The inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) has officially begun at the Opening Ceremony in Singapore at Float@Marina Bay on 14 August. The broadcast of the YOG Opening Ceremony was estimated to be able to reach an international audience of more than 15 million people, with an approximately 27,000 audiences gathered at the Marina Bay floating platform. Korean Girl-group, Wonder Girls' "Nobody" was also performed by hundreds of performers on-stage accompanied by six giant LED screens which shows various covers of the "Nobody" dance.

Official batch of photos of Wonder Girls at meet & greet and their performance at SINGfest 2010.

Vote for Wonder Girls on Japan Website, BIGLOBE MUSIC!! KARA, Girls' Generation, FTIsland, BROWN EYED GIRLS... All of these South Korean units are starting to come to the Japanese music scene. It was a spark no doubt started by Tohoshinki and now many K-pop artists are looking to make a name for themselves in the Japanese market. With Tohoshinki on hiatus, 2010 will definitely be a time when the different Korean groups will be looking to take their spot in Japan. Back in July when we went to Seoul, South Korea, we found out that they really don't have anything like a large scale CD store such as HMV. On top of that, even the main stores had Japanese tourists. Korea is considered a music distribution center, but for them a big hit might sell only 50,000 copies. This is nothing compared to the "buying CD" culture that has taken root in Japan. For the Korean music scene this would obviously seem like a better market.