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omonatheydidCelebrating its 8th anniversary, Super Junior will release photo books filled with memories from Hawaii.
On November 6, SM Entertainment stated Super Junior will release two photo books, Super Junior Memory in Hawaii Aloha and Super Junior Memory in Hawaii Mahalo.
Back in July, the Super Junior members traveled to Hawaii for these photo books. Along with the stunningly beautiful photos of the members and Hawaii, the photo books will include a DVD of the shoot, a poster, and other items.
The books will be open for pre-order on online bookstores starting November 6. The Aloha version will be released on November 20 and the Mahalo version on December 6 through online and offline bookstores.
Meanwhile, Super Junior will be in Mexico to participate in its Super Junior World Tour Super Show 5 in Mexico City on November 7.
Photo Credit: SM Entertainment
Super Junior cosplay for 8th anniversary!
As a special way to thank their fans for sticking with them for 8 years, Super Junior cosplayed to the airport before heading off for their world tour!
As seen in the photos [here], the members dressed up as League of Legend characters, Leon and Mathilda from 'The Professional', Seo Taiji, and more.
In related news, Super Junior will be holding a concert in Mexico City, Mexico on November 7 and London, England on the 9th for the 'Super Show 5' world tour.
Can you tell who everyone dressed up as? And who did your favorite cosplay?
As seen in the photos [here], the members dressed up as League of Legend characters, Leon and Mathilda from 'The Professional', Seo Taiji, and more.
In related news, Super Junior will be holding a concert in Mexico City, Mexico on November 7 and London, England on the 9th for the 'Super Show 5' world tour.
Can you tell who everyone dressed up as? And who did your favorite cosplay?
Super Junior bring in a large crowd at the airport and arena for their concert in Mexico City
Super Junior has proven their worldwide fame once again. Their 'Super Junior World Tour Super Show 5' took place in Mexico City on November 7.
Before the concert, they encountered 2,000 of their fans excitedly waiting for them at the Mexico City International Airport despite the late hours because it was Super Junior's first time visiting Mexico. The fans even held fan signs written in Korean for the members. As there were so many of them, Super Junior were led out through the VIP passage with the help of the airport employees.
When it came time for their first performance in Mexico, 14,000 fans, mostly teenage girls, came out to see them perform twenty dance and ballad songs for two hours.
The boys showed off their charisma through dance and song, took part in comic acting, and did fan service by having skinship with the audience members. They even alternated wearing the Korean and Mexican national flags on their bodies, moving the hearts of their fans from both countries.
Andrea, who came with her mother to sing along to Super Junior, said, "I was Super Junior fans for seven years . . . They dance and sing well and I like them because they entertain people."
Super Junior members said on stage, "We came to Mexico for the first time and had not known that we had this many fans . . . If we get the chance, we will come here again."
Check out the video posted by the Mexico City Arena YouTube channel showing the large crowd of fans waiting outside to enter for the concert!
Super Junior has proven their worldwide fame once again. Their 'Super Junior World Tour Super Show 5' took place in Mexico City on November 7.
Before the concert, they encountered 2,000 of their fans excitedly waiting for them at the Mexico City International Airport despite the late hours because it was Super Junior's first time visiting Mexico. The fans even held fan signs written in Korean for the members. As there were so many of them, Super Junior were led out through the VIP passage with the help of the airport employees.
When it came time for their first performance in Mexico, 14,000 fans, mostly teenage girls, came out to see them perform twenty dance and ballad songs for two hours.
The boys showed off their charisma through dance and song, took part in comic acting, and did fan service by having skinship with the audience members. They even alternated wearing the Korean and Mexican national flags on their bodies, moving the hearts of their fans from both countries.
Andrea, who came with her mother to sing along to Super Junior, said, "I was Super Junior fans for seven years . . . They dance and sing well and I like them because they entertain people."
Super Junior members said on stage, "We came to Mexico for the first time and had not known that we had this many fans . . . If we get the chance, we will come here again."
