Girls’ Generation (SNSD) members profile (Korean pop group Girls’ Generation members’ personal profiles.)

Taeyeon

Birth name: Kim Tae-yeon (Hangul: 김태연 | Hanja: 金泰妍)
DOB: March 9, 1989
Birthplace: Jeonju, North Jeolla, South Korea
Height: 160cm | Blood type: O
Group leader.
DJ on Good Friend Radio (Chinhan Chingoo) from 2008 to April 2010.
Solo in If – drama OST for Hong Gil Dong (2008).
Solo in Can you hear me – drama OST for Beethoven Virus (2008).
Starred in variety show We Got Married (2009) with comedian Jeong Hyeong-don.
Duet with Sunny in It’s Love – drama OST for Heading To The Ground (2009).
Starred in stage musical Midnight Sun (2010).
Voiced for animated film Despicable Me (2010).
Duet with The One in Like A Star (2010).
Co-host of variety talk show Win-Win (2010).
Solo in I Love You – drama OST for Athena: Goddess of War (2010).
Duet with Kim Bum-soo in Different (2011).

Jessica

Korean name: Jung Su-yeon (Hangul: 정수연 | Hanja: 鄭秀妍)
DOB: April 18, 1989
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Height: 163cm | Blood type: B
Elder sister of Krystal, member of girl group f(x).
Released two singles, Oppa Nappa and Mabinogi, with Tiffany and SeoHyun.
Duet with SHINee’s Onew in One Year Later (2008).
Duet with Park Myeong-su in NaengMyun (2009).
Starred in Korean production of Legally Blonde – The Musical (2009-2010).
Solo in Sweet Delight – commercial song for SPC Group (2010).

Sunny

Birth name: Lee Sun-kyu (Hangul: 이순규 | Hanja: 李順圭)
DOB: May 15, 1989
Height: 158cm | Blood type: B
Co-DJ of Chun Ji Radio (2007-2008).
Solo in Finally Now – movie OST for Story of Wine (2008).
Co-host of The M (2009-2010) with SS501′s Hyungjoon and then 2AM’s Seulong.
Duet with Taeyeon in It’s Love – drama OST for Heading To The Ground (2009).
Starred in reality-variety show Invincible Youth (2009-2010).
Solo in Your Doll – drama OST for Oh My Lady (2010).

Tiffany

Birth name: Stephanie Hwang
Korean name: Hwang Mi-young (Hangul: 황미영 | Hanja: 黄美英)
DOB: August 1, 1989
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA (but raised in Diamond Bar)
Height: 162cm | Blood type: O
Released two singles, Oppa Nappa and Mabinogi, with Seohyun and Jessica.
Co-host of Sonyeo Sonyeon Gayo Baekso with Kim Hye-sung (2007-2008).
Solo in By Myself – drama OST for Ja Myung Go (2009).
Duet with K.Will in A Girl Meets Love (2009).
Co-host with Yuri for MBC’s Music Core (2009 – July 2010).
Solo in Banji – drama OST for Haru (2010).

Hyoyeon

Birth name: Kim Hyo-yeon (Hangul: 김효연 | Hanja: 金孝淵)
DOB: September 22, 1989
Birthplace: Incheon, South Korea
Height: 160cm | Blood type: AB
Formed a dance group Little Winners Crew with miss A’s Min (2004) before debut.

Yuri

Birth name: Kwon Yuri (Hangul: 권유리 | Hanja: 權侑利)
DOB: December 5, 1989
Height: 167cm | Blood type: AB
Played a part in sitcom Unstoppable Marriage (2007) alongside Sooyoung.
Duet with Sooyoung in Must – drama OST for Working Mom (2008).
Co-host with Tiffany for MBC’s Music Core (2009 – July 2010).
Starred in reality-variety show Invincible Youth (2009-2010).

