SNSD’s YoonA wishes you a ‘Green Christmas’ from Innisfree

SNSD‘s YoonA is endorsing Innisfree‘s ‘Green Christmas‘ campaign, a charity effort aiming to help the ‘Save the Children‘ organization.

YoonA’s Innisfree CF was unveiled today, which tackled a “flashmob” concept in a store. Customers were caught unawares when YoonA stepped out of a giant gift box, singing “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” along with staff and other guests.

In this ‘Green Christmas’ campaign, Innisfree will donate 500 won from every ‘Green Christmas’ product sold, as well as a pair of socks. As Yoona states at the end of the commercial, “Your special Christmas will be someone’s warm Christmas, Green Christmas!”

Check out the full commercial below:

‘Innisfree’ unveils two new CFs featuring SNSD’s YoonA

Korean cosmetics brand ‘Innisfree’ recently unveiled two new CFs from their newest skin care products featuring their main endorsement model, SNSD’s YoonA.

The two CFs advertise two of their newest products, the volcanic mineral facial mask and toner. In both of the 30-second advertisements, YoonA can be seen neatly explaining how to use the products, all the while showing off her own glowing, flawless skin.

Check out the cute CFs down below!

SNSD’s YoonA promotes the use of eco-friendly handkerchiefs for ‘Innisfree’

Cosmetics brand ‘Innisfree‘ has come up with a special eco-friendly handkerchief that’s being promoted by their endorsement model, SNSD’s YoonA.

Named as the “YoonA’s Jeju Handkerchief“, the item marks YoonA’s second year in the campaign. She said, “As the model for ‘Innisfree’, I made frequent visits to Jeju Island and learned so many new things about the island. I was captivated by its natural beauty and take pride in how clean and beautiful it is. These thoughts made me determined to protect its natural environment.”

She continued, “I hope to influence people to use handkerchiefs instead of using tissues. Little actions like these go a long way in protecting our environment and keeping it clean and beautiful.”

For 1 month, the handkerchief will be included for customers purchasing over $100 USD worth of items in any ‘Innisfree’ store. Customers will also be able to win an autographed handkerchief from YoonA herself.

“Innisfree” will be releasing a limited edition version of their best-selling item, the “Green Tea Seed Serum”, of which 10% of the profits will go to towards “Jejuolle” in donations.

SNSD & SHINee to perform at 2011 MTV VMA Japan

The 2011 VMAJ is scheduled to be held on June 25th at Makuhari Messe and it’s been announced that Korean groups SNSD and SHINee will be performing at the event which will be hosted by famous JPOP group, AKB48. In addition, famous global icon, LADY GAGA will also be performing at the event.

This year the 2011 VMAJ (usually called Video Music Awards Japan) takes on a new meaning as the show has been labeled Video Music Aid Japan this year. MTV Japan is working closely with the Japanese Red Cross in donating 10 yen for every vote cast towards the Great Tohoku Earthquake disaster relief.

Source: mtvjapan

TVXQ thanks BoA, SNSD, and SHINee in their “Thanks To”

TVXQ finally unveiled their first album in two years and three months on January 5th, and they left meaningful messages of gratitude towards their fellow SM artists for their constant support during their public absence.

Yunho wrote, “Kangta hyung and Min Jong hyung, who always kindly teaches me even the minor things, the know-it-all but humane BoA, the Super Junior members who own every kind of charm, the vocally talented CSJH The Grace members, the most moral men, TRAX, cute mascots SNSD, pretty Ara and Yeon Hee, awesome actor Jong Yoon Hyung, SHINee, who are no different to my younger brothers, maknae f(x), thank you all for giving me strength and supporting me.”

Changmin wrote, “To our company who sent us applauses of encouragement, and to all of our awesome, pretty, talented and kind seniors and juniors, thank you all! The most handsome man in the universe, Lee Jinki ^^ Fishing King Kim Jong Hyun ^^ Key Kibum or KeyBum, Choi Minho, who overflows with richness like a son from a rich middle-east oil company family ^^, Prince Taemin, who owns everything a man needs, and all the other hoobaes, thank you.”

Meanwhile, TVXQ are set to make their official comeback on KBS Music Bank on January 7th.

Source: Seoul Newspaper via Daum Media

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U-Know Yunho

“Super Junior, charming men who have diverse colors.”

Max Changmin

“Teuki Teuki Leeteuk hyung who thankfully came the music video filming set alone and cheered for us.
Heechul hyung who other people see as unusual. But if you get to know him, he’s someone who’s really a warm abnormal human.
Top star Cho Kyuhyun, my friend who has to have a dance battle with me someday^^
Kim Ryeowook, a luxury cold city man and a heavy drinker from Incheon^^
My friend Kim Kibum”

Source: sup3rJunior.wordpress.com

SHINee’s Minho and SNSD Yuri’s “kiss” scene revealed!

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As reported earlier, SNSD’s Yuri and SHINee’s Minho participated in the recording of KBS 2TV’s ‘100 Points out of 100′, where they reenacted a kiss scene from the musical ‘Grease‘, as a way to learn how to express a wider variety of emotions on camera.

Many of you have been waiting for the “kiss” scene, and it’s finally here!

We don’t want to spoil anything, so just check out the cut below, and tell us what you think!

