Sunday, February 5, 2012

Universal Music Malaysia and KNUKEast present ‘Universal K-pop Crazy Party’ in Kuala Lumpur!

Come this February 11th, Universal Music Malaysia and KNUKEast will present the first K-pop fan-gathering of the year ‘Universal K-pop Crazy Party’ from 3pm onwards at Bentley Music Auditorium in Mutiara Damansara. This invite-only event will consist of various activities including competitions for fans such as K-pop Artist Impersonations, K-pop Cover Dance Competition, Quiz and Fun-Games session, Best Dressed Awards and a lucky draw with chances to win a trip to Super Junior’s sold-out Super Show 4 in Singapore or Beast’s Beautiful Show and other cash prizes, as well as autographed artist merchandise. There will also be a video booth and signing booth for fans to leave personal messages to their stars of choice. Fan-clubs are also invited to submit their impersonator candidates to add cheer to the event.

The event will be highlighting new and current K-pop stars under the Universal Music label, including artists from CUBE Entertainment (Beast, 4Minute, G.Na, Troublemaker), SM Entertainment (TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls Generation, f(x)) and JYP (2AM, Wonder Girls, MBlaq) and many more.

The main event headlining the event will be the Universal K-pop Crazy Party Cover Dance Competition, open to groups of two to nine after purchasing one of the Universal K-pop Artist albums, Super Junior’s ‘Mr. Simple’, Girls’ Generation’s ‘The Boys’ and Troublemaker’s Mini EP or selected caller ringtones. Ten groups will be selected to choose a song from a selected list of songs to be in the running to win cash prizes and a Universal Music hamper.

On the day itself, there will also be booths selling K-pop artists merchandise, including calendars, diaries and more, as well as albums and food booths from local Korean restaurants.

First 200 caller ringtones downloaders from each of the three telcos (Maxis, Celcom and Digi) will receive an invite via SMS and automatically be in the running to win the tickets to the concerts. Fans can also purchase Super Junior’s ‘Mr. Simple’ album, Girls’ Generation’s ‘The Boys’ album or HyunA & JS’s ‘Troublemaker’ Mini EP album to receive invites to the party.

For information on the event, check out Universal Music’s website (www.universalmusic.com.my), Facebook page or call them at 03-79587433 (ext 102/504).

To win passes to the event, be sure to like our facebook page for more info on how to win!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

2012 Play! F.T. Island Press Conference ; Pictures & Coverage

The following day after the Meet the fans session, Square Roots held a Press Conference specifically for the media & sponsors to attend. The Press Conference was held at DoubleTree Hilton hotel as early as 10.00am in the morning. Local press and media flocked by so they can take a look at this very awesome band. We were surprised to see that many attendees from local media at the Press Conference and we had concluded that k-pop events has already became a hit in Malaysia. Some of the pictures taken -

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F.T Island arriving on the scene.
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A few questions for F.T Island.
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Photos taken with the sponsors and affiliates of the event.
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I would like to keep this post short as there wasn't any significant happenings during the Press Conference. Lets leave the best for last shall we? Stay tuned for coverage on the concert!