Sooyoung

Birth name: Choi Soo-young (Hangul: 최수영 | Hanja: 崔秀英)
DOB: February 10, 1990
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Height: 170cm | Blood type: O
Made a brief debut (2002) in Japan as pop duo Route φ with Marina Takahashi.
Played a part in the sitcom Unstoppable Marriage alongside Yuri (2007).
Duet with Yuri in Must – drama OST for Working Mom (2008).
Played a part in movie Hello Schoolgirl (2008).

YoonA

Birth name: Im Yoona (Hangul: 임윤아 | Hanja: 林允兒)
DOB: May 30, 1990
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Height: 166cm | Blood type: B
Played a part in drama 9 Ends 2 Out (2007).
Played a part in drama Woman of Matchless Beauty (2008).
Starred in drama You Are My Destiny (2008-2009).
Starred in drama Cinderella Man (2009).
Starred in variety show Family Outing 2 (2010).
Solo in Innisfree Day – commercial song for Innisfree (2010).

SeoHyun

Birth name: Seo Joo-hyun (Hangul: 서주현 | Hanja: 徐珠賢)
DOB: June 28, 1991
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Height: 168cm | Blood type: A
Group maknae.
Released two singles, Oppa Nappa and Mabinogi, with Jessica and Tiffany.
Duet with trot singer Ju hyun-mi in JjaRaJaJja (2009).
Starred on variety show We Got Married with C.N.Blue’s Jung Yong-hwa (2010).
Solo in It’s Ok Even If It Hurts – drama OST for Kim Soo Roo (2010).
Voiced for animated film Despicable Me (2010).
Featured in Let’s Go – G20 Seoul Summit OST (2010).
Solo in Journey – drama OST for Paradise Ranch (2011).

Gakuen Alice / Alice Academy

Best friends Mikan and Hotaru grew up in a small town in the remote countryside. When Hotaru moves to a school for geniuses in Tokyo, Mikan misses Hotaru so badly that she decides to travel to Tokyo herself to find Hotaru. She finds Hotaru in a school called “Alice Academy,” and finds that the school is actually for people with special powers called “Alices.” Narumi-sensei, a teacher at the school, discovers that Mikan also happens to have an Alice, and Mikan is admitted into the academy. At first, she becomes enemies with a boy named Natsume with a fire alice but later Mikan made friends with him (Natsume). She also befriends his best friend, Luca. There she finds friends, love, and a life that she will never forget. However, during that time, Mikan (along with her friends) find out that the academy is really built on both secrets and lies.

Differences between manga and anime

The anime episodes are similar to the corresponding manga chapters, but some events are changed or combined. The manga’s darker tones are reduced in the anime to suit younger viewers. Characters in the anime may have different hair and eye color than their manga counterparts. The anime series leaves the love triangle between Mikan, Luca (in Japanese it is spelled Ruka), and Natsume unresolved, with Mikan having not realized their feelings for either. Not only that, but the mystery of Mikan’s parents remains unrevealed. In the first episode, she doesn’t catch a taxi to Alice Academy, nor does everyone know about Alices in the anime. Many of these differences may be due to the fact that the anime has had only one season, while the manga continued.

The Gakuen Alice is located somewhere in Tokyo, in the anime across from a huge gorilla billboard. The school grounds contain three levels of education (elementary through senior high), a hospital, the main building, and the central town, where shops managed by Alice-bearing artisans sell goods produced with the help of their Alices.

Four forests surround the grounds. The Northern Woods are the most visited and is home to “Mr. Bear,” an animated doll made by an alice at the school.

In the anime, the Academy has its own monetary system, the Rabbit (Rt), with one Rabbit equivalent to 100 yen. However, in the manga, the Academy uses yen as their primary currency.

Due to constant threat by kidnappers and slave traders, vocal and written communication is limited to within the Academy. The grounds are closely guarded, and heavy security and electrified fences deter students from attempting to leave.

High-scoring students in the Final Examinations receive perks such as free meal tickets, certifications, and money. These high-scoring students also qualify for a chance to receive the “Best Student Award,” which allows the students to be permitted a week-long leave to go home to be with family.

