From drama, variety, movies, radio to public performances, the opportunities that idols see these days have increased. It has become an age where idols have to explore other areas and not just stay in one to show off their charms. And these idols will need to spend their energy in the various areas they are exploring into.
The phrase ‘one source multi use’ is just the right one to use on idols. Even though they debuted as singers, they don’t show just the features of a singer. If the stage is not ‘wide’ enough for one, one move on to look at drama, movie, theatre and musicals etc, to show more of one’s charms and talents one cannot show in just the short duration of 3 minutes on stage. In the midst of achieving that, these idols will need the strength of that of an ‘iron man’. Even though this is a chance for the singers to up their rich and fame, without the energy to do so is also useless.

Of the idols, Super Junior has many unique group activities – Super Junior K.R.Y, Super Junior T, Super Junior M, Super Junior Happy. Members Choi SiWon is also exploring into other areas like drama and movie.
Another example is girlgroup So Nyeo Shi Dae with the members doing various other solo activities, they also had unique group ‘Room mate’ consisting of members Jessica, Tiffany and SeoHyun. Member YoonA is also seen doing various drama appearances, showing various features through those appearances.
Group KARA member Goo Hara, who joined the group later, is enjoying increasing popularity through her appearance on KBS Invincible Youth previously. And GyuRi is also showing a different charming side of her through her DJ activities on MBC radio ‘ShinDong GyuRi‘s ShimShimTaPa’. SHINee member Onew has also recently taken up the challenge of musical acting.
This is one of the strategies that agencies adopt for their idols. Idols showing various charms is one of the ways to money and wealth creation for the agencies. But under the directing of their agencies, the energy of these idols will obviously run out one day. Even though we cannot say that all idols promote in such manner, but there are a considerable number of them promoting under such strategies by their agencies.
But if these idols are to take a moment to rest, they will quickly be forgotten by the masses. A music critic commented, “Nowadays, we call the way the singers promote without much rest as ‘lightning attack’. Not even talking about 1 year, even if they are to rest for a few months, they will be forgotten quickly. And to maintain their popularity, these people have to show themselves constantly on TV in various forms. Also, because of that, singers also don’t release full length album but minialbums more often as they will mean using up lesser time and costs.”
In order to keep up to speed of changing tastes of the masses and media, and as contracted under agencies, these idols are only moving in the directions told to them.

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“We deliberately invited more than what the capacity of the venue is because that is what the Super Junior wants. They want it crowded and with lots of people standing in the back… Not too formal but overflowing. So that’s the reason,” Happee Sy of Pulp Live Productions wrote to PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) via Facebook.

Super Junior—a popular Korean boy group—held a press conference at the Palawan Function Room of the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City, and was greeted by more than a handful of media representatives along with fan groups composed of Filipinos and Koreans.

The K-Pop sensations concluded their Super Show 2 tour with a successful concert at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City on Saturday evening.

Sy even revealed that some of the group members were feeling under the weather when they arrived here in Manila on the eve of the concert: “We had to let them rest or the show might be jeopardized.”

SM Entertainment (Star Museum), the management group that handles the band’s career, is said to be strict when it comes to “implementing rules in promoting its talents,” and to avoid any problem, concert promoters have to adhere.

During the concert, Super Junior hinted the possibility of mounting another concert.

“We are working on Super Show 3,” revealed Sy. “We just got to gather more fans because they don’t like singing on an empty arena. They like it sold out or no show, so we are exerting all our efforts to gather more new fans.”

Sy added that the boys of Super Junior all had a great time during their stay here in the country. “They loved the cooperation we gave them when they wanted silence.”

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Super Junior is the world’s largest boyband, and they’re also SM Entertainment’s biggest group. This group that debuted in 2005, whose orginal name was Super Junior 05, but after some changes in members, were officially renamed as “Super Junior” in 2006. The final 13 members were: Leeteuk, Heechul, Hankyung, Yesung, Kangin, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook, Kibum and Kyuhyun.

As SM Entertainment was well-equipped with knowledge they have gained from experience, they split up the 13 members, into 4 sub-groups Super Junior- T, Super Junior- H, Super Junior- K.R.Y (with R&B as their main genre, to attract noonas and hyungs as fans), and Super Junior-M (5 members plus 2 who are not SJ members- Henry and Zhoumi), to target Asia’s various markets, for example Super Junior-M entered China’s music industry, and there are 3 members who can speak fluent Chinese, which closes the gap between the Korean idols and fans who lived in other countries.

In SJ, because of Kibum’s busy packed schedules, he is the only one who does not belong to any sub-group.

In this 2 years, the Korean Wave has had many classic “infectious songs”, which include Super Junior’s March 2009 release of Sorry Sorry, Super Girl (by SJ-M), U (in 2006) and It’s You made many K-Pop fans go crazy. (Hoobae SHINee’s Ring Ding Dong and Wonder Girls’ Nobody were also among those songs).

Sorry Sorry, a song that has excellent tunes and choreography, let it remain very popular in the whole of year 2009, and that brought the Korean wave slowly spread to all the Asian countries, from stars in the entertainment industry, singers, actors, fans and even political figures, almost everyone can sing or dance a short verse of “Sorry Sorry”, and that proves SJ’s immense popularity!

Actually, when SM Entertainment was planning for SJ, they were similar to Taiwan’s HIM International Music when they were planning for SHE. They all tried to make use of every member’s unique voices, and produce songs that complimented all of their voices, so that they could show the fans and the medias SJ’s prowess when they sang together.

