MBC airs 'SMTOWN Live World Tour III' in Los Angeles

SM Entertainment’s ‘SMTOWN Live World Tour III’ recently kicked-off in Los Angeles on May 20 at the Honda Center in Anaheim with more than 12,000 local fans flocking to the K-pop event.

SM artists such as BoA, TVXQ, SHINee, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, f(x) and EXO performed one act after another, showcasing some of their greatest hits.

Earlier, MBC aired the ‘SMTOWN Live World Tour III’, showcasing all the great performances from the concert. Check the clips below!

Girls’ Generation featured in South Korea’s culture promotional guide

A new Korean culture promotional guide pamphlet featuring the ladies of Girls’ Generation has been produced.

Sungshin Women’s University professor Seo Kyung Duk who is a professional when it comes to promoting Korea has included Girls’ Generation in the English guide for foreign visitors. The pamphlet provides details on the Korean alphabet, traditional Korean dishes, Korea’s traditional hanbok, and more.

Professor Seo remarked, “Because K-POP is currently becoming a world-wide phenomenon, I thought something that could introduce Korea’s culture along with it was needed. We then began planning a guide that could be shared everywhere in the world.”

“We included Girls’ Generation in the guide as they currently represent South Korean cultural content,” Seo continued. “The guides are created with environmental-friendly quality paper and designed as something that people will not take one look and do away with, but rather continue to keep with them.”

Girls’ Generation’s agency SM Entertainment remarked, “Now that Girls’ Generation has participated ina guide pamphlet to promote Korean culture, we will work to widely spread more awareness of our culture.”

The guides will be distributed starting next week at the Expo 2012 Yeosu to 50,000 foreign visitors. 30,000 more copies will be distributed in London where the 2012 London Olympics will be held, as well as 20,000 to prestigious universities of the world.

SM Entertainment’s 2nd generation idols achieve great album sales numbers

SM Entertainment‘s second generation idols have achieved an album sales volume “all-kill”.

A post titled ‘2nd generation idols’ music sales‘ was shared on an online community site, and has been gathering much interest recently. While the big names of the first generation K-Pop idols are usually listed as H.O.T, Sechs Kies, g.o.d, Shinhwa, S.E.S, and Fin.K.L, the big names among the second generation idols who have also become Hallyu stars tend to include TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, and Big Bang. This post listed the second generation of idols who have truly acquired great success and income.

SM Entertainment idols have particularly proven that they have taken some of the top spots in the K-Pop industry. According to the post, when it comes to second generation idols and their album sales, TVXQ takes first place overall with their fourth album ‘MIROTIC’ which sold a total of 600,857 copies. Following behind TVXQ is fellow labelmate Super Junior who sold 502,830 copies of their album‘Mr. Simple’. In third place is TVXQ once again with 458,686 copies sold of their third formal album ‘O-Jung. Ban. Hap’, and taking both fourth and fifth place is Girls’ Generation with 385,348 copies of ‘The Boys’ and 334,785 copies of ‘Oh!’.

Furthermore, TVXQ proved that they were truly the ‘Idol Kings’, occupying 9 total slots on the list (including JYJ album sales) of 16. And among the top 16 places, SM Entertainment artists such as TVXQ, Super Junior, and Girls’ Generation have seized 14 of them, achieving an SM “all-kill” on the list.

Netizens who have seen these numbers have commented, “Wow, SM has conquered [this chart],” “[This shows] TVXQ’s dignity,” “It looks like TVXQ is on a whole other level,” and, “My album should be somewhere in here.”

MBC airs ‘SMTOWN Live World Tour III’ in Los Angeles

Back in May, SM Entertainment held their ‘SMTOWN Live World Tour III‘ in Anaheim, California at the Honda Center. More than 12,000 fans attended the concert and it featured performances fromTVXQ, Super Junior, EXO, Girls’ Generation, f(x), SHINee, and BoA.

Earlier today, MBC aired the concert and the various performances. Check them out below and also check out our Relive it Article.

TVXQ

Keep Your Head Down

Rising Sun

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Super Junior

Super Man + Miinah

Oppa Oppa + Oops

Sorry Sorry + A-CHA

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Girls’ Generation

Talk

Gee

The Boys

Run Devil Run

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f(x)

Pinocchio

Oops with Super Junior

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BoA

Hurricane Venus

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SHINee

Love Like Oxygen

Sherlock

Lucifer

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EXO

Mama

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Ending SMTown Family – Hope

Girls’ Generation votes for member Hyoyeon on ‘Dancing With The Stars’ nullified

The votes that the Girls’ Generation members have been placing in support of member Hyoyeon have all been unfortunately nullified.

