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Shinee
Idol group SHINee will be releasing their second mini-album entitled “Romeo” on May 25th, the anniversary of their debut.
SM Entertainment said, “Originally, the album was supposed be released on the 21st, but due to Onew’s injury, we had no choice but to push back the date. In the end, we decided to release it on SHINee’s first anniversary.”
On the night of the 19th, Onew was injured on the stairs that were located in front of SHINee’s dorm. The doctor has said, “The front teeth were dislocated and would require 1-2 weeks of treatment.” The company has acted accordingly to the doctor’s recommendation that the comeback should be pushed back until Onew gets better.
In order to appease the waiting fans, SM released a preview of “Please, Don’t Go” on SHINee’s official website. Onew and Jonghyun’s perfect harmonizations in the song were well received by the fans.
SHINee also spoke about their feelings, “Time has passed by very quickly, and it’s already been one year since our debut. We are extremely thankful to our supportive fans. Although it is unfortunate that we have to push back our comeback schedule, we are still happy that everyone can listen to our new album. We will show an even more handsome stage to everyone, so please wait a little while longer.”
SHINee’s second mini-album, featuring “Juliette” and 5 more songs, will be released on the 25th.
Super Junior (Korean: 슈퍼주니어), often referred to as SJ or SuJu (슈주), is a boy band from Seoul, South Korea that was formed under SM Entertainment in 2005. With a total of twelve members, they are the largest boy band in the world.The members are Leeteuk (the leader), Heechul, Han Geng, Yesung, Kang-in, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook, Kibum, and later, Kyuhyun. The Chinese member, Han Geng, was chosen among three thousand applicants through auditions held in China by SM Entertainment in 2001.
Super Junior has released and contributed in 19 different kinds of records with varying degrees of success. Over the years, they have been divided into smaller sub groups, simultaneously targeting different music industries and audiences. Largely due to Super Junior’s success as entertainers, other Korean entertainment managements began to train their music groups in other areas of entertainment, such as acting and hosting.[3] In addition to their commercial success, Super Junior has earned four music awards from the M.NET/KM Music Festival, another four from the Golden Disk Awards, and is the second singing group to win Favorite Artist Korea at the MTV Asia Awards after jtL in 2003.
Musical history
Pre-debut
Since the late 1990s, Korean talent agency and record label SM Entertainment has been holding annual auditions to scout new talents that complemented the success of pop groups H.O.T, S.E.S, and Shinhwa, all of which were created by SM founder Lee Soo-man in the mid 1990s. Leeteuk and Eunhyuk were the first two members of the group to be recruited in 2000 under SM’s Starlight Casting System in Seoul.
In 2001, the company held their first oversea casting auditions and discovered Han Geng in Beijing, who was chosen among three thousand applicants. That same year, Yesung was discovered under Seoul’s casting system; Sungmin and Donghae were then selected to be trainees after their appearance in an SM-sponsored contest. A year later, Heechul and Kangin was recruited along with Kibum, who was discovered in Los Angeles. Siwon was casted in 2003 and Ryeowook in 2004, in which the latter was discovered through the Chinchin Youth Festival singing competition. In 2005, Shindong was selected.
Not long after boy band TVXQ’s debut in 2003, news about Lee’s unprecedented plans of forming another boy band quickly spread on the Internet. In early 2005, Lee confirmed the news and announced that an all-boy project group of twelve members would debut near the end of the year, promoting this singing group to be “The Gateway to Stardom of Asia.” Lee announced that unlike most debuting pop groups that has members with no pre-debut experience, the members in this group were chosen because of their performing experiences as actors, MCs, models, and radio hosts prior debut. Heechul and Kibum made their first appearances in dramas and films; Leeteuk, Yesung, Kang-in, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, and Siwon have had television appearances, and Han Geng made his first media appearance as a model. Heechul also became an established radio host and MC after his television drama debut in early 2005.Lee also stated, though not directly, that this group would be a rotational group, with a concept very similar to Japan’s girl group, Morning Musume. Line-up changes would occur every year, and new members would replace some of the older members.
For a while the group was rumored to be called O.V.E.R, the acronym for “Obey the Voice for Each Rhythm.”[a] However, before the group settled with their current name, the company simply referred to them as Junior, a representation of the members’ young ages when they first became SM trainees.After the members’ showcased their different talents to the company at a picnic, the company finalized their concept name to Super Junior. The group thereafter became officially Super Junior 05, the first generation of Super Junior.
