On May 14th, the Hangul Smart Domain Organization announced that Girls’ Generation took first place in a poll to decide which girl groups would receive a Hangul Smart Domain, coming on top of nine other popular K-Pop girl groups. Kara and Wonder Girls were in second and third place, respectively. As a result, these three girl groups will be the first girl groups in the country to receive a Hangul Smart Domain.
Fans from all over the world participated in the poll, which began on May 3rd. The poll closed at midnight on May 11th, after 23,274 people had voted. During the voting period, only one vote per day was allowed for each IP address.
Girls’ Generation won 48.22% of the votes, thus winning first place. Right behind them was Kara with 30.17%, and Wonder Girls took third with 11.09%. All together, these three groups had 89% of the votes, thus verifying their immense popularity. The rest of the girl groups and their results were 4Minute (3.82% of the votes), Secret(2.01%), T-ara (1.92%), SISTAR (0.84%), miss A (0.69%), 2NE1 (0.66%), and After School (0.53%).
However, fans could express their opinions in other ways besides simply voting. On the polling site, fans discussed who would receive the first Hangul Smart Domain. Instead of slander and arguments, many of the 2,600 comments were messages supporting the singers. This surprising development showed the fans’ mature sides. In addition, these messages were left not only by Korean fans but international fans as well, thus confirming the impact of “Hallyu”.
Now that the winners have been determined, Girls’ Generation, Kara, and Wonder Girls will receive Hangul Smart Domains with the web addresses of “http://소녀시대.홈”, “http://카라.홈”, and “http://원더걸스.홈”, respectively. The fan clubs of these groups will also be able to use these domains at “http://소녀시대.팬”, “http://카라.팬”, and “http://원더걸스.팬”. Each address will be connected to the groups’ homepages as well as their fanclub sites.
Next, Hangul Smart Domain will be conducting a boy idol group popularity poll for the same purpose. TVXQ, SHINee, Super Junior, Big Bang, Busker Busker, CNBlue, FT Island, and Beast are some of the expected candidates.
The girl group’s voting results and the upcoming boy group poll can be found on the Hangul Smart Domain homepage.
Source: AsiaToday
Translated by: jyhwang@soshified
Edited by: moonrise31@soshified
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TVXQ,CNblue(goguma.. ^_^),super junior. just my opinion. XD
I hear people say that artists typically aren’t famous in their own country, but it’s amazing to see how the worldwide SONE’s all helped achieve this accomplishment!!!!
YAY GIRLS’ GENERATION!!!!! Although, I find it extremely shocking the low percentage of some of the other groups listed. Anyways, anyone have a link for the site? I had no idea voting was going on so now that I hear that there will be a poll for boy groups i would like to participate it that, at least :).
This is great news!!! :) Girls Generation is the best! I’m forever a Sone!
Just as the girls were very honored to receive a group name formed from their native tongue, they will be extremely proud that many out their believed them worthy of the first Hangul domain as well. This is yet another means of conveying the heartfelt appreciation we all have for the girls and everything they have done for us.
Congratulation my angels ^^
the power of wonsoka era or 2007 era prove that they’re still the best girl groups ever hehehehe
thx to wingscythe, now I understand what hangul smart domain is. LOL.. As usual, another achievement by SNSD. They are getting famous day by day.. Way to go SNSD.. Hoho..
love all the voting, but it does make me wonder about what the future internet will look like when even all domains will be segregated back into our home country languages. I hope universal translators will be ready by then.
wow!! daebak.as expexted from the goddess
SNSD daebak!!! Congratulation for getting 1st! I’m proud to be a Sone and also for the fans who have shown their mature side in the comment support all of the singer instead of having arguement. SNSD FiGhTiNg!!!!!!
i never heard of this thing before o3o but it sounds awesome xD so congrats soshi! 8D
Growing much more prouder ! SNSD Jjang!
Normally a domain would be having a URL in English, ie. http://www.google.com but a hangul smart domain is having the URL written in Korean http://(insert Korean words), hope that’s clear for sones
Many thanks for explaining this. The article failed to explain this very important point. I was reading totally confused as to what the heck was a hangul smart domain!
“Girls’ Generation, Kara, and Wonder Girls will receive Hangul Smart Domains with the web addresses of “http://소녀시대.홈”, “http://카라.홈”, and “http://원더걸스.홈”, respectively. The fan clubs of these groups will also be able to use these domains at “http://소녀시대.팬”, “http://카라.팬”, and “http://원더걸스.팬”. Each address will be connected to the groups’ homepages as well as their fanclub sites.”
This part wasn’t clear enough?
Why you thoughtful sone ^________^
Well many thanks and congratulations to Soshi on being first<3!
jadefalcon – well, obviously from reading down the comments it wasn’t very clear to everyone. I had an idea of “domain” (I’m not really a computer person), but I found wingscythe’s comment to make things clearER, but thanks anyway, I must admit I read thru the article rather quickly. Peace out!
I apologize. I’m sorry I came off so snarky. I was thinking mostly about the “hangul smart” part, not thinking that some people wouldn’t be familiar with what a domain name is.
Mianhe~!
Gwenchana! ;-)
Wow. Congratulations to SNSD. I’m so proud of them. They definitely deserve it.
SNSD hwaiting.
congratulation snsd!!!love u!hwaiting!!!
seriously, it looks like they won hands down, good to know kara won 2nd place too..! SOSHI daebak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulation, wish can use English at there if not I will lost and just enjoy the picture and body language ^^
SNSD Daebaaaaaakkkkkk!!!! Even though I don’t know what hangul smartt domain is, I still congratulate them. There’s another thing that makes me happy because of that polling, is because 2ne1 doesn’t even get 1% LOL… Sundara is much better than sandara!!
“Instead of slander and arguments, many of the 2,600 comments were messages supporting the singers. This surprising development showed the fans’ mature sides.”
Well that’s because almost half of the voters are sones. :)
AISH ~~!! I wasn’t to join on the voting but its alright they still got to be on the first place even without my vote…… Still, I felt bad of myself for not participating and not having to know that they have this poll in Hangul Smart Domain……
DAEBAK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOSHI HWAITING !!!
Congrats Soshi! This is great but I have one question… what exactly IS Hangul smart domain?
im guessing it’s a website in korean language, sort of like their own webpage?
wooOhooooo !!>. They deserved the 1st place., bcoz we all know that they are the most and awesome band in korea.. LOL. :)))
this is awesome! :D
but umm…what’s a hangul smart domain? LOL
Omoo~ I didn’t get the chance to vote. :( But once again, SoShi added another achievement on their lists. Whats more great is that the groups from 2nd and 3rd positions are my favorites too! XD
SoShi jjang!!