SM Town Canada Flash Mobs were a success

Finally after months of preparation, the flashmobs for SMTOWN across Canada including Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa were finally held which caught the attention of different Korean and Canadian medias.

After the successful concerts in Paris, fans from Canada were motivated to do something to see their idols too. An official \"SM Town Live in Canada\" fanpage (http://www.facebook.com/SMTWONLIVEINCANADA) and different SMTOWN flash mob pages/groups were created by fans from Toronto, Vancouver,Montreal, Winnipeg,Edmonton,Ottawa and Quebec to start the movement for SMTOWN Canada. In just 2 months, the main page attracted 2000 likes in a short period of time.

Fans from Canada have been tweeting #SMTOWNCANADA Twitter to show how much they would like SM Town Live to come to Canada for a concert. Fortunately, one of SM Entertainment\'s artists, Isak, saw the trending topic and decided to help out. She tweeted, \"Wow~~~ #smtowncanada sounds like a GREAT idea~~ I wanna go too~~~^^.\"

TORONTO-
SMTOWN Toronto Flash Mob was held at Nathan Phillips Square on July 2 (with around 150-200 fans attended)


Shout out for Henry:


Chanting with fans:


Arirang Korea TV\'s report about the flash mob:


MONTREAL-
The flash mob was attended by approximately 250 fans and was held at Chinatown last July 2.





WINNIPEG-
A mini SMTOWN flash mob was held this July 5 at Kildonan Park.


Shout out for SMTOWN:


Shout out for HENRY:


VANCOUVER-
A SMTOWN mini flash mob was held outside Pacific Mall Centre last July 3 with around 25 fans attended.



Mini fanmeet for SMTOWN was held last July 3 in front of the Parliament of Canada..


Different Korean and Canadian medias also noticed the ever increasing popularity of K-Pop in Canada and made a report about the flash mobs.


SBS Korea
Video report (along with LA/NYC flash mobs)


News article: http://news.sbs.co.kr/section_news/news_read.jsp?news_id=N1000944540

ALLTV Canada


Also, Leeteuk of Super Junior seemed to watch the news and tweet about the LA,NYC,and Canada.

(Translation: America LA, New York (and) Canada Montreal, Toronto, I saw your flashmob demonstrations!!^^ I hope to be able to meet (with you all and) hold awesome performances there soon!!! Love you♥)

CTV Toronto
http://toronto.ctv.ca/?video=4 (Click 6PM archive then choose Sat, July 2 then jump to 21:58)


After all the success, Canadians are still hoping that SM Entertainment will consider having a concert tour anywhere in Canada.

SNSD + TVXQ’s ‘Seven & I’ CF’s revealed

Yesterday, we reported that Korean idol groups SNSD and TVXQ would be starring in new commercials for a 7-eleven campaign titled ‘Seven & I’. Along with the article, a special behind the scenes preview video was posted.

Now, the full CM’s for both idol groups have been released!

Check out the adorable CM’s below!

Super Junior & SNSD Featured On ABC7 News In San Francisco, USA Plus Flashmobs In Los Angeles, New York and Canada

ABC7 News, a broadcasting news in San Francisco California, aired something about kpop wave.

The whole video actually talks about Korea's economy, culture and the hallyu wave and on the video they featured Super Junior and Girls Generation.

Check this out:

And also, KBS World aired 2 SM TOWN Flashmob Project that happened both in New York and Los Angeles.

We reported before that after Paris' successful flashmob, many are following the country's footstep and now creating the same thing too to tame SM Entertainment to have the SM Town on each country respectively.

And one of the strategy is to attract and contact the Korean media to pass the message instantly. KBS World News was one of the media who broadcast the flashmob in New York and Los Angeles.

Here's the video news from KBS:

Not only was LA and New York but also Canada. Many fans across Canada were gathered to create a flashmob in different parts of the country including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa.

Check out this flashmob that happened in Toronto:

And also this flashmob was already featured at AllTVCanada, a Korean broadcasting news based in Canada.

Knowing Henry's hometown is Canada, the mobbers also made a shout out for Henry.

And the result for all of this hardwork, just earlier today Super Junior Leeteuk posted on his twitter that he already saw the videos and hoping to see the fans soon.

He said:

@special1004 America’s LA, New york Canada’s Toronto I watched your flashmob demonstration!!^^I want to meet you soon with an amazing concert!!!I love you♥

More international countries are still planning and hoping for SM Entertainment to grant this one simple wish, an SM TOWN CONCERT for their country. Good luck mobbers!!!

Girls' Generation's 1st Japanese Album Certified Double Platinum

Girls' Generation's successful breakthrough into Japan has culminated in another milestone: their debut Japanese album "Girls' Generation" has been certified double platinum by the RIAJ. The RIAJ, or Recording Industry Association of Japan, recognizes 250,000 copies sold as platinum certification. With the double platinum certification, the "Girls' Generation" album has officially sold over 500,000 copies in just over a month after its June 1 release.

This is the latest indication of the overwhelming success that Girls' Generation has achieved in Japan. On July 6, Tower Records announced that Girls' Generation topped their June chart with their debut album. Last month, Oricon revealed that Girls' Generation had the highest earnings by a foreign artist in Japan for the first half of 2011, as they recorded 2.6 billion yen in total sales.

The strong push into the Japanese market for the first seven months of 2011 will continue with the final performance of the Japan Arena Concert Tour, which will take place in Fukuoka on July 17.

Special Girls' Generation Summer Photos from Daum

On July 8, Daum Communication revealed that they would be holding an event for a Girls' Generation summer photoshoot download through their cloud service.

Daum will be providing the Girls' Generation's summer photos through the Cloud promotional page at http://durl.me/budxy. The summer pictures will include four PC wallpapers, one iPhone wallpaper, and one Android wallpaper. The photos for each member will be opened every Tuesday and Friday, and photos with all the members will be provided on the August 9.

One group photo as well as a set of individual photos of all nine members from the Daum Cloud promotion have been released and they can be found here.

TVXQ and SNSD released 7 Eleven CF

Check out the official CFs of TVXQ and SNSD for 7 Eleven,i am pretty sure that the sales of 7 eleven will skyrocket once they started selling the new prodcuts!

New SNSD's Daum CF

SNSD is everywhere at the railway stations in Korea,check out their new CF for Daum here

Official SNSD's 7 Eleven wallpaper

SNSD have been selected as the models of 7 eleven together with TVXQ.

Here is the official promotional photo of SNSD for 7 eleven,make it your PC's wallpaper if possible ^ ^

Final results for "Favourite Short Hair Female Idols" revealed

The poll has ended last week actually but i was in Seoul and hardly had time to update on the site.

Anyway,the winners for Favourite Short Hair Female Idols have been unveiled,take a look at the final results here.

A total of 31,770 readers have voted and SNSD's Soo Young emerged as the poll topper with more than 10,000 votes.

f(x)'s Amber and T-ara's Eun Jung came in 2nd and 3rd with more than 6,000 votes.