Korea & Japan: Super Junior

Super Junior (Korean: 슈퍼 주니어), or better known as SJ or SuJu (Super Junior) (Korean: 슈주), is a boy band from Seoul, South Korea. Members totaling 13 people are Leeteuk, Heechul, Han Geng, Yesung, Kang-In, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook, Kibum, and Kyuhyun. Super Junior is one of the biggest boyband in the world. Debut album is SuperJunior05 (TWINS), was released in 2005. In 2010, there were only 10 active members, 3 of them namely Hangeng have legal problems with SM Entertainment, causing HanGeng out of Super Junior (now solo career in the entertainment arena Mandarin-Pop), Kangin left the group temporarily to perform compulsory military service , and Kibum is also absent due to a focus on the role of art careers. However, other members insisted that the three members of the (Kangin, Kibum and HanGeng) is still a part of Super Junior, they also mention that they are very saddened by the departure of the group HanGeng.

Pre-Debut

Since the late 1990s, the Korean talent agency and record label SM Entertainment has held annual auditions to find new talent to complement the successful pop group HOT, SES, and Shinhwa, all of which were created by the founder of BC, Soo-Man Lee, in the mid- the 1990s. Leeteuk and Eunhyuk are two members of the group's first to be recruited in 2000 under BC's Starlight Casting System in Seoul.
In 2001, their first company outside the country held a casting audition and find Han Geng in Beijing, was elected in between three thousand applicants. [1] That same year, Yesung found in Seoul's casting system with the theme, Shindong, Sungmin and Donghae also chosen to be trainees after their appearance in a contest sponsored by BC. In 2002, Kang-In and was recruited along with Kim Heechul Kibum, who was found in Los Angeles. Siwon in-casting in 2003 and Ryeowook in 2004, where the latter is found through Chinchin Youth Festival. [2] In 2005, Kyuhyun selected.
Not long after the boy band TVXQ debuted in 2003, the news of Lee's plan is unprecedented that another boy band formed by rapidly spreading on the Internet. In early 2005, Lee confirmed the news and announced that the boy band that consists of twelve members will make its debut near the end of the year, promoting the group singing this to be "The Gateway of Stardom of Asia." [3] Lee announced that the majority of the members in this group were chosen because they have experience performing as an actor, MC, model, and radio host before the debut. Heechul and Kibum was living as an entertainer, and most of the other members had already made various appearances on television and the media. [4] [5] [6] which is inspired by the concept of rotation of the Japanese girl group Morning Musume, the group will also experience changes line-up, with new members replacing some old members are elected every year to keep the group is still young and have many talents. This concept was then introduced into K-pop market.
For a while the group was rumored to be called OVER, an acronym for "Obey the Voice for Each Rhythm" (Obey the Voice for Each Rhythm.) [7] However, before this name was decided, BC is only referred to them as a Junior, who came from the members of the still young when it first became SM trainee. [7] [2] After the members show off their different talents to the company on a picnic. Then the company decided to formalize the group named Super Junior, the first generation of Super Junior. [2]
Super Junior 05 made their debut in the pre-Korean channel M-Net on 11 September 2005. At the show, they perform various styles of hip hop dance. They dance featuring B2K. Han Geng, Eunhyuk, and Donghae also perform a dance from the song of Usher, Caught Up. But their performances are not broadcast on television, until finally on May 16, 2006 broadcast on a segment on the show Super Junior Show.