- 'BEAST' for Best Asian Artist Award - representing Korea along with Super Junior, Girls' Generation, Lee Seung-Ki
- ‘miss A’  was chosen as ‘Best New Asian Artist Award’, visualizing their overseas activities
- 'U-KISS' and 'G.NA' were selected as "Asia Influential Artists" for their outstanding performances

☐ Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange (President: Kim Young-Hoon, hereinafter referred to as "foundation") co-sponsored with UNICEF, and the Metropolitan city of Daegu released additional singer lineup for 2011 Asia Song Festival. The group 'BEAST' was selected as "Best Asian Artist Award", representing Korea, 'miss A' was chosen as "Best New Asian Artist Award", and 'U-KISS' and 'G.NA' were selected as "Asia Influential Artists", and all of them will be on the stage for 2011 Asia Song Festival.

☐  The group ‘BEAST’, who became solid idol group with this year’s blockbuster hit song “FICTION” was chosen to represent Korea will be on the stage.  Since their debut in 2009, group ‘BEAST’ have been actively participated on stage, and are considered as one of a few artist who grew fast to become top men idol group.  They especially left their strong impression during the last year's “Asia Song Festival.”

☐ Recently ‘BEAST’ released their first official album ‘So BEAST’ and started to actively involve in Japanese market.  This album was ranked 2nd in the Oricon Daily chart and ranked 1st in the Recochoku chart, Japan’s biggest mobile chart, after selling 26,565 copies during the first date of release, becoming a big part of K-pop fever. During the “United Cube in Japan”, Cube Entertainment family concert, ‘BEAST’ presented powerful and strong performance on stage to 10,000 Japanese fans.  After the Concert in Budokan, which many Japanese singer consider it as their dream stage, ‘BEAST’ got so many request from other areas around the world and they plan have family tour, starting from on November 19, in London, England and then carry on in Asia, Europe, Southern America as well as other countries around the world.  We expect to see great performance from ‘BEAST’, who now became a top artist performing around the world in 'Asia Song Festival’.

☐  A girl group ‘Miss A’, who is actively engaged since making their debut in July of 2010, will be on stage on ‘Asia Song Festival’ as ‘Best Asian New Artist’.  Former ‘Best Asian New Artist’ recipient included ‘SHINee’, and Japan’s ‘Berryz Kobo’ in 2008, ‘2NE1’ in 2009 and other famous artists.  miss A’s title song ‘Bad Girl Good Girl’ ranked the 1st in ‘KBS Music Bank’ with in just 22 days since making their debut, this made them the fastest girl group who making their debut.  They also received 5 awards from last year’s top 3 musical awards and recognized as ‘Best Asian New Artist.’  Not only ‘miss A’ dances fiercely on stage they also do not have any problem hitting high notes and sings heavy tones as well and that’s what made them this much popular.  After successfully debuting their first album, ‘Miss A’ continued to hit the top charts with songs like ‘Breathe’ and ‘Good Bye Baby’.

☐ As their girl group name ‘miss A’ says it all, their main mission was to focus on world wide activities even before making their debut, and now more and more fans are anticipating this girl group’s world wide debut.  According to the recent poll by the ‘BIGLOBE MUSIC’ ‘miss A’ was voted as the #1 ‘K-Pop next generation girl group Japanese are anticipating and people already expect them to be successful world wide girl group.  A songwriter and music producer ‘Bang Si-Hyuk’ highly appraised ‘miss A’, calling them the K-Pop’s significant event and said they are final product targeting to make the next “Han Ryu”.  Considering it’s only been an year since they made their debut, we anticipate to see their unlimited growth soon.  Considering ‘miss A’ will be on stage as ‘Best Asian New Artist’, we think this year’s ‘Asia Song Festival’ is their stage to show their place as a future “Han Ryu star” to fans around the world.

☐ The seven boys idol group ‘U-KISS’ and new generation female solo artist ‘G.Na’ are two artists will be on stage as this festival’s Asia Influential Artists.  Both artists have been getting tremendous amount of supports from both Korean and world wide fans since making their debut, and this year they were selected as “Asia Influential Artist” given to most notable artist in Asia during that year.  Former “Asian Influential Artist” include ‘BEAST’, and ‘4minute’.

☐ Dance group ‘U-KISS’ is consist of members from various countries such as Korea, American, and Chinese.  Since making their debut in 2008, U-KISS has been actively participated in concerting events in Korea and other parts of the world and setting on K-POP wave around Asian countries.  Recently, U-KISS has been joined with Japanese entertainment management agency ‘AVEX’ and teamed up with Japanese top star, Hamasaki Ayumi, Koda Kumi, EXCILE and other Korean artist top star, BoA, and  TongVfangXienQi and entered Japanese music market.  Their Japan mini album ‘Bran New KISS’, which contains hit song ‘0330’ was their licensed record, and U-KISS plans to debut their major single record December, 2011.  Next year, U-KISS plans to have tour concert around Japan.  We expect to see one of this year’s “Asian Influential Artist”, U-KISS’s more matured and splendid performance from this year’s concert.

☐ Female single artist 'G.Na' is having a fantastic year so far even in the midst of idol group dancers and after selected as one of this year’s ‘Asian Influential Artist’, she will be on this year’s ‘Asia Song Festival’ as well.  Back in 2010 she stormed into K-Pop and hit the top chart with her debut song “I’ll Back Off So You Can Live.”  Her second hit song ‘Black & White’ was also blockbuster hit and stayed in top 10 of Monkey 3 weekly chart for 7 straight weeks, and selected as Early 2011’s steady seller.  ‘G.Na’ captured audiences' hearts with her well-proportioned and glamorous body, and her flawless performance on stage.  Years of preparation and training during her 5 years of apprenticeship shaped her fabulous voice and her fluency with English since she is a Korean- Canadian made her notable new artist and K-pop fans around the globe expect to see this ‘Asia Influential Artist’s tremendous performance.

☐ The thirteen top-notched teams from 6 different Asia’s countries will take stage and proudly present the most brilliant line up ever before in this year’s Asia Song Festival.  Each Asian country’s artists will proudly represent their country.  ‘Super Junior’, ‘Girl’s Generation’, ‘Lee Seung-Ki’, ‘BEAST’, will represent Korea, and ‘Perfume’, ‘AAA’ representing Japan, ‘Peter Ho’ for Taiwan, ‘Bi Chang Zhou’ representing China, ‘Leo Ku’ for Hongkong, and Tata Young will represent Thailand.  All the artists who participates in this year’s festivals will receive Ministry of Culture and Tourism Director’s appreciation plaque, and President of Foundation’s ‘Best Asian Artist Award trophy for their support of Asian pop culture.  Also, ‘Miss A’ will be the recipient of 'The Best Asian New Artist’ award, and ‘U-Kiss’ and “G.Na” will be the recipient of ‘Asia Influential Artist’ for the award given to this year’s prospective Asian artist.

☐ Top-notch Asian artists will take stage in ‘2011 Asia Song Festival’ in Daegu Stadium on October 15.  The Metropolitan city of Daegu and UNICEF will co-sponsor with KOFICE and it will also be held as official cultural event for this year’s IAAF world championships in Daegu.  You can check out more details about this event at its webpage (www.asf.or.kr).  This site also featured with other languages such as English, Japanese, and Chinese for international fans. It also tries to connect with Asian music fans through its official twitter (@asongfe).