'07 Asia Song Festival to Open in Seoul
The guest list of the 2007 Asia Song Festival, Asia's biggest music gala, has been decided.
The Korea Foundation for International Cultural Exchange says 14 teams from nine countries will perform at the festival opening Sept. 22nd at Seoul World Cup Stadium. The star studded list includes Lee Hyori, Super Junior and SG Wannabe from Korea, F4 and Cheung A-mei from Taiwan, ZhaoWei of China, Gigi Leung of Hong Kong and Golf & Mike of Thailand.
The concert will be free and tickets can be downloaded from the foundation Web site from early September.
Chief of the foundation board of directors Sin Hyeon-taek says "we hope that the 2002 World Cup fever would repeat at the song festival as a venue to boost the Asian music industry and cultural exchange."
Source: KBS Global
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August 14th, 2007
Top Asian Stars at Asia Song Festival
By Seo Dong-shin
Staff Reporter
The annual Asia Song Festival will bring 14 top stars from nine Asian countries to Seoul this year.
``The 2007 Asia Song Festival,'' scheduled for Sept. 22 at Sangam World Cup Stadium, will feature popular South Korean boy bands such as SG Wannabe and Super Junior.
Pretty boys will fly into Seoul en masse from other countries although the Japanese line-up has yet to be confirmed. ``Golf & Mike,'' idol duo hailing from Thailand, also enjoys popularity in Japan. Vietnamese singer Lam Truong once sang a Vietnamese version of ``Forever,'' a song from ``Korean Wave'' star Ahn Jae-wook. Peter Pan, meanwhile, is a six-piece pop rock band from Indonesia.
At the festival, fans will also be able to compare female pop stars from five countries. From South Korea, actress and singer Lee Hyo-lee, who mainly sells her sexy image, will perform on stage. From mainland China comes Vicki Zhao, also a popular actress and singer who won the ``Favorite Artist Mainland China'' from 2006 MTV Asia Awards. A-mei, the ``pride of Taiwan,'' has been a pop diva in the Mandarin-speaking world for more than a decade. Gigi Leung is a veteran Hong Kong actress and singer, while Barbie Almalbiz, a songwriter and folk rock singer from the Philippines, enjoys huge popularity in her home country.
JVKV, better known as F4, are four Taiwanese heartthrobs also well-known in South Korea for the hit Taiwanese drama series ``Meteor Garden,'' which is based on a popular Japanese manga and aired here on a cable channel. They will appear as special guests during the show.
Tickets for the festival are free and can be downloaded from early September at the Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange (KOFICE) website, which has been organizing the event for the last three years. For more information, visit www.kofice.or.kr.
Source: saltwall @koreatimes.co.kr
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