Super Junior 05 made their pre-debut appearance on the Korean channel Mnet on September 11, 2005.[b] At the showcase, they performed various styles of hip hop dancing. The group danced to B2K’s “Take It To The Floor.” Han Geng, Eunhyuk, and Donghae also performed a separate dance away from the group, dancing to Usher’s “Caught Up.” However, the performance did not air on television until May 16, 2006 as a segment in the Super Junior Show, the group’s first television documentary.
Super Junior
Laras baru saja menghadiri sebuah seminar di gerejanya, mengenai persepuluhan. Masalahnya, Laras belum memiliki penghasilan, uang saku yang diberikan orangtuanya pun tidak seberapa. Laras, jadi bertanya-tanya, apakah perintah untuk memberi persepuluhan berlaku juga bagi pelajar? Apa yang ditanyakan Laras, mungkin juga bercokol di benak kita. Sebetulnya, apa sih yang dimaksud dengan persepuluhan itu?
Menurut teologian Jake Barnett, persepuluhan atau memberikan 10 % (sepersepuluh) dari penghasilan, telah dikenal sejak jaman dulu. Abraham dan Yakub adalah tokoh-tokoh di Alkitab yang secara sukarela memberi atau menyisihkan sepersepuluh dari pendapatan mereka untuk pekejaan Tuhan. Hukum Taurat menegaskan, bahwa bila bangsa Israel menggunakan persepuluhan ini bagi diri mereka sendiri (bukan untuk pekerjaan Tuhan), maka ini berarti mereka telah mencuri dari Allah.
Yang dimaksud memberi untuk pekerjaan Tuhan—dalam tradisi bangsa Yahudi—yakni memberi untuk kebaktian, termasuk pembangunan bait Allah dan fasilitasnya. Kemudian, memberi untuk hamba-hamba Allah, para imam, dan orang-orang Lewi. Dalam bangsa Israel, orang-orang yang disebutkan tadi, dapat berkonsentrasi pada pekerjaannya apabila dibebaskan dari keharusan mencari makan. Lalu, memberi untuk pekerjaan Tuhan juga berarti memberi untuk orang miskin. Di Alkitab, orang-orang miskin berhak atas pemberian dari Israel.
Jika dianalogikan dengan masa kini, ini berarti memberi untuk gereja Tuhan. Lalu untuk para pemuka, pendeta, guru Injil, pokoknya setiap orang yang mendedikasikan hidupnya untuk mengurusi jemaat. Kemudian untuk orang miskin dan pelayanan pekabaran injil.
Di kitab perjanjian baru, Yesus hanya sekali menggunakan kata persepuluhan, saat ia berbicara dengan kaum Farisi, “… persepuluhan dari selasih, ada manis dan jintan kamu bayar, tetapi yang terpenting dalam hukum Taurat kamu abaikan…” demikian yang tertulis dalam kitab Matius. Sedangkan Paulus, meski sering menekankan mengenai pemberian dalam ajarannya, tidak pernah menggunakan kata persepuluhan.
Ukuran sepersepuluh, menurut Barnett, adalah ukuran yang sangat bagus untuk memulai kebiasaan memberi (bagi pekerjaan Tuhan), tapi ini bukan satu-satunya patokan yang diajarkan Alkitab mengenai pemberian. Dalam perjanjian baru, konsep mengenai pemberian tidak sekadar dibatasi oleh sepersepuluh dari penghasilan, tetapi lebih dari itu seperti yang dikatakan Paulus kepada jemaat di Korintus, bahwa pemberian harus sebanding dengan pendapatan dan kemampuan mereka untuk memberi.
Omong-omong, Alkitab tidak pernah menyinggung mengenai apakah pelajar diwajibkan untuk memberi atau tidak. Jadi, sah-sah saja kalau kamu ingin memberi kepada Tuhan, dengan menyisihkan sebagian dari uang saku. Dan, jumlah pemberiannya tidak hanya dibatasi pada sepersepuluh—kalau sanggup—bahkan lebih dari itu. Lagi pula, di atas semua itu, kamu dituntut untuk tidak sekadar memberi uang melainkan juga tubuhmu, “… supaya kamu mempersembahkan tubuhmu sebagai persembahan yang hidup, yang kudus dan yang berkenan kepada Allah: itu adalah ibadahmu yang sejati” (Roma 12:1).
