Girl’s Generation Effectively Disbanded as Sooyoung, Seohyun, and Tiffany Leave SM Entertainment

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• Ten years of idol life, it's long ! They were brave ! I understand they want to quit this style of life but I never was impressed by their acting... So I don't know if it's a good choice to leave SM because they have a great power in the korean industry.

• Wonder Girls, KARA, T-ara, 2NE1, Girls' Generation... an end of an era, indeed! I'm gonna miss them so much. They've been an inspiration to many young women out there.

  I was expecting Tiffany since rumors about her entering university has been floating around for a while. I wasn't expecting Sooyoung but she has stated before that she wanted to get marry at the age of 24, so I wouldn't be surprised if there would be any wedding announcement soon. She's also my favorite actress among SNSD, that's why I wouldn't mind her focusing with acting. Seohyun, on the other hand, was the most shocking. Period.

• End of an era. But SNSD lost its essence already when Jessica left. And now that T-ara and 2ne1 have disbanded too, this era truly ended.

• I am shocked with seohyun and I like sooyoung acting for a while now. I think sooyoung wants to settle down and idol life as a group will be hard to maintain if that's her plan. I hope all the best for all of the m

  • i thk among SNSD Sooyoung is the most natural in her acting. and also has the most stable & disclosed relationship. I thk its a great time for her to start a new chapter, away from SM. I wasnt that surprise with Seohyun, she always seem the odd one out. And she wasnt allowed to express herself the way she wanted to due to so much SM restrictions. But shes better at singing than acting.

  • Sooyoung wants to act and get get established as an actor. SM treats her poorly and doesn't support her acting like they do Yoona. So I can see why she'd go elsewhere.

• Don't know why people are surprised about Seohyun. She has spoke about her resentment toward SM multiple times. They rejected two huge roles (Architecture 101, Train to Busan) for her, tried giving her a concept she didn't like for her solo album and prevented her from composing songs. If I were her I would leave at the first chance I get.

  As for Sooyoung, it was expected. She and Jung Kyung-ho probably want to settle down and get married. Tiffany is getting alot of hate since the flag incident, and would likely not get any good opportunities if she stays in South Korea. I am more surprised with Yoona staying since she's the most successful actress.

  Like someone said before, SNSD truly declined musically after Jessica left. SM should let the girls experiment and do the music they like but idk why they didn't. Wonder Girls did a good job with their self composed music and I am sure SNSD would do a good job given the chance.

  • I also agree that Tiffany will have a hard time after the flag incident.

• I will admit not knowing anything about idols but I have always wondered why Sooyoung, Seohyun was never promoted as much as Suzy. I don’t think they lack anything in terms of looks or ‘talent’ compared to her. Was it because SM had too many pretty female idols to look after?

  • Sooyoung isn't considered pretty in South Korea. In fact, Koreans think she is ugly and consider her "south-east asian" looking.
    Seohyun has always been overshadowed by Yoona. Both similar image, but Yoona has been far more popular since their debut, and received more attention as the center/visual.

    Anyway, it's impossible that any female idol in SM to be pushed like Suzy. They value the "group over individual" mentality, and would not allow any single member to overshadow the group's success. Suzy was so successful that people started scolding her group members for "leeching" onto her.

    • Thanks for your reply. This also explains why Yoona who is also very popular, in fact in most polls I’ve seen from Weibo is always number 1 or 2 and yet she never gets the same promotion as Suzy when her drama aired.

    • @Abc Weibo is a Chinese site, not Korean, so it's not really the best measure of popularity if you want to talk about something like domestic drama promotion.

      In Korea at least Suzy is on top so it makes sense there's more buzz about her drama. Comparing the dramas themselves WYWS has more hype than TKL, so again it makes sense that there's more promotion for it.

      Personally while I do think SM prefers the "group over individual" mentality for their groups at the beginning, it doesn't really apply to groups as old as SNSD. Taeyeon's solo music career and digital sales completely overshadowed SNSD'S this year, which could hardly happen if SM were still thinking of "group over individual".

    • @kpopfan, excuse you, about Sooyoung, even for South East asian she'd be considered ugly and common looking. look for Sam Pinto and Jennylyn Mercado, those are considered South East asian beauties, your Sooyoung would look like a toenail beside them, those girls mentioned even didnt go under knife but are natural face.

  • Suzy is not with SM

• Everything will eventually came to an end however it is still sad to see them go but good luck to everyone. It’ve been a great pleasure to be able to listen to them sing for a decade.

• It about time.

  Nice to see them grow up nicely and spread their wings and go where they desire. Progression instead of some old idol groups especially male ones still prancing around...

• next may be f(x)

  • Poor f(x) they haven't produced any songs (or promoted as a group) in a while and I would consider them already disbanded and forgotten. SM really did a poor job with them and I think Red Velvet has essentially replaced them. At least Krystal has her acting career, Amber has a youtube channel and does some other social media type things, Victoria I think is acting in Taiwanese dramas, and poor Luna has had no exposure or promotion it seems.

• Not really surprised. Some of those girls have been with SM most of their lives. I know SM did them dirty for their comeback, but they've been falling off for awhile. Would have been better go out on top like Sistar than stick around for longer than the public cared.

  • Yeah. Seohyun, like Yoona, has been training with SM since she was 10. I believe Sooyoung has also been a trainee since she was 12. But the group is iconic anyway you put it. Many of the girl groups that have debuted are influenced by SNSD one way or another. (Agencies are still debuting girl groups with default 8-9 members, who resemble SNSD in earlier concepts.) Even YG's Yang Hyun Suk admitted in an interview last year that he wanted to debut a pretty girl group similar to SNSD but doing hip hop.