Mexican K-Pop fans want ‘SMTOWN LIVE’ too!
We all know that ‘SMTOWN LIVE’ will be held in Paris on June 10th. SM Entertainment stated, "Our world tour has achieved huge success in Seoul, L.A., Shanghai, and Tokyo, and we’re currently receiving an explosive response from European K-Pop music fans."
Is SM Entertainment’s world map really like this?
Recently I have heard that there is a big project to get a K-Pop concert in Mexico. Mexican fans are already driving a campaign to collect ‘LIKE’ on Fackbook in order to host ‘SMTOWN LIVE’ in their country.
Here is what Mexican fans are doing now.
A few days ago, Mexican fans got the news about "SM Town Live in Paris" and were happy with what the French fans achieved. However, they were a bit sad at the same time. It was because they thought that the Korean music industry would never count in Mexico when it comes to international K-events or concerts.
Some K-fans talked about this issue and decided to start a project to host a SM TOWN Concert in Mexico. They consulted with a Korean friend on the project and came to the couclusion that they need about 10,000 likes on a Facebook fanpage to petition for a K-concert in the country.
They started it on the same day and have reached 8,000+ likes now and still counting.
Here is the info on their Facebook Fan Page.
The project has been going very well and they already started drawing attention from the Mexican media.
They had a radio interview on 25th of this month. They asked Mexican TV channels to show K-Pop continuously and their efforts were rewarded.
On April 27th, TV AZTECA, a Mexican national TV channel featured Big Bang for 90 seconds on VENGA LA ALEGRIA, one of the most popular entertainment shows in Mexico.
The same TV show did a special coverage about Korean pop music on April 28th.The show hosts said that Korean bands are more talented than any other ones in the world. They talked about Hallyu (the Korean wave) as well as the Mexican fan-base. I was told that there are more than 20 K-fan clubs and a lot of K-followers around the whole country. The project leaders are supposed to have another interview with a radio show today, April 29th.
They also opened a twitter account. Many Mexican fans are using the hashtag #SMTOWNINMEXICO and it remains the no. 1 hashtag in Mexico these days.
Mexican fans are taking this project very seriously. It is because they really want a K-Pop concert.
And they are so proud of what they have achieved so far. Many people have joined and are spreading word of the project around Mexico and Latin America.
There is another important thing they plan, which is a video project showing many K-Pop covers (dancing and singing) of Mexican fans and their love for Korean culture and K-Pop (specially SM Artists).
They will also make a special section on the video for shout-out "We want SM TOWN live in Mexico."
They think that the success of "SM TOWN live in Mexico" is guaranteed if they fulfil this project successfully.
The Mexican fandom & K-Pop fans proudly proclaimed that [April, 28th, 2011 ] is the Official K-Pop’s Day in Mexico ♥!
We sarangkpop hope SM Entertainment and other K-entertainment companies see this Mexican fans’ project and turn their eyes into other countries like Mexico rather than putting too much time and energy in regional countries such as China and Japan.
Please visit their Facebook Fan Page and support them.
Special thanks to Cielo Nataly for the tip & help.
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