[News] SNSD debuts at number 4 on Oricon Monthly Singles charts with 'Genie'

9 member girl group SNSD who have debut in Japan last September have debuted at number 4 at the Oricon Monthly singles chart.

Oricon is one of Japan's most prestigious charts showing the music sales and monthly surveys. For the month of September, SNSD ranked number 4 with their Japanese single "Genie" which reached sales of 75, 276.

SNSD beated some of Japan's popular rock groups including V6 who released a single in September but ranked 7th on the monthly charts.

Meanwhile, SNSD is set to release their next Japanese Single this October.

Source : Starnews
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[News] Seohyun recalled DJ DOC’s “I’m This Type of Person” performance

On October 2nd, Seohyun expressed her gratitude towards fans at SNSD’s first fan meeting in Korea through Star Call.

Through the video message, Seohyun said “It’s been a long time. It was SNSD’s first fanmeeting and it definitely gave me a lot of sweet memories”.

About a particularly interesting performance at the fanmeeting, Seohyun said, “We wanted to show our fans a new side of us so we prepared something for them. It was fun, especially the “I’m This Type of Person” performance”. SNSD appeared in a colorful tracksuit and performed DC DOC’s “I’m This Type of Person” during the fanmeeting.

Seohyun showed her affection towards SONEs by saying, “Although we are working hard for our activities in Japan, you guys know that our hearts are always with you, right? Once, we made that bond, the bond between us would remain forever”.

Source : sportsseoul.com
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[News] Concept for Japanese version of “Gee” is hotter than the Korean version?

Since the release of the MV teaser and the cover image, fans have been comparing the concept of Korean and Japanese version of “Gee” and they find that the concept of Japanese version of “Gee” is more ‘shabang shabang(hot)’ than the Korean version.

In Japan, SNSD are called “Beautiful legs group” and the point was emphasized even more through the release of the jacket album which featured the girls in mini skirts, exposing their beautiful slender leg lines.

For the album jacket of the first single “Genie”, the girls put on black, sexy costumes. However, for “Gee”, SNSD focused more on the sexy, cute and youthful concept.

Source : Joongang.co.kr
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[News] Girls' Generation, the Cover of Nikkei Business

Girls' Generation on the cover of Japanese economic weekly Nikkei Business

Korean band Girls' Generation have made the cover of Japanese economic weekly Nikkei Business. The girl group recently launched their first single album "Genie" in Japan to huge success. In its Sept. 27 issue, the magazine draws a parallel between the secret of the girl band's success and Korea's growing business acumen in general.

Girls' Generation was put together by their talent agency from women fluent in Japanese, English and Chinese to target the global market. The magazine highlights how the group managed to conquer the Japanese music market in such a short period of time with its single, which sold 100,000 since the launch on Sept. 8 despite the fact that sales of CDs have been plummeting in Japan.

The magazine attributes the success of Girls' Generation as well as newer Korean companies such as Internet portal site NHN, E Mart, and CJ Entertainment to a high level of professionalism based on thorough preparation and great efforts, and their strategy to target the global market. "The shipshape performance of Girls' Generation was possible only through rigorous preparation and practice. It is fascinating to see how the movement of all nine members is in perfect order. They epitomize a professionalism that is difficult to be found in other girl groups", the magazine said.

The tight management that checks the condition of each member minutely is also reminiscent to that of Korea's global companies such as Samsung Electronics and Hyundai, Nikkei Business added.

Source : www.chosun.com

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[News] YoonA’s popularity is on the rise especially among netizens in Japan.

On October 3rd, a lot of videos and pictures of YoonA were uploaded to the discussion forums of Japan’s netizen community site called “2ch”.

The netizens comments are:

- “I pledge my loyalty to 3 things. Firstly, YoonA and then YoonA and lastly, loyalty to YoonA”

- “I’ll do anything as long as YoonA is happy”

“2ch” is a community commonly associated various accusations, rumors and activities against Korea Republic. Nevertheless, YoonA is getting huge support from Japanese netizens. This is indeed an indication of SNSD and YoonA’s rising popularity in Japan.

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[Videos] SNSD Genie 3D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSyzVMlKb6o&feature=player_embedded

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[CF] Daum Search Ad Campaign featuring SNSD (with translation)

Which one is your personal favorite? The girls are nonetheless, dorky as usual in all those 4 videos! Personally, I like Taeyeon-Jessica version, especially the part they fought for the netbook. Sunny-Hyoyeon-Tiffany version ended somewhat rather sudden, I thought. However, within that short 78 seconds, Sunny’s aegyo voice kills me (as usual..lol). Tiffany is the only one who did not say a word…lol. Here are the vids and thanks to Silis7noy2 for the translations. I shall update the translation for the Sunny-Hyoyeon-Tiffany versions.


YoonA-Yuri version

[VIDEO](Sep 30, 2010) Daum Search Ad Campaign - SNSD Yoona Yuri CF 20s

Translation

(Yoona is searching for blue crabs)
Yoona: “Ah this is frustrating”
Yoona: “Let’s just go outside and search for it later”
Yuri: “What are you doing? Watch this.”
Yuri: “Blue crab~~”
(Blue crab restaurant is shown)
Yoona: “How did you do that?”
Yuri: “Blue crab~”
(Find locations by speaking – Daum Search)
Yuri: “Waffle waffle coffee”


