Henry Catches Hearts in a “Trap” with Debut Music Video

SM Entertainment‘s newest male solo artist, Henry, has finally released the highly-anticipated music video for “Trap,” off his debut mini-album.

SHINee‘s Taemin and Super Junior‘s Kyuhyun, who featured in the title track, also joined Henry in the music video to show their support for their fellow labelmate.

The mini-album “Trap” was released today at noon through various online music stores and the physical format will be released June 10. Henry will have his debut stage today through KBS’ “Music Bank,” and Taemin and Kyuhyun will take the stage with him.

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Super Junior bundles up for winter in ‘High Cut’

Some of the Super Junior members took the time out of their busy schedules to participate in a new pictorial.

Donghae, Eunhyuk, Ryeowook, Yesung and Kyuhyun spent their last photoshoot with leader Leeteuk before his enlistment for the latest issue of ‘High Cut‘. The concept of the photoshoot was a winter vacation, and the members showcased their usual energy. As the representative ‘variety idols’, they conducted the photoshoot through unending laughter, and had no problem with the outdoor look with outfits provided by Northface.

In the interview, Leeteuk said, “Before I enlist, I think I’m going to go around the broadcast stations and thank the PDs and writers that helped me so much.” On leaving his main MC spot on ‘Star King‘, he shared, “I just got to taste how it was to be an MC, and to be honest, I am a bit sad to be leaving.”

Leeteuk also talked about his plans for getting a girlfriend before enlisting as he commented, “It’s true that I tried hard to make a girlfriend. I tried to have one because I heard that a letter from a girlfriend was a big source of strength [while serving in the military], but others told me, ‘but you’re going to the army’. I’ll have to try to find one after I come back.”

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Super Junior’s Leeteuk talks about his traumatizing childhood

Super Junior‘s leader Leeteuk shed tears as he revealed stories about discord within his family when he was younger.

On the September 10th broadcast of MBC‘s “Good Day“, a video clip of Leeteuk’s interview was shown in a segment titled, “Stars, the 1% We Didn’t Know. Everyone Has a Past“.

Leeteuk shared, ”(My parents) fought too much and I was beaten a lot as well. I’ve had that type of stress since I was in elementary school.”

Fans were shocked to find out that Leeteuk had so much hidden pain. Especially since Leeteuk has always shown such a happy and bright image as the leader of Super Junior.

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Full MV for Super Junior’s “Spy” released

Super Junior has released the full music video for “SPY“!

“SPY” is the title track of their 6th album repackage of the same name, which dropped online on August 5 and was in stores on the 6th. The repackaged album will include all the songs from their original 6th album, ‘Sexy, Free & Single‘, with the addition of four new songs.

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Leeteuk expresses his discomfort about getting his personal information mistakenly leaked

Super Junior‘s Leeteuk shared his feelings about getting his personal information mistakenly leaked.

On August 1st, Leeteuk tweeted, “Customer’s information was leaked. I got a text. It’s not even surprising. It happens all the time, but it doesn’t feel that great. My information was leaked so it was handed over to the police for investigations, but it’s going to get leaked soon anyway. It’s a world where I change my phone number, and I get a call right away.”

The Super Junior leader expressed how he felt about his information being leaked due to the mobile agency’s mistakes.

After hearing about the incident, Fans responded, “Leeteuk’s information was leaked too,” “I’m having a mental breakdown because mine got leaked too,” and “Leeteuk feel better.”

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Super Junior reveals they nearly broke up because of a misunderstanding

The Super Junior members revealed that they nearly split up over a few misunderstandings.

On the July 24th broadcast of SBS ‘Strong Heart‘, the Super Junior members opened up saying, “We were on the verge of breaking up because of an argument we had right before a live performance.”

“Leeteuk once got really mad right before an Inkigayo shoot,” Eunhyuk said. “The members continually joked around with him to the point where he inevitably grew angry.”

He continued, “It wasn’t me that was causing mischief, but Leeteuk misunderstood and thought it was me and got angry. Kyuhyun was the one causing most of the trouble, and Leeteuk made up with him but left me alone so it made me upset.”

Leeteuk who was listening to Eunhyuk share this story explained, “I was trying not to grow angry at their fun and games, but it didn’t stop so I eventually exploded. I got mad at Kyuhyun and my emotions got the best of me so I stepped outside, when I found Kyuhyun he was crying and so I comforted him.”

