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SNSD & KARA to kick-off ‘Tak Jaehoon’s Style-Star Q10 Year-End Girl Group Special’

SBS E!TV’s ‘Tak Jaehoon’s Style – Star Q10′, a program that features celebrities’ weird and funny stories will be airing its ‘Year-End Girl Groups Special’ starting from December 1st.

In this year-end special edition of SBS E!TV’s ‘Tak Jaehoon’s Style – Star Q10′, top five girl groups who are active domestically (in Korea) and internationally will be featured. The 5 girlgroups mentioned are SNSD, Kara, Wonder Girls, 2NE1 and Brown Eyed Girls.

Stories about the groups since the beginning of their debut which are not commonly published or told would be made available on the program.

First up, SNSD, whose popularity and achievement have gone beyond Korea, notably their feat on Japan’s Oricon chart. Viewers will be served with stories full of laughters and emotionssince the beginning of SNSD‘s debut. This episode of SBS E!TV’s ‘Tak Jaehoon’s Style – Star Q10′ will be aired on December 1st, 2010.

After SNSD, Kara who have also debuted in Japan, will be featured in the same program on December 8th.

SNSD releases ‘Hoot’ application for Apple AppStore

Having released a ‘Run Devil Run‘ application earlier this year, SNSD becomes the first K-pop artist to have their second AppStore application for the iPhone operating system.

To tie in with their current promotions, SM Entertainment has partnered with Neowiz Bugs once again for a ‘Hoot‘ AppStore application which was released on November 29th.

The FREE application weighs in at 56.4 mb, and the contents include the ‘Hoot’ teaser MV, application introduction clip, 10 images, and an ability to make your own movie poster with the SNSD girls.

But to get the most of this application, you will have to fork out USD 5.99 (or USD 0.99 for a track) to unlock all the features, which includes full tracks, MV, and more exclusive images.

To get your copy, simply search the word ‘SNSD’ or ‘Hoot’ in the Appstore, or just click this link.

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