Photo credits: ONE
Top Korean actor Joo Won and fresh-faced actress Park Hye Su came to Singapore for a meet and greet titled “A Date with Joo Won” on October 11th to promote their new drama, Gang Doctor which is set to appear on ONE. The meet and greet, which was held at Suntec City mall garnered over 3,000 fans of different age groups as the venue was filled and some, even decked on the second and third floor, all trying to catch a glimpse of their favorite artists.
Singapore, 2015 – The main leads of South Korean, number one drama, Gang Doctor, met up with the media for an exclusive press conference on October 11th held at Grand Park Orchard, to promote their hit drama on ONE.
Joo Won and Park Hye Su entered the conference room with full of smiles as they start waving to the cameras and media who were present. Since it was his first time in Singapore, Joo Won started off the press conference by exclaiming how beautiful and refreshing he thinks Singapore is. Hye Su, however, have been to Singapore before with her family and shared that she is glad to be back. Continue reading
Fashion show, concert, broadcasting at the same stage (Photo credits: SGC)
Singapore, 2015 – SEOUL GIRLS COLLECTION (SGC SUPER LIVE) is starting their Asia tour this November. This Seoul Girls Collection Asia tour will be held in 3 cities including Manilla Philippines, Bangkok Thailand, and Singapore with Korea’s top artists.
The third city to be held is Singapore, starting December 19 at Singapore EXPO.
This is the first overseas expansion since the 9th opening SGC SUPER LIVE in Tokyo and the organising company said, “Because of the top famous artist held on SEOUL GIRLS COLLECTION (SGC SUPER LIVE), we received questions about ticketing from not only Korean fans but from the fans overseas”. They added, “We decided to open SGC SUPER LIVE world tour on the second half of the year in response.”
SEOUL GIRLS COLLECTION Show, celebrating the 12th anniversary by SGC SUPER LIVE IN Singapore, is an entertainment show focused on the trend and presenting a new approach to fashion and K-pop. And planned to introduce the excellence of the nation’s fashion brand by performing K-pop concert in collaboration with 10 to 30’s young woman’s ‘Real Clothes’ concept, presenting domestic and foreign famous brands and street fashion at the same time.
Many top K-pop artist will be performing at SGC SUPER LIVE in Singapore. Eye of the K-pop storm, Super Junior’s LeeTeuk has been selected as the special MC for the show in Singapore. WooJoo Star, Kim Hee Chul and talented musician Jungmo would be showing their collaboration. Henry, Korea famous hiphop idol Block B, hot-issue idol B1A4, sexy model idols Nine Muses and Korea’s rookie hip-hop group Toppdogg will also be joining this spectacular show of SGC SUPER LIVE in Singapore.
Audiences can enjoy various artist’s performance and fashion show at the same time in a 20~30 minute mini concert format SGC SUPER LIVE. Fans of the participating artists can also anticipate and enjoy their performance.
‘SGC SUPER LIVE’ was planned by ‘Seoul Girls Collection‘ to introduce the excellence of the nation’s fashion brand. And was awarded 1 million dollars export award by the Korean Trade Association.
The 1st early bird ticket sales of this upcoming will commence on 12th October 2015, 1pm SGT on its official ticketing website www.sgcent.com. Ticket prices are as follows: S$288 (VIP Seat), S$228 (R Seat), S$168 (S Seat), S$128 (A Seat). Customers who bought early bird tickets would need to collect their tickets at the venue.
In addition, entry into the concert venue would be according to the entry number stated on the ticket.
‘SGC SUPER LIVE IN Singapore’ is organized by ‘Seoul Girls Collection‘.
For more information and updates, please check out the ticketing website, www.sgcent.com. Also, do follow SGC on their twitter (https://twitter.com/SGC_Twt) and facebook (https://www.facebook.com/seoulgirlscollection).
Details
Event: SGC Super Live in Singapore 2015
Date: 19th November 2015, Saturday
Time: 6pm
Venue: Singapore Expo, The Max Pavilion
Ticket prices: S$288 (VIP Seat), S$228 (R Seat), S$168 (S Seat), S$128 (A Seat)
Simply Ten Most Recent Korean Films
Singapore, 2015 – The annual Korean Film Festival in Singapore (“KFF”) will take place at the Shaw Theatres Lido from 23rd October to 1st November 2015 to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Singapore through film.
