It has been revealed that SNSD’s dorm is a staggering 100 pyeong (3,600 sq ft), which has been gaining a lot of attention online lately. That’s bigger than my parent’s 2 story house! And absolutely kills my condo in size!
Mnet’s program “Wide Entertainment News” aired February 27th, did a segment on the “2012 girls group ranking,” which rated girl groups based on their living accommodations. The broadcast revealed the size of SNSD’s dorm, stating the living room area in itself was a staggering 30 pyeong (1080 sq ft). That is one ridiculously large living room by any standard!
According to a real estate agent, SNSD’s dorm would draw a deposit of around 100 million Won (that’s about $100,000!). The monthly rent was estimated at 4 to 6 million Won ($4,000 to $6,000), and in terms of buying the property, it would cost an estimated 800 to 900 million Won. That’s almost $1 million USD!
According to the broadcast, the main reason why they are living in this luxurious dorm is because it is 5 minutes from SM’s building, has a high level of security and maintains our girls privacy.
Wow, that is a lot of money to be dishing out monthly to house our girls! But you know what, they are definitely worth every penny! Just look at how hard they work for us to provide us top notch entertainment. Very little sleep, super busy schedules daily and pushing themselves to the limit all the time (and sometimes over, think Sunny fainting on stage during the 1st Arena Tour). It must be absolute CHAOS in the morning when they are getting ready. If you can see in the picture, I believe the 9 girls share only 3 bathrooms, with one being inside Sica and Sooyoung’s room. If I were you, I’d stay out of their way in the morning, haha. Or, you could just be lazy Sica and not get up until everyone is done and have all 3 of yourself, haha.
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im so proud of my snsd family,hope they r doing well and not push themselves too hard..
Actually, when you divide the place into 9, it’s no longer enormous.
true. It’s smaller then my house and I find it cramped living with only 3 other people. I can’t imagine what it would be like for them.
yep totally agree on you cuz they were nine i think they need more space 😀
True 😀 I would want a bigger place than that for 9 but it is convenient and has good security apparently
Actually, $4k=$6K USD per month for a residence that big is really cheap. A house in Orange County, California that size would easily fetch that money. Now, you take a place that big in, say, a nice part of New York,, you’re probably talking $20K+ per month. The cost of living in Seoul is actually pretty reasonable.
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Here is their dorm.
Their dorm is on 6th floor of the building
It is just at 10minute on foot to SM’s head office.
And 11th floor which is the same as their place is on sale now.
It is 2.9billion Won about $2.5million in US dollar.
Actually Gangnam Seoul is one of the most expensive place in the world.
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they so totally deserves it. i think SM-emtertainment earns at least 10 milion$ for every concert they do and then we have all the other activities that they are involved in.
nice to see that SM-entertainment are thinking of there security in there dorm at least
they should improve the security when they are preforming though since it is famous to be rather lax
Sorry, but $10 million is just too much. Nobody makes that kind of money per show, not a K-pop act for sure. Unless you meant $1 million per show, which is what the big acts like Madonna, U2 make per concert.
Actually, I don’t know about that, cause SM released states that Snsd earned nearly 450 million US in Japan within the 50 days that they were active in Japan for the arena concerts and album release
I understand that ticket wise, they earn about 1.5 mil every show, but imagine a nationally loved group like Snsd, all the sponsors would gladly jump in and pay for the expenses if they can put their brand name in the background of Snsd pre concert press conference. I also heard that Snsd merchandise are also a major revenue boost cause sm receives millions from merchandise every concert (cause they always end up sold out)
Of course there is the tax department, as well as the fact that their Japanese label wanting a big piece of the cash cake. But the thing is I think them making in the tens of millions per soncert is possible
Somehow I think that $450 million number isn’t realistic. They claim to have earned almost half a billion dollars in 50 days? The numbers just don’t add up. Let’s say they had one concert per day (which they didn’t, but just for discussion purposes) and made $2MM (which is on the very high side) per show. You’re at $100MM. How many CDs and DVDs in that timeframe? A million? Even at an average of $30 per, that’s $30MM. There’s no way sponsorships and memorabilia will make up the other $300MM.
woow.. it seems quite small if have been divide into 9,anyway from the picture i see Tiffany has her own room not like other’s,am i right or wrong??
Yes, Tiffany has her own room. I believe that in an episode of Champagne they explained that because she doesn’t have a home in Korea, she got the single room 🙂
They definitely deserve it and more!
Really glad they have a nice luxurious and secure dorm.
Imagine the fun they’d get up to in there haha.
Ahhh *sigh*.. Fun times I’m sure any SONE wishes they could share with them
❤
Shared by 9 girls it is actually small.
Hope the girls will get better accommodations
well, what do you expect, you need a big house for 9 girls, haha 😀 I can imagine Sooyoung and Jessica in the morning, lol ^^
i shouldnt want to get in the way of those two 😆
i wouldnt like to live in there imagine the stress in the morning to go to the bathroom before nine young ladies get in there to do the makeup.
it usually takes forever for women to get ready in there in the morning 😆
Jessica no longer lives in the dorm with the rest. She lives with her parents, just like Krystal.
