SNSD

Pre-debut


After the success of SM Entertainment's boy band, Super Junior, the company planned to debut a new girl group, which would ultimately turn into Girls' Generation, featuring a start-up roster of 11 members. For nearly two years, Korean websites speculated about which of the female SM Entertainment trainees would be placed into the group. The candidate members were professionally trained primarily in chant and dancing, while some were also selected to be trained in jouer la comédie and modeling. Many of the candidate members had already made names for themselves in the Korean entertainment...

2011: Girls' Generation, Touring, International Expansion and The Boys


Girls' Generation at Visual Dream World Premiere Showcase.
In latter half of January, it was announced that the group would be returning to the Japanese market through the release of their Japanese version of "Run Devil Run" as a digital single, released on January 25, 2011.On January 20, 2011, at the 20th Seoul musique Awards, the group received "Artist of the Year", the "Bonsang" prize", a "Popularity" award, and a "Hallyu award". In doing this, Girls' Generation became one of four artists in Korean musique history (the others...