In the group, Leeteuk (Leader), Heechul, Hankyung, Sungmin, Donghae and Ryeowook focus on mid to high range pitch, while Yesung, Kangin and Siwon were in charge of the low pitch range, whereas Shindong, Kibum and Kyuhyun had to focus on the mid to low range pitch. Last but not least, Eunhyuk, together with Shindong and Kibum, were in charge of rapping. Eunhyuk was also the main composer of the raps in the second album. {Minor correction here: Donghae also raps for some songs, but I guess they missed that out}.

As long as there are many members, in terms of dancing, they need to have 2 things: neatness and harmony. But from the start, SJ’s performances’ focus has always been the choreography.
No matter what, from debut’s hip hop dance performance, to now’s synchronized dancing (mainly hip hop’s popping, waving, sliding, liquid dancing etc.), most of their choreography has 2-6 members mostly in the center.

In SJ, Hankyung, Shindong, Eunhyuk and Donghae’s dancing skills are the best, so they are always at the front leading or performing dance solos. Not just good in dancing, Shindong is the main choreographer for the dance steps of “U”.

Super Junior also has ever changing styles. When SJ debuted, their concept was that of “rocker”, but only after 2-3 years, they have turned into stylish suit-wearing gentlemen.

In this year’s 19th Seoul Music Awards, SJ nabbed 3 big prizes, “Top 10 Artists”, “Hallyu Wave Special Award” and “Most Popular Award”, and that temporarily masked the Kangin incident and Hankyung’s contract termination.

And for example, Kibum had a role in “Jumunjin” and also Choi Siwon who will be a main character in a new drama serial “Oh! My Lady” once again appear through drama serials to bring up SJ’s popularity!

And after the concert tour that they have been having all over Asia which will be ending soon, they are slated to make a comeback this year with their 4th album, and we just know that they’ll be kings of the K-Pop industry in the year 2010!

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- April 10, 2010 -

Zhou Mi Solo “As Long As You’re Happy”

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Pajama Party

Sorry Sorry Remix

Shining Star

Yesung Solo “Resignation” + Ryeowook Solo “Insomnia”

Heartquake

Siwon Solo “Who Am I”

What If

Dance Battle + Henry Solo “Sick of Love”

Marry U+Ending

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Ryeowook Butt Dance

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Siwon Strips Kyuhyun

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Donghae Solo “Beautiful”

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Super Girl

Puff the Magic Dragon>

Chu~

It’s You

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『SUPER JUNIOR-K.R.Y. SPECIAL CONCERT in JAPAN』
2010年8月1日（日）　東京国際フォーラム　ホールA
OPEN 17:00 / START 18:00 （予定）
出演者：キュヒョン・リョウク・イェソン（SUPER JUNIOR-K.R.Y. ）
SPECIAL GUEST：ソンミン・ドンヘ（from SUPER JUNIOR）
チケット代金　9,800円（税込/ SUPER JUNIOR-K.R.Y. オリジナルライト付）
※3歳以上有料　※オリジナルライトは公演日当日入場時にお渡しします。
一般発売日：2010年7月3日（土）10:00～　各プレイガイドにて
企画制作：S.M.ENTERTAINMENT JAPAN / avex live creative
問い合わせ：サンライズプロモーション東京　0570-00-3337（10-19時)

basically it’s saying that there’ll be a Super Junior KRY Concert at Tokyo International Forum Hall in Tokyo, Japan on August 1st, 2010. The gate will be open at 5PM and the concert will start at 6PM. Donghae and Sungmin will also participate as special guests. The ticket price itself will be 9800 JPY and available for sale on July 3rd, 2010 at 10 AM. The promotor is Sunrise Promotions (0570-00-3337)

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Fans matched the great performance with their chants, calling out to their idols namely by their names during the 3-hour concert. Malaysian artists, Iqwal and dance group, Thomas and Jack did their opening for the concert. Arrived with only 10 members (Leeteuk, Heechul, Yesung, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook and Kyuhyun) instead of 13, Super Junior performed 35 songs including hits such as “Sorry Sorry”, “Angela”, “Our Love”, “Insomnia”, f(x)’s “Chu” and many more. Besides that they also proved their creativity by injecting some classical and rock elements into their performance for “Sonata at Temptation”.

Equipped with three big screens, special effects with multi-colored laser beams and shots of fireworks, the T-shaped hydraulic stage cost RM 6 million (US$1.8 million). The geometry of the stage enabled fans to take a closer look at the faces of their idols.

Besides Malaysian fans, there were also fans from other countries like Indonesia, Singapore, Japan and Korea. Most fans arrived at the venue 2 hours before the concert started and they brought with them items like pillows, boxes, flowers, kangaroo (toy) and banners. At the concert, Super Junior were clearly enjoying themselves with their fans where at one point, there was even a water pistols and guns shoot-out between the ELFs and the SuJu members.

According to Siwon, this was their first concert in Malaysia although they have been to Malaysia twice prior to the Super Show 2 Concert. The boys were in Malaysia as guest performers at TVXQ’s concert in 2007 and MTV Asia Awards in 2008.

Siwon said, “The support we received here is really awesome and we want to give our best performance to Malaysian fans. Although the weather is hot, we love this country because of its beautiful sceneries. With such a great response, we hope to have a concert here again in the future”.

Super Junior’s 2nd Asia Tour Super Concert 2 which started since July 2009 have taken place in Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and China. The concert in Malaysia was the 8th of the series and the boys will wrap up their tour at Araneta Coliseum, Manila on the 10th of April.

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