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"Princess Kaguya"(Japanese story)

"Princess Kaguya" redirects here. For other uses, see Kaguya (disambiguation).

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語 Taketori Monogatari^?), also known as Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫 Kaguya Hime^?, 赫映姫), is a 10th century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest extant Japanese narrative^[1][2] and an early example of proto-science fiction.^[3]

It primarily details the life of a mysterious girl called Kaguya-hime, who was discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bambooplant. She is said to be from Tsuki-no-Miyako (月の都 "The Capital of the Moon") and has unusual hair that shines like the moon.

Narrative(English Languange)

Taketori no Okina takes Kaguya-hime to his home, Drawn by Tosa Hiromichi, c. 1600

One day, while walking in the bamboo forest, an old, childless bamboo cutter called Taketori no Okina (竹取翁^?, "the Old Man who Harvests Bamboo") came across a mysterious, shining stalk of bamboo. After cutting it open, he found inside it a baby the size of his thumb. He rejoiced to find such a beautiful girl and took her home. He and his wife raised her as their own child and named her Kaguya-hime (かぐや姫 "radiant-night princess"). Thereafter, Taketori no Okina found that whenever he cut down a stalk of bamboo, inside he found a small nugget of gold. Soon he became rich, and Kaguya-hime grew from a small baby into a woman of ordinary size and extraordinary beauty. At first, Taketori no Okina tried to keep her away from outsiders, but over time the news of her beauty had spread.

Eventually, five princes came to Taketori no Okina's residence to ask for Kaguya-hime's hand in marriage. The princes eventually persuaded Taketori no Okina to tell a reluctant Kaguya-hime to choose one from among them. To this end, Kaguya-hime concocted impossible tasks for the princes to accomplish. She would agree to marry the prince who managed to bring her a specified item.

That night, Taketori no Okina told the five princes what each of them must bring. The first was told to bring her the stone begging bowl of the Buddha from India. The second was told to retrieve a jewelled branch from the island of Hōrai.^[4] The third was told to seek the legendary robe of the fire-rat of China. The fourth must retrieve a colored jewel from a dragon's neck. The final prince was told to find thecowrie which was born from swallows.

Realizing that it was an impossible task, the first prince returned with an expensive bowl, but after noticing that the bowl did not glow with holy light, Kaguya-hime saw through his deception. Likewise, two other princes attempted to deceive her with fakes, but also failed. The fourth gave up after encountering a storm, while the final prince lost his life in his attempt to retrieve the object.

After this, the Emperor of Japan, Mikado, came to see the strangely beautiful Kaguya-hime and, upon falling in love, asked her to marry him. Although he was not subjected to the impossible trials that thwarted the princes, Kaguya-hime rejected his request for marriage as well, telling him that she was not of his country and thus could not go to the palace with him. She stayed in contact with the Emperor, but continued to rebuff his requests.

That summer, whenever Kaguya-hime saw the full moon, her eyes filled with tears. Though her adoptive parents worried greatly and questioned her, she was unable to tell them what was wrong. Her behaviour became increasingly erratic until she revealed that she was not of this world and must return to her people on the Moon. In some versions of this tale, it is said that she was sent to the Earth as a temporary punishment for some crime, while others say it is because she was sent to earth for safety during a celestial war.

Kaguya-hime goes back to the Moon

As the day of her return approached, the Emperor set many guards around her house to protect her from the Moon people, but when an embassy of "Heavenly Beings" arrived at the door of Taketori no Okina's house, the many guards were blinded by a strange light. Kaguya-hime announced that, though she loves her many friends on Earth, she must return with the Moon people to her true home. She wrote sad notes of apology to her parents and to the Emperor, then gave her parents her own robe as a memento. She then took a small taste of the elixir of life, attached it to her letter to the Emperor, and gave it to a guard officer. As she handed it to him, the feather robe was placed on her shoulders, and all of her sadness and compassion for the people of the Earth were forgotten. The heavenly entourage took Kaguya-hime back to Tsuki-no-Miyako ("the Capital of the Moon") leaving her earthly foster parents in tears.

