SNSD Towns: 07/19/12

Thursday, 19 July 2012

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Singer Seo In Guk recently explained the rumors he has a relationship with SNSD’s Yoona.

On the episode of tvN’s Taxi that aired on July 19 at 9:00 p.m., Seo In Guk opened up about the rumors of a relationship with the K-pop superstar. The singer said, “The following day of a baseball game we were spotted together, I received a text message from Yoona, saying ‘Rumors about us are everywhere.’”

The K-pop singer explained, “I went to see a baseball match with my friend, where Yoona appeared on the huge screen of the baseball park. I just called her and we met at a VIP lounge for a small chat.”

Seo In Guk and SNSD’s Yoona were spotted having a chat during a baseball match of Doosan vs. Samsung in the 2012 Korea Baseball League, which was held at Jamsil Baseball Stadium. The two singers look quite friendly and the rumors that they are in a relationship started to spread.

Immediately, Seo was forced to explain the rumors by SNSD’s fans.

The singer said he had been really embarrassed. “The following day of the baseball match, I realized something was going wrong. A writing on the web said, ‘How dare you go out with Yoona.’”

Reportedly, Soe and Yoona became close while shooting KBS2’s Love Rain that came to an end this May.

Credits:

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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 in a 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.

Source & Image : Newsen via Nate
Translated by allkpop.com

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 Yeojin, 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.”

Source: dongA.com
Translated by: ch0sshi@soshified

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