[News] Hangeng, 'I left Super Junior for my pride'

To come in September for fan-signing;
Hangeng : I left Super Junior for my pride

Super Junior-M's former leader Hangeng temporarily planned to visit Singapore in September to have his first fan-signing (in Singapore). Fans can purchase Hangeng's first chinese album, Geng Xin in stores from July 30th. According to the local distributor, Hangeng's price has risen to tens of thousand of USD for 1 hour.

In December last year, Hangeng had requested to terminate his contract with SM Entertainment, and therefore left Super Junior and went back his hometown China for 7 months. Hangeng expressed that the rumor that he was raising money for the contract termination fee is false, and he thanks SM Entertainment for their grooming, but he said that he left SM Ent. because of problems during collaborations and his pride.

Recently, Hangeng said in a press conference at the Great Wall, "From today onwards I will start afresh my entertainment career as a soloist." ; but refutes the claims of the termination fees posed by SM Ent.

After beginning a career as a soloist, Hangeng's popularity has been increasing. He had just held 2 concerts in Beijing, and will have a fan-meeting in Shanghai next month. Tickets of the fan-meeting has not been released yet, but scalpers' tickets has already surfacing in the net, the price rising to 1680 yuan (from the original 980 yuan).

Album will be released in China, Singapore, Taiwan
On July 30th, Geng Xin will be released in China, Singapore and Taiwan.

Earlier before, preorders of Geng Xin has produced shocking results; 30,000 copies was sold within 3 hours in China, while in Taiwan, 10,000 copies were sold in the same amount of time.

Local distributor Global Music & Publishing has attained the rights to distribute Geng Xin in Singapore and Malaysia, and is now in the talks to bring in Hangeng for fan-signing events in Singapore and Malaysia.

The distributor expressed that the price of (inviting) Hangeng is not cheap, having tens of thousands of USD for every hour. Hangeng will be visiting Taiwan in August to promote his album. Tickets for his fan-signing in Taiwan were snapped up fast, nearing 1000 in a hour.

The local distributor will be releasing the first batch of Geng Xin (CD + DVD) in all CD Rama stores islandwide.

Source: Lianhe Zaobao , zbNOW 28 July 2010 / omy
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