{"id":4626,"date":"2009-08-28T03:08:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T03:08:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-29T04:08:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T04:08:59","slug":"Would-you-compete-with-the-Wonder-Girls-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=4626","title":{"rendered":"Would you compete with the Wonder Girls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new five-member girl group named <strong>&quot;f(x)&quot; <\/strong>will make their debut on Sept. 2 to compete with <strong>&quot;Wonder Girls&quot; and &quot;Girls Generation.&quot;<\/strong> SM Entertainment said on Tuesday that it plans to showcase f(x) at Fashion Center in Samseong-down, southern Seoul, with the attendance of Girls Generation and SHINee.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, f(x) will sing their debut song &quot;Lachata&quot; and release the full edition of their music video of the song to the public, according to the management agency.<\/p>\n<p>The agency explained the meaning of the name of the new girl group, saying &quot;f&quot; indicates flower which represents women, and &quot;(x)&quot; mimics the letter&#8217;s use in algebra.<br \/>\n<strong>F(x) is made up of five girls &#8212; Sulli, Amber, Krystal, Victoria, and Luna. Three members (Sulli, Krystal, and Luna) are from Korea, and the other two (Amber and Victoria) are from China.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sulli, 16,<\/strong> was a child actress who appeared as Seonhwa Princess in a SBS soap opera &quot;Seodongyo&quot; aired from 2005 to 2006. At that time, she attracted public attention for her good looks and impressive acting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Krystal, 16,<\/strong> is well-known as a younger sister of Jessica, a member of Girls Generation. She already has many fans who expect her to make a big impact in the world of girl groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luna, 17,<\/strong> was reportedly recruited by the management agency for her good dancing skills.<\/p>\n<p>One of the two Chinese members, <strong>Victoria, 23,<\/strong> drew public attention when she appeared on a Samsumg Anycall advertisement with Korean pop star Rain in China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amber, 18,<\/strong> was selected from a global audition held in 2007. According to the agency, she has received various forms of training like rapping, learning Korean, dance in Korea since the beginning of 2008. <\/p>\n<p><em>Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.co.kr\/NEWKHSITE\/data\/html_dir\/2009\/08\/27\/200908270086.asp\" target=\"_blank\">www.koreaherald.co.kr<\/a><\/em> <br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<!--Session data--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new five-member girl group named &quot;f(x)&quot; will make their debut on Sept. 2 to compete with &quot;Wonder Girls&quot; and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"A new five-member girl group named &quot;f(x)&quot; will make their debut on Sept. 2 to compete with &quot;Wonder Girls&quot; and","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":133,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}