Chinese fans caught stealing social security numbers to vote for idol groups online

It has come to the attention of Korean netizens that some Chinese fans may be stealing the social security numbers of ordinary Korean citizens in order to vote online for their favorite idol groups in this year’s ‘Melon Music Awards.‘

These netizens recently took screencaps of posts on the Chinese music community site ‘Baidu‘, which contained information and tutorials on how to vote for singers for the ‘Melon Music Awards’, as well as for Korean music programs like ‘Inkigayo.‘ Shockingly, the methods they provided involved illegally using Social Security Numbers of Korean citizens. On top of that, overseas fans have also been using the social security numbers to download music on Korean music sites and buy mobile phone ringtones.

Netizens also noticed that from Super Junior’s voting statistics for the ‘Melon Music Awards’, 57% of the 28,720 votes for the group were from citizens over 40 years of age, which is an extremely unusual occurence, considering how group is mostly popular amongst fans in their teens and 20’s. Voting statistics for the remaining three groups in the top 4 for the ‘online voting’ category - SNSD, SHINee andJo Kwon & Ga-In - also have 16-19% of the voters being over 40 years of age.

Posts on the Baidu community site also exhibit users posting screencaps of pop-up windows that appear when they tried to use the stolen social security numbers, asking other users what it meant. The pop-up box was in fact a message from the Identity Theft Prevention Service stating that the social security has been blocked due to suspicions of identity theft.

According to the Population Registration Act Article 37, illegally stealing a social security number is a criminal act that carries a penalty of 3 years of imprisonment and a $8,700 USD fine.

SNSD, Eunhyuk, Onew on KBS ‘Nocturnal’ / ‘Night Star’

SNSD,Eunhyuk and onew appeared on KBS show night star together,check out the SM interactions in this clip now!

SNSD wins 4 weeks in a row in KBS Music Bank

On the November 26th episode of KBS "Music Bank", SNSD has won for the 4th week in a row for their song "Hoot". The show was not able to broadcast it's episode due to it airing the Asian Games.

Last 28th of November on SBS "Inkigayo" SNSD also won first place achieving a triple crown for winning 3 weeks in a row showing their immense popularity. Their third mini album has been receiving a lot of good feedback with it's title song's addictive melody and catchy dance choreography.

Meanwhile, SNSD will be performing next month at the "Korea-China Song festival" and also appear at the 2010 FNS Music Festival in Japan.

EunHyuk and others learned how to Shoot Shoot Shoot from SNSD!

SNSD and other celebrities appeared on show Night Star.

During the show,SNSD teach the celebrities present on the show some basic steps of their new hit song HOOT,check out the clip below

CF Director Yuri VS Dorky CF Actresses

..and of course, no one listened to her. Being the ‘Director’, I guess Yuri had a hard time dealing with the rebellious and mischievous actresses.

The short video clip (from MBC Section TV aired on November 28th) gives you a glimpse of their latest Goobne CF shoot and judging from their hairstyles,the shoot must have taken place during or just before the “Hoot” promotion.

Let’s take a look at how Yuri dealt with these dorky actresses: CLICK HERE

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Soshi won Triple Crown for “Hoot” Joined Psy on stage

Soshi sealed their promotion of “Hoot” with an explosive success. It’s sad to know that “Hoot” promotion lasted only about 5 weeks. Nonetheless, within that short period of time, the girls managed to make a big impact to the music industry.

With the win, Soshi have successfully won their 2nd Triple Crown on SBS Inkigayo this year. Right before Kara’s “Jumping” performance, fans were entertained by a splendid performance by Psy, who had 8 extra dancers doing the arrow dance. They are none other than Soshi and it came to a surprise to everyone watching the show. Nonetheless, it was really HOT!

Kara who were also in the Take 7 congratulated SNSD sincerely for the Triple Crown victory. It was such an awesome sight as they hugged and gave a pat on the back to one another.

As usual, the girls thanked their company, family, friends and SONEs for every achievements. The girls once again showed that they felt the ‘void’ left by Tiffany due to her injury. During the winning speech, Jessica said, “We hope that Tiffany who is not on stage with us today would be well soon and be with us again. Fany, get well soon“.

If you happen to miss the performances, you have some catching-ups to do then. No worries because here are the awesome performances:

Soshi joined Psy in “Right Now” performance

"Hoot"

Mutizen win and encore

2010 MAMA is a ‘colorless’ event Kpop stars focused on Inkigayo

The first music award ceremony of the year, the 2010 Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) seems to be a rather ‘colorless’ and meaningless event, with the absence of some of the big stars in the Kpop industry.

Popular groups who have made their names heard throughout Asia such as SNSD, 2AM, Kara, Beast, T-ara, Davichi, Rain, MBLAQ, After School, Son Dambi, 4minute, G.NA, etc will not be attending the 2010 MAMA.

The 2010 MAMA will be held at The Venetian Macau Hotel’s Cotai Arena in Macau at 7.00pm KST on November 28th. Although their names are in the list of nominees, some of these artists will be appearing on music program, SBS Inkigayo instead.

On SBS Inkigayo which will be aired at 3.50pm KST on November 28th, the list of artists and songs in Take 7 are:

- SNSD (Hoot)
- Kara (Jumping)
- Beast (Beautiful)
- 2AM (You Wouldn’t Answer My Calls)
- Psy (Right now)
- Orange Caramel (A-ing ♡)

This week’s Inkigayo will also feature the debut of ‘SM the ballad’ consisting of Super Junior’s Kyuhyun, SHINee’s Jonghyun, Trax’s Jay, and Jino. They’ll be opening their debut stage on Inkigayo with “Miss You”.