Taiwanese fans present Shinhwa with odd gift

Shinhwa, the '90s boy band currently performing in Asia, was in for a surprise when it received a most unconventional gift during its Taiwanese leg of the tour.

On Saturday, at the concert venue in Taipei, the band was greeted by swarms of local press, mobs of fans and 3.4 tons of pet food.

The band was there to perform for more than 8,000 fans as part of its "The Return" comeback tour. The unusual donations were a gift from seven of its fan clubs based in Taiwan.

The fan clubs were aware of how much the band loved animals and decided to make the donation to various animal shelters in the nation under Shinhwa's name.

"This is the first time that all six members of the band took part in performing for Taiwanese fans. They were so touched by the fans' presents", said a representative from Shinhwa Company.

The Korean band will travel to Japan to continue on with its reunion tour.
From May 29 to 30, it will perform in Tokyo before making its way to Kobe on June 2.

By Carla Sunwoo [carlasunwoo@joongang.co.kr]

Source : koreajoongangdaily.jo... ( English Korean )

Girls' Generation, KARA, Wonder Girls -- Most Popular Groups Awarded Hangul URLs

Hangul Smart Domain Organization, which is the group that provides URL addresses in the Korean language of hangul, held an online survey from May 3-11th. The subject: who the most popular girl idol group is.

The site listed ten of the top girl groups as possible answers: Girls' Generation, Kara, Wonder Girls, 4minute, Secret, T-ara, Sistar, miss A, 2NE1, and After School.

The results from the 23,274 people who participated were very clear.
Girls' Generation garnered 48.22% of the votes as number one, followed by Kara with 30.17%. Wonder Girls was significantly behind at third place with 11.09%. Trailing behind even further were the rest of the groups with insignificant counts: 4minute had 3.82%, Secret with 2.01%, T-ara with 1.92%, Sistar having won 0.84%, miss A with 0.69%, 2NE1 with 0.66%, and After School last with 0.53%.

Being the top three winners, Girls' Generation, Kara, and the Wonder Girls -- along with their respective fan clubs -- will receive their very own Korean, or hangul, smart domain address. This would make them the first in the world to have hangul URLs (i.e. '소녀시대.홈', '카라.홈' '원더걸스.홈', '소녀시대.팬', '카라.팬', '원더걸스.팬').

A similar poll will be held for boy idol groups next!

Source : english.kbs.co.kr/Ent... ( English Korean )