The theme of the festival this year is simply ten most recent Korean films. The organizing committee has selected 10 feature films released in 2014 and 2015 for the festival, 7 of which have not been released in local theatres. Most notably, the line-up includes 2 of the biggest summer blockbusters in Korea this year – Assassination (2015) and Northern Limit Line (2015).
A Variety of Genres
The film festival this year caters to a wide range of viewers. The official selection includes heart-warming dramas Ode to My Father (2014) and Love Forecast (2015) featuring popular Korean actor Lee Seung Gi; mystery thrillers like A Hard Day (2014) and comedies like Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island (2015) and Twenty (2015).
Several action-packed films including The Divine Move (2014) and Assassination (2015), featuring top Korean stars such as Jung Woo Sung, Ryu Seung-ryeong and Jun Ji Hyun, have been specially selected to entertain the local viewers. The organizing committee also hopes to share with local viewers the maturity and quality of Korean films through this line-up.
Opening Night (23rd October 2015)
KIM Hak-Soon’s Northern Limit Line (2015) will open the festival at the Shaw Lido’s 500 seat Hall 1 theatre on the 23rd October 2015. The film is based on the 2002 Second Battle of Yeonpyeon where North Korean patrol boats attacked the South at the northern limit line during the height of the 2002 world cup fever. Jin Goo, Lee Hyun Woo and Kim Mu Yeol portray the life-and-death struggles of the naval crew.
Ambassador SUH Chung-Ha will represent Korea along with acclaimed Singaporean film director and producer Mr. Eric KHOO as Guests-of-Honours and they will deliver opening speeches.
Watch a Movie with Kang Ha Neul (31st October 2015)
As part of Korean actor KANG Ha Neul’s first visit to Singapore, he will attend the film festival to greet and join the audience for the screening of the film Twenty (2015) on 31st October. The meet & greet is organized in partnership with KMTV. This special segment aims to make the screening of the film memorable as the audience gets to see their film star up close and a chance to promote interest in KANG Ha Neul’s future works.
Organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Singapore, the KFF is part of the 2015 Korea Festival.
Singapore, 26th October 2015 – Rising Korean actor KANG Ha Neul who rose to fame with his role as high jump athlete Min Hyeon-Jae in hit drama To Beautiful You (2012) will be attending the annual Korean Film Festival in Singapore (“KFF”) for a meet & greet on the 31st October 2015 during his visit to Singapore.
He will join fans at Shaw Theatres Lido for the screening of Twenty (2015) where he is part of the main cast. He will be personally giving out pre-signed posters to every meet & greet package holder and taking group pictures with the relevant package holders before the screening. In addition he will also greet the movie audience before the screening.
The meet & greet is organized by the Korean Film Festival Organising Committee in partnership with KMTV with hopes to make the screening of the film memorable as the audience gets to see their film star up close and also to promote interest in KANG Ha Neul’s future works.
A Rising Star
KANG Ha Neul began his acting career in musical theatres from 2006 and later shifted to small screen productions (dramas). He has appeared in various hit productions such as To The Beautiful You (2012, with SHINee’s Min Ho and Choi Sulli), Monstar (2013, with B2ST Yong Jun Hyung), The Heirs (2013, with Park Shin Hye, Kim Woo Bin and Lee Min Ho), Misaeng (2014, with ZE:A’s Siwan and Kang So Ra).
In recent years, KANG Ha Neul has also appeared in various movies, such as C’est Si Bon (2015) and Twenty (2015, with Kim Woo Bin and 2PM’s Jun Ho). In Twenty (2015) he plays Gyeong Jae who is a typical student who desperately wants to land a job in a conglomerate, as such, everything he does in college is geared towards this goal. Fans can look forward to his hilarious performance.
Details about KANG Ha Neul’s 1st Singapore Meet & Greet
Interested parties can purchase ticket packages from KMTV at $25 for a poster, and $50 for an autograph and group picture. It will be held at Shaw Theatres Lido at 5:30pm, the movie will be screened at 7.00pm.
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General Admission and Mosh Pit Tickets still available at $88 and $118 respectively
Singapore, 2015 – Early bird tickets for Asia’s leading music festival have all been snapped up ahead of the closing date for this category of tickets. General Admission tickets as well as Mosh Pit tickets at $88 and $118 respectively are still available and on sale at all Peatix outlets, it will go on sale at SISTIC from 1 October.
