Tuesday, May 1, 2012
[NEWS] BIGBANG TO PROMOTE KOREA BY SAYING "HELLO"
Big Bang participated in a public campaign to warmly greet foreigners for the year of Visit Korea.
On April 30, Visit Korea Committee reported that Big Bang would appear in the 2012 public campaign advertisement to warmly greet foreigners, titled “Let’s Say Hello First!”
This public campaign advertisement was created in order to improve the image of Korea by warmly greeting foreigners with smiles as over ten million foreigners are visiting Korea nowadays.
In the advertisement, which was shot at Gwanghwamun Square, Big Bang sing a campaign song about how to say hello in different languages.
Han Kyung Ah, the director of the marketing department of the committee, says, “Big Bang is a popular singing group that has a friendly image, so they fit to the concept of this campaign perfectly. Through the campaign, we hope more people can warmly greet the foreigners so that they feel more friendly toward Korea.”
The public campaign advertisement will start airing on national and cable TV channels early in May. It will also be seen in newspapers and other various different media.
Source : Starnews (via en.korea.com)
[NEWS] GD&TOP top the pop charts with their duet song with Pixie Lott
“Dancing On My Own,” a new song of the popular British singer Pixie Lott, topped the pop charts on April 30 immediately after it was released. Big Bang’s G-Dragon and T.O.P were featured in the song.
The song received wide attention in Korea even before it was released. It ranked first on real-time charts on Naver Music, Bugs, Soribada, and Olleh Music.
G-Dragon and T.O.P played distinctive roles in the song as a rapper and a vocalist. Pixie Lott asked G-Dragon and T.O.P to work together after she heard their music on YouTube.
Pixie Lott is coming to Korea in May to promote her new album. She’s going to stay in Korea for three days to celebrate the release of the de luxe version of her album in Asia.
Born in 1991, Pixie Lott is a singer-songwriter and an actress. Her debut single album Mama Do, released in June 2009, ranked first on the single charts, and she was selected as the most promising new artist in 2010 by the U.S. Billboard magazine. In 2010, she received three awards at Brit Awards.
Source: Star MT (via en.korea.com)
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