Super Junior's 'Super Show' stuns Singapore

Popular Korean idol group Super Junior held "Super Show 3," its first marquee concert in Singapore, entertaining more than 20,000 fans who braved howling winds and pouring rain to pack the halls of Singapore's Indoor Stadium, the country's largest indoor concert venue.

The ten members of Super Junior - Leeteuk, Heechul, Siwon, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Ryeowook, Sungmin, Shindong, Yesung, and Kyuhyun - kept their screaming fans in a frenzy for more than three hours, performing more than twenty songs from a career that has spanned almost half a decade. In addition to hits as a combined unit, including "Sorry Sorry," "Wonder Boy," and "Bonamana," the Korean idol group also performed songs from its popular sub-units Super Junior Happy ("Cooking Cooking"), and Super Junior-T ("Rokuko"). The concert also had solo stages that spotlighted the performing skills of each SuJu member.

Like its previous two "Super Shows," "Super Show 3" boasted of spectacular technical and audio wizardry. From the giant LED screen to several mini-videos, the Super Junior concert certainly was an affair to remember. Save for a minor incident where a light stick thrown by an audience member hit Super Junior member Yesung in the face, Super Show 3 went glitch-free.

Super Junior is slated to hold the Manila leg of "Super Show 3" on February 26. Filipino ELFs - the name bestowed upon Super Junior fans - can expect a similar showcase in the Araneta Coliseum concert.

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Are Super Junior’s Heechul and SNSD’s YoonA “hoodlums”?

The charming Super Junior’s Heechul and SNSD’s ‘Queen Eater‘ YoonA got together for a selca backstage at the ‘SM TOWN Live Japan‘ concert.

Initially, Heechul posted an older photo of the pair, asking,

“A little while ago, I took a picture with Yoong but… The picture’s feeling kind of ruins [our image], should I upload it or not“

Not too long after, Heechul revealed the silly photo, saying,

“Uploading~ hoodlum concept gangster Hee & gangster Im… Should I upload a video of us playing like pre-schoolers keke the universe’s big star Hee, no-makeup goddess Yoong“

Fans commented, “YoonA’s expression is so evil… You two look like bad brother and bad sister…“, “Heechul & YoonA xD“, and “Oppa you better when you smile :) So please smile :D“.

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“SM Town Live in Tokyo” adds two more concerts due to explosive popularity

The artists of SM Entertainment successfully completed their two-day “SM Town Live in Tokyo” concert amidst the cheers of 24,000 fans!

Although the concerts were held on weekdays this year, fans still experienced a fierce competition to grab tickets, as over 400,000 K-pop aficionados in Japan swarmed ticketing sites to purchase their seats. Those fans who weren’t able to nab tickets were seen hanging in groups outside the concert stadium, hoping to catch echoes of performances ebbing from inside.

Because of the numerous amounts of fans who held up placards requesting for additional concert dates, SM Entertainment decided to go ahead and add two more concerts at the Tokyo Dome, which will be able to seat 50,000 fans for April 9th and 10th.

Rewinding back to the “SM Town LIVE IN TOKYO” concerts (held on January 25th and 26th), the three-hour musical bonanza brought together Kang Ta, BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, SNSD, SHINee, f(x), Trax’s Jung Mo, J-Min and many others.

Super Junior’s Yesung, Ryeowook, and SHINee’s Onew earned an especially explosive response from the audience for teaming up with a Japanese tenor artist, Masafumi Akikawa, to perform “Sen no Kaze ni Natte” which Japanese fans were able to relate to.

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Super Junior’s Eunhyuk looking good with a new haircut

Super Junior’s Eunhyuk revealed a picture of his new haircut to his fans on Twitter.

On January 26th, Eunhyuk updated his Twitter with this photo and wrote, “Now that I cut my hair, I sweat less. I should’ve done this a long time ago!”

The picture of him shows a brand new Eunhyuk with his hair moussed skyward, and it looks like he’s feeling pretty confident about his new do.

He wrote, “I don’t get to have my hair flip around when I dance, which looks cool, but this isn’t bad!”

Netizens wrote, “He looks so much better looking now that he’s showing his forehead,” “I never knew he was so good looking,” and “He looks like Jang Woo Hyuk of H.O.T”.

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Super Junior’s Shindong splits his pants during ‘SM Town Live Japan’

Super Junior’s Shindong is causing both his fans and netizens to roll around the floor laughing, as he recently revealed his ripped pants through Twitter.

Shindong was in Japan with his labelmates for the ‘SM Town Live‘ concert in Tokyo, and as it turned out, he ripped his pants wide open during the concert.

The star tweeted, ’You all know that the performances have ended. Why didn’t anyone say anything. My pants… Until the last song ended. It was these pants. I unexpectedly exposed myself in Japan. I started excitedly, I jumped excitedly, and waved excitedly. T T‘

From the photo, it’s clear that the pants’ crotch area had ripped. However, Shindong wasn’t aware of the situation until after the concert had ended.

The netizens commented, ‘Shindong’s post made my eyes turn red, ‘Unfair exposure’, and ‘Even though I shouldn’t be thinking about it, I think about it often.’

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[Update] China’s Ministry of Culture bans Super Junior’s Bonamana

From TVXQ’s Mirotic to GD&TOP’s Don’t Go Home, we’ve seen kpop get banned right and left by Korea, and it looks like they aren’t alone – it was recently revealed on UK’s Yahoo! Music that Super Junior’s Bonamana has been banned in China.

The report states:

Banning a boyband takes some doing but Chinese officials are more than capable of crushing such rebellion. The most recent song on our poll is one of a handful from the 13-strong South Korean act to be blacklisted by the nation’s rather strict Ministry of Culture earlier this month. It is now illegal to buy, download or listen to the song, despite it being about as dangerous to know as a Labrador puppy.

No further information has been released regarding the Ministry’s reasons behind this all-round ban. Although unfortunate for fans in China, most diehard fans have probably purchased the 2010 track already, so the ban isn’t expected to affect the growing Hallyu wave.

[UPDATE]

According to the official government statement, the songs have been banned because they were never filed for a mandatory government review, implemented as a crackdown on illegal online music products and business activities. This means that the ban was based upon procedure, not of the content ofBonamana itself. Because SM Entertainment didn’t apply for the regulation review, version C of theBonamana CD was subsequently deemed illegal for online distribution. Among other artists whose songs failed to pass the review are Bruno Mars, S.H.E, Jay Chou and many other artists from both China and around the world.

Thanks to luna for the tip!

Source: UK Yahoo! Music

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Photos of Heechul for “GQ”

After receiving a lot of attention for his hotly debated comments regarding SM Entertainment’s alleged ’slave contracts’ in the February edition of “GQ” Magazine, photos from Super Junior’s Heechulspread in the magazine have been revealed.

Check out the photos of Heechul looking quite fashionable below.

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