Check out the video posted by the Mexico City Arena YouTube channel showing the large crowd of fans waiting outside to enter for the concert!
Album covers and audio teasers for Super Junior's new Japanese single "Blue World"
Super Junior to Give Special Lecture in Oxford
King of K-pop Super Junior will give a special lecture at the University of Oxford, the group’s agency SM Entertainment said on Thursday.
Super Junior has been invited by Oxford Asia-Pacific Association and Oxford Korean Student Council to give the special lecture at Oxford Union Debating Chamber in Oxford, England this Sunday at 5 p.m. in local time.
“As Europe has high interest in Korean culture, we decided to invite top Hallyu star to the Europe’s prestigious university. Their visit will be the important momentum to make Oxford people acknowledge Korean culture,” said the organizers.
Drawing in over 300 applicants in three days, Super Junior will mark themselves as the third Korean figure to stand on the podium following Hwang, former Samsung Electronics chief and K-pop sensation PSY.
The group, currently on their global concert tour “Super Show 5,” will excite Mexican fans at the Mexico City Arena on Thursday and then jump to London to heat up the Wembley Arena two days later.
Reporter. Cory Lee
Courtesy of SM Entertainment
King of K-pop Super Junior will give a special lecture at the University of Oxford, the group’s agency SM Entertainment said on Thursday.
Super Junior has been invited by Oxford Asia-Pacific Association and Oxford Korean Student Council to give the special lecture at Oxford Union Debating Chamber in Oxford, England this Sunday at 5 p.m. in local time.
“As Europe has high interest in Korean culture, we decided to invite top Hallyu star to the Europe’s prestigious university. Their visit will be the important momentum to make Oxford people acknowledge Korean culture,” said the organizers.
Drawing in over 300 applicants in three days, Super Junior will mark themselves as the third Korean figure to stand on the podium following Hwang, former Samsung Electronics chief and K-pop sensation PSY.
The group, currently on their global concert tour “Super Show 5,” will excite Mexican fans at the Mexico City Arena on Thursday and then jump to London to heat up the Wembley Arena two days later.
Reporter. Cory Lee
Courtesy of SM Entertainment
The Independent: South Korea's One Direction: Super Junior's Wembley gig shows K-Pop is on the rise
Boyband Super Junior will address the Oxford Union on their UK visit
They are the epitome of manufactured, commercialised pop - and they are coming over here. Super Junior, a 13-piece South Korean boyband and "super franchise" are playing their first UK headline gig at Wembley Arena on Saturday night before delivering a guest lecture at the Oxford Union on Sunday, representing a new high water mark in the apparently unstoppable rise of "K-Pop".
Ironically for a group from the youth-obsessed world of South Korean chart music, the band is made up of music-industry veterans, some of whom are going on for 30 years old.
Their first hit came in eight years ago and while they are almost unknown in the UK they have had top 10 albums hits all over the world and were the best-selling K-Pop artist for three consecutive years.
After performing in front of a sellout crowd at Wembley, they will follow in the footsteps of fellow K-Pop star Psy with an address to the Oxford University Asia Pacific Society at the university's prestigious debating chamber.
Super Junior were created in 2005 after a mass talent contest run by their management SM Entertainment, that reportedly imposes a stringent singing and dancing training regime on its young performers. The firm's talent also includes Girls' Generation, a catchy pop group that earned a reported $88m in 2011 and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman.
In this tightly controlled world - sex scandals and drug use are practically unheard of - Super Junior are noteworthy as they are regularly split into different mini groups to appeal to different demographics and allow members to come and go as they complete their military service, which is mandatory in South Korea.
For example in 2008 Super Junior-M, one of the groups five major spin-offs, was aimed at the burgeoning Chinese market and so included Han Geng, a Chinese singer.
According to Keith Howard, a professor of music at the Centre for Korean Studies at SOAS University in London, this is typical of the wave of pop music that evolved in South Korean in the mid-2000s run by "ruthless" management companies, which were not afraid to drop members and substitute new ones for commercial reasons.
