Sooyoung makes a cake for Hyoyeon to cheer her on 'Dancing With The Stars II'

Girls’ Generation members have been making personal visits to the live broadcasts of MBC’s “Dancing With The Stars II” every week to cheer on Hyoyeon, who is trying her hand at sport dancing, and have been captured on camera often. Sooyoung, who unforunately hasn’t been able to visit the live set due to her drama filming, visited Hyoyeon’s practice room with a cake she made herself early in the morning.

Sooyoung stated, “When Hyoyeon received the request to come on ‘Dancing With The Stars II’, I supported her, telling her she had to do it. I was sad that Hyoyeon, who dances so well, didn’t have chances to show that off all she wants in the past, so I was happier [than Hyoyeon] when her appearance was confirmed. I really hope she wins.” This day, Sooyoung discussed the choreography and concept idea together with Hyoyeon. She also exposed how Hyoyeon boasted about her partner being handsome after she first met Hyungsuk.

Girls’ Generation members also show their support for Hyoyeon by voting. During her visit, Sooyoung revealed that she sent text votes with all of her family members’ cell phones every week. However, there was disappointment when it was revealed that all of the texts Girls’ Generation had sent thus far were all counted as invalid votes. The reason was because of the members’ excessive love for Hyoyeon. While they are only supposed to either write the entry number or Hyoyeon’s name, they sent texts with various emoticons. Their lengthy text messages, such as “Hyoyeon♥♥”, “Hyoyeon is number 1″, and “Judges, please give Hyoyeon high marks”, were all counted as being invalid.

Hyoyeon said that, “I sent text votes,” are the most touching words lately. She expressed her thanks to her members who voted for her by saying, “Next time, I would like if you would send them just saying ‘Hyoyeon’”, expressing her hunger to win.

Hyoyeon will be competing in the finals of “Dancing With The Stars II” on July 20th at 9:55 PM KST on MBC.

Get to know Korean culture with Girls' Generation

Girls’ Generation was included in the ‘Korea Promotion Guide Book’ by Professor Seo KyungDuk of Sunhshin Women’s University.

On July 19th, Professor Seo KyungDuk said, “A guide book to promote the culture of Korea Republic featuring Korea’s representative group Girls’ Generation will be published. For the convenience of foreigners, the guide book is written in English and it introduces the main cultural contents of Korea Republic – Hangul (Korean alphabets), Hansik (Korean food), Hanbok (Korean traditional dress), Hanji (Korean traditional handmade paper) and Hanok (Korean traditional house)”.

Professor Seo KyungDuk added, “Today, with the widespread of the Kpop worldwide, I feel that there is a need for promotional materials that introduce Korea’s culture to go along with it. So, I came up with the idea of providing a guidebook that will be easily available anywhere in the world”.

He further explained, “With the guide book that features the current representative of Korean culture contents, Girls’ Generation, it will not be just another guidebook that one only look at it once but it will be made of high quality, environmental-friendly papers so that young people from all around the world would want to keep collecting them”.

Representative from SM Entertainment said, “Through participation in the guide book, Girls’ Generation vows to work harder in order to spread the awareness on the Korean culture even more extensively”.

Starting from next week, 50,000 copies will be distributed to foreigners who visit the Yeosu EXPO and 30,000 copies will be made available in London, the host of the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games. Besides that, 20,000 copies are also expected to be distributed among famous universities throughout the world.

Tiffany helps abandoned animals in her latest pictorial with ‘CeCi’

In celebration of her birthday next month on the 1st, Girls’ Generation‘s Tiffany has set out to help abandoned animals in her latest pictorial with ‘CeCi‘ magazine.

Dressed in a funky yet feminine look with floral prints, pink tube tops, and elegant lace one-pieces, Tiffany posed alongside an equally adorable maltese named ‘Ari’ for the photo shoot. Throughout the set, not once did she lose her signature eye smile and brightened up the set with her perfectly cute poses.

The thirteen accessories, including a pearl ring with Tiffany’s initials engraved on them, a belt she wore on stage with TaeTiSeo, and other unique, one-of-a-kind items like her customized handbag, worn by the star will be auctioned off on CeCi’s official homepage.

All of the profits made from the auction will be donated to the Korean Animal Welfare Association to aid in the protection and adoption of lost animals.