Girls' Generation's Smartphone App Popular

Girl group Girls' Generation has proved what they are worth through a service provided through smartphones.

Girls' Generation's management company, SM Entertainment, released a star theme service provided by SSKIN in early July.

The service allows one to set Girls' Generation-themed wallpapers and icons. Just six months after its release, it was downloaded 1,000,000 times, and was also downloaded 300,000 times in July alone, recording at a total of 1,300,000 downloads.

SSKIN stated, "The success of 'SMTown World Tour in Paris' and Girls' Generation's second solo concert seem to have caused the steep increase."

Through Girls' Generation's vast popularity, the regions where the app was downloaded ranged from Korea and South Asia to Europe, South America, Oceania, and the Middle East.

As the Hallyu boom has been spreading through mobile devices, SSKIN's administrator stated, "We are experiencing K-Pop stars' popularity. The high number of downloads shows K-Pop stars' popularity surpasses that in Korea."

SSKIN's Girls' Generation theme can be downloaded through various smartphone application stores.

Soshified Billboard Draws Attention

A digital billboard event celebrating the fourth anniversary of Girls' Generation's debut has begun displaying in Los Angeles.

Soshified, the international fan community for Girls' Generation, installed a 10.5m X 7.3m digital billboard in central Los Angeles to play a promotional video for Girls' Generation's fourth anniversary.

According to Soshified, this digital billboard has the biggest target audience in America (Editor's note: It's actually the biggest target audience in the county, not the country) and is to be displayed for 8 days from August 1st on top of the Aroma Wilshire Center Building, the center of the Wilshire Center district of Los Angeles.

Upon hearing the news, Girls' Generation fans reacted by saying, "Girls' Generation 4th Anniversary, congrats congrats", "Right now really must be Girls' Generation", "With events like this happening abroad, Girls' Generation really are impressive".

Jessica Rated Most Fashionable Idol

On tvN's recent ENews program, professional stylists ranked a list of 40 different idols.

The idol that took the lead in best plainclothes fashion with 35% of votes was Girls' Generation's Jessica. Along with her recent beautiful transformation, her fashion sense has helped her become known as the top fashionable idol.

Jessica's fashion, that is both girly and chic, was chosen as the number one style that women want to imitate. Her airport fashion in particular gained attention for being both comfortable and stylish.

Stylist Lee Hyunbum complimented, "Jessica dresses really well, and has a good understanding of that certain style. I think she is the best within Girls' Generation."

Rounding out the top five, Davichi's Kang Minkyung was rated second, B2ST's Junhyung was third, T-ara's Hyomin ranked fourth, and miss A's Suzy placed fifth.

SNSD’s Seohyun visits basketball coach Park Seung Il

Former basketball coach Park Seung Il made headlines several times over the year because of his close relationship with SNSD members.

Park, who’s been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a big fan of SNSD and so it inspired member Sooyoung to visit him at the hospital and more recently, he attended SNSD’s concert.

On August 3rd, maknae member Seohyun paid a visit to the hospital, and the visit was said to have put Park in good spirits. The two snapped some photos together, which Park shared on his website, writing, “SNSD’s maknae and mom together…”.

Besides brightening his spirits with her visit, Seohyun also gave Park Seung Il a gift, which were an exclusive album with the members’ signatures and a portable DVD player.

Netizens commented, “SNSD are angels”, “Seohyun has a pretty face and heart”, “SNSD’s good deeds really impress me”, and “Fans can’t help but like her because she shows these kind acts”.

Tiffany attends ‘Spring Awakening’ show to support Isak

On August 3rd, Isak revealed a snapshot documenting the strong love shared between the SMTOWNfamily. She tweeted, “Thank you pretty Tiffany for coming to my show today. It’s such a relief that you enjoyed it.”

In the attached photo, Isak and Tiffany are seen with their faces close together, giving off a friendly vibe. Netizens commented on the artists’ slim jaw lines, especially Tiffany’s, who recently lost a lot of weight.

Netizens commented, “They’re both too thin“, “I should’ve gone to the show on this day too“, “They’re both so pretty“, and “Hope that ‘Spring Awakening’ is a success“.

Isak is currently performing in the musical, “Spring Awakening“, which will run until September 4th.

Asian no.1 girl group Girls' Generation is in your iphone

Asian no.1 girl group Girls’ Generation is in your iPhone!

Where ever you go! Whatever you do! Girls’ Generation will always be with you!

dlto (Delight the future) and S.M.Entertainment co-produced the ‘Live Wallpaper & Widget app’ called SSKIN for iPhone after launching it for android together.

With Girls’ Generation’s ‘Live Wallpaper & Widget app,’ you are allowed to create your own image using individual photos of Girls’ Generation members as well as their group photos and set it as wall paper of lock screen and home screen for your smart phone.

Therefore, SSKIN for iPhone is expected to record over 1,000,000 downloads like it did for Android.

‘Girls’ Generation Live Wallpaper & Widget app, SSKIN’ is available on App Store and also Super Junior SSKIN is scheduled to be released in the beginning of August as well.

Yuri, Tiffany and Sooyoung to emcee 'Kpop All Star Live in Niigata' on August 20th

According to Japanese media, Nikkan Sports on August 4th, Yuri, Tiffany and Sooyoung will be the MCs for ‘Kpop All Star Live in Niigata’, the largest Kpop festival in Japan which will be taking place on August 20th.

Organized by MBC in support of the reconstruction efforts in Japan after the catastrophic earthquake back in March this year, the charity concert will be graced by popular Kpop stars such as SNSD, Kara, 2pm, 2am, CN Blue, Beast, 4minute, Infinite, Teen Top, Sistar, Secret, Norazo, etc.

Being the largest Kpop event ever in Japan’s history, ‘Kpop All Star Live in Niigata’ is expected to attract a huge audience of 46,000.