Girls' Generation : A South Korean eight-member idol girl group

Girls' Generation is a South Korean eight-member idol girl group affiliated with SM Entertainment, consisting of Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany Young, Hyo-yeon, Yuri, Swimming, Yoona and Seohyun.

Since its heyday in 2009, it has enjoyed numerous records and greatest popularity as a K-pop girl group. It has been called "Legend Girl Group" and "Girl Group Textbook" and has become a role model for many junior girl groups.

Some of the most popular hits are  <Geeee,  <The World We Meet Again다시,  <Kissing You You,  <Give Me Your Wish> >,  <Oh!Songs such as >,  < 훗,훗 and  < were also very popular.

She is the second-generation girl group finalist who led the K-pop craze in Asia, and is considered a role model for many junior girl groups. In particular, she has consolidated her image as the final king of girl groups by equipping herself with overwhelming popularity, recognition and huge fandom that can compete with boy band fandom.

According to the analysis, the members' characters are strong and their relationship is a good combination for fans. "The Girls' Generation is seen as a boarding school fantasy, not as an army or a Taereung training camp," Doona said. Perhaps because of that, many of the core fans had experience in 2D-related subculture and fan quality, and there were a lot of cases where they moved to a new job thanks to the Japanese idol group. "Welcome to your new life as a SNSD fan. There is no turning back."

Although recognition is also considered one of the groups that created the concept of the so-called "samchon fan," there are a lot of female fans who make up the main theme of the fandom culture. She was also a leading girl group of the president of the military.

When  <Oh!! teaser video was released exclusively on Naver, the portal site was so crowded that Naver server was paralyzed. Girls' Generation is already said to be "more than just one group." In the Korean Brand Committee, Yoo Jae-suk, Kim Yu-na and Girls’ Generation were also placed as Korean brand value TOP 3. In addition, he ranked first in the entertainment industry for two years in a row and fifth in a row, and only once before, he entered the first generation of idol groups except Girls' Generation, which is about 25 years old. As of 2016, it has also been in the Top 5 of the Year list for the 10th consecutive year. He is also the only idol to appear as a hallyu representative in a promotional video for the PyeongChang Olympics, which will be jointly appointed as the Korea National Tourism Organization's Korean PR ambassador in cooperation with Ryu or sent around the world during the closing ceremony of Sochi.

There are also a lot of foreign fans. As of 2019, there are eight music videos that have surpassed 100 million views on YouTube.> became the fifth group to record 100 million views, becoming the first idol group to have five 100 million views of music videos as of December 14, 2016. There's a unit group, Girls' Generation-oh!GG’s GDidn’t Know몰 music video has reached 100 million views and Taeyeon’s  <I 뮤직비디오 music video has surpassed 180 million views.

Sosipede, a leading overseas fan club of Girls’ Generation, is the first Korean singer fan club formed in North America, a case in point that Girls’ Generation announced the start of K-pop popularity overseas.

Girl groups usually tend to sell songs well instead of bottom lines, while Girls’ Generation is one of the few girl groups that became million sellers by annual album sales in the early 2010s, when the album market passed after the Balad era and the music market entered the music market.

As a result of 10 years of firepower, the accumulated record is also huge, with accumulated sales of more than 5.2 million albums at home and abroad as of 2018. This level of sales is the second-largest among all girl groups and is one of the most popular among all idol groups.

izm said that it is an all-round player that has set a new quarter among the idol groups of SM.

On January 30, 2020, Taeyeon said, "Go to Seoul.By winning the Grand Prize for Music in 'The Grand Prize,' it became the first group since Fin.K.L. to produce a record for the award.