Top 10 J-Pop/K-Pop Celebrity Look-A-Likes

1.TVXQ Changmin & Kat-tun’s Taguchi Junnosuke

2.Won Bin & SMAP’s Kimura Takuya

3.IU & NEWS Tegoshi Yuya

4.KARA’s Ji young & Sasaki Nozomi

5.KARA’s Goo Hara & Namie Amuro

6.SS501’s Kim Hyun Joong & Yamashita Tomohisa(Yamapi)

7.JYJ’s yoochun & NEWS Masuda Takahisa

8.F(x)’s Victoria & Yamada Yu

9.SS501’s Kim Hyung Joon & Hiraoka Yuta

10.SNSD’s Yuna & Aoi Yuu

Give us your thoughts about the above ! I've noticed lately that Kim Hyun Joong and Yamashita Tomohisa really do look alike, together with Changmin and Taguchi(since i did watch a few japanese dramas/shows)

CNBLUE’s Jung Yonghwa releases “For First-Time Lovers”

CNBLUE’s Jung Yonghwa released a special digital rearrangement of the ‘Banmal Song‘ that was created by him and his ‘wife’, SNSD’s Seohyun, on MBC’s “We Got Married.”

Re-titled to “For First-Time Lovers (Subtitle: ‘Banmal Song’),” the track was released on January 14th and features lovely lyrics expressing Yonghwa’s message for first-time lovers in helping them get closer. The rearranged version has an easy-to-follow melody with a light acoustic sound.

The ‘Banmal Song’ itself has been attracting wide popularity ever since the couple composed it as a UCC mission. It has received over two million views since it was uploaded on YouTube, and various parodies have also emerged.

Check it out below:

SNSD to release new song, “Visual Dream”, for Intel

Great news, SNSD fans! The girls have announced that they’ll be releasing a new song on January 16th, as part of their “Intel” promotions. will be releasing their theme song for Intel, “Visual Dream,” on the 16th.

Titled “Visual Dream“, the song will be released online through various music sites. The music video will be available on the 17th via SM Entertainment’s official YouTube channel, as well as on SNSD and Intel’s official homepages.

The video is said to have a futuristic theme, and it’s rumored that SNSD’s ‘robot dance’ is sure to be another choreography phenomenon.

As spokesmodels for the electronics company, SNSD appear at the Intel product fair on the 18th in Seoul. They’ll also be performing “Visual Dream” for the very first time at this event.

SNSD unveils MV teaser for Intel song, “Visual Dreams”

As reported earlier, the ladies of SNSD have prepared a new song titled “Visual Dreams“, as part of their endorsement efforts for Intel.

SM Entertainment recently unveiled the music video teaser for the track, and the girls are seen dancing on a colorful futuristic set. Have you spotted their ‘robot’ choreography yet?

Check it out below!

SNSD performed ‘Oh!’ and ‘Hoot’ at ’2010 Daum Life On Awards’

At 6pm KST today (January 13th), The ‘2010 Daum Life On Awards‘ ceremony took place at the Grand Hall of El Tower situated in Yangjae-dong in Seocho-gu, Seoul.

Daum Communications whose target is to provide lifestyle-changing services for its users in 2010 organized the ‘Life On Awards’. There are 22 categories of awards such as ‘Cafe’, ‘Blog’, ‘View’, etc with 28 winners in total.

Netizens have selected SNSD’s ‘Oh!’ as the winner of the ‘Music Video of The Year Award‘ and the 9 girls who dressed in all white were at the ceremony to collect their prize as well as to grace the stage with their 2010 hits ‘Oh!’ and ‘Hoot’.

Here’s a fancam of the ‘Hoot’ performance:

Pansori maestro Ahn Sookseon wants to perform with SNSD

One of the most popular educators of Korean traditional music, Ahn Sookseon expressed her desire to perform with SNSD.

On KBS 2TV’s ‘Free Time’ aired on January 13th, Ahn Sookseon commented, “I have seen SNSD’s performances. They are pretty and they performed well”.

She added, “I want to introduce and present our music to SNSD, as well as teaching them Pansori (a genre of Korean traditional music)”.

Maestro of Samul nori (a genre of Korean traditional percussion music), Kim Duksoo who was also present at the broadcast broke his silence, “Definitely. However, nowadays young people are not interesting in our music”.

