Super Junior & Girls Generation represent Sunkist

Do you seriously need Super Junior AND Girls Generation to sell Sunkist’s new drink? Either Father SM had a buy one get twenty-three free sale or Sunkist’s Sweety-aide tastes like crap. Maybe both.

Super Junior & Girls Generations are now official faces of Sunkist. Tasty.

Super Junior M buys Chinese love

Super Junior M is making rounds of donations - not with their money, but with other people’s money to buy the Chinese love. SuJu M donated 6.8 million Yuan with Jinsimyung pharmaceutical on Honam TV to offer relief to students who lost school supplies during the earthquake. Then Super Junior M manged to raise .7 million Yuan on a variety show to help build schools in underprivileged areas.

Super Junior M is getting the credit for all the nice deeds without coughing up a penny. Father SM definitely knows how to fabricate an image for the Super Clowns. Kudos to Father SM.

Do we seriously need another Super Junior subgroup?

Father SM released yet another SuJu subgroup named Super Junior Happy and the six fruit-loops of this group are Lee Teuk, Yesung, Kangin, Shindong, Sungmin and Eun Hyuk.

Super Junior Happy will release their single beginning of June and the title song “Cooking? Cooking!” will feature some fruity moves as the picture suggests.

It looks like Father SM is aggressively pushing these subgroups after SuJu M brought home the ”Asia’s Most Popular New Group” at the 5th Annual Music King Awards hosted by the China Cultural Arts Fund Organization and Guangdong TV.

But seriously, we don’t need another Super Junior subgroup with strange names.

Super Junior grows like mushrooms

Father SM has made it loud and clear that Super Junior will remain a project group by adding more clowns to the circus and creating the latest sub-group, Super Junior M, despite Elves attempts to stop him. Obviously mobilizing to boycott SM products and scrapping SM stocks were ineffective.

Anyhow, Super Junior M - which stands for Super Junior Mandarin (still huh?) is set to debut in China on April 8^th, 2008 with new comer Zhoumi and random selections of existing SuJu boys including Siwon, Dong Hae, Kyu Hyun, Henry, Ryewook and Hangeng.

Super Junior-H

Super Junior-Happy , officially known as Super Junior-H (Korean: 슈퍼주니어-H) is the fourth official sub-unit of Korean boy band Super Junior established on June 2008. Super Junior-H contains six Super Junior members, Leeteuk (the leader), Yesung, Kang-In, Shindong, Sungmin, and Eunhyuk.

Pre-debut

By 2008, most of the Super Junior members are already in at least one subgroup, except for Kibum who has been occupied with his acting schedules. Super Junior-H consists of every previous member of Super Junior-T, with Yesung being the replacement of Heechul. Super Junior-H made an unofficial debut performance on May 3, 2008 at the Power Concert although they did not formally introduced themselves as the subgroup at the time.

On May 5, 2008, SM Entertainment released the official announcement of the subgroup and their first mini album with the title track, "Cooking? Cooking!" will be released in early June.

Music style

Super Junior-H's music style involves the common style of contemporary dance music, mainly targeting the industry with their fun and entertaining style. Super Junior-H's debut single, "Cooking? Cooking!" is a dance track with refreshing rhythm and quirky lyrics. Their goal is to give fans feelings of bliss and happiness with their music.

Super Junior-M

Super Junior-M, often referred to as SJ-M, is the third official sub-unit of Korean boy band Super Junior that was established on April 2008. They are the first international music group in the Chinese music industry to have members of both Chinese and Korean descent. They are also the first group produced by Korea's CT (Culture Technology) organization and was created through a comprehensive localization strategy.Super Junior-M contains five Super Junior members, Han Geng (the leader), Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook, Kyuhyun, and two new members, Henry and Zhou Mi.

Pre-debut

Responding to Super Junior's rising popularity in China, Super Junior's management, SM Entertainment, decided to compose a new Super Junior sub-unit that is to focus entirely in the Chinese market. On October 2, 2007, an official announcement was released to the media, stating the birth of a third Super Junior subgroup that would debut in China. Super Junior's original member, Han Geng and an SM Chinese trainee, Henry, were stated to be the first two of the seven members representing the subgroup.Five months later, a second Super Junior member, Siwon, was mentioned in news articles to be the third member.However, the confirmed list of members were not released to the public until April.

Starting from April 4, 2008 to April 7, 2008, the seven members were released to the media in a chain of trailer clips on different days, introducing the members' versatility. Han Geng was the first member to be announced on April 4. On April 5, Donghae and Siwon were announced to be the second and third members. On April 6, a new member, Henry, was announced to be the fourth Super Junior-M member, following Kyuhyun as the fifth. Rookie Zhou Mi was announced to be the sixth member on April 7 following Ryeowook as the final member.A trailer with of all seven members was released on the group's debut day, April 8. Super Junior-M's trailer clips exceeded 1.4 million views in less than four days.

Origin of the name

Before the official name of the subgroup was released, they were often referred to as Super Junior-China. On April 3, 2008, SM Entertainment released the official name of the subgroup, Super Junior-M, with "M" representing the word "Mandarin," expressing the subgroup's ambition to become successful in the Chinese music market not limited to only China. The "M" can also represent a list of other aspects, such as the first letter of their debut album, Me, and also "mi" (Chinese: 迷), which can mean "charismatic" as well as "fan" in Mandarin, the latter meaning referring to their desire to connect with their fans.

2008: Debut

Super Junior-M debuted in China on April 8, 2008 at the 8th Annual Music Chart Awards and with the release of their first single music video, "U". Their debut album was released in various provinces in China starting April 23, 2008 and the Korean version with three bonus Korean tracks was releasd in South Korea on April 30, 2008. The album was also distributed in several other Asian countries on May 2, 2008 such as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Super Junior-T

Super Junior-Trot officially known as Super Junior-T is the second official sub-unit of Korean boy band Super Junior established on February 2007. They are one of the few new generation singers known to have been capitalizing trot music, the oldest form of Korean pop music. Super Junior-T contains six Super Junior members, Leeteuk (the leader), Heechul, Kang-In, Shindong, Sungmin, and Eunhyuk.

Pre-debut:

Noticing the dying trend of trot music, SM Entertainment decided to revive the style by producing an idol band that capitalizes trot music, however, adding the music its own touch of modern pop and rap. Three months before debut the future subgroup performed "Don't Go Away" at the M.NET/KM Music Festival on November 25, 2006 with Super Junior's Donghae. A few weeks prior to debut the six members had secretly trained and prepared for their new debut that occurred at the end of February 2007.


2007: Debut

In early February SM Entertainment made the official announcement of a second Super Junior subgroup, Super Junior-T. The group released their first radio single on February 23, 2007. A CD single, "Rokuko", was soon released and it topped music charts three days after release.The subgroup's official debut was on February 25, 2007 performing the title track, "Rokuko" and "First Express" with famous trot singer Bang Shil Yi. The single's rankings quickly rose in both Korea and Thailand-based music stations and was #1 on the charts two months later.Due to their active participance in trot music and their comedic appearances, the subgroup gained outstanding attention from the older audience despite their well-known young idol images that was created for them in their mother group.


2008: Comeback

On April 29, 2008, it was announced that Super Junior-T will make a comeback later in the year with their second official single.