Lee Donghae in Sub-group

2007-2008: Lee Donghae in Sub-group

Donghae's official debut as an actor was in July 2007, with the release of Super Junior's debut film, Attack on the Pin-Up Boys. Donghae stars as a class mate and close friend of Kim Kibum, a high school student who investigates on a mysterious attack on pretty boys in various high schools in town. In late 2007, Donghae was featured in Girls' Generation's "Kissing You" music video. Also, he and Kyuhyun appeared and sang for facial wash product commercial "Happy Bubble" with actress Han Ji Min.

In April 2008, Donghae was put into seven-member sub-group Super Junior-M, a Mandopop subgroup of Super Junior for the Chinese music industry. They debuted in China at the 8th Annual Music Chart Awards, simultaneously with the release of their first music video, "U" on 8 April 2008. This was followed by the release of the debut Chinese-language studio album, Me in selected provinces in China on 23 April and 2 May in Tawain.

Lee Donghae

Lee Dong-hae (born October 15, 1986) mononymouly credited as Donghae, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the K-pop boy band Super Junior and its subgroup, Super Junior-M. He is also one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps.

Pre-debut

Donghae was born in Mokpo, Jeollanam on 15 October 1986. Donghae initially wanted to become an athlete, but under the influence of his father, who once desired to become a singer, Donghae decided to train himself to become a singer.

In 2001, Donghae signed a contract with SM Entertainment soon after he jointly won the Best Outward Appearance award with future band mate Sungmin on the company's third annual SM Youth Best Contest. Under SM Entertainment, Donghae was put in singing, dancing, and acting lessons, and was then recruited into a five-member boy band Smile, with future band mate Leeteuk, but the idea was soon dropped.

In 2004, Donghae, along with Leeteuk were put into another boy band and formed Super Junior with ten other trainees. The group later became known as Super Junior 05, the first generation of a rotational music group, Super Junior. In November 2005, several days before the group's debuted, Donghae made a brief appearance at SBS's Shin Dong-yup's There Is There Isn't panel.

2005-2006: Debut with Super Junior

Donghae officially debut as part of 12-member project group Super Junior 05 on 6 November 2005 on SBS's music programme Popular Songs, performing their first single, "TWINS (Knock Out)". Their debut album SuperJunior05 (Twins) was released a month later on 5 December 2005 and debuted at #3 on the monthly MIAK K-pop album charts.

In March 2006, SM Entertainment began to recruit new members for the next Super Junior generation. However, plans changed and the company declared a halt in forming future Super Junior generations. Following the addition of thirteenth member Kyuhyun, the group dropped the suffix "05" and became officially credited as Super Junior. The re-polished group's first CD single "U" was released on 7 June 2006, which was their most successful single until the release of "Sorry, Sorry" in March 2009.

Donghae made his acting debut in Super Junior's horror documentary Mystery 6, broadcasted in early 2006. The documentary surrounds Donghae and his peculiar ability to see and feel ghosts. In August 2006, Donghae played the role of a human turned cyborg in the Korean version of BoA's music video drama, "Key of Heart", his first lead appearance in a music video.

Acting career Lee Donghae

2009-2011: Acting career Lee Donghae

In 2009, Donghae along with fellow member Siwon, co-starred in Taiwanese singer Ariel Lin's music video for "螢火蟲" (Firefly), which was released in Blissful Encounter. In July he performed his first composition "Beautiful" during Super Show 2 Tour which was released on Super Show 2 Tour Concert Album. He also played Zhang Li Yin's love interest in her music video, "晴天雨天" (Moving On), released on 19 October 2009.

In 2010, Donghae composed "A Short Journey", with lyrics by fellow member Eunhyuk. Which was released on repackaged Bonamana. In November, he starred in SBS drama, It's Okay, Daddy's Girl as Choi Wook Gi, one of three brothers. He also composed one of it’s theme song "Just Like Now", a duet with fellow member Ryeowook.

Donghae sang the theme song for the 2011 8th Asia Song Festival, "Dreams Come True", with Seohyun of Girls' Generation, which was released on 11 October 2011 as a digital single. The proceeds from the sale were donated to Unicef to help children in African countries.

In 2011, Donghae co-starred again wth fellow member Siwon, in the Taiwanese drama Skip Beat! (Chinese: 華麗的挑戰) with Ivy Chen. It is a live-action adaptation of Japanese shōjo manga Skip Beat! by Yoshiki Nakamura shot in Taiwan for four months. Donghae and Siwon attended a press conference in Taipei on 14 December to launch the drama. He also sang the ending theme song, "That's Love" with fellow Super Junior-M member Henry.