Commented Samantha Chan, Director of Red Spade Entertainment Pte Ltd, the organiser of the Skechers Sundown Festival 2015, “We are extremely pleased to see the early bird tickets sell out before the closing date. This tells us that fans are indeed looking forward to rocking it out with the stellar headline acts, special guest performers and awesome local bands that we have curated for the Festival’s 7th edition.”
Added Kelvin Goh, Director of Red Spade Entertainment Pte Ltd, “It also goes to show that our enhanced pricing strategy – to make the Festival more accessible to fans given the more focused theme of hip hop and rock for this year’s Festival – was the right decision. We’re determined now more than ever, to ensure that the Skechers Sundown Festival continues to be a platform to celebrate great Asian artistes and showcase up and coming ones.”
Asia’s leading music event, the Skechers Sundown Festival, returns on 21 November 2015 for its seventh consecutive year with a stellar lineup of Asia’s biggest hip hop and rock artistes. To be held at the F1 Pit Area at the Marina Promenade, the Festival will be headlined by Korea’s ‘Epik High’, Thailand’s ‘Potato’, Japan’s ‘INKT’, Singapore’s ‘Caracal’ and Indonesia’s ‘J-Rocks’.
Staying true to its mission of uniting Asia through music as well as creating a platform for local talents to showcase their skills, the Festival will also present a fringe fest of up-and-coming artistes. Homegrown Singaporean musicians ‘Cheryl Loon’, ‘Cashew Chemists’, ‘Farrago’, as well as Special Guest ‘Ground Zero’ from Taiwan are some of the exciting artistes to be performing this year.
According to Farrago frontman, Dave Hawkes, who will be returning to the Festival for the second time, “We’re really thrilled to be back at Skechers Sundown Festival. The adrenaline and exposure from the previous festival helped push us to record our very first album, which means we’ve had a pretty busy year behind the scenes. We’re looking forward to performing some of those songs and hope fans will come sing along and celebrate this milestone with us.”
Tickets (Category 2 General Admission @ $88; Category 1 Mosh Pit @ $118) are still available at Peatix and will be available on SISTIC from 1 October 2015 onwards.
For more information of the festival, please visit Sundown Festival’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mysundownfestival.
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Details
Event: 2015 INFINITE 2nd World Tour [INFINITE EFFECT] in Singapore
Date: 13th November 2015, Friday
Venue: Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre
Time : 7:30pm
Ticket prices: S$238, S$188, S$138, $108 (*Prices exclude booking fee)
Public Sales for tickets will commence on 29th September 2015 (Tuesday)10am SGT on all SISTIC platforms/outlets.
For more information and updates, please visit AC Music Entertainment’s Facebook page.
Also, check out the greeting video from INFINITE!
Epik High
Singapore, 26 September 2015 – Leading Korean act Epik High has confirmed its participation at the Skechers Sundown Festival 2015, completing the stellar cast of headline acts that will be in Singapore on 21 November 2015.
Since forming in 2003, Epik High has risen from being a small hip-hop underground group to become a mainstay of the popular Korean music scene. Having won “Album of the Year” and “Artist of the Year”, in Korea, they have also ranked number one on the US iTunes Hip Hop chart, topping Kanye West and Jay-Z in 2010.
They recently went on a successful 2015 North American Tour, completing 11 shows in 9 cities, of which 5 were sold out.
Epik High will be joining Thailand’s ‘Potato’, Japan’s ‘INKT’, Singapore’s ‘Caracal’ and Indonesia’s ‘J- Rocks’ at the festival, which takes place at the Marina Promenade, F1 Pit Area from 4:00pm onward. Tickets (Early Bird @ $68, Category 2 General Admission @ $88; Category 1 Mosh Pit @ $118) are currently on sale.
For more information of the festival, please visit Sundown Festival’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mysundownfestival.
Date : 21 November 2015, Saturday
Time : 4:00 pm till late
Venue : Marina Promenade, F1 Pit Area (next to Singapore Flyer)
Tickets & Prices:
$ 68 – Early bird: General admission only
$118 – Category 1: Mosh pit
(Only available on Peatix from 18 September 2015)
$ 88 – Category 2: General admission
$118 – Category 1: Mosh pit
(available at SISTIC & Peatix from 1 October 2015)
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