It seems that the shorter the girl the smaller the room hahaha
But like others said, it’s not that big for an apartment with 9 people living in it. And any apartment of that size would cost at least double that price here (but I don’t know the average price of the square meter in Korea).
Anyway, SME should buy them a house already!
So where did SNSD rank on the list lol?
Yes, it’s large for for kpop group dorm
But
There are nine members in Snsd, they are Asia’s biggest girl group. They deserve better. I know it’s different cause I don’t live in Korea and may not understand how small the property sizes or what ever, but the amount that the girls earn in one day can easily buy their whole apartment.
i love yuri and soehyun in my heart
jeongmal chohda!!?
huimang choh boda gesseo!!?
Thank you SMENT for providing SoShi a really nice place, at least it can accomodate them even in their busy schedules.
SNSD jjang! SMent jjang! 🙂
kekekekkeke our noona’s deserved this they worked so hard of corz they ned a pleasant place to rest their tired body ^_^ ……………………….P.S tomorrow is the birthday of our kid-leader kekekekeke HAPPY BIRTHDAY tae-yeon noona ♥_♥ saranghae♥♥…
To be honest, they deserve the top notch accommodation considering the amount of effort that the 9 ladies put in daily to uphold the reputation of SM Entertainment, as well as provide SONEs all over with the joy that only they can give with their smiles and talents 😆 !
SNSD Hwaiting !
come in to see snsd in Los Angeles on friday throught sunday have your soshi face on
I watched the first ep wiuhott sub and still find it funny, and personlly, I think yoona and hyoyeon will be most successful at helping the boy out cause they dcided to approach him like a friend, and throughout their convos, the boy seems to open up to them automaticaly while being humorous at the same time all in all, first ep was a must see, p.s. Seohyun lovers will just crack up at every close up
If any of you bought the snsd japanese holiday book you would see part of their dorm and their massive snack area. like o.O they have so many snacks im totally jelly. I can upload the pics from my book if you all want to see them.
please upload! I would love to see the pics!
i have no idea how to upload these here i have them on my computer *low quality taken with a 3ds T^T* but idk how to put them here? if one of the admins could get them from me shadowfirexd@gmail.com i could let them post them for me.
It’s actually 100 square metres (= 1,076 sq ft) , not 100 pyeong (= 3,600 sq ft = 335 square metres), so it’s not big at all.
The original article is written by someone not very smart. (Some other sites have even posted a picture on which it says that it’s 100 square metres next to the text in which they write about how it’s 335 square metres).
Korea officially switched from using Pyeong to using square metres some years ago.
(also, it’s actually 125 square metres, but the articles are reporting it as “over 100” instead of “125”)
Really? 125 square meters? That’s really small…. And for 9 girls even…. now I feel bad for them 😦
2pm gets a villa with their own bedroom and the national girl group gets this. But I think it’s kinda cute for the girls and deff stingie of sm. I think they should continue to stay together in that small dorm cause they all have solo activities and I don’t want them to not see each other as often. It’s small, but they always stay in hotel cause of their international activities anyways, so it would be a waste to to have a huge house and not use it to its fullest
From wht I hear the layout is outdated that they took it from girls got to school episode that showed the girls room.
well 3,600 sq ft is a decent amount of space considering there are members who are girls…. girls need lots of room unlike guys…. anyways i guess it’s good but idk if getting one of the luxury apartments is that great…especially one in Kang-nam. sm ent should get them a cheaper apartment and just give them the money…. we all know that sm artists, especially the idols, don’t get paid much.
so like why on earth does a small area like that costs 6G’s a month? no security is worth that much…
Or, you could just be lazy Sica and not get up until everyone is done and have all 3 of yourself, haha.
i lol-ed at this!
this girls just worth it…
they really work hard…
SNSD Jjang… saranghae ^___^
I actually think they need a bigger house! It is big and they probably live comfortably, but there are nine of them, which is a lot of people! Especially considering the fact that they are girls, which means they most likely a) have a lot of things and b0 take forever getting ready in the bathroom each morning! Its thier home so I’m sure they have grown to love it, but I think they could use more space considering how hard they work and the money they must earn 🙂
I really hope the security is good because people know where they live now.
They really deserve it, and yes, the security would have to be good, if there’s people like me out there.
haven’t yo heard that sooyoung tells that their home was really huge and hi-tech.. she’salso said that its too big for them all xD
the picture with at the bottom right was taken at GGTS and they abandonedit now living in the new house xD
>.< pissed off !
hmm the photo seems like video ,, if anyone knew what video show is this,please share it to me,, what its called.. 😀
wowww sooo big ^__^, but these girls are so successful and they’ve worked so hard,
they totally deserve this :).
oh my god~ that’s soo~ cool!! their house is just getting bigger and bigger!! but why Taeyeon unnie is in the same room with sunny?? >< eee~ hump!! YoonYul in one, SooSica in one. and Taeyeon with sunny? is tiffany alone in one room to herself?? i cant see the plan well.
wow nice snsd cool place
nice house got of snsd its bigger and so much beautifull :> ❤
Why don’t they save money and buy it?
Only Hyoyeon, Taeyeon & Tiffany still lives in the dorm together now. However when they’re in Japan, they live in the same Dorm.”
Where are the rest? Wouldn’t they all live in the dorm when they promote tho? It would be easier that way