Girls’ Generation’s Sooyoung recently visited fellow member Hyoyeon who was busying rehearsing for her final performance on MBC‘s ‘Dancing With The Stars 2‘. Sooyoung remarked that the girls have been texting in their votes week after week to show their support.

However, the votes that the ladies have texted in up until now have all been unfortunately nullified. The girls were to only text in Hyoyeon’s name and participant number, but they also included emoticons and personal messages, causing their votes to become invalid.

Although Hyoyeon expressed her gratitude for the members’ support, the singer displayed her strong desire to win by saying, “Please just text in my name next time.”

Meanwhile, anticipation is consistently rising for the final broadcast of MBC’s ‘Dancing With The Stars 2′ scheduled to air July 20th.

Hyoyeon prepare for the final round of 'Dancing With The Stars II'

Hyoyeon has made her name shine, now known not only as “Girls’ Generation’s Hyoyeon”, but also as simply “Hyoyeon”. To prepare for her final performance on MBC’s ”Dancing With the Stars II” on July 20th, Hyoyeon was busy practicing with her partner, Kim Hyungsuk; her hair was tied tightly, beads of sweat dripping down. With her constantly rigorous schedule, her health was a concern, but she continued to smile and use all of her remaining strength to prepare for the finals.

“Because it’s the last time, I got a little greedy. I purposely requested lifts and other difficult skills that we haven’t done often. Because we don’t have a lot of time, I at least want to match the music well. As always, I get nervous 2-3 days before the competition.”

Since her trainee days, right behind SM Entertainment’s female singer BoA, Hyoyeon was a good dancer and was known as a “dancing queen”. As she is able to handle all kinds of dance genres, it was expected that she would be able to learn sports dance just as well. However, it wasn’t that easy. The movements are completely different from dances performed by singers, thus providing a challenge for Hyoyeon.

“Because this was my first time taking on sports dance, I learned the basics first. Simply bending and extending your knee was completely different from what I was used to. Because it is not a field that I specialize in, feelings of not wanting to fail are strong. And so I’ve been practicing a lot more compared to the beginning [of the show]. I was in the practice room until 5 AM the day of the semi-finals.”

After always going around as a group of nine members, Hyoyeon has spent the past three months alone. She stated, “At first, the members’ absence felt large. I had confidence in teamwork, but didn’t know about partnerships well, so I had a little trouble. I was also shy of the skinship with Hyungsuk. Because I was like that, Hyungsuk was even more shy. So I thought of it as acting and watched a lot of videos. After that, the touching felt comfortable.” She added, “It’s a relief it didn’t overlap with group promotions. If it did… whew! Overseas schedules were the most difficult. When we go out [of the country] once, I’m absent for a long time.” She said that the hardest thing was that the flow of their partnership was cut when she went overseas.

Hyoyeon also discussed difficulties pertaining to her career as an entertainer. Since there are a lot of members in Girls’ Generation, there are times when Hyoyeon gets less attention compared to others. However, Hyoyeon has received her spotlight through “Dancing With The Stars II”. She has succeeded in capturing the attention of not only young fans, but also housewives who view the show at the late hour it broadcasts. Hyoyeon agreed with these observations about her now broader fan-base.

“I don’t feel down about not shining as much, being overshadowed by my other members. While I do appear on ‘Invincible Youth 2′ and other variety shows, since this program isn’t just to deliver laughter, but instead requires you to win based on skills, my posture changed. If I do win, I think I’d be deeply touched.” Her eyes got watery while saying, “Of course I was happy receiving awards as a Girls’ Generation member, but if I was to reach the greatest spot with my name, ‘Hyoyeon’…”

After her last match with Choi Yeonjin, the winner will finally be chosen.

“I don’t feel any greed towards winning. I don’t know if it’s because Yeojin-unnie has danced before, but her [body] line is really pretty when she dances. Still, if I don’t win, I guess I would feel disappointed, down, and sad? And, so I don’t feel sad, I really worked hard.”

“I’ve honestly been hearing a lot of compliments while appearing on ‘Dancing With The Stars II’. Because I’m receiving compliments, I’ve been wanting to do sports dance even more. I even thought, ‘Should I enter a competition?’ Haha! I’m really enjoying this moment.”

Sooyoung's Drama 'The 3rd Hospital' to Be aired on September 5th

tvN revealed the airing date of “The 3rd Hospital”.

Girls' Generation's Sooyoung is cast on “The 3rd Hospital” which is scheduled to be aired on the 5th of September.

The drama will be watched every Wednesday and Thursday at 11PM (KST). Sooyoung will portray the role of one of the main casts of the drama.