"Typically, they are manufactured in a music boot camps for three to six years and given all the skills, from music and media training to language and dancing so they are launched as a fully formed product," Professor Howard said.
The non-stop lifestyle of the South Korean pop machine isn't without casualties though. Speaking recently at the K-pop KCON conference in Los Angeles a former member of girl group After School spoke of sleep deprivation and a gruelling schedule.
"The worst thing was not sleeping," said Rebecca Kim. We came home with 1 hour 30mins left [until the next activity]. I had to wash my makeup off, shower and I went to sleep. But by then, I only had 30 minutes to wake up again at 6am."
Boyband Super Junior will address the Oxford Union on their UK visit
They are the epitome of manufactured, commercialised pop - and they are coming over here. Super Junior, a 13-piece South Korean boyband and "super franchise" are playing their first UK headline gig at Wembley Arena on Saturday night before delivering a guest lecture at the Oxford Union on Sunday, representing a new high water mark in the apparently unstoppable rise of "K-Pop".
Ironically for a group from the youth-obsessed world of South Korean chart music, the band is made up of music-industry veterans, some of whom are going on for 30 years old.
Their first hit came in eight years ago and while they are almost unknown in the UK they have had top 10 albums hits all over the world and were the best-selling K-Pop artist for three consecutive years.
After performing in front of a sellout crowd at Wembley, they will follow in the footsteps of fellow K-Pop star Psy with an address to the Oxford University Asia Pacific Society at the university's prestigious debating chamber.
Super Junior were created in 2005 after a mass talent contest run by their management SM Entertainment, that reportedly imposes a stringent singing and dancing training regime on its young performers. The firm's talent also includes Girls' Generation, a catchy pop group that earned a reported $88m in 2011 and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman.
In this tightly controlled world - sex scandals and drug use are practically unheard of - Super Junior are noteworthy as they are regularly split into different mini groups to appeal to different demographics and allow members to come and go as they complete their military service, which is mandatory in South Korea.
For example in 2008 Super Junior-M, one of the groups five major spin-offs, was aimed at the burgeoning Chinese market and so included Han Geng, a Chinese singer.
According to Keith Howard, a professor of music at the Centre for Korean Studies at SOAS University in London, this is typical of the wave of pop music that evolved in South Korean in the mid-2000s run by "ruthless" management companies, which were not afraid to drop members and substitute new ones for commercial reasons.
"Typically, they are manufactured in a music boot camps for three to six years and given all the skills, from music and media training to language and dancing so they are launched as a fully formed product," Professor Howard said.
The non-stop lifestyle of the South Korean pop machine isn't without casualties though. Speaking recently at the K-pop KCON conference in Los Angeles a former member of girl group After School spoke of sleep deprivation and a gruelling schedule.
"The worst thing was not sleeping," said Rebecca Kim. We came home with 1 hour 30mins left [until the next activity]. I had to wash my makeup off, shower and I went to sleep. But by then, I only had 30 minutes to wake up again at 6am."
Sources:
mwave
allkpop 1, 2
Arena Ciudad de México @yt
superjunior-jp.net
avexnetwork @yt
tenasia
The Independent
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Date: 2013-11-09 01:47 am (UTC)Mexico did an amazing job making them feel welcome. the cake, the soccer jersey's with their names, the medals made from melted keys, and the flower arrangements on top of meeting them strongly at the airport.
Side eyeing SMe because i don't think Henry was in Mexico and he, out of ALL, should have not had any problems with any Visa.
then this happened....
and Donghae speaking english makes me swoon....he seems a lot more comfortable than he used to. may he speak more in London.
....to my London SS5 peeps, have fun and scream a little from me for Donghae please.
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Date: 2013-11-09 02:33 am (UTC)Lord have mercy.
His intro speech actually had quite a bit of convo English. Very surprised. Definitely not his Full House English days.
