J.Estina is apparently benefiting a lot from Girls’ Generation’s endorsement as proven by the special store opening event on November 5th at Lotte Mall, where Girls’ Generation autographed bags were sold out within ten minutes.

The bags, which were chosen by the members of Girls’ Generation, attracted a lot of attention since J.Estina started advertising and promoting them. The bags, known according to the members’ choices such as “Yoona’s backpack” and “Taeyeon’s backpack”, are popular among customers from students to adults. It is even known that people pre-order those bags.

Song Ji-won from J.Estina’s marketing department stated, “Many J.Estina customers and Girls’ Generation fans came into the store and bought the autographed bags immediately the moment our store in Lotte Mall opened. We want to share this opportunity with more people, thus we prepared another event with a bag chosen by all nine members together.”

This special promotion will take place on November 19th at 10.30am at the J.Estina handbag store in Lotte Mall’s Jamsil store.

Credit: newsprime.co.kr
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On November 15th, part 2 of ‘Strong Heart’s Talk Selection Contest’ was aired. Girls’ Generation’s Yoona, Tiffany, Taeyeon and Yuri appeared as guests and they showed off their talking skills once again.

As the topic shifted to blood types, Yoona talked about her losing temper at a stalker outside their dorm, revealing her hot temper as a B-type person.

After touching on the previously discussed ‘Jessica’s stalker incident’, Yoona continued, “I’ve also met the man who peeped around in front of our dorm. As I saw him going up through the staircase while I took the lift, I lost my temper immediately, shut the door of our dorm and kept staring at the direction of the staircase.”

Finally, Yoona witnessed the man peeking silently and shouted at him before signaling for the man to go to her. Yoona continued explaining, “Because I suddenly lost my temper, I asked the man if he lived here, then told him that he should not be doing that (trespassing).”

Yoona then said, “However, after knowing more, he turned out to be a very nice fan of us so I wasn’t angry anymore.”

Besides that, Yoona also told the story of her becoming ‘Torn Yoona’.

Yoona said, “We had special stages during the Japan SMTown concert a few months ago. There was a dance step where I was required to collapse onto the floor with hands stretched and stand up again. The moment I sat down, there was a weird sound. Although I felt something weird, I could not check anything. So I started dancing cautiously.”

Yoona continued, “I was afraid that photos were taken, so I went to search for them. Fortunately, no photo caught the moment. I’m worried that as I said this, people who have the photos will upload it. I sincerely hope that people will not do it.”

Funnily, after hearing Yoona’s story, Yuri confessed that she also danced cautiously as she thought the same would happen to hers, making the studio burst into laughter.

Taeyeon also confessed, “I once had my stage costume torn at the side and the clothes stuck to the body as I perspired a lot. As I covered the area with my hand and continued singing, I couldn’t bear with it and said ‘Help me!’ into the mic.”

Credit: hankyung.com + news.mt.co.kr
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Girls’ Generation and actor Lee ByungHun are among the big names acknowledged for their huge contributions to the development of Korean pop culture and arts.

On November 15th, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism had announced the names of the recipients for ’2011 Korea Republic Pop Culture and Arts Awards’.

The recipients of this year’s Culture Awards are Shin YoungGyoon, Lee SooMan, Ha ChoonHwa, Shin JoongHyun, Yoo Ho and Oh SeungRyong.

Girls’ Generation who is the main driving force behind the Hallyu fever, received their well-deserved recognition when the girls were announced as one of the recipients of the Prime Minister’s Award.

Meanwhile, actor Jang GeunSuk, Beast, After School, CN Blue, ZE:A and Kim ByungMan will be receiving the Minister of Culture’s Award.

Lee ByungHun, Park JinYoung Yang HyunSuk and Kim GunMo on the other hand, are announced as the winners of the President’s Award.

The award ceremony which will take place at 6pm on November 21st in Olympic Hall, Jamsil, Seoul will be graced with performances from Girls’ Generation, Wonder Girls, Beast, After School and Taeyang.

Credit: eto.co.kr

 
jTBC, Korea's general service channel has announced on the 15th of November that SNSD's Real Variety Show, tentatively titled as 'Girls' Generation' is currently in the production process.

The show will revolve around the members of SNSD with  the possibility of having guests as well and though the channel and the exact broadcast date hasn't been finalized yet, they have revealed that the show will be aired every Sunday and will run for seventy minutes from 7:30PM to 9:10 PM KST.

The show will be directed by KBS PD Yoon Hyun Jun who also directed the variety/talk show, 'Win Win'.

Edit: jTBC has corrected that its not a talk show but a Real Variety Show and their first filming day would be on the 20th of November.

Credits:
Starin.edaily 

 
Girls’ Generation’s Jessica has caught the attention of many for being kind towards fans.

On the 14th of November, Jessica was at the airport in a dark grey shirt with a cardigan and jeans, and her casual outfit showed that she is as human as everyone else. However, what fans have been praising her for is that when fans recognised and surrounded her with cameras, Jessica did not get irritated, but responded by smiling and taking photos with them. In the photos, she held up a peace sign naturally and smiled, making her all the more lovable.