The parents became very sad and were soon put to bed sick. The guard officer returned to the Emperor with the items Kaguya-hime had given him as her last mortal act, and reported what had happened. The Emperor read her letter and was overcome with sadness. He asked his servants: "Which mountain is the closest place to Heaven?", to which one replied that the Great Mountain of Suruga Province is the closest place to Heaven. The Emperor ordered his men to take the letter to the summit of the mountain and burn it, with the hope that his message would reach the distant princess. The men were also commanded to burn the elixir of immortality since the Emperor did not desire to live forever without being able to see her. The legend has it that the word immortality (不死 fushi^?, or fuji)became the name of the mountain, Mount Fuji. It is also said that the kanji for the mountain, 富士山 (literally "Mountain Abounding with Warriors"), is derived from the Emperor's army ascending the slopes of the mountain to carry out his order. It is said that the smoke from the burning still rises to this day. (In the past, Mount Fuji was much more volcanically active than today.)

Yoona-SNSD

Im Yoon-Ah (Hangul: 임윤아; Hanja: 林潤娥; also spelled Lim Yun-Ah; born May 30, 1990), commonly stylized as YoonA (윤아), is a popular South Korean pop singer, dancer, actress, model and spokesmodel. She is a member of the Korean girl group Girls’ Generation and is known as the center-girl, lead dancer and sub-vocalist of the group. Yoona made her debut as a singer along with Girls’ Generation on August 5, 2007[citation needed]. She made her debut as an actress in the 2007 Korean drama, 9 Ends, 2 Outs.
Pre-Debut Background
Yoona made her debut as an actress in 2007 with the drama 9 Ends, 2 Outs.[1] In 2008, she acted in the drama Woman of Matchless Beauty before her first leading role in the daily drama You Are My Destiny which she won her important recognitions in acting.[2] Yoona filmed her 2009 drama Cinderella Man (신데렐라맨) alongside with Kwon Sang-woo.
Television
Yoona was a guest on SBS TV Family Outing which ended February 14, 2010, and a permanent cast member on Family Outing Season 2 with Yoon Sang-hyun, Kim Won-hee, Ji Sang-ryeol, Shin Bong-seon, Super Junior’s Kim Heechul 2AM’s Jo Kwon and 2PM’s Ok Taecyeon.[3][4] The program ended its run on July 11, 2010 after 5 months.
Promotion
Before her debut with Girls’ Generation, Yoona had been well known in the entertainment industry as she began to film commercials and model for various magazines when she was a trainee with SM Entertainment. Apart from Girls’ Generation’s commercials, Yoona is currently a model to endorse Clean & Clear, YeJiMin Pad, Innisfree Cosmetics and S-Oil.
In May 2008, she with fellow members Tiffany, Jessica and TVXQ members had a TV ad for Haptic Motion.
Yoona, together with her fellow member Sooyoung, modeled for the ’08-09 F/W SFAA Seoul Collection – Lee Joo-Young Fashion Show’ at Seoul Hakyohul Exhibition Hall on March 20, 2008.
In April 2010, she with fellow members Yuri and Seohyun, 2PM members Nichkhun, Taecyeon and Chansung had a CF for an commercial for Everland’s Caribbean Bay. The commercial was released in mid-May and is accompanied by the song “Cabi Song” Which lead to a scandel for Ok Taecyeon and Yoona.[5][6]
Yoona was chosen along with Korean celebrities such as Rain, Kim Hee-seon, Ji Jin-hee, Ha Ji-won, Son Ye-jin, Kim Hyun-joong and Yunho to be the model of Cartier’s LOVE collections. Proceeds from the sale of the bracelets will go to the international organization International Vaccine Institute (IVI).
Yoona released her first solo song “Innisfree Day” [7] on August 30, 2010 for the Eco Handkerchief’s promotion of Innisfree Cosmetics.