I'm glad he's starting to feel more comfortable speaking English. I really wish he had spoken more in SMTownLA last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRkw1dZjnGI&feature=youtu.be
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Date: 2013-11-09 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-09 02:05 am (UTC)/cries
I hope Oxford will record the whole speaker event or lecture with SJ and upload it on YouTube, just like Stanford did with LSM's lecture.
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Date: 2013-11-10 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-09 02:48 am (UTC)i'm so there.
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Date: 2013-11-09 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-09 02:52 am (UTC)And the arena looked amazing.
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Date: 2013-11-09 02:55 am (UTC)But always welcoming more SJ! Happy anniversary guys!
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Date: 2013-11-09 02:56 am (UTC)always comparing ... first shinwa with Back street boys and now super junior with one direction
why?
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Date: 2013-11-09 02:57 am (UTC)also, sungmin bb looks so happy wearing girl clothes. and not to mention otp looks good together (right?
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Date: 2013-11-09 03:57 am (UTC)OMFG Sungmin in that outfit was radiating happiness!! He just couldn't stop smiling! It's been a really long time since he has looked so happy at the airport too xDD
And OTP remains as precious as always even with hideous clothes! And they kinda fit with each other's clothes too OTL xDD
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Date: 2013-11-09 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-09 05:06 am (UTC)And the crazy fanart on twitter after it had me loling for the longest time. My favorite was one with them a lá Married with Children style xDD
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Date: 2013-11-09 02:08 pm (UTC)So I wonder if Sungmin is cosplaying the gagman doing his character or cosplaying the character..? And is there a difference? This has been bothering my brain since yesterday.
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Date: 2013-11-09 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-09 05:06 pm (UTC)don't break your brain.....it is super junior....we don't need to overthink
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Date: 2013-11-09 05:07 am (UTC)the big difference between wang fei hung (?) airport cosplay and this one is XDDDDDD
and obligatory km spazzing 8D looking rly good
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Date: 2013-11-09 06:05 am (UTC)I loved it <3 They both looked really good even if the clothes were awful xDD It was nice to see Kyuhyun's lovely forehead again and Min was the prettiest as usual xDD
Never getting over Sungmin's bright smile either <33
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Date: 2013-11-09 02:14 pm (UTC)It's pretty obvious this stop was added to the tour pretty haphazardly. If they'd planned it from the beginning they probably would have continued on to Mexico after the SA stops and that would have meant they could have brought Zhoumi, Henry and the backup dancers with them as well.
I have absolutely no idea why Mexico wasn't in the works from the very start. It's obvious there was a lot of interest for it and once the concert was announced the tickets were all sold out in a few hours.
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Date: 2013-11-09 04:29 am (UTC)though i really like all the PBs they've released so far so i might purchase both as well :p
the blue ocean in SS5Mexico was really pretty~
and I actually like the styling in the covers for Blue World, though the 3rd cover looks a bit awkward -_-
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Date: 2013-11-09 05:00 am (UTC)Those photobook covers look adorable.
SJ at an Oxford lecture... there will be translators, right?
As usual in Japan MVs they're allowed to get fresh air, see the sky, go on top buildings, etc, but the songs are nonsense. I wish SM would stop with putting more English than Japanese in their artists' releases for Japan. Did I really hear them sing "I can see the mirai (future)"?
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Date: 2013-11-09 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-11-09 07:01 am (UTC)ugh! i am not liking suju japanese music now. :o\
it's cute that they did more cosplay now. i'm happy they're still not taking themselves too seriously.
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Date: 2013-11-09 09:42 am (UTC)I'm not liking how blue world/candy sound
But I'm leaving for London in a few hours yayyy so excited!
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Date: 2013-11-09 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-09 02:20 pm (UTC)Obviously that's an oversimplification but I don't think the article was aiming at a nuances analysis of Suju, their career or what they represent. Just a "Look! Weird!" kind of thing.
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Date: 2013-11-10 03:26 pm (UTC)