"Gee" MV shown on Hallyu Wave News Story on ABC

In the latest example of the "Global Generation" effect, a short cut of Girls' Generation's "Gee" music video was shown on an ABC news story which aired in the San Francisco Bay Area. The story discussed the rise of South Korean culture and specifically the Hallyu Wave. The portion of the news piece showing Girls' Generation has been attached below.



The full video of the news story can be found here.

With Taiwanese artists mentioning their friendship with Girls' Generation, two wins at the MTV VMAJ, and the roaring success of both SMTOWN LIVE in PARIS and the Japan arena tour, the reach of the "Global Generation" is continuing to expand.

SNSD’s solo MV’s for “HOOT” revealed

We previously reported that SM Entertainment would release a special DVD, All About Girls’ Generation “Paradise in Phuket” and included in this package was the music video for “ECHO.”

Additionally, we also mentioned that the individual solo MV’s for ‘Hoot‘ would also be included in this package and the solo MV’s have finally made their way online.

Check out the solo MV’s below, which one is your favorite?

Individual Hoot's MVs of SNSD released

Do you ever imagine SNSD to reveal individual MVs? Now made possible!
9 MVs/cuts for SNSD's "Hoot" just released featuring each of the girls!

Now you can enjoy Hoot solo MV (cuts) of your SNSD bias!

Taeyeon


Yoona


Seohyun

Sooyoung


Yuri


Jeesica


Tiffany


Hyoyeon


Sunny

Benefit of Soshi Manager : a wedding reception like no other

On July 5th, a post with a photo of SNSD at their manager’s wedding reception was published on an online community forum.

In the wedding ceremony photo, the married couple sat in the middle and made a heart shape with their hands. They were surrounded by the 9 cute Soshi girls with their respective adorable poses in ‘Oh!’ outfits.

Netizens who saw the photo commented, “Even on the wedding day, SNSD were there to congratulate the manager. I’m so jealous”, “This is cute”, etc

SM Town Artists in W Korea

Bunch of photos were released from W Korea July Issue magazine!

Check these out!

Daum Updates With New Girls' Generation Themes

It was revealed on the July 5 that after the Daum smartphone application was updated to version 2.7, it has been gaining a great amount of responses from users. Through the recent update, themes with popular girl group Girls' Generation were added, along with other functions.

After the update became available on the June 29, 10,000 people applied Girls' Generation themes within four days. Daum explained that this accounts for 60% of the version 2.7 users.

The iPhone version of the Daum application provides a total of twelve themes, including video themes of the members. Android phones are provided with six Girls' Generation themes, along with twelve regular themes.

SM, JYP and YG come together to discover the next KPOP Star!

Top Korean talent agencies JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment and YG Entertainment will come together for the first time ever to discover the next K-pop star.

A press release by promoter 3HW.Com on Tuesday announced that the three talent firms will take part in a global auditioning TV program titled “Survival Audition KPOP STAR” set to go on air on major broadcasting channel SBS around December.

Park Jin-young’s JYP, Lee Soo-man’s SM and Yang Hyun-suk’s YG are responsible for discovering and managing the careers of some of the most successful idol stars in Korea — JYP is in charge of the Wonder Girls and 2PM, SM of TVXQ, Super Junior and Girls’ Generation, and YG of Big Bang and 2NE1.

As its name shows, “KPOP STAR” will be in the format of a survival competition where aspiring artists will be judged on various aspects including singing and dancing for both talent and star quality. Auditions will take place overseas as well.

The winner of the show will receive prize money and secure a contract with one of the three agencies through which he or she will release an album.

Auditions are open to everyone around the world and SBS’s website will open up forregistration starting tonight for the first preliminary round of auditions.