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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Girls' Generation to Hold "Surprise Blood Drive Event" on September 7

The official Girls’ Generation Facebook page was updated with a post this morning about a “Surprise Blood Drive Event” that will be held on September 7. In the post, they discuss how many bags of blood are used each day in Korea, and that they will be taking part in and supporting a blood drive in order to address the shortage of blood. The post has been translated and attached below.

[TRANSLATION]:

Hello~ This is Girls’ Generation~ Have any of you ever donated blood?
In our country, every 7 seconds, 1 blood bag, 1 minute, 9 blood bags, every hour, 517 blood bags, and in a day, 12,377 bags are used~ And so they say there is a shortage~
So Girls’ Generation will be holding a “Surprise Blood Drive Event” with KBS on September 7th!
Please take part in the “Surprise Blood Drive Event” that Girls’ Generation will also be taking part in and supporting^^

*Location: KBS Shin-Gwan TV Hall
*Date: September 7th, 2pm~6pm
*Preparation Checklist
1. You must, must have your ID or school ID!
2. People who are older than 16 years of age may participate~ If you were born in 1995 but your birthday has passed, you may also take part!^^
3. Men must be over 50kg, and women over 45kg!
4. Before donating blood, more than 4 hours of sleep is required
5. Lastly, if you took any cold medication, asprin, or antibiotic, note that you must wait 3 days before you can donate blood~

To those who take part in the “Surprise Blood Drive Event” with Girls’ Generation
There will be a memory presented to you that you will never forget, so we hope many people come~~~^^

"SM Town Live in Tokyo" 150,000 People in 3 days

BoA, Tohoshinki, Shoujo Jidai, SHINee, Super Junior and other popular artists performed in the live concert “SM TOWN LIVE in TOKYO SPECIAL EDITION” which was held on 2-4 September in Tokyo Dome, attracting a total crowd of 150,000 people over 3 days. This is the report of the performance.

“SMTOWN LIVE in TOKYO” was held for the first time in Japan (At the Yoyogi National Gymnasium Hall 1) in January this year, and saw an audience of 24,000 people, selling out tickets in a moment, and leading to the additional performances in “SMTOWN LIVE in TOKYO SPECIAL EDITION” being held at Tokyo Dome.

With the number of 150,000 people attending over 3 days, this is the largest “SM TOWN LIVE” in history. 36 members from 11 groups of SM Entertainment artists came together in one night for a dream-like concert, intoxicating the fans.

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Popular artists appearing one after the other, but as expected, the loudest cheers were for Tohoshinki. The 2 members appeared at a height of 15 meters above the ground, and moved like this on wires for a distance of 85 meters. Throughout this time, the crowd of 50,000 people’s cheers continued. As if responding to the fans’ feelings, they performed songs from their single “Superstar” and “Why (Keep Your Head Down) and with Changmin saying “We wan to sing a song from our new album,” they revealed the new song “BUT (BE-AU-TY)” which is recorded in their new album “TONE” to be released on 28 September. With a wild and catchy melody, they sang and danced to this number with the audience fixated on their impressive performance. Also, it has been decided that Tohoshinki’s nation-wide tour will be starting from January next year. Possessing both popularity and outstanding abilities, it can be said that their position is rock-solid.

After 56 songs and four and a half hours, all the artists came together and sang “Light(Hope)”, and the live ended with a happy atmosphere. From the ceiling, many colorful balloons came dancing down, and there were unending smiles on the faces of the 50,000 people. This marks the end of summer 2011, and for those who were in Tokyo dome, this was probably the highlight of their summer.

SONE show support for YoonA on "Star Auction"

YoonA has proven the power of Korean Wave.

YoonA recently participated in the filming of MBC’s ChooSeok special programme ‘Star Auction’. For the star’s item which fetches the highest price, 80 million Won will be added through company sponsorship on top of the successful bidding price and the donation will be made in the star’s name.

To support YoonA, SNSD’s fans from overseas had also taken part in the programme. In order to help support YoonA’s auctioned item, the fans participated in the programme together with the other 200 individuals by signing up through MBC website and broadcasting notice.

‘Star Auction’ will be aired on September 13th at 11am KST.

SNSD selected as most memorable game advertisement models

Netizen picked SNSD as the most memorable game advertisement models over other entertainers.

Game site, ‘dcgame.in’ conducted a survey entitled, ‘Among game advertisement models, who is the most memorable entertainer?’ from August 29th to September 5th.

SNSD topped the survey, garnering 2807 votes (67.9%) from the total of 4,136 votes. In 2008, SNSD became the promotional model for MMORPG ‘Mabinogi’ where the girls received a lot of good comments on how they blended well with the game’s cute characters.

Tiffany was featured as a cute Mabinogi-like character in the music video with fantasy background based on the game itself and the music video received lots of love from fans.

Rain, who modeled for ‘Sudden Attack’, took the 2nd spot with 340 votes (8.2%) followed by IU in 4th with 168 votes (4.1%), who was recently selected as the TVCF model for ‘Horse and My Story, Alicia’.

Also listed in the survey are singer-cum-actress Jang NaRa (Fortress), actress Aoi Sora (Dragona), 2NE1 (Sudden Attack), f(x) (Freestyle Basketball), etc.