Super Junior's Kyuhyun And SeeYa's Kim Yeon Ji Receiving College Degrees This Week

When the class of 2013 at South Korea's Kyung Hee University holds their graduation ceremony on Wednesday, two of the students accepting degrees may have a leg up on other members of the music department, when it comes to creating a career in their selected field.

Kyuhyun of the 12-member K-pop boy band Super Junior and Kim Yeon Ji of the South Korean girl group SeeYa, who disbanded in 2011, will both be receiving degrees from Kyung Hee University's Department of Post Modern Music.

Kyuhyun claims the time he spent enrolled in the university meant more because he didn't use his celebrity status to get accepted.

"If I entered college with special admission as a celebrity, I could've attended school comfortably," Kyuhyun said, according to the website allkpop.

"However, I passed the national college entrance exam and got accepted into the school with difficulty, so I have a lot of attachment to it."

The 25-year-old Super Junior singer, whose real name is Cho Kyu Hyun, described his college experience as rewarding.

"If I had a class, I would sleep over my friend's house near the school and attend the class in the morning and study at night," Kyuhyun recalled.

"As I attended school, I learned a lot, and my studies became a big help to my career as an artist. I can breathe a sigh of relief once I graduate, but it's sad that I would have to leave my classmates who always helped me out."

But the star won't be leaving those Kyung Hee University pals just yet. Kyuhyun will reportedly begin graduate school there next month.

Meanwhile, the singer's Super Junior bandmate Kangin opened up in the most recent issue of the magazine ARENA HOMME+, on newsstands this week, about not quite feeling his age.

"I thought I would become an adult when I turned 30, but it feels like I'm still a 20-year-old boy," Kangin said. "I try to be more careful when I say or act something,"

Last week, Super Junior performed a 27-song set for 30,000 fans at Taiwan's Taipei Arena, including the group's hits "Sorry Sorry", "BONAMANA", "Mr. Simple" and "Sexy, Free & Single."

The band's Chinese subgroup Super Junior-M also performed.

Super Junior has held the number one spot on Taiwan's KKBOX music chart for more than two-and-a-half years.

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