‘2011 Asia Song Festival’  The 1^st coupon download service!

 

- The 1^st coupon download will be available from 13:00 on September 16

- 2011 Asia Song Festival will be held as the official cultural program to ease the end of IAAF World Championship on September 4, hosted by Korea for the first time 

 

☐IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011 ended magnificently. The eyes of the world were on the biggest festival in the world for 9 days starting from August 27. IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011 has left stronger and deeper impression than other sports due to the nature of sports that competes basic abilities of people in running, throwing, and jumping. The largest scale ever with more than 6,000 participants including 1,945 athletes from 202 countries were broadcasted on TV to more 6.5 billion people; making it a good chance to emphasis Korea and Daegu. This is especially significant to countries in Asia because 9 of the total 12 Championships took place in Europe and Korea is the 3^rd country who hosts this Championship outside of Europe following Canada and Japan.

 

☐2011 Asia Song Festival, a large scale music festival, will be held at Daegu Stadium on October 15 in Daegu metropolitan city with UNICEF to celebrate the successful launch of IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011 and ease the end of Championships. Asia Song Festival is the largest cultural festival in Asia that shares all Asian’s desire via music. About 1.5 billion people from about 40 countries enjoy popular music in Asia via Asia Song Festival not only from broadcast medias in 14 Asia countries such as CCTV I China, Fuji TV in Japan, TVB in Hong Kong, Channel-U in Singapore, and 3 channels in Thailand, but also from America, Europe, and Central Asia. Asia Song Festival performs a role in forming a cultural consensus of Asians by providing chances to exchange various cultures in Asia that recently receive attention in the world..

 

☐ On September 5, KOFICE announced that the 1^st coupon download for 2011 Asia Song Festival would start from 13:00 on September 16. Free admission is available and coupon could be obtained at the official home page ((www.asf.or.kr). Not only fans in Korea but also fans in other countries can join this festival with downloaded coupon from the official home page in various languages (English, Japanese, and Chinese). Coupons need to be exchanged to tickets at the ticket office at Daegu Stadium on the day of the festival

 

☐ Fans’ attention has been focused on last month announcement of the 1^st lineup with Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, Perfume, Peter Ho(何潤東), BiBi Chou(周笔畅), Leo Ku(古巨基), and Tata Young. Fans who want to join 2011 Asia Song Festival need to get coupons quickly. Last year, coupon download was completed within only 4 hours and every year the interest to this festival is riding high.

 

☐Fans’ expectation to the 2^nd and 3^rd lineups for 2011 Asia Song Festival that will be announced in the future is getting higher. This is because top Asian artists who are very hard to meet in Korea such as Arasi, Kota Kumi, Ayumi Himasaki in Japan, F4 in Taiwan, Joe Mi in China, Yoe Myeong, Chin Hyerim in Hong Kong had their 1st performance at the first Asia Song Festival in 2004.  Popular singers in Korea such as TVXQ, BoA, BIGBANG, Rain, KARA, 2AM, SS501, Seung-hun Sin, Seung Chul Lee were also joined and became the topics of conversation.

 

☐ Visit the official home page (www.asf.or.kr) to check the details of 2011 Asia Song Festival with UNICEF, the official cultural program of IAAF World Championships. Home page in English, Japanese, and Chinese will be available from September 7 for music fans in foreign countries.