’sweet potato’ written on it. I wondered if they were referring to me and waved to them.”

- You returned to Korea with glory…

Yuri: “There were a lot of people that congratulated us on doing well so it made us feel that we did something important as Korean citizens. However, it does make us feel more careful with our actions and words whenever we’re out. It’s a bit pressuring.”

- Unlike your seniors, you’re learning Japanese while physically promoting there.

Tiffany: “We’re not that good at it yet, but we are able to converse naturally. We’re just hoping to show us as is in order to prevent any awkwardness. We never thought of trying to fit ourselves into the trends of the Japanese music market, but are instead focusing on showing as much of our energy and color as possible.”

- How do you spend your days?

Jessica: “When we have performances scheduled, each of us have so many different schedules that we have to cut back on our sleeping time in order to rehearse. And when we actually do rehearse, we all get so into it that we go very late into the night. Even individually, we all listen to our own parts and practice our facial expressions and choreography on our own.”

Yoona: “When we’re resting, I sleep or watch a movie. Even when I want to be left alone, we have to stick together for everything so I don’t have any outside friends. Still, it’s not boring or anything. We have so many members so I can just go around and play with each of them (laughter).”

- Who are your ideal men?

Yoona: “I’d like to meet Kimura Takuya. We fell in love with him while watching the drama, ‘Pride.’ I’m going to study Japanese more and meet him one day.”

Hyoyeon: “It changes all the time… It’s different in May, it’s different in June. Anyone that has interest in me can just show that they’re a hard working person. I like that about people.”

- What are your future plans?

Sooyoung: “We hope to show a performance that manages to capture every second of the viewers’ attention. Hopefully perform more in other countries and hold unique concerts as well.”

Sunny: “We once performed with a live band and I remember it being really fun and exciting. There is a sort of greed where I want to present the dreams I have going on in my head to my fans. We’re idols, and because of that, we’re criticized for performing idol music, but those criticisms are like nutrients to us. It makes us want to do better and try to achieve more. We’re not busy trying to chase the market, we’re trying to become leaders that will make the market chase us.”

- How did you feel while performing at the Daejong Film Awards?

“We don’t really look into the crowd while performing on stage. We’re too busy focusing on the actual stage to pay so much attention to the crowd. Before we appeared at the Daejong Film Awards, we made our comeback at KBS ‘Music Bank’ so we were all very tired. As soon as our performance at the awards ceremony ended, we went straight home and fell asleep. It was not until later that we found out there was such a big controversy surrounding it. Still, we’re not upset or anything. We understand that it’s a serious event.”