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.

SNSD's members popularity ranking!

SNSD is popular worldwide and fans from Korea and Japan have voted for their favorite SNSD's member,check out the list below for the girls' popularity ranking.

The Most Popular Ranking in Korea

1. Kim Taeyeon

2. Im Yoon-Ah

3. Seo Joo Hyun

4. Jessica Jung

5. Tiffany Hwang

6. Kwon Yuri

7. Choi Sooyoung

8. Lee Sunkyu

9. Kim Hyoyeon

- The Most Popular Ranking in Youtube

1. Jessica Jung

2. Tiffany Hwang

3. Kim Taeyeon

4. Im Yoon-Ah

5. Seo Joo Hyun

6. Choi Sooyoung

7. Lee Sunkyu

8. Kim Hyoyeon

9. Kwon Yuri

- The Most Popular Ranking in Japan

1. Im Yoon-Ah

2. Kim Taeyeon

3. Choi Sooyoung

4. Jessica Jung

5. Tiffany Hwang

6. Lee Sunkyu

7. Seo Joo Hyun

8. Kwon Yuri

9. Kim Hyoyeon 

CeCi commemorates Tiffany's upcoming birthday with an auction event

In conjunction with her birthday on August 1st, Tiffany participated in a pictorial shoot for the August edition of fashion magazine Ceci and the 14 props used in the shoot will be put up for auction from July 23rd to August 6th.

In the pictorials, Tiffany transformed into a lively young girl. Dressed in floral-patterned short, pink tube top and laced one-piece dress as well as other lovely costumes, Tiffany also posed along with a pet dog named ‘Ari’. In addition, throughout the shooting session, Tiffany brightened the atmosphere on the set with her own signature eye-smiles.

The real-time auction event will be held from 3pm on July 23rd onwards through Ceci‘s website (http://www.ceci.co.kr) and its Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/cecimagazine). A pearl ring and ear rings with Tiffany’s initial engraved on it, belt used by Tiffany during TaeTiSeo’s performances as well as bags, etc are among the items to be auctioned.

All proceeds from the auction will be donated to Korean Society for Animal Freedom in the name of Ceci and Tiffany.

More photos of Tiffany here.

Girls' Generation cheers for Olympic athletes through 'High Cut'

Girls’ Generation are featured once again on star style magazine pictorials, ‘High Cut’ and this time, they posed in the official uniform of the Korean contingent participating in the 2012 London Olympics, flaunting their very own unique beauty as well as their beautiful legs.

In addition, as the leading girl group in Korea, the 9 members showed their distinctive fashion sense and presented each of their own charms.

During an interview which took place during the pictorial shoot, Girls’ Generation said, “We will be showing our support for all the athletes of Korea Republic taking part in the London Olympics”.

Besides that the girls also talked about the strong bond within the group by stating, “Even after 10 years from now, we will still be a group called ‘Girls’ Generation’. Like Shinhwa sunbaes (seniors), we want to stick together as ‘Girls’ Generation’ and keep on going to achieve our goals”.

These beautiful photos of the girls will be published in the 81st issue of ‘High Cut’ which will be available on July 19th.

Tiffany is a pink "Ceci" girl!

 SNSD's Tiffany graces the latest issue of Ceci Magazine.

Tiffany poses elegantly in her new set of pictorial,displaying her cheerful personalities and trademark eye smile.

Among the 3 photos shared here,which photo is your favorite?