After photos of her kind gesture started circulating on various online communities, Netizens have been praising her by saying, “She’s as kind as she is pretty.” Other comments included, “Jessica’s manners are the best!”, “I thought she was an ice princess but she seems so friendly with the fans.” and “She shines even with those clothes. I’m so envious.”

Jessica is definitely ridding her image of “Ice Princess” and replacing it with a warm hearted, “Kind Princess.”

Source: http://news.nate.com
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This is an exclusive Recap of SNSD's Performance in SM TOWN LIVE in Tokyo Special Edition, this performance was aired on WOWOW on 13 Novemeber 2011. Let's take a look at their performance. There is also a dance battle which is the 4th video.
Dance Battle
 
Girls’ Generation earns a triple crown on SBS Inkigayo on November 13.

Due to the absence of SBS Inkigayo last week on November 6, the awarding of the Mutizen Song award was delayed to this week and during the first few minutes of the show, Girls’ Generation was awarded with last week’s Mutizen Song award. Taeyeon, Sunny, Hyoyeon, Yoona, and Seohyun appeared for the award presentation and surprised the fans by wearing suits.

A pre-recorded performance of “The Boys” was broadcasted near the end of the show. The nine girls were unable to record their performance live because of the 2011 K-Pop Music Festival in Sydney, Australia on November 12. For this performance, Girls’ Generation performed in suits, emphasizing their strong feel for “The Boys”. During Tiffany’s line, she grabbed her tie and that gave a strong impression to the fans, leaving them entranced with her strong stage presence.

After the performances for the day ended, the show proceeded with the announcement for this week’s Mutizen Song. The winner for this award is none other than Girls’ Generation, securing all three triple crowns for “The Boys”. The five girls accepted the Mutizen trophy and expressed their gratefulness for this award. Unfortunately, today’s Inkigayo was cut short and the encore performance was not shown.

Girls’ Generation has also made another outstanding achievement today. Since Inkigayo switched to awarding Mutizen Song awards in 2003, Girls’ Generation has officially surpassed their previous record held by label-mate TVXQ with 20 awards. Congratulations!

 
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Korea Republic-Australia’s diplomatic relation, The ’2011 K-POP Music Festival in Sydney’ was successfully held at AZN Stadium on November 12th. The concert kicked off at 7pm (local time).

In front of more than 20,000 fans who came flocking to the venue, popular Kpop stars such as Girls’ Generation, TVXQ, Kara, SHINee, 2AM, CN Blue, Beast, 4minute, Sistar, Secret, Mblaq and miss A took the stage with their brilliant and amazing performances.

There were also special performances by 4minute and miss A who performed Australia’s world-known popstar, Kylie Minogue’s ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’. CN Blue, Beast’s Yoseob and Mblaq’s G.O then thrilled the Australian Kpop fans with a special joint-performance.

2AM’s Jo Kwon and Changmin, 4minute’s GaYoon and Sistar’s Hyorin captivated the audience with their impressive vocals. The atmosphere was heated up further when Girls’ Generation and SHINee took the stage and rocked the stadium with their special dance performance.

6 hours before the start of the concert, local fans were seen singing and dancing in front of the AZN Stadium. A fan of Girls’ Generation, Susan (17 years old) said, “I became a fan of Girls’ Generation since 2 years ago and to be able to watch them performing live here in Sydney is just like a dream. I think I can never forget what I experienced and saw today”.

During the press conference which was held before the concert, Yuri said, “The fact that the 50th anniversary of Korea Republic-Australia’s diplomatic relation concert is to be held at the same venue which hosted the 2000 Sydney Olympic made this event even more meaningful. We wish that through this concert, there will be even more exchanges between Korea Republic and Australia”.

Meanwhile, the very first concert in Down Under, ’2011 K-POP Music Fest in Sydney’ will be aired through MBC on December 3rd.

Credit: tvdaily.co.kr

 
In the November 12th episode of Star King, a wooden doll ‘Kkeo-Beong-i’, a nerdy boy in a famous children comic in Korea, drew a fine portrait of Sunny.

Refusing to admit defeat to a doll, Jessica challenged the doll through a drawing competition.

While Jessica was drawing her “masterpiece”, Sunny looked at her with a cute expression. However, Jessica produced an abstract and weird-looking portrait, which causes the studio to explode in laughter.

In response to that, Jessica said regretfully, “I’m sorry, Sunny-ya. I always scored zero for arts.”

As shown in the photo above, the portrait drawn by Jessica looked like a ridiculous yet funny comic character with big nose and nostrils, thick lips and sharp-pointed hands.

In response to this, netizens commented, “There’s a reason for everything”, “What is this? It’s really funny”, “Jessica and Sunny are both cute”, etc.

Credit: reviewstar.hankooki.com + [email protected]
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The much anticipated pilot episode of KBS' Invincible Youth Season 2 is finally here!

It has just aired tonight and though without subs I'm sure everyone will get to enjoy it because of G8's charm.

Youtube Links:
PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5
PART 6 | PART 7 | PART 8 | PART 9 | PART 10



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