As the years go by, Taeyeon continues to dazzle fans with her various talents, and 2012 was no exception. First, Taeyeon continued to hone her emceeing skills by becoming a permanent MC on MBC’s “Show! Music Core” along with fellow group mates, Tiffany and Seohyun. In addition, she also emceed the “First Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards” together with Joo Younghoon and the “2012 Korean Music Wave in Bangkok” with Tiffany and 2PM’s Nichkhun. Taeyeon lost her toenail at the first event while running the show, but showed her professionalism by continuing with a smile. Besides emceeing, Taeyeon also tried her hand at acting by making a cameo in SBS’s sitcom, “Salamander Guru and the Shadows” and did photoshoots for “High Cut” magazine and “Elle Girl Korea”.
Not only can Taeyeon act and emcee, but she can also hit those high notes, reclaiming her title of “OST Queen” by releasing three OSTs. Taeyeon, along with various other SM artists, recorded “Dear My Family” for SMTOWN’s movie, “I AM”. Her first solo song of the year, “Missing You Like Crazy”, was the OST for MBC’s “The King 2 Hearts” and an all-kill as it topped all major music charts after its release, going on to win the “Best Song from a Series” award at the “Seoul Drama Awards 2012″ and to be nominated for the “Best OST” award at the “2012 Mnet Asia Music Awards”. Taeyeon also sang “Closer” for SBS’s “To The Beautiful You”. Finally, in May, Taeyeon showed off her singing with Tiffany and Seohyun by forming Girls’ Generation’s first subunit, Girls’ Generation – TTS. “Twinkle” proved to be a huge hit as it achieved all-kill status, topped the Billboard World Albums chart upon release, and snagged twelve music show awards.
Perhaps some of the best highlights of Taeyeon’s singing in 2012 are the live performances of the OST for “Athena: Goddess of War”, “I Love You”, in Saitama and Osaka.
From singing, to acting, to emceeing, to starting a green peas phenomenon, Taeyeon has done it all.
