Yeah.. But she's going to Russia a month after Raya to do medical course...:'(

[2011.08.22] Girls' Generation's Concert DVD Reaches No.1 Spot in Japan
Aug 22 2011 11:04 AM | Procrastinatoress in News





In August, 2010, Girls’ Generation broke records in Japan with the release of their DVD, “New Beginning of Girls’ Generation”. It reached the 3rd and 4th spots on the Oricon weekly music DVD ranking and the weekly DVD ranking respectively, making them the first female k-pop group to enter the Oricon DVD Top-5 ranking.

But a year later, Girls’ Generation have surpassed themselves, proving their popularity in the Japanese music industry once again. Tower Records’ newly released ranking of the week’s sales show that Girls’ Generation’s first concert DVD; “1st ASIA TOUR: Into The New World”, released on August 19th, has taken the top spot being the highest selling DVD between August 15-21st, despite being released more than halfway through the week.

The concert DVD shows footage of the performances from Girls’ Generation’s Korean encore concert in February 2010 in Seoul, and has been long anticipated and has already proven to be explosively popular amongst Korean and international fans.


Source: Tower Records
Written by: procrastinatoress@soshified.com
Contributors: SeraphKY@soshified.com

Have a news item that you think Soshified should know about? E-mail us at tip@soshified.com.
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/soshified for the latest on Girls' Generation.

Japanese Anti-Hallyu Protests Continue

MBC’s “Current Events Magazine 2580” had a press release about the anti-hallyu (Anti-Korean Wave) protests that appear to be increasing.


On the episode that featured the anti-hallyu protests that was broadcast on August 21st, K-Pop’s popularity and also its anti-movement were shown. The episode showed many protestors saying extremely critical things about Korean celebrities.

One protestor was shown with a microphone saying, “Don’t force anti-hallyu on us Fuji TV, I don’t want to watch Korean dramas.” Other protestors were shown screaming “Hurrah to the Japanese Emperor,” also people were saying “Amongst the people passing by we can even see the face of some Josen-jin.” (Josen-jin is a derogatory word that the Japanese use to describe Koreans.)

Also, some protestors were screaming insults at celebrities, “Let’s get rid of the Cockroaches SNSD, KARA, and DBSK. Do you think ‘Winter Sonata’ is fun? Choi Ji Woo is a thirty year old ajumma. Does it make sense that an ajumma is wearing a school uniform?”

Korean viewers have commented, “Neo Japanese Nationalists are using anti-hallyu in order to reach towards the Dokdo controversy. I’m at a loss of words,” “their toothless criticism is low-class,” “I can’t believe they actually called celebrities cockroaches.

One Japanese professor on the show had stated, “I believe that the reason these protests are occurring is because the neo Japanese nationalists unhappy about Japan are just targeting hallyu. For Korea the best way to proceed is to ignore the protests.”

At the other side of Japan,

Nice sig btw Zidane.

Btw, i need bubble tea. Belanja me please.

At the other side of Japan,

all these antis 

if they hate K-pop then just STFU and go listen to something else they like 

Wtf someone opened a thread about me.

The lifeless don't deserve your attention.

Why is he so bloody interested in my personal life anyway. Dude needs a life.

read the whole article? From what i see obviously they dont want to listen to it. but they are complaining that its being forced on them by their radio and tv stations.

just like here in msia. i stopped listening to hitz fm because they keep playing bibir, gaga, katy perry and other rubbish pop music non-stop.

Why is he so bloody interested in my personal life anyway. Dude needs a life.

then they should just turn off their radios/TVs like that, I doubt that Korean entertainment is being played in Japan 24/7...

surely they still have their own J-rock and what not

still they shouldn't insult them as cockroaches 

Hello Baby, I've downloaded up to EP16.
Didn't download recently, had torrent + TF2.