Super Junior returns stronger despite Choi Si-won’s absence

Originally, Super Junior had planned to return as a seven-piece unit. Choi Si-won (centre) decided to sit out the group’s promotions for 'Play'. Photo: Filepic

After weathering countless hardships and heartaches together over the last 12 years, Super Junior came out stronger and more united than ever despite the absence of Choi Si-won.

Six men of Super Junior, one of a handful of K-pop acts to have surpassed the 10-year mark, returned with the group’s eighth full-length album Play recently, celebrating the group’s 12th anniversary as well. The album came two years after Super Junior‘s last release as a group, the 10th anniversary album Devil and its reissue Magic.