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SM Entertainment, Super Junior, Girls Generation, TVXQ, BoA, H.O.T, S.E.S, SHINee, f(x) Hallyu 101: The Big Three Agencies (Part 2 – SM Entertainment) The Big Three If you've been following any of the major groups, like Big Bang, Girls' Generation, or 2PM, you've undoubtedly come across the phrase "the big three" before.It is used to reference the three biggest, and most popular, entertainment agencies in South Korea - YG, SM, and JYP. SM Entertainment Founded: 1989 by Lee Soo-man (founding chairman) Notable Acts: Super Junior, Girls' Generation, SHINee, BoA, TVXQ, f(x) Known for: producing many of the 'original' idol groups, starting/leading the hallyu wave Official website (English): SM Town Official YouTube: SMEntertainment SM Entertainment is home to some of the largest, and most iconic, idol groups of the past and present and has long been considered the company responsible for starting the Korean Wave and spreading K-Pop throughout Asia and the rest of the world

Why do K-pop groups keep going to Japan for promotions? Well, the answer is quite simple: because promoting in Japan is very lucrative. Take TVXQ for example. TVXQ will be continuing onward with their 5-dome tour in Japan until mid-August. In all, they will perform 18 times in front of an audience of 850,000 people. At an average cost of 120,000 KRW (approximately $109 USD) per ticket, the revenue from all the tickets sold will add up to 102,000,000,000 KRW (approximately $92.6 million USD)

World-famous choreographer Devin Jamieson will work on Korean group SHINee’s third album. On April 24, the group’s agency, SM Entertainment, announced that the unique choreography will appear in the lead track of chapter two of the group’s third album, “Why So Serious?”   Jamieson has participated in the production of many albums for such global pop stars as Michael Jackson, Usher, Britney Spears, and Hilary Duff and now takes charge of the choreography for SHINee’s album

K-Pop’s hottest acts took over Japan this past weekend, and the stars were tweeting all about it as you’ll see in our latest Twitter Roundup! G-Dragon posted a photo on his Instagram on April 21, following his show in Japan, writing “GR8 Show Ever All my Fans & All my Crew So much Love Y′all #gd #gdragon #giyongchy #oneofakind #worldtour in Japan Dome special #seibu I never forget 2nite ONE.” 2PM also wrapped up an amazing show in Japan as Nichkhun tweeted on April 21, “Last day of Tokyo Dome

Super Junior’s highly-anticipated Super Show 5 tour kicked off in Seoul on March 23, and it appears the first night drew out some big names.SM Town shared a few photos on its official Facebook from backstage of the first Super Show 5 concert, held at the Olympic Park Gymnasium Hall in Seoul, where the stars, from Super Junior’s SM family members to actors and other idol stars, stopped by to show their support. TaeTiSeo’s Taeyeon, Tiffany and Seohyun, EXO and Zhang Li Yin were among the SM artists who went to cheer their label mates on, even taking photos with the Super Junior members backstage

Shinee, SM entertainment, minho, key, taemin, onew, Jonghyun March 2013 has been official declared the reign of SHINee. Debuting nearly five years ago with their mini album Replay in May 25, 2008 SHINee has managed to release 15 albums and 15 top singles in Korean and Japanese. Even though its been 11 months since the release of Sherlock, their recent win as the most popular group in K-pop at the 27th Golden Disk Awards in January proved SHINee's staying power and Shawols' dedication to the dazzling five

by the viewers/audience of KBS 2TV’s ‘Generation Empathy Saturday‘ which aired on February 5th. Best Girl group?as if we didn’t know that already *coughs* The ‘Girl Group Best 10′ (picked by viewers/audience) was announced during the segment ‘Ranking! Old and New‘ of the show.   SNSD was picked as the ‘Best Girl Group‘ while 1st generation K-Pop girl group Fin.K.L came in 2nd. Wonder Girls took the 3rd spot while SM seniors S

On March 12, our girls from f(x) performed on a special stage to represent the broad and diverse spectrum of K-Pop genres at the SXSW- South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas! Fighting, f(x)!  On twitter, Amber updated fans with a photo of Victoria, Luna, Krystal, Amber and Sulli huddled together in a van making cute faces at the camera while holding up promotional material from the festival. Don’t you wish you could’ve gone? If only airfare was as cheap as bus fare! That, or someone should commission a project to build a bullet train that treks oceans and continents! A K-Pop fan can dream right?  The girls had the opportunity to perform alongside great artists like No Brain, Galaxy Express, Jeong Cha Sik, The Geeks, Yi Sung Yol and Guckkastan the rock band for a special K-Pop showcase, “K-Pop Night Out at SXSW 2013

It′s Jonghyun′s turn this time to tease for SHINee′s impending comeback.On February 9, SM Entertainment released teaser photos for Jonghyun, to follow the photos of Key and Taemin, through its SM Town global Twitter account, Facebook page and Weibo account. The photo again forewarns that SHINee is out to put on another stylish performance. Jonghyun dons a bright, flower print jacket, and leers at the camera with sunglasses hanging lopsided from his face.Other black and white photos were also released with the colorful teaser

SHINee will be chatting up its international dream girls today, March 8, in a Google+ Hangout event. SHINee announced it would be participating in A-Pop Star Week’s Google+ Hangout launch event, where it would be video chatting with a few lucky fans from all around the world, via SM Town’s official YouTube channel last month. Following fan submissions, nine lucky winners have been selected to chat directly with SHINee on Google+ Hangout. A number of fans have also been invited to see the idol group in person at the Incheon International Airport CGV as they chat with foreign fans