Girls’ Generation Donates 8 Tons of Rice to Help the Needy

Girls’ Generation is donating eight tons of rice to help those who are in need.

It was revealed by Seoul Gangnam (a district in Seoul) that through rice donations by Girls’ Generation on December 5th, 66,400 people in need will be able to receive a warm meal.

The rice that was donated this time was from the rice that was delivered to Girls’ Generation members at various press conferences as support by fans. 3 tons from Yoona’s “Love Rain” press conference, 3 tons from Sunny’s musical “Catch Me If You Can”, 1.46 tons from Tiffany’s musical “Fame”, and 540kg of rice from Sooyoung’s “The 3rd Hospital” was received from fans.

The rice will be used preciously to be distributed to underfed children, elders without families, and severely disabled people, amongst others.

A source at Gangnam-gu stated, “I want to thank Girls’ Generation and their fans for extending a warmhearted hand to those in need.”

Girls’ Generation Nominated for ’2012 World Music Awards’ and ’2012 SBS MTV Best of the Best’

Girls’ Generation has been nominated for “World’s Best Group” at the “2012 World Music Awards”, taking place on December 20th at Marlins Park Stadium in Miami, Florida. The “2012 World Music Awards” is famously set to enter the “Guiness Book of World Records” as the biggest live music awards show ever going live to the most countries, with more than a billion viewers seeing this live three hour event.

The “World Music Awards”, an international award show founded in 1989, annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales data provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). This year, Girls’ Generation is up for the award of “World’s Best Group” among 41 other artists, including fellow K-Pop acts Big Bang and Wonder Girls. Online voting is currently opened on the official “World Music Awards” website. Fans can vote once per day.

Also, Girls’ Generation – TTS and Jessica are both nominated for three different categories at the “2012 SBS MTV Best of the Best’”. Girls’ Generation – TTS is nominated for both “Best Global” in the “Best Music Video” category and “Artist of the Year” in the “Best Live” category. Jessica is nominated for “Best Cameo” for her appearance in SHINee’s “Sherlock” under the “Best Music Video” category. Voting is available online at the official SBS MTV website. Fans can vote for each category once per hour.

Girls’ Generation Fans Commemorate Yuri’s Birthday with a Poem and Newspaper Advertisement!

In honor of Yuri’s birthday on December 5th, fans of Girls’ Generation placed a poem in a newspaper advertisement. Pictured above, the poem reads:

A lovely and beautiful figure

more brilliant than the color of a pearl.

A pure and mysterious smile

that even wakes sleeping souls.

We pray for you

with undying passion

and unchanging hearts.

We really love you.

Happy Birthday

♥ Yuri ♥

We wish Girls’ Generation’s Yuri a happy 24th birthday ^0^

Look back at any time. ♥

We’ll be there. ♥

We are happy SONEs who cheer for Girls’ Generation whenever/wherever.

[Black Pearl] You’re so beautiful, but if you dazzle too, we can’t look at you…

Fans also took to Twitter to express their well-wishes for Yuri’s birthday, trending “#TodayIsYuriDay”, “Happy Birthday Kwon Yuri”, and “#권유리생일축하해” (editor’s note: this translates to “Happy Birthday Kwon Yuri”) on the worldwide trends.

Girls’ Generation releases limited edition candle for their perfume ‘GIRL’

Girls’ Generation will release a limited edition candle.

The candle is a collaboration between Girls’ Generation’s perfume ‘GIRL‘ and ‘1st Look‘ magazine. The candle is priced at over 40,000 KRW (approximately $37 USD). The scent of the candle was created byGerard Anthony, who made the product with Girls’ Generation as the inspiration.

GIRL 1 Lily Magnolia is said to be a clean, sophisticated scent with white lilies and magnolia, the GIRL 4 Wisteria is a sweet scent from the wisteria tree, and the GIRL 7 Delphinium is a romantic scent with delphinium as the base.

The candles will go on sale through the ‘1st Look‘ market as well as online stores.

Girls' Generation releases "Girl De Provence" perfume CF

The nine goddesses of Girls' Generation release the latest CF for "Girl De Provence" perfume,check out the promotional video below

Sooyoung’s sister reveals the ‘Girls’ Generation Diet’ is fake

Sooyoung‘s older sister revealed that the ‘Girls’ Generation Diet‘ was fake.

Choi Soo Jin, the older sister of Sooyoung and a well known musical actress, was a guest on the December 2nd episode of ‘1000 Song Challenge‘. On the show, she said, “I really wanted to say this. The Girls’ Generation members eat a lot. On the internet, the ‘Girls’ Generation Diet’ was a big issue, but that’s all lies.”

When MC Jang Yoon Jung asked, “Does that mean they don’t gain weight even if they eat a lot?“, Choi Soo Jin answered, “They eat a lot, but I think they don’t gain weight because they have so many activities.“.

Viewers commented, “I’m jealous…“, and “Well, it was sort of unrealistic for them to eat just that and have so many activities at the same time“.

SooYoung's sister reveals, "SNSD members eat a lot"

Sooyoung's sister, actress Choi SooJin, talked about SNSD members.

On December 2nd episode of SBS TV’s Challenge! 1000 Songs, she reveals, "SNSD members eat a lot.”

Host JangYoon then asked, "You're trying to say that they are skinny even though they eat a lot?"

She responded, "They eat a lot and work a lot as well. The menu of their diet revealed in public actually isn't the members' actual menu."

On this, netizens commented, "They need to eat a lot because they are busy people.","They eat a lot but still lovely." It's good to know that they eat a lot." etc.