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translated the SNSD related part of the article…
‘E-Tribe’, a popular song writer was chosen to be a judge for a Korea & Japan collaborating audition called ‘DaeDongKyung Girl’
E-Tribe, who has recently brought SNSD’s ‘Gee’ up to fame will be working with a top producer from Japan as a judge for the audition.
This event is even more meaningful since music producers of Japan’s Upfront has been showing interest in working with E-Tribe.
The offline audition held April 10th~12th showed that over 60% of the applicants used SNSD’s ‘Gee’ as their audition piece. The Japanese producers who were judging the applicants couldn’t hide their surprise by the overwhelming percentage of SNSD pieces and questioned, “What is ‘Gee’ that so many girls are showing such fervent interest for it?”
The Japanese representatives stated later; after judging that day, they returned to their quarters and personally looked up the music video then said, “This is indeed an amazing song.”
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Credits: newsen.com
http://newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=200905…%E0%BD%C3%B4%EB
Translation: k_Taevid @ soshified.com
SNSD Korean 
you know, I always figured that snsd would do EXTREMELY well in japan…
hahah though the only problem is that if they debuted, say kissing you there, they would’ve got some CRAAAAZY otaku fans…especially fany with her mushroom hair
i cannot agree more! sure they might -_- rummage up antis but i have no doubt they would be successful there! and i TOTALLy agree with you on the mushroom hair, japan LOVES cute artist like fany w/mushroom hair (and back then she was a bit chubby too!)… gah too bad da nee 😛 !
Oh god, is this for the Hello! Project thing?
Why even try? I mean, I loveD H!P, they’re really what got it started for me years ago… but seriously…. T_T
-sLaVe
uwa! girls are gaining popularity in even japan! ^_^
What sorta judges were they that hadn’t heard of “Gee”?