Career Lee Donghae in 2012-present

In 2012, Donghae collaborated with One Way's Chance to compose four songs: "Strong Heart Logo Song", "Y" released on their 5th album Mr. Simple, "I Wanna Love You" first performed at the Super Show 3 Tour and released on Super Show 3 Tour Concert Album, and "Oppa, Oppa". As well as the logo song for ShimShimTamPa Radio.

On 16 December 2011 Eunhyuk and Donghae released digital single Oppa, Oppa, where they first performed it at Super Junior's Super Show 4 Seoul concert on 19 November 2011. This marks the first release of their collbrations. The single was also released in Japanese with an original Japanese music video on 4 April 2012. On the day of its release, it reached number two on Oricon Daily Chart with 42,114 copies sold. The pair then held a fan meeting, Premium Mini Live Event, in support of the single on 11 April at Shibuya-AX, Tokyo.

Debut Eunhyuk with Super Junior

2005-2006: Debut Eunhyuk with Super Junior

Eunhyuk is also a lyricist and wrote the rap lyrics for a majority of Super Junior's songs. The rap lyrics to "Show Me Your Love" from the winter single with TVXQ was written by him, along with Heechul and Shindong, and "One Love". "여행" (A Short Journey) from repackaged version of Bonamana was written by him and composed by Donghae. Along with Shindong and Donghae, he also choreographs some of Super Junior's dance routines.

2006-2010: MC and sub-groups

Eunhyuk was partnered with band mate Leeteuk as radio DJs for KBS Super Junior's Kiss The Radio (aka SUKIRA) from 21 August 2006. With the exception of fours months from March to June 2011, where band mate Yesung temporarily replaced Eunhyuk, while he was away on promotional activities for Super Junior-M's third EP Perfection.

Eunhyuk replaced Kangin as MC on Mnet's music programme M! Countdown in late 2006. He hosted with band mates Leeteuk and Shindong until early 2008. In February 2007, he was placed in the trot-singing sub group Super Junior-T. A year later, he became a member of Super Junior-Happy.

From 2009, Eunhyuk, along with Leeteuk and Shindong, has been regular guests SBS's Strong Heart. Where they host special segment, Boom Academy. He is also frequent guest on Star King, also on SBS, with fellow Super Junior members.

On 26 February 2010, Eunhyuk was diagnosed with H1N1 influenza, but was set to appear as a guest at label mate Girls' Generation's Into the New World encore concert in Seoul, hence has to pulled out and was replaced by band mates Leeteuk and Heechul.

Career Eunhyuk in 2011 until Present

In 2011, Eunhyuk, along with Sungmin was placed two new members of Super Junior-M. On 27 September 2011, he along with Yesung and Shindong filled in for bandmate Heechul, who enlist for mandatory military service on 1 September, during the performance on Music Bank and Show! Music Core of Kim Jang-hoon latest single, "Breakups are So Like Me". Heechul is featured in the song and starred in the music video, which was completed the day before he enlisted.

In November, Eunhyuk made his musical theatre debut in Fame, where he played Tyrone Jackson, along with Tiffany of Girls' Generation, Son Ho Young, Lina of The Grace and Kim Jung Mo of TRAX. It was on at the Woori Financial Art Hall from 25 November 2011 to 29 January 2012. It was announced on 30 November 2011 that after five years, he and Leeteuk would leave Super Junior's Kiss the Radio and was replaced by fellow members, Sungmin and Ryeowook on 4 December 2011.

On 16 December 2011 Eunhyuk and Donghae released digital single Oppa, Oppa, where they first performed it at Super Junior's Super Show 4 Seoul concert on 19 November 2011. This marks the first release of their collbrations. The single was also released in Japanese with an original Japanese music video on 4 April 2012. On the day of its release, it reached number two on Oricon Daily Chart with 42,114 copies sold. The pair then held a fan meeting, Premium Mini Live Event, in support of the single on 11 April at Shibuya-AX, Tokyo.

Eunhyuk is MC for MBC every1's Super Junior Foresight, along with fellow members Leeteuk, Kyuhyun, Yesung and Shindong. From 23 March 2012, he took over as MC for the last three live shows of singing-survival program Great Birth 2, better known as MBC Star Audition, on MBC. As of the 10 April 2012 boardcast, following the change in MCs and the departure of Shindong from Strong Heart, the show was re-vamped with Leeteuk and Eunhyuk billed as two of the 'six-fixed guests'.