Thursday, July 14, 2011
SM artist recorded video to thank their European fans
SNSD transforms a pamphlet into a mature photospread
SNSD transformed a simple pamphlet into a photospread with their beauty.
On an online community bulletin board, the pamphlet photos from SNSD’s Japan Arena Concert Tour were uploaded for all their fans to see. In the photos, their usual cuteness was replaced with a more mature, feminine and sexy look.
All the ladies are sporting dark makeup and very big hairstyles along with their facial expressions, poses, and outfits all showing off their charms.
Seohyun, who was recently chosen as having the best facial cross line, showed off a funky and poofy hairstyle. From these photos, you couldn’t tell that these girls are actually innocent young girls.
They really know how to transform into any image.
Jung sisters took selcas in Paris
These selcas were taken from Paris wherein they held SMTOWN in Paris last June 10-11.
In these pictures, we can see Jessica and Krystal holding hands while posing for the camera, on the other photo, they took a closer shot with their pouting lips.
Lipton X Girl's Generation Dance Contest
Starting on the 20th of July, the company will be accepting videos of participants. To participate, just memorise the steps from Girls’ Generation’s “MR. TAXI” promotional dance video and submit the recorded video as a team. The dance videos need not necessarily contain the dance steps from “MR. TAXI”, but the song used in the video needs to be “MR. TAXI”. There has to be at least 3 members in each team and the entry video can be no longer than 30 seconds. Also, bear in mind that all submitted videos are not to be edited beforehand. The Grand Prize will be hand-signed T-shirts from Girls’ Generation, and the winner will be announced later this year.
Although the competition was announced, the company has not yet further elaborated on how or where to submit the videos. So stay tuned for further details!
Taking a closer look at the SNSD Fever in Japan
In view of this, cable channel Mnet crews followed SNSD to their 1st Japan Arena Tour held in Yoyogi Sports Stadium on the 29th of June. The crews personally experienced the ‘SNSD fever’ in Japan.
The Mnet production crews went to various cultural attractions in Japan, such as Shinjuku, Shinbuya, Halajuku and Shin-Okubo, where they met and interviewed Japanese people of different gender and age groups.
SNSD who are gradually becoming a part of the young generation’s life, also change the lifestyles of these young people. The secret behind their charms is going to be revealed for the first time through Mnet’s Korean Wave reports.
Divided into 2 sections, the first part of the report entitled “Do you know SNSD?” will be aired on the 14th of July, this Thursday, where reasons for SNSD’s popularity will be revealed.
Mnet’s production crew said, “In the past, Korean fan culture was very much different from the Japanese. Korean fans carry out activities in groups while Japanese fans prefer to do it individually. However, after Korean singers gained much popularity in Japan, Japanese fan culture became somewhat similar to that of the Koreans”.
The crew also added, “Unlike Korea, SNSD are popular among Japanese females from the group age of 10-30 years old. This is not only due their songs, but also the fact that female fans follow SNSD’s fashions closely as well as learning their makeup methods, which changes the fans’ lifestyles. So far, the news made known to the public in Korea only discussed about the overseas activities and popularity of Korean singers but ‘BOOM the K-POP’ will be bringing more realistic reports to the viewers as our crews have personally experienced the ‘SNSD fever’ in Japan.”
Mnet ‘BOOM the K-POP’ preview video was released first through YouTube last week. Even though it was a short video clip, it garnered over 30,000 views from people in Korea as well as Korean music lovers in foreign countries.
In addition to these, Mnet will be showing live scenes of SNSD’s Yoyogi Japan Arena Tour for the first time, through the first section of ‘BOOM the K-POP’ which will be aired on July 14th at 7.30pm KST.
Stars return home from ‘Music Bank in Tokyo’
Various idols were seen at the arrival hall in Gimpo Airport on July 14th, as they returned home from KBS’s “Music Bank” special in Tokyo.
“K-POP FESTIVAL – MUSIC BANK in TOKYO – ” took place on July 13th at the Tokyo Dome, where 15 Korean groups and artists performed including TVXQ, KARA, SNSD, 2PM, B2ST, 4minute, U-KISS, IU, Baek Ji Young, SECRET, Rainbow, INFINITE, Park Hyun Bin, RaNia and X-5.
The concert was said to be a huge success, with over 45,000 Hallyu fans attending despite the hot and humid weather of 35° Celcius.
Fans who attended the concert expressed their satisfaction with comments like, “Their level of dance is different from Japanese artists, their training is different” and “It was really awesome, I came all the way from Osaka to watch.”
Check out some of the airport fashion on show below!
The concert will be broadcasted via KBS on July 22nd.