SNSD’s Jessica expresses her affection for SHINee’s Onew

SNSD’s Jessica expressed her affection for SHINee’s Onew on the November 28th episode of KBS 2TV’s “Nocturnal Variety.”

Fellow member Hyoyeon first began talking about Onew in comparison to the traits of her ideal man, by stating that he fit only two of her three desired traits, the third being humor.

Jessica retorted, “Onew is so nice and caring. It doesn’t matter if he’s not humorous because I’m not humorous either,” showing her affectionate feelings for him.

She continued, “Onew and I sang a duet song together once. I like people that sing well, and Onew sings well and has a nice voice.”

The two then went on to sing their duet song on the spot, leading MC Shin Dong Yeob to comment, “Jessica never took her eyes off of Onew the entire time they were singing.”

Jessica gave her characteristically chic reply, “Well, I see him every day so of course I stare at him while singing.”

Source + Photos: Newsen

Chinese fans caught stealing social security numbers to vote for idol groups online

It has come to the attention of Korean netizens that some Chinese fans may be stealing the social security numbers of ordinary Korean citizens in order to vote online for their favorite idol groups in this year’s ‘Melon Music Awards.‘

These netizens recently took screencaps of posts on the Chinese music community site ‘Baidu‘, which contained information and tutorials on how to vote for singers for the ‘Melon Music Awards’, as well as for Korean music programs like ‘Inkigayo.‘ Shockingly, the methods they provided involved illegally using Social Security Numbers of Korean citizens. On top of that, overseas fans have also been using the social security numbers to download music on Korean music sites and buy mobile phone ringtones.

Netizens also noticed that from Super Junior’s voting statistics for the ‘Melon Music Awards’,  57% of the 28,720 votes for the group were from citizens over 40 years of age, which is an extremely unusual occurence, considering how group is mostly popular amongst fans in their teens and 20’s. Voting statistics for the remaining three groups in the top 4 for the ‘online voting’ category – SNSD, SHINee and Jo Kwon & Ga-In – also have 16-19% of the voters being over 40 years of age.

Posts on the Baidu community site also exhibit users posting screencaps of pop-up windows that appear when they tried to use the stolen social security numbers, asking other users what it meant. The pop-up box was in fact a message from the Identity Theft Prevention Service stating that the social security has been blocked due to suspicions of identity theft.

According to the Population Registration Act Article 37, illegally stealing a social security number is a criminal act that carries a penalty of 3 years of imprisonment and a $8,700 USD fine.

Source: Daily Economy
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Winners at the 8th Korean Film Awards

The 8th Korean Film Awards took place on November 18th at the Sejong Center.

Stars who walked the red carpet include SHINee’s Onew, Song Chang Il, Seo Ji Hye, Nam Bora, Song Yun Ah, Gong Hyo Jin, Seo Young Hee, Seo Woo, Jo Yeo Jung, Lee Yo Won, Choi Daniel, Lee Sun Gyun, Kim Sae Ron, Won Bin, Park Shin Hye, and more.

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After much controversy the last time they performed at a film awards ceremony, the SNSD girls were back on stage again and they were without Tiffany as she is laid low with injury. The girls performed ‘Hoot‘ and ‘Genie‘, with the actors giving excellent reactions when the cameras panned to them.

Watch out for a surprise cameo by actress, Song Yun Ah.

List of Winners (Major)
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Best Film – Poetry
Best Screenplay – Poetry
Best Director – Lee Chang Dong (Poetry)

Best Actor – Won Bin (The Man from Nowhere)
Best Actress – Seo Young Hee (Bedevilled)

Best Supporting Actor – Yu Hae Jin (Moss)
Best Supporting Actress – Yun Yeo Jeong (The Housemaid)

Best Male Rookie – Song Sae Byeok (The Servant)
Best Female Rookie – Kim Sae Ron (The Man From Nowhere)

The awards ceremony broadcast was delayed, after the broadcaster chose to show the men 1,500m freestyle swimming final in which national swimmer, Park Tae Hwan, was partaking, and won the silver medal. The rating for the swimming event was 34.8%, so it seems like they made a good decision.

Park also anchored the relay team in the last race of the swimming competition, as the Koreans won the silver medal in the 4×100 men’s individual medley relay in a dramatic finish.

Super Junior is the most popular Korean Idol in which South American country?

With K-pop quickly spreading in popularity across the globe, the Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange is conducting various surveys and researching Hallyu trends in foreign countries. Recently, this organization conducted a Top 10 most popular Korean artist survey in a South American country. Which country was it?The country is none other than Brazil, which is the world’s fifth largest country and where football (soccer) reigns supreme. The survey polled 2,826 young Brazilians who enjoy Korean music and Super Junior reigned supreme with a total of 2,137 votes.

Top 10:
1. Super Junior 2137 votes
2. SHINee 1507 votes
3. Big Bang 1471 votes
4. BoA 1351 votes
5. SNSD 1310 votes
6. 2NE1 1090 votes
7. 2PM 1027 votes
8. 4minute 978 votes
9. f(x) 959 votes
10. Wonder Girls 887 votes

In addition to Brazil, youtube viewing statistics show that Super Junior has many views from countries such as France, Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Canada, and Sweden.

Source + Photo: TVDaily
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