On November 16th 2010, sment uploaded a short video of the girls cheering on those who are taking the 2011 CSAT.

For those who are not sure of what an CSAT is, quickly running it down without getting into specifics,  it is a test that includes reading, writing and math (these categories can be split into different subjects). The main point is to show colleges how well you can translate your knowledge on paper. Many colleges and universities use the CSAT to gauge and admit students that apply both antionally and internationally. The CSAT is typically taken in Junior or Senior High School.

Credits: http://yurui.egloos.com/4496794 , http://twitter.com/#!/Yurui912 , sment

Sisa Journal is a weekly korean magazine published by Sisa Press

The November 8th 2010 edition has our girls gracing it’s cover and also photos and articles revolving around the girls.

Since these were in korean, we had to wait for a translation and thanks to Yoongislove and _shikshin from twitter, we have the exerpts for all 9 girls. text heavy, so hit the jump for the breakdown.

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Since November 11th the 2010 Melon Music Awards have been underway with voting and the results from only 1 day are very impressive for our girls.

Lest we say do not underestimate SONES since our girls have the majority vote with a whopping 23%. Soshi’s brothers aren’t too far behind with Suju coming in at 16% and SHINee at 11%.

SME really seem to be a powerhouse with three of their groups dominating the top 3 spots.

As if the competition didn’t seem crazy enough, our girls are up against the likes of 2pm, 2am, BEAST, KARA nipping very closely for the top spot too.

4minute, Secret, SISTAR, Miss A, f(x), Tiara for the girl groups then 2pm, 2am, Super Junior and BEAST among the leading male artists are included in the competition that have more than 30 artists with only 10 getting to the top spots.

The votes are calculated via online and mobile and also accumulates votes via sales of the artist’s albums. The final announcement will be made on 15th December at Kyunghee University in Seoul where the awards show will be held.

Meanwhile, the awards show will be broadcast live on MBC, Melon.Com and other cable sites oversea’s

Needless to say….SOSHI HWAITING!!

Source: Starnews, Blueprincess824 @ dkpopnews.net, cantthinkofaname (soompi)

Continuing the Japanese Domination, our very own girls followed Genie with Gee in Japan which was released on 20th October.

How well have they done? They have maintained the top 5 ranking in the Oricon Weekly Singles chart for the third week, finishing at 5 on the third.

Moreover, the Gee single had recorded 13,320 sales in the third week making the total number: 102,881

Want a little bit of comparison to their increasing popularity? While Genie took 8 weeks to beat 100,000 copies, Gee took 3.

Here’s hoping that the girls popularity in Japan continue to sky-rocket, I do like the girls singing in Japanese personally :P.

Source: http://fanwonder.com/?p=4709 , asiae.co.kr

Gaon is a ranking system made up of different music sites and distributing companies. The charts are calculated on the number’s that they have from Korean Online and Mobile Charts.

The Online Chart displays results from online music and album sales and streaming services while the Mobile Chart calculates the best selling ringtones and caller ringtones for each week.

Digital Chart

Online Chart

“Hoot” soared to the number 1 spot on the 5th week of October.

Credits: http://fanwonder.com/?p=4626 , gaonchart.co.kr

It is time for the timely(or randomly timed) tradition of the Snsdkorean Podcast.

And a better time we couldn’t have picked. With the New Mini-album and the abundance of Comeback performances, we will be doing the cast in the First half week of November.

Is there anything that you want an opinion on? or any questions for the team? Please feel free to leave your comments and questions below and it may be picked and debated on or answered when we get the ball rolling.

Our Favourite Other Host Maeniac will be joining us (her and I will fight to the death to see who is host….or wing it….watever) along with a few others (mae is the only one I care about anyway XD, JK!)