Ahn Sookseon who was born in a family of traditional music lovers was appointed as the Art Director for the National Changguk Team in 1997. She also gave lectures at Yongin University in 1998 and Korea National University of Arts in 2000.

SNSD appeared on Peruvian TV

SNSD are on the brink of global domination, especially with the collaboration with Intel Asia lately. We have also seen some early signs of Europe turning PINK soon with media and website coverage involving the girls.

The wave does not stop in Europe though as it has made its way to South America especially Brazil and Peru where fan sites are mushrooming. These sites have done some amazing stuff to spread Soshi love in the region.

Recently, on a special kpop program aired by a Peruvian TV station in Chiclayo, SNSD was mentioned and some cuts from ‘Oh!’ MV was shown. During broadcast, the host mentioned:

Host: But if you think that only girls enjoy the fever of asian music, you’re wrong. There is something for boys too. I introduce you the Korean Divas, a group known as SNSD or Girls’ Generation.

*Footage – Oh! (SNSD)

Host: They are voted as the ‘Best Girl Group of Korea’ with millions of views on YouTube.

Guy: yeah, the girls are beautiful…

*Host then talked about other groups.

Here is the video clip showing the broadcast on the mentioned Peruvian TV program.

Korean media sees the second half of 2010 and 2011 as the golden era of idol groups in Korea. In fact, the Kpop phenomenon is spreading beyond the boundaries of Korean peninsular and this is just the beginning. It is possible that in a few years time, the whole world would be listening to Kpop. Of course, if there is an idol group who could make such a dream comes true, it has to be SNSD!

Yonghwa revealed Banmal song!

A song that represents the "love" between SeoHyun and Yonghwa has been revealed,listen to the full song here,love this song?

Yong Hwa and Seo Hyun's Banmal song subbed!

I am loving this song so much and i want to share the subbed video of this song with you guys here,sing along everyone!

SNSD released "Visual Dream" MV teaser

It has been confirmed that SNSD will be the endorsers for Intel in Asia and now the MV teaser of Visual Dream has been revealed,enjoy the video here,this concept suits SNSD very much ,agree?

YouTube Helps South Korean Band Branch Out

SEOUL—Last August, a popular South Korean pop group called Girls' Generation made its first trip to Japan and, to the surprise of its managers, sold out an arena. The secret formula for the debut: a Japanese language song—and some business assistance from YouTube.Weeks ahead of the concert, the group's recording label, SM Entertainment Inc., placed a video of the Japanese-language song on YouTube and allowed fans to copy and re-post it on any website, driving radio requests and online chatter.

It was part of SM's new online video strategy. Last year, instead of hosting its videos itself, it began distributing video of its acts on Google Inc.'s YouTube and using the service's copyright detection technology to block illegally uploaded video and sell ads against its own authorized clips. Its two biggest competitors in South Korea, YG Entertainment and JYP Productions, and about two dozen smaller labels have done the same thing.

SM's chief executive Kim Young-min said the partnership with YouTube saves SM thousands of dollars in monthly costs for maintaining video servers on dozens of Web sites for its acts.But he said the main purpose of working with YouTube is promotional. "Rather than being on each video delivery site in each country, it's much better for us to be on a world-wide channel like YouTube," he said.For Google, convincing labels like SM to work with YouTube is an important part of repairing its still-rocky relationship with many content producers, who have been worried about Google's role in facilitating online piracy or devaluing their content online, among other things.

"It's critical that content owners are well-compensated so they can continue to do what they do," said Shailesh Rao, Google's chief for YouTube in Asia. Google showed SM how it could customize advertising to the local where a viewer is watching, not where the video was uploaded from. A Japanese fan watching an SM artist sees a Japanese ad, while an American sees ads from the U.S.

Mr. Kim said the advertising revenue is "not huge" but it was enough to increase his interest in working with Google and YouTube.The partnership has expanded beyond the Girls' Generation campaign in Japan. Now, SM is looking for new talent via YouTube.

Last month, some of SM's biggest acts, including Girls' Generation and Shinee, made video ads on YouTube for auditions that the record label is holding in places like China, Canada and the U.S.

"Five years ago, if we wanted to launch and promote an artist, we had to follow a traditional path and work with traditional media like TV," Mr. Kim said. "But these days, with the rise of Internet media like YouTube, even before our talent leaves South Korea, a lot of fans have a chance to watch them."