“At that moment, I realized that these continuous misunderstandings and agitated emotions are what could cause our group to break up,” Leeteuk continued. “It was only 10 minutes before the live performance, and I felt bad that I could not make it up to Eunhyuk but there was just not enough time.”

In order to make Eunhyuk feel better, Leeteuk decided that he would ask Eunhyuk to say the speech after they earned the #1 K-Chart win. When Leeteuk asked him, Eunhyuk looked unenthused, and his thank-you speech was given with an expressionless face that was rather dry and formal. This only caused the atmosphere within the group to become more tense.

Fellow member Shindong then remarked, “These little misunderstandings caused such big fights that it was really upsetting. After that happened, we were able to bond our friendship more tightly on other variety programs.”

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Super Junior’s ‘Lotte Duty Free’ CF revealed

Following up from their Lotte Duty Free CF released last year, Lotte has sought the help of Super Junior for their latest commercial!

Although the CF had been released on TV earlier, it had not been released online until recently. With the high quality video unveiled, fans can take a closer look at the details of the CF that were hard to see through the low quality TV captures.

Check out the commercial below featuring the handsome members singing and dancing in sleek white suits!

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Super Junior’s full MV for “Opera” released

Earlier, we revealed the short PV for Super Junior‘s latest Japanese single, “Opera“. The boys are back this time with the full PV release!

The PV has a masquerade and Phantom of the Opera theme.

The single has been officially released in Japan (May 9th JST) and we will see how it performs on the Oricon Daily chart tomorrow.

Check out the PV below!

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Girls’ Generation, TVXQ, Super Junior, B2ST, and more to perform at Google headquarters

On May 21st at 6PM PST, Google will be hosting a concert at their Mountain View, California headquarters featuring performances by K-Pop’s reigning stars including SM Entertainment‘s Girls’ Generation, TVXQ, Super Junior as well as KARA, SISTAR, MBLAQ, B2ST, and the Wonder Girls. This event will broadcast through MBC and Google.

This will be the first time that a K-Pop concert will broadcast through not only a Korean channel, but through a major internet portal like Google, evidencing the rise of K-Pop’s popularity all over the world.

A representative of the event stated, “After hearing the news that Korean artists will be performing at the Google headquarters, curiosity has peaked even among the local event organizers. I think that previous performances by Korean artists were targeted towards Korean-Americans or the Koreans living abroad, but this time its appeal will spread to all fans of pop music in the US.”

In related news, SM artists will also be performing for their ‘SMTown Live‘ concert at the Honda Center in California on May 20th.

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Kangin to rejoin Super Junior after 3 years

Kangin will finally return to Super Junior after 3 years.

On April 16th, after completing his military service, Kangin will be discharged and is scheduled to rejoin his fellow Super Junior members.

It is believed that SM Entertainment has already confirmed Kangin’s return and has begun preparations. Fans predict that a new album will be released by Super Junior, joined by Kangin, in the first half of the year.

In September and October of 2009, Kangin withdrew from team activities due to a scandal. After a time of self-reflection, Kangin joined the army in July of the following year. During the time of his absence, Super Junior released their 4th and 5th albums, ‘Bonamana‘ and ’Mr. Simple‘, and also proceeded on a world tour. Some could say they matured enough to make Kangin’s absence almost unnoticeable, however, the members never forgot about Kangin despite their success. Furthermore, Super Junior is said to be determination to excel even further with the rejoining of Kangin.

One associate commented, “The members’ friendship is even deeper now” and “whenever Kangin came out during breaks and spent time with the other members, they let out all of their emotions and solved any misunderstandings.”

Kangin’s return to the group was predicted before. Kangin commented during an interview while leaving the army training center: “I was able to endure everything because of everyone waiting for me” and “Instead of the weak and immature me before, I want to grow into a more mature and adult-like figure that is actually worthy of the love.”

The members also displayed their affection for Kangin. Leeteuk appeared on an episode of MBC‘s ‘Radio Star‘ that aired on September 23rd of 2010 and said, “During the time of the incident, I did feel betrayed, but after time passed, I realized that the only people that can truly care for Kangin and comfort him during this hard time are the members.”

Super Junior members even made a hologram of Kangin appear during their ‘Super Show 3‘ concert in August of 2010, further showing that his absence was greatly missed. On April 16th, the day of his discharge, the members are planning on going to the site and congratulating him.

Super Junior is currently in the midst of their ‘Super Show 4‘ world tour with plans for a release of a new album in the first half of this year.

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