SNSD, Yoo Seung Ho, and Knee-Drop Guru: Were their changes successful?

Article: Soshi, Knee-Drop Guru, Yoo Seung Ho... The only way to survive is to change

Source: E-Daily via Naver

Article that uses SNSD, Knee-Drop Guru, and Yoo Seung Ho as examples of people who recently underwent a radical change. Although the article focuses on the positive aspects of their change, it also recognizes that changing up your image so radically can also be a gamble that could potentially ruin everything you've built up to that point.

Although people that expected another pretty image with a hook song like 'Gee' were disappointed, SNSD managed to show a completely different side to them.

Knee-Drop Guru invited their first foreign guests and were met with a positive response from viewers. They hope to continue inviting more foreign guests and have already scheduled Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as their next guest.

Through 'I Miss You', Yoo Seung Ho was finally able to break away from his image as a child actor and show that he now has what it takes to pull off adult roles without viewers seeing him as a child.

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1. [+137, -6] Yoo Seung Ho definitely didn't put himself at risk with the change.. It was a successful transformation.

2. [+81, -4] Yoo Seung Ho's an amazing actor.. There's nothing he lacks in

3. [+93, -20] Is this article seriously putting I Got a Boy on the same level as Yoo Seung Ho? Wow... ridiculous

4. [+87, -23] Aside from Yoo Seung Ho, they all failed at their change

5. [+85, -23] SNSD's new song is not called change, it is called regression

6. [+74, -14] SNSD was at the height of their fame with Gee and have been on a slow downfall since then. Genie lost devastatingly against 2NE1's I Don't Care even though they were rookies at the time, and ever since then, I have no idea what song is what with SNSD

7. [+72, -16] I'm really begging SM to stop media playing the song as something greater than it is and to just put the girls into their follow up promotions already. They media played all year long and The Boys still never managed to rank #1 digitally. It seems like they don't even know what their musical color is anymore. Don't pull Yoo Seung Ho and Kang Ho Dong into this to make more excuses for this change and just admit it. I Got a Boy is a failure.

8. [+75, -19] Look at SM trying to stick SNSD into an article to make it seem like they succeeded in transforming as well as Yoo Seung Ho did

9. [+56, -11] I only agree with Yoo Seung Ho in this article. SNSD and Knee-Drop Guru were failures. It just seems like they're latching on to Yoo Seung Ho as an excuse to ride on his spotlight. SNSD's song would've failed if another group sang it and Knee-Drop Guru can't call inviting one foreign guest a 'radical change'.

10. [+52, -13] How dare SM use Yoo Seung Ho as media play...

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