Girls’ Generation will be performing in jTBC’s ‘Super Joint Concert in Thailand’ next weekend, on March 30th! The girls will be performing alongside other Kpop groups such as EXO-M, B1A4 and Teen Top as well as Thai performers such as Thaitanium, Groove Riders and ToR+ Saksit Vejsupaporn.

The concert will take place at the Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand at 6pm local time on March 30th.

Meanwhile, it was announced that Girls’ Generation’s Sunny will be hosting the event along with singer Kim Jong Kook, who is widely famous especially for his participation in the popular variety show ‘Running Man’.

Besides that, a tentative performance list was also announced for the concert and according to it, Girls’ Generation will be performing a total of six songs including ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘I Got A Boy’, ‘Hoot’, ‘Gee’ and ‘Genie’.

Credit: joinsmsn, Super Joint Project Facebook

Girls’ Generation’s concerts recorded the largest audience turnouts among Korean groups as they completed their 2nd Asian solo tour successfully.

Since May 31st last year, Girls’ Generation had performed 14 concerts in 6 cities (Osaka, Saitama, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagoya and Fukuoka) for their ’1st Japan Arena Tour’ and also 9 concerts for the ‘Girls’ Generation Tour’ in 5 cities (Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok). The total of 23 concerts in 11 cities have recorded an astounding accumulative attendance of about 230,000 fans.

The final stop of the ‘Girls’ Generation Tour’ took place in Impact Arena, Bangkok on February 12th. At the 3-hour concert, Girls’ Generation performed 32 songs altogether which include hit songs such as ‘Gee’, ‘Tell Me Your Wish’, ‘Hoot’ and other songs from their Korean and Japanese albums, individual stages as well as ‘The Boys’ in front of about 11,000 fans.

During the concert, fans filled the venue in pink by waving their lightsticks, singing along to the songs as well as doing the fan chants in Korean. In addition to that, special events were also prepared for the girls. During the performance on ‘Complete’, papers containing the message ’785 DAYS OF WAITING, FINALLY WE MEET’ were raised simultaneously. After that, there was also a surprise event where paper planes were thrown towards the stage. The girls who were impressed and touched by the fan events, could not hold back their tears.

The concert which was the finale of the 2nd tour also marked Girls’ Generation’s first concert in Thailand. Since their arrival in Bangkok, they were warmly greeted by huge number of fans who flocked to the airport to welcome them. Ahead of the concert, the girls had also attended a press conference in front of many local media groups such as True Music, TNN, etc.

After the concert, Girls’ Generation said, “We are happy to be able to feel the warm love from all of you (fans). This is an unforgettable moment that we will keep in our hearts always. Our sincere thanks to everyone who has been with us throughout the ‘Girls’ Generation Tour’. In the future, we will be working hard in order to see you guys again with much greater performances”.

Girls’ Generation will be back in Korea on February 13th (morning).

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Not sure what #SNSDtoMY means? It simply means ‘SNSD to Malaysia‘ and the hashtag went on to top Twitter’s world wide trending topic list, just 30 minutes after the first SONESEA ‘Trending The SEA‘ project kicked off at January 29h, 12am KST!

It was a success not only for Malaysian SONEs, but also South East Asia and all the SONEs in the world. It has been proven once again that Kpop is dominating the world stage and SNSD’s popularity have increased tremendously in the past couple of years. Malaysian SONEs have been dreaming of seeing the girls live in person for almost 4 years and it is time to have their voices heard. That effort was being channeled and echoed to the rest of the world through SONESEA, the South East Asia SNSD Fan Union‘s project ‘Trending The Sea‘ which started on January 29th at 12am KST. #SNSDtoMY being the first-leg of the project. For two months, there will be trending projects for the rest of the countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, etc where fans in the countries in this region are very ‘hungry’ and ‘determined’ to go all out just to catch a glimpse of the girl.

As mentioned earlier, the victory belonged to all SONEs in the world. Due to the passion and love for the girls, SONEs joined hands and helped out one another to make their dreams come true. Like Tiffany said, strong chemistry and team work is the strength and key to a firm foundation of a group. Indeed this also applies to SONEs. Fans have been standing side by side supporting and loving the girls for almost 4 years now and #SNSDtoMy’s success on Twitter along with other successful activities such as Soshified’s meet-ups, NorCal SONEs flashmob, etc are the indication of how united SONEs are.

As there will be more trending projects coming up, it will be awesome to see #SNSDtoTH, #SNSDtoINA, #SNSDtoVN, #SNSDtoSG, #SNSDtoPH, etc taking the no.1 worldwide trending topic spot as well. Let’s turn those wishes into realities, SONEs.

Hopefully, these efforts will be translated into the realization of dreams for the SONEs in South East Asia.

UPDATE 1: #SNSDtoMY’s no.1 trending on Twitter being featured on Malaysian newspaper

The news of #SNSDtoMY‘s successful trending exercise on Twitter had garnered attention from local Malaysian newspaper, Borneo Post. On February 1st, an article on it was published. The sensitivity and awareness of the media to the Kpop reactions in various countries is important in cultivating interest and spreading the Korean Wave and of course, the Soshi love as well. Here’s a scan of the article.

Credit: IQ_of_62@Twitter (Screencap)/Borneo Post

SONEs will soon be able to catch a glimpse of SNSD’s Phuket photo shoot contents very soon.

On February 8th, ‘ALL About Girls’ Generation Paradise in Phuket DVD Preview‘ will be released. This 300-page ‘photo album’ contains beautiful photos taken during the girls’ trip to Phuket, Thailand. From the airport, ‘Echo’ music video shooting, pyjama party, interview with members to paparazi photos, SNSD’s natural beauty were captured and highlighted.

Particularly, the girls portray their neat, attractive and lovely charm in white dresses, which is very different from their mature image seen in ‘Run Devil Run’ and ‘Hoot’ MV. Expectations are expected to increase as The photos brought the fans back to the ‘Into The New World’ days.

Details of ‘ALL About Girls’ Generation Paradise in Phuket DVD Preview’:

- 304 pages (excluding covers)
- Dimension: 210 x 242 (mm)
- Language: Korean/Japanese/English
- Price: 25,000 Won

Contents:

The 1st Day : In Airport
The 2nd Day : Photo Sketch
The 3rd Day : Music Video ‘Echo’ / Girls’ Generation Special Photo / Mini Interview
The 4th Day : Pajama Party
The 5th Day : Real Treasure
The 6th Day : Memory
Behind Story : Girls’ Generation Talk & Member’s Camera & Paparazzi Photo

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According to Korea-Thailand Communication Centre (KTCC) Korean stars donated their goods for a charity event, ‘Korea Festival 2010‘ which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from November 30th to December 5th.

More than 130 Korean stars made their donations for the event. They are Lee Minho, Lee Joonki, Lee Jungjae, Lee Dahae, Ha Jungwoo, Kim SunA, Kim Raewon, Jo Hyunjae, Gong Yu, Kang Hodong, Lee Soogeun, Super Junior, SNSD, Brown Eyed Girls, TVXQ’s Yunho and Changmin and many others. “Winter Sonata” and “Autumn In My Heart”‘s Yoon Sukho PD as well as “Full House”‘s Pyo Minsoo PD also supported the event by making donations respectively.

The ‘Korea Festival 2010′ is organized by The Ministry of Culture Thailand and the aim is to provide help to 3 million victims who were affected by the recent flood in Thailand.

Credits: fnnnews.com/mydaily.co.kr