It’s recently revealed that the upcoming ‘SMTOWN LIVE in TOKYO SPECIAL EDITION‘ concert will be shared with SM Town fans from all over the world through SM Town’s Facebook page!

The concert will be held from September 2nd to the 4th at the Tokyo Dome concert hall, and will feature performances from your favorite SM Town artists.

Fans will not only get to see airport photos of SM Town artists like Kangta, BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, SNSD, SHINee, and f(x), but they’ll also get to view photos from backstage and from concert performances as well.

SM TOWN’s Facebook page will also share videos containing the opening ceremony and highlights from the concert, and updated news about the event will also be announced in English and Japanese.

SM Town’s Facebook page from ‘SMTOWN Live in Paris‘ received a total of 80 million hits, so it’s expected that this new concert will reach just a figure that’s just high, if not higher.

via allkpop
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Labels: BoA, F(x), Facebook, Kangta, SHINee, SM Entertainment, SMTOWN, SNSD, Super Junior., TVXQ

After watching 'Thanks, SMTOWN movie'(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-2pHK5M2gw) which included thanks and longing for SMTOWN concert in Paris, SMTOWN has prepared a special gift to express our gratitude.
The concert in Paris was a special memory for artists and staffs of SMTOWN as well.
We would like to thank European fans and other fans all over the world :)

Thank you very much!

SMTOWN I just want to say, thank you very much for visiting Europe!
I think I'll speak for all the European fans, we can't wait for you guys to come here again!
SMTOWN come back to Europe soon! ^^
Thanks, DBSK, Super Junior, SNSD, F(x) & SHINee!
Saranghae <3

- Ultimate SHINee staff!

source: SMTOWN at facebook!
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Labels: F(x), SHINee, SM Entertainment, SMTOWN, SNSD, Super Junior., TVXQ, Video

(A/N: SM stocks closed at 20,150 today and its up 6.61% – the highest growth rate this year. News sites are calling this the "SHINee Effect'.

SHINee’s debut album sales hit oricon charts at 2nd place upon release, beating out big-name Japanese artists such as AAA, T.M. Revolution, GReeeeN, and Dir En Grey. 120,000 copies of the debut single were made for the first shipments, which means its marketing is made through Youtube. It has a positive effect on SM Entertainment’s sales.

[from SBSCNBC]

SM Entertainment stocks are showing strong as the visible results of “New Korean Wave” are confirmed.

In the Kosdaq market on June 24, SM stocks are being traded at 19,400 Won (currently 9:13 a.m.), 2.65% up from the previous day.

Daewoo Securities presented SM’s stock goal price as 30,000 Won with a comment that SM artists are making good sales overseas.

[from Yonhap News]

SHINee, having overtaken Super Junior's first-week record (59,262) with 68,685 copies sold in only 2 days, are well on their way to setting records for kpop groups in Japan as they have already surpassed the highest sales of first week of sales for any kpop debut.

Stay tuned for the rest of the week as the boys definitely setting the bar high for future kpop acts to come.

source: omonatheydidnt

Labels: Japan, Japanese Debut Promotions, News, Replay (Japanese Ver.) 君は僕の everything, SMTOWN, Super Junior.

Fans in Europe were very excited about “SM Town Live in Paris,” held at the Le Zenith de Paris.

The show was currently live and SMTOWN had a special treat for the fans who couldn’t attend as performances from the show are being uploaded to SMTOWN’s official YouTube page! Check them out below.

f(x) LA chA TA:



SHINee Replay:



Super Junior Don’t Don


TVXQ Before U Go



SNSD Genie

Labels: Events, F(x), SHINee, SM Entertainment, SMTOWN, SNSD, Super Junior., TVXQ

SM Entertainment, in a consortium along with two real estate development companies, Fides and M Studio City, have been selected as developers of a new visual-cultural-recreational complex (yeah man, seriously, that’s what they named that thing), titled “Jo Kam Do“, literally meaning, “Bird’s Eye View”.

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Now here comes the wall of text about basic info of the place: City of Munkyung in Northern Kyungsang province, where the complex will be built, selected the three companies for development of its ambitious project. The complex will cost Munkyung 43 billion Won ($40 million U.S.) and the total area of 888,168㎡ will be divided up into three sectors; Sae Jae, Ga Eun, Ha Nae, with construction of Sae Jae beginning this year. The first sector, planned to be complete within the first half of 2012, will include indoor and outdoor filming studios, recreational facilities such as spa and water park, visual section with stages for performances and facilities for autograph sessions, and so on.

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Now is the more relevant part for those of you that are wondering where SM comes into all of this.

Since this park is being built in the countryside far away from Seoul, Korea’s capital that is famously holding close to half of the national population in its area, it needs to differentiate itself from other theme parks and recreational complexes in order for people from Seoul to travel down there and keep the area alive by feeding it cash. That, is where our friends in the idol business come in; as they provide the complex with the contents of their company. Different zones named after their celebrities, including, but not limited to, SNSD, TVXQ, Super Junior, SHINee, f(x), and BoA, will be offering fan meetings and autograph sessions.


