TVXQ were dashing men in black at the opening ceremony for SM Entertainment and Universal Studios Japan's collaboration project, 'SMTOWN HOLOGRAM V-THEATER with UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN'!TVXQ as well as media outlets, representatives, and 100 specially invited fans attended the opening ceremony for Japan's very first hologram theater a day before its grand opening on the 12th at 2:30 PM (local time). TVXQ shared, "We think this is a new opportunit

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As the year comes to a close, the experts of the music industry have chosen SM Entertainment as the top entertainment agency of 2013!35 music insiders including entertainment agency executives, music producers, composers, critics, and PDs participated in the Star News survey entitled, "Most Successful Agency of 2013", and 18 out of 35 experts chose SM Entertainment. YG Entertainment came in 2nd place with six votes. Starship Entertainment an

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A few audio clips have been circulating the internet that were somehow leaked online. Fans believed that the male voices heard through the game are members of EXO while the female voices heard belong to the members of A Pink. The clips aroused quite some attention, bringing about responses from both SM and A Cube Entertainment. Through the voice files, netizens were able to hear men and women chatting while playing a game together, eve

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Happy Tuesday everyone! Welcome to the greatest column ever written about K-pop girl groups: Confessions of an Uncle Fan. Last week I announced that today would be my final column. Unfortunately because of my full time job and other new commitments, I just won't be able to write regularly going forward and since this was basically the end of the year, I thought now was the perfect time to wrap up what had been a truly fun nine months. Before I go

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Rumors of Girls' Generation's comeback early next year caught everyone's attention and now SM Entertainment has confirmed that some parts of the rumors are true! An SM Entertainment rep told OSEN on the 7th, "Girls' Generation are preparing with the goal of a comeback early next year. However, the exact date hasn't been set yet. We will reveal more details as they come out."However, the agency denied the parts of the rumors about a masculine con

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At a press conference, Jung Chang Hwan of SM C&C discussed the label of 'SM Drama,' a stereotype that SM artists are cast as the main leads of a drama for teens produced by the agency, and how he wished to cast this image aside with the upcoming drama 'Prime Minister and I,' starring Girls' Generation's YoonA.On December 6, Jung Chang Hwan said: "I think when we make a production at our company, it becomes labeled as an 'SM Drama' . . . I want to

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'One Night of TV Entertainment' looked into the Big 3's stock wealth!The December 4 broadcast revealed that currently, the wealthiest stockholder in entertainment is SM Entertainment's Lee Soo Man. SM Entertainment became the first entertainment label to be listed on the KOSDAQ. SM Entertainment's success this year was largely because of EXO's new success, as well as the continued success of groups such as SHINee, f(x), Girls' Generation, Super J

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SM Entertainment is certainly keeping itself busy with the year drawing to a close! In addition to comeback announcements and year-end concert activities, the agency has now announced the launch of a pre-debut team called 'S.M.ROOKIES'! SMTOWN's Facebook had fans flocking over to check out some fresh faces as they went on a posting spree, introducing us to 3 upcoming stars that we can expect to see. They also launched a Facebook page for this 'p

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Riding on the viral hit of Psy's "Gangnam Style" and surging YG stock prices, Yang Hyun Suk was on top of the entertainment world for quite a while in terms of stock wealth (at one point having stock holdings worth over $200,000,000 USD).Even back in September, it was revealed that Yang Hyun Suk was wealthiest in terms of stock in the entertainment business with SM Entertainment's Lee Soo Man trailing behind in second. However, the tables have tu

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