Seohyun's best friend Lee Hwan Hee to debut in March

Lee Hwan Hee, who is known being Girls’ Generation Seohyun’s best friend during their SM Entertainmenttrainee days, has been preparing for a March debut as a member of a new girl group.

Lee Hwanhee passed SM Entertainment's auditions and became a trainee after entering winning a 2002 competition. She has been a trainee alongside Seohyun and Yuri and entered one of the lineups of Girls' Generation. However, during the final showcase, she was eliminated.

On a September episode of KBS2 “Big Brothers” where Seohyun made an appearance, she talked about Lee Hwan Hee. The two had dreams of debuting as Girls’ Generation and trained for 5 years together.

In 2011, Lee Hwan Hee moved fro SM Entertainment to Worthy Entertainment. An official from her current agency stated, "She will make her debut late in March and is currently recording some last minute work." 

The man behind doctored Girls' Generation nude picture indicted

The perpetrator who uploaded a doctored picture of Girls’ Generation in the nude has been caught. The man in his 50s is a public servant working at the Yeonsu District Office in Incheon and admitted to uploading the photo, but said he did not create the defamatory material himself. 

Police in Gangnam District, southeastern Seoul, announced that the man was indicted on Tuesday for spreading a manipulated picture of the girl group online.

The man was found have used his computer during work hours in December to upload the cropped photo of the girls’ faces onto the bodies of naked women. 

When the K-pop band’s agency found out about the picture on Feb. 16, it alerted the police and maintained that it may take legal action against the creator, uploader and those who spread the photo. 

“We will take all steps necessary to right this wrong,” a representative from SM Entertainment said. “The person should not just be held responsible for creating the phony picture but also for uploading it and spreading it online.”

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Girls' Generation bags two awards at the '1st GaOn Chart Kpop Awards'!

The first ever ‘GaOn Chart Kpop Awards’ was held at 7pm KST on February 22nd at the Blue Square Samsung Card Hall in Hannam-dong, Seoul and the event was hosted by Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon alongside composer-broadcaster Joo YoungHoon.

The winners of ‘GaOn Chart Kpop Awards’ are selected based on the aggregate data of digital music sales and album sales collected throughout 2011 and the awards given out include ‘Artists of The Year Award’, ‘New Artist of The Year Award’, ‘Best Music Composer/Lyricist of The Year Award’, ‘Best Performer of The Year Award’ , ‘Technical Excellence of The Year Award’, ‘Style of The Year Award’, ‘New Media Platform Award’, ‘Producer of The Year Award’, ‘Oricon Special Award’, ‘Kpop Contribution Award’, ‘International Song of The Year Award’ and ‘Discovery of The Year Award’.

Girls’ Generation, represented by Taeyeon and Yoona, brought home two big awards from the event — the ‘Oricon Special Award’ and the ‘Album of the Year (4th Quarter) Award’ for their album ‘The Boys’. In the acceptance speech, Yoona said, “I really miss my unnies, although Taeyeon unnie is here too, I really hope that they are beside me now to make the speech together.”

In addition to that, Girls’ Generation’s stylist, Seo SooKyung, won best stylist award and MC Taeyeon congratulated her by saying, “SooKyung unnie congrats!”. Seo Sookyung said, “Thank you SONEs for always giving your love and support. Thanks to Girls’ Generation, who has good body figures that always fits perfectly into our outfits.”

The award presentation ceremony were also attended by various Kpop artists including IU, Wonder Girls, Beast, Secret, Davichi, Girl’s Day, Huh Gak, Super Junior, B1A4, etc.

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Winners from the "1st Gaon Chart KPOP Awards 2011"

On February 22nd, the well-known and first officially recognized music chart, Gaon Chart, held its first-ever awards ceremony "1st Gaon Chart KPOP Awards 2011." The event took place at the Blue Square, Samsung Card Hall in Seoul, with several top artists, producers, composers, and more in attendance.

"1st Gaon Chart KPOP Awards 2011" is dubbed as the most fair awards since it recognize and award the most-loved songs, musicians and pop artists based on the objective data that Gaon has compiled over the past year.

Check out the list of full winners below:

• Oricon Special Award 
- Girls' Generation

• New Artist Award [Solo Division]
- Huh Gak
- Kim BoKyung

• New Artist Award [Group Division]
- A Pink
- B1A4

• Singer of the Year Award
 - Secret [January]
- IU [February]
- K.Will [March]
- Big Bang [April]
- 2NE1 [May]
-  Secret [June]
- T-ara [July]
- Leessang [August]
- Davichi [September]
- Lee Seung Gi [October]
- Wonder Girls [November]
- IU [December]

• Album of The Year Award
- TVXQ "Keep Your Head Down" [1st Quarter]
- B2ST "Fiction and Fact" [2nd Quarter]
- Super Junior "Mr. Simple" [3rd Quarter]
- Girls' Generation "The Boys" [4th Quarter]

• Lyricist of The Year Award
- Kim I-Na

• Style Award
- Prepix [Choreography Division]
- Seo SooKyung [Stylist Division]

• Technical Award
- Ko SeungWook

• Producer of The Year Award
- Kim KwangSoo

• Newly Discovered/Uprising Artist of The Year Award
- Noel
- Girl's Day
- Cox

• Kpop Contribution Award
 - Lee SooMan [SM Entertainment]

• Foreign Music Award
- Maroon 5

• New Media Platform Award
- YouTube
- Daum

Man responsible for spreading fake nude photos of Girls’ Generation caught

Last week, it was reported that SM Entertainment had requested an investigation into the spread of the photoshopped nude pictures of Girls’ Generation. The agency had stated at the time that they would be taking legal action against those behind the creation and the distribution of the composite photos. It seems that the police has now caught one of the perpetrators.

The person behind the wide-spread distribution of these photos has been identified as a man in his 50′s; he’s been booked without detention.

Although the age of the man may be surprising in itself, what’s gotten the public’s attention is the man’s job.

The individual, called ‘A’ by the Korean media, is reported to be a 53 year old government employee in Yeonsugu, Incheon.

‘A’ is being charged with uploading the composite photos (made with Girls’ Generation dressed in hanbok and pictures of nude females) in December of 2011 during his work hours on an internet cafe site.

‘A’ admitted that although he had uploaded the photos, he had not created the photos. The police stated, “He stated that the photos were not created by him, and all he did was upload them on the [internet] cafe site.”