Girls' Generation

(Megan)

I grew up in a very cookie cutter kind of suburbs where everyone was really Americanized and the population was predominantly white and Asian. So when my friend started to do the dance in our high school halls to the "Gee" song made by the South Korean all girl group Girls' Generation, it caught me off guard.

She shuffled back and forth with her feet, turning in and out while holding a peace sign horizontally up to her face, eye peering through her peace sign eventually bringing it against the side of her head. She sang, "Gee, gee, gee, gee baby, baby." 

(That girl in the middle, Samantha Wong, started it.)

(Jessica Jung doing the famous pose)

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Jessica Jung was born and raised in San Francisco, California until she went on vacation with her family to South Korea and was scouted by a talent agency, SM Entertainment. When she was 11 she made the move to South Korea to train for seven years before joining the group that would be known as Girls' Generation.

She is fluent in both English and in Korean, but also can speak Japanese and minimal Chinese. Jessica's Korean name is Jung Soo-yeon and is also nicknamed the "Ice Princess" because of her cold personality. She is also known as a real life "tsundere" which is a manga/anime character who is cold upon the first couple of interactions, but warms up eventually when she gets to know you. 

On August 5, 2007, Girls' Generation made its debut but it wasn't until the release of their popular hit song, "Gee" that made them known. The song was call the "song of the decade" in South Korea. 

Jessica did a lot of side work as well, with a collection of singles, collaborations, modeling and even acting. She released three songs with group members Seohyun and Tiffany, "Love Hate", "Bad Older Brother" and "It's Fantastic!" She also collaborated with 8Eight, though she is not the one in the music video but is singing the harmony and adlibs. 

The singer was also nominated for and won the popularity award from the Musical Awards in South Korea as well as the award as "Korean Barbie". 

Girls' Generation had Jessica and Tiffany as the main spokeswomen for this interview on television. Access Hollywood is aired on NBC and the interview reveals that Jessica and Tiffany are from the United States. At this point Girls' Generation had just broken into America's music scene and that's a pretty big deal, because they were one of the first girl groups from Korea to enter the music scene.