Sunday, March 6, 2011
The “average” faces of the top girl groups compared by netizens
L-R, clockwise: Kara, 2NE1, T-ara, Wonder Girls, f(x), SNSD
Recently, combining the faces of idol group members to create a “mean” or “average face” image for the group has become popular on the various portal sites. Shortly after SNSD’s average face imagewas released on KBS2TV’s “Sponge Zero” using faceresearch.org, netizens began to combine the faces of other popular girl groups.
Out of compilation photos from these groups “average faces,” certain members’ faces stood out more prominently than others. For example, the Wonder Girls‘ mean face image seems to resemble member Ye-eun (Yenny)’s face the most. Similarly, 2NE1’s average face shows a marked resemblance to Park Bom, while f(x)’s face resembles that of Amber.
Amongst netizens, T-ara’s mean face generated the most attention for its “doll-like” characteristics and the preservation of the members’ individual features. Which face do you like the best?
‘YongSeo’ share their first kiss on “We Got Married”
SNSD’s Seohyun and CNBLUE’s Jung Yong Hwa finally shared their first kiss! Well, sort of.
On this week’s broadcast of MBC’s “We Got Married” on March 5th, the ‘YongSeo’ couple continued with their
During the photoshoot, the director asked Seohyun to give Yong Hwa a peck on his cheek. No matter how many times they shot the ‘kiss’ scene, Seohyun was adamant on not letting her lips actually touch Yong Hwa’s cheek. But the ‘husband’ was content nevertheless, as he laughed and stated, “I only felt the breath from her nose.”
It was only until the last minute of their shoot when Seohyun did indeed peck his cheek, giving a lovely and innocently cute photo as the final result.
Yong Hwa gives Seohyun a back hug on “We Got Married”
On this week’s episode of MBC’s “We Got Married”, SNSD’s Seohyun presented her ‘husband’,CNBLUE’s Yong Hwa, with a surprise gift after their long day of shooting their
Seohyun started off by saying, “It’s cold”. Yong Hwa replied cunningly, “What do you want me to do? Do you want me to hug you or what?” Seohyun rebuked, “What exactly are you thinking of doing?” It was then when Yong Hwa suddenly gave Seohhyun a back hug and said, “I know you like it, don’t pretend like you don’t, cause I see it all in your eyes.”
Seohyun then revealed to Yong Hwa that she had a surprise gift for him, but Yong Hwa continued to joke around, as he replied, “Like what? You made a scarf? Gloves? A mask?”
In the end, Seohyun really did knit a scarf for her ‘husband’, making Yong Hwa want to retract his words.
During their interviews with the PD, Seohyun light-heartedly expressed, “He has no sense whatsoever. I just wanted to give him a gift out of gratitude.” Yong Hwa also expressed his thankfulness for the present, as he said, “I was really sorry. I actually wear it around every day these days.”
SNSD released new Oh! Mazing Domino Pizza CF!
Check out SNSD's latest Domino Pizza CF here,Oh! Mazing enough?
Are you ready for the Oh!mazing Festival?
On March 4th, SNSD’s ‘Oh!mazing Festival‘ CF for Domino’s Pizza was released on various portal sites. This is SNSD’s 3rd CF for the famous pizza chain.
In the CF, SNSD’s members, Yuri, Jessica, Tiffany, YoonA and Sooyoung dressed in colorful T-shirts bearing the number ’5′ with their hit song ‘Oh!’ as the background music to promote Domino’s Pizza’s latest event. For the’Oh!mazing Festival’ event, Domino’s Pizza is offering their customers with 5 different types of ‘National Pizza’ with discount of 5,000 Won. The no.5 on the girls’s shirts represents the word ‘Oh!’ (’5′ is read as ‘oh’ in Korean).
Netizens who have seen the CF commented, “This CF looks fresher than the previous CF”, “I have not seen much of the other 4 members in this CF. So, will there be another version?”, “SNSD’s vitamin drink CF is also very popular nowadays. It seems like SNSD are blessed with lots of CF”, “Oh!mazing girls”,etc.
Domino’s Pizza’s 55-days event will be kicking off starting from March 4th and the 20-second CF is expected to receive a great amount of interest from the public as well as netizens.
SNSD is selected as the #2 power girl group in Japan!
SNSD are the stars of the Korean Boom in Japan and has been selected as the 2nd power group in Japan.
Japan’s “Nikkei Entertainment!” used last year’s average sales to predict the power ranking for Japanese girl groups this year.
According to Nikkei’s ranking, #1 goes to the Japanese SNSD, AKB48 they sold 679,000 copies and #2, SNSD sold 121,000 copies. KARA was selected as #3 and Perfume followed them at #4.
[TL Note: I’m not sure which numbers they’re using, because AKB for a fact sold way more than 679,000 copies. Their one single last year “Ponytail to Shushu” sold 679,000 alone. AKB actually sold a total of 3,474,000 copies last year averaging 694,800 copies per single. With that fact, I’m really not sure how accurate the numbers are in this ranking or where Nikkei got their information. So, please take this ranking with a grain of salt.
Japan’s “Nikkei Entertainment!” used last year’s average sales to predict the power ranking for Japanese girl groups this year.
According to Nikkei’s ranking, #1 goes to the Japanese SNSD, AKB48 they sold 679,000 copies and #2, SNSD sold 121,000 copies. KARA was selected as #3 and Perfume followed them at #4.
[TL Note: I’m not sure which numbers they’re using, because AKB for a fact sold way more than 679,000 copies. Their one single last year “Ponytail to Shushu” sold 679,000 alone. AKB actually sold a total of 3,474,000 copies last year averaging 694,800 copies per single. With that fact, I’m really not sure how accurate the numbers are in this ranking or where Nikkei got their information. So, please take this ranking with a grain of salt.
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