Girls' Generation's American Promotions Make News Around the World!

Girls’ Generation’s promotions this past week in the United States have been making headlines outside of America. Several news channels around the world talked briefly about their appearances on American television and the subsequent interviews they participated in.

“La Sexta”, a Spanish news channel, aired several clips of Girls’ Generation, including their performances and interviews in New York, clips from music videos, and even a short clip on their visit to a Korean army base. According to mrotaik@twitter, the news clip mentioned that this is the first time a South Korean group has been seen on a Spanish music chart. The news clip can be seen below.

Girls’ Generation was also featured on Malaysian news channel “NTV7″, Ukrainian news channel “News One Channel”, and on the French television show “Morandini”, all three covering their promotions in New York. The videos can be found below.

Japan’s “TBS News” traveled to New York and attended the short press conference held by Girls’ Generation. During the press conference, the girls were asked a variety of questions including, “What is Girls’ Generation’s objective?” Laughter broke out among those attending the press conference as Tiffany wittily answered, “World domination. Just kidding.”

“Global Generation” is underway as news channels around the world are shifting their focus onto Girls’ Generation.

“危险少年”允儿：SUNNY威胁要推我下楼梯！

Girls' Generation spent meaningful time with fans at Union Square New York!

Yoona confesses "Sunny threatened to push me down the stairs!"

Girls’ Generation member Yoona spoke out about an incident where Sunny threatened to hurt her after a playful tease went overboard.

During the recent recording of JTBC’s ‘SNSD and the Dangerous Boys’, the Girls’ Generation members and the boys took to court the incident where an argument broke out in the boys’ dorm involving Kim Hwehoon and Park Kyungkyu. Yoona, who was also present at this hearing, unexpectedly revealed incidents that had happened within their group in order to support the boys’ case.

Yoona confessed to have gotten into trouble with some of her group members due to her playfulness and pranks going overboard by adding, “I have also been punished due to my prank on the members.”.

She spoke out about this one incident where they were all in the waiting room at a music program and because they were all tired most of the members had fallen asleep. But Yoona, being the playful type that she is, picked the wrong time to start throwing her aegyo to her unnies, and after a while when she didn’t stop, Yoona finally hit Sunny’s last nerve. Sunny had then exploded at Yoona threatening her that she will ‘seriously push her down the stairs’.

Surprised at Yoona’s sudden confession, Sunny rebutted that she wasn’t the only one, and spoke out that Yuri had also gotten angry at Yoona and was saying bad things that time as well. Hearing this, Yuri pretended she didn’t know anything which made Sunny lost for words in a difficult position.

Yoona also revealed that, although Seohyun doesn’t play any pranks on the other members, she does tend to say things straight to your face. For example, when the members go eat fast food, Seohyun would tell them, “If you eat a lot of fast food, you’re going to die”.

The court trial about the playful argument between Kim Hwehoon and Park Kyungkyu, and Yoona’s confession about Girls’ Generation members will all be revealed on February 5th at 7.30pm on JTBC’s ‘SNSD and the Dangerous Boys’.

Yoona, Jessica and Sooyoung Japanese Official Fanclub Q & A Part 2!

Check out the Question and Answer below.

Yoona

Q: If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?

A: I'd want to go to a theme park. (laughs)

Q: Besides being a singer, do you have a job that you'd like to try out?

A: A cook or ballerina.

Q: Please tell me the secret to maintain beautiful skin!!

A: After cleansing the skin dries out so put on a lot of moisterizer. (laughs) Also use a face mask. ^^

Q: To Yoona, who likes to take pictures of the sky, do you have a sky you want to take a picture of next? (country, place etc?)

A: Since there are plenty of wonderful skies that match the atmosphere of the country, anywhere would be great. ^^

Q: If all of a sudden you had tomorrow off, how would you spend the day?

A: Hair, skin, and nails, I'd want to take care of everything! (laughs) Then I'd relax around the house. (laughs)

Sooyoung

Q: Even though I'm a 1st year middle school student I'm 173cm tall. Sooyoung, are there times when you're happy that you're tall?

A: When I don't have to adjust the length of my pants I'm happy. (laughs)

Q: What do you do when you're tired or have no energy?

A: I take a half body bath and eat delicious food. I think the joy of eating is the best!

Q: Sooyoung are you an outdoor type or indoor type?

A: Indoor type~ I like to listen to music and read books at home, heehee.♪

Q: Is there an exercise you do everyday without fail??

A: Hmm...I do breathing exercises. Hahaha!!

Q: Please recommend a place where you definitely want me to visit if I go to Korea.

A: A mountain in Seoul called Namsan! On a day with good weather, you'll feel better when you walk and climb it.

Jessica

Q: Why is your hair so pretty? （´；ω；｀）

A: I take care of it using treatments at times. ＾＾

Q: Jessica, who can't seem to cook... Do you have a specialty dish （＾＾）?

A: Not really (laughs)

Q: When you talk to Tiffany, do you guys talk in English?

A: Not always, but sometimes we use English!

Q: Do you meet with Krystal sometimes?

A: Of course I try to meet her everyday~ She's my cute sister after all♪

Q: Sica unnie's casual clothes are always trendy and I love it, so do you have an autumn/winter concept this year? （＊＾＾＊）

A: I always try to coordinate and wear comfortable clothes.

Massive fan turnout for Girls’ Generation’s Best Buy event results in store shutdown

Girls’ Generation have once again proven their popularity, this time by shutting down an entire store because of their U.S. fan meeting.

The fan meeting, which was held at Best Buy in NYC’s Union Square on February 2nd, drew around 1,300 fans, causing the surrounding area to fall into confusion. The crowd was so huge that the NYPD were called in and concerns for safety resulted in the store getting shut down.

According to the group’s agency, SM Entertainment, a Best Buy official was quoted as saying, “This is the first time we had to shut down the store for safety reasons since Lady Gaga“.

In related news, Girls’ Generation made their U.S. network TV debut through performances on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman‘ and ‘Live! With Kelly‘. The girl group will continue their American promotional blitz with a ‘meet and greet’ event, held with promoters, broadcasters, and famous DJs.

Sunny throws a surprise birthday party for Dynamic Duo’s Gaeko

Girls’ Generation member Sunny threw a birthday party for Dynamic Duo member Gaeko with her own money.

During the filming for the episode of jTBC ‘Girls’ Generation and Dangerous Teens‘ that’s scheduled to air February 5th, Sunny arranged for her mentee Kim Sung Hwan to meet with hip hop artist Dynamic Duo.

Coincidentally, the day they met was January 14th, which also happened to be Gaeko’s birthday. Sunny left the set for a moment and returned with a cake, surprising Gaeko.

Sunny admitted that she had bought the cake with her own money, and Gaeko was further moved by her thoughtfulness.

“Today is a rare day. Girls’ Generation spent their own money to buy me a cake,” he said happily, thanking Sunny.

Gaeko then bragged one more time via his Twitter page later writing, “Girls’ Generation member Sunny used her own money to buy me a cake.”

“I didn’t tell Soomi yet,” he playfully added, referring to his wife.

On the same episode, Dynamic Duo offered some good advice to aspiring hip hop musician Kim Sung Hwan, guiding him on the kind of music to listen to and study.