There is also a plan to have the stars stay at the hotel in the complex and then name the e that they stayed in after them, so that their fans would want to stay in the same room their idol did.

Might sound a bit weird or creepy, but hey, there are people out there that are willing to spend extra just so they can sleep in the same bed that Changmin or Yuri did. In short, SM’s involvement is to spice the complex up with some flavour of its idols.

SM is not the only entertainment industry representative in the game though; movie director Kang Jae Kyu is to take part in this project as a shareholder and shoot his movies in the studios in this complex. Mr. Kang was the director of Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War, the 4th highest-grossing film in Korean history, so I guess we can say he is pretty famous… making him a strong ally.





The city of Munkyung doesn’t really have many tourist attractions, and the complex is planned around the concept that it will create itself; that is, unlike the traditional method of putting hotels/restaurants/bars where a tourist attraction already exists (like a beach or a hot spring), they’re building the tourist attraction themselves along with all those other things – like a Disney Land.

In this case, the major attraction isn’t Mickey and Snow White; it is what SM has to offer. It is really up to them to get people down there and spend money. Will Jo Kam Do become a major attraction and a centre of hallyu wave, or will we end up studying about it in business class as a case of complete failure? Whatever the result may be, I look forward to writing about this baby in future.

Can’t wait for them to finish building it. Can you?

Labels: BoA, F(x), SHINee, SM Entertainment, SNSD, Super Junior., TVXQ

Entertainment is going to Europe and they are holding a concert in France, Paris for the first time.
SM revealed on the 20th, “SMTown World Tour that’s has been held in Seoul, LA, Tokyo, Shanghai, etc, will also be held in ‘Le Zenith de Paris’, which is located in France, Paris, on June 10th. They plan to meet the music fans in Paris”.
SM Entertainment is first Korean entertainment company to hold a joint concert in Europe.
The venue that the concert will be held in, ‘Le Zenith de Paris’, is also famous as a stage that world star singers like Ne-Yo, PCD, and the Jonas Brothers have performed in.
The SM artists that will participate in Paris performance include: TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, and f(x) are the leaders of the K-pop sensation in Europe. Because it’s the first performance that popular K-pop singers will be holding in Paris, this will gain attention from music fans from Europe.
Also, last January, France TV Channel 2TV reported the hHallyu sensation with SM artists mainly.
SM Entertainment revealed “Through this Paris performance, through Asia, they plan to get their artists to have global activities using a variety of networking”.

Translated by 오이사랑싴@soshified.com

Labels: F(x), SHINee, SM Entertainment, SMTOWN, SNSD, Super Junior., TVXQ

Labels: 2PM, 4Minute, After School, B2ST, CN Blue, F.CUZ, F(x), KARA, Lee Hyori, MBLAQ, RAINBOW, SHINee, SNSD, Super Junior., T-ara, U-Kiss, Wonder Girls, ZE:A

SM Entertainment received a firm order from the Fair Trade Commission to revise the unfair contracts which bind SNSD, Super Junior, SHINee, and many others to them.

On December 23rd, the Fair Trade Commission stated, “We gave them a warning to voluntarily correct the unfair exclusive contracts that their celebrities and trainees have signed. [SME] is to reduce all contract lengths by three years.”

This decision by the FTC was based off of a complaint made by TVXQ’s fanclub, Cassiopeia. The group alleged that SM Entertainment was using their status to pressure a disadvantaged (’slave’) contract onto TVXQ.

SM Entertainment’s violation, as disclosed by the FTC, lies in the unfair contract conditions. These conditions included forcing artists to sign on for a long period of time, an excessive penalty provision for breach of contract, and a one-sided scheduling of activities. There’s also a clause that allows SME to extend contracts for overseas activities without first consulting the artist in question.

According to the FTC, these contracts from SME would run ‘for 13 years starting from the day of signing‘ or ‘exceeding 10 years from the day of debut.’ In compliance with the FTC, however, SM Entertainment changed their contracts to ‘seven years from the day of debut.’

If the artists decided to terminate their contract prematurely, they were subject to heavy penalties. Artists were forced to pay three times the investment amount, plus two times the amount the artist was to have made during the entire length of the contract. In short, even though the contract was terminated, these artist would have to pay double the amount of money they would have made in ‘x’ years left.

Because of the FTC order, however, this was changed to artists now paying an average monthly sales of two years before the contract termination, multiplied by the number of months in the remaining period.

The entire clause allowing activities to be scheduled without the artist’s consent has also been removed. It has been replaced with, “All celebrities of SM Entertainment may include their opinion at any point and ask for the appropriate document copies regarding their career from SM. SM has the right to refuse should the request be unjust.”

This new revision is expected to make an influence on JYJ’s case as well.

Labels: SHINee, SM Entertainment, SNSD, Super Junior., TVXQ