2005-2006: The first tremors of a new power rising in the South.
The Grace
2007: The Three Kingdoms rise to power.
Girls Generation
2009: The Golden Age of Girl Groups Begins.
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T-ara
Secret
Rainbow
After School
2010: The Great Romance Period
Girls Day
Orange Caramel
2011: Silver Age Begins
Dal Shabet
F-ve Dolls
2012: Final Stand of The Mandate of Heaven
EvOL
2013 and on would mark the end of the greatest period in girl group debut history. By 2018 not much was left of this magnificent period. Gone were the greats and replaced by inferior clones.