The third e-ma Nodoame (Translator’s note: nodoame means throat candy) commercial featuring Girls’ Generation is set to air on February 25th in Japan. The theme for the first e-ma commercial was “dinner party”, which was accompanied by the Japanese version of “Gee”. The second commercial’s theme was “dollhouse”, while the song “Bad Girl” was playing […]

On February 16th, Oricon, a company which reports music sales in Japan, announced that Korean music CD and DVD products have seen the largest market scale increase in Japan yet. Though sales in the music disc marketplace have been continually decreasing the past five years, sales of Japanese music discs by Korean artists rapidly increased […]

On January 27th, the Japan Gold Disc Award 2012 honored Girls’ Generation with the “Best Album of Asia” award for their first full Japanese album. Since its release in June of 2011, the album has sold over 780,000 copies and was even ranked by SPIN Magazine as one of the top pop albums of 2011. […]

Popular Korean girl group Girls’ Generation appeared at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo for the first ever collaborative fashion event between Korea and Japan, called “KISS (Korean International Style Show)” on January 25th. Girls’ Generation received the biggest cheer at the event when they appeared on stage to perform five of their popular songs, including […]

Fans could not hide their surprise at Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon’s appealing dress figure. Along with the other members of Girls’ Generation, Taeyeon attended the second evening of the “26th Golden Disk Awards” held on January 12th in Osaka, Japan. At the red carpet event held prior to the main award ceremony, Taeyeon proudly showed off […]

Popular Korean drama “Athena” had a live event that took place on January 7th at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan.  Among those who attended the event include “Athena” cast members Cha Seungwon, Sooae, and Choi Siwon.  K-pop artists with connections to the drama were also present, such as Super Junior, Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon, and […]