 It was released on October 14, 2010 through Vitamin Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Korea.Two weeks before the release of the album in South Korea, 50,000 copies of the regular edition had been pre-ordered and pre-sales for the 99,999 copies of the special edition of "The Beginning" reached numbers of 400,000 requests.The album was released on November 16, 2010 in the United States as a digital download, and a wider release, planned by the group for early 2011, did not materialize.