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The SUPER guide to SHINee

Former US President Barrack Obama said young Americans learn Korean to keep up with SHINee. The South Korean boy band celebrates their 10th anniversary on Friday. It’s high time that you learn about them.

May 20, 2018

A year in Hallyu: Looking back at the best in 2017 K-pop culture

While we’re already at the first week of 2018, we want to bid a proper goodbye to Korean pop culture in 2017. It’s definitely had a lot of its ups

January 3, 2018

Super Remembers: 10 things you need to know about Jonghyun

He was Jonghyun the lead vocalist of SHINee. He was Bling Bling. He was one of the five shining stars we look up to. He was Jonghyun the poet, radio DJ, dancer, singer, songwriter and artist. He was Jjong the talented musician who died last Monday. He was loved.

December 24, 2017

You worked hard, Jonghyun, you did well

2017 was a hard year for Shawols. A case filed last August immediately divided the fans. A petition that demanded that SHINee’s leader, Onew, be taken off the team

December 20, 2017

The death of SHINee’s Jonghyun is a wake-up call for the K-pop industry

SHINee was one of the first K-pop groups I ever got into, being part of the K-pop fandom for nearly a decade now. They were also the very first group I saw live back in 2009, even before my then-bias group Super Junior, when I was only 16 years old. Songs like “Replay,” “Ring Ding Dong,” and “Lucifer” are classics to me, and Jonghyun was among the group most talented vocalists and composers.

Yesterday, when the media had announced 27-year-old member Jonghyun’s passing due to suicide, I was in a state of shock. Jonghyun had been one of the idols I grew up on. SHINee had turned into a veteran group that released unique concepts and music no other artist could contend with. I couldn’t help but ask, why?

But the more I thought about it, the less I was in disbelief.

With the competitive and harsh state of the K-pop industry these days, why are we even surprised that something as terrible as a top idol taking his own life could actually happen?

December 19, 2017