A South Korean boy band under the production and management group SM Entertainment, Super Junior (aka SJ or SuJu) made their debut in 2005 and were instantly popular in their home country and in a great deal of other Asian pop music markets. The original idea was that Super Junior would be rotating cast of characters -- the name changing to represent the changes, i.e., Super Junior 05 would become Super Junior 06 -- but once the first round of rotations were to be made, an addition rather than a switch was made and the group expanded to 13. As Super Junior 05 (Leetuk, Heechul, Han Geng (the only Chinese member, Han Geng was chosen from a number of applicants to appeal to a broader Asian market), Yesung, Kang-In, Shindong, to an auto accident, but upon its release in September of 2007, Super Junior finally had an album debuting at number one. In 2008, Super Junior consolidated and furthered their regional popularity with a multi-city Asian tour.
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