Seohyun-Sooyoung version

[VIDEO](Sep 30, 2010) Daum Search Ad Campaign - SNSD Sooyoung Seohyun

Translation

Sooyoung: “Ah. Unnie want to go on a trip somewhere~”
Seohyun: “Me too~”
Sooyoung: “Where do you want to go?”
Seohyun: “Uh… I want to go to Namee Island”
Sooyoung: “Namee Island? Where is Namee Island?”
Seohyun: “Namee Island…”
Sooyoung: “Namee Island”
Seohyun: “Um let’s try to find out”
Sooyoung: “Daum Daum”
Seohyun: “Daum… Ah Daum!”
Seohyun: “How do you do this?
Seohyun: “Nam . EE . Island”
Sooyoung: “Hey it wont work if you speak like that. Just speak naturally”
Seohyun: “It seemed like you had to pronounce by syllables”
Sooyoung: “Nah. Namee Island~ See~”
Seohyun: “Oh it worked!”
Sooyoung: “Yes~”
Sooyoung: “Ah this is that place, where they filmed that drama”
Seohyun: “Yes there is bike riding there. Couples go there to ride it I’m going to go ride it for sure”
Sooyoung: “Really? It’s hard when you ride that by yourself”
Seohyun: “Heh~ Of course it’s going to be the two of us going”
Sooyoung: “With who?”
Seohyun: “Heh~ you know~”
Sooyoung: “Who?”
Seohyun: “You know who~”
Sooyoung: “Unnie won’t go. Unnie is busy”
Seohyun: “Not you unnie”
Sooyoung: “who then?
Seohyun: “Me”
Sooyoung: “Yeah so you and who else?”
Seohyun: “You know~”
Sooyoung: “Who?”
(Seohyun Whispers to Sooyoung)
Sooyoung: “What?”
(Seohyun Whispers more to Sooyoung)
Sooyoung: “What? Ok speak to here”
Seohyun: “No I can’t~”
Sooyoung: “Come on. Ah who is it?”


Taeyeon-Jessica version

[VIDEO](Sep 30, 2010) Daum Search Ad Campaign - SNSD Taeyeon Jessica

Translation

Tae: Why isn’t she here
Sica: Ah really! Ah Hi hahahahaha
Tae: You are late again!
Sica: Ah I’m sorry. Oh it’s distressing~
Tae: You’re late late. The penalty is five dollars. Five dollars.
Sica: Aish…
(0:16)
Tae: What’s bothering you?
Sica: Hey look at my hair. It’s different from yesterday right?
Tae: A little bit. It looks ok?
Sica: Oh this isn’t the way I wanted it~
Tae: Weren’t you there just now?
Sica: Yeah but she was dozing off as she was rolling my hair
Sica: Really!
Sica: I had to wake her up hundred times really
Tae: Hey, you want to search on Daum?
Sica: Yeah
(0:36)
Sica: Is it up? No one was there…
Tae: It’s up up! It’s all posted
Sica: Who is that? Haha
Tae: Look at this it’s you coming out of the beauty salon
Sica: Ah really?
Tae: Yeah. Your hair had some more waves there?
Sica: I know, I guess it got undone as I came here
Tae: You mean in like five minutes just now…
Sica: Yeah looks like it,
Tae: That was quick really quick
(0:57)
Tae: You wave getting undone is quick
Tae: The speed these things get posted is quick!
Sica: I know, hey some more got posted just now!
Tae: You’re right they keep coming up
Tae: Check this?
Sica: Yeah
(1:16)
Tae: Hey many of them are posted now
Sica: Hey,
Tae: Not bad!
Sica: They’re saying it’s pretty yes pretty! Oh nice. Aheehee Haha
Tae: The response is good
Sica: Yeah the response is good
(1:28)
Tae: You! You! You’ve been to the cafe?!
Sica: Eh… yeah
Tae: You! Haha
Tae: That’s why you were late!
Sica: No it was hot. You know I get exhausted when it’s hot, so haha
Tae: Who is that beside you? Who did you go with?
Sica: Uh…
Tae: What!
Tae: Hey you’ll break it!
Tae: Ok what
Sica: Ah well the person is
Tae: Who did you go with?
Sica: My school friend
(Staff: “We’ll start now”)
Sica: Yes!
Tae: Yes
Sica: Just a friend


Sunny-Hyoyeon-Tiffany version

[VIDEO](Sep 30, 2010) Daum Search Ad Campaign - SNSD Tiffany Sunny Hyoyeon

Translation

Hyo: Hey~ I received letters… Heh what…
Sunny: I got them too~
Hyo: I have many here
(0:08)
Hyo: What you mean Sunny is cute, I am jjang cute
Sunny: Take this! Chop chop chop
Hyo: Hey what does this say?
Sunny: Oh it’s Japanese!
Hyo: This says Hyoyeon jjang right? “Aish1teru” is I love you, “I miss you” she misses me
Sunny: Hey will you stop reading them selectively?
(0:25)
Hyo: I don’t know~
Sunny: Ah this pink envelop is so cute
Sunny: Huh?
Hyo: Huh? Isn’t that a code?
Sunny: How does this work?
Hyo: It’s a code
Sunny: What is it?
Hyo: You use with Daum app and it takes you straight to the link
Sunny: Really?
(0:38)
Sunny: How can she sleep like that all the time?
Sunny: Just what is she doing at night…
(0:45)
Hyo: Oh Fany let’s take a picture
Sunny: Fany you know how cute you look now? It’s no joke
Hyo: Uhljjang angle
Sunny: Fany stay still now
Hyo: 5, 6, 7, 8!
(0:54)
Sunny: Oh it’s coming up!
Hyo: Ah pretty so pretty
(1:00)
Sunny: It’s a video
(1:05)
Sunny: Aigoo wait
Hyo: Those voices
Sunny: This is like that video…
(1:10)
Hyo: This comes from this and from your cheek
Hyo: Isn’t it fascinating?
Sunny: Look, a video plays from your cheek
Hyo: Isn’t this for ***?


Full version

[VIDEO] SNSD's DAUM Search Ad. Campaign(All Pack / Eng. Subbed) - CodeMonmonSeason3@YT


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