BigHit Music calls off Jin’s ‘The Astronaut’ listening celebration amid Halloween crowd surge in Seoul
3 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI: BTS’ administration company BigHit on Sunday stated all schedules associated to member Jin’s newest music “The Astronaut” have been postponed.
The announcement comes after the deaths of a minimum of 151 folks, principally of their teenagers and 20s, who acquired trapped and crushed on Saturday evening after an enormous Halloween celebration crowd surged right into a slender alley in a nightlife district in Seoul.
An estimated 100,000 folks had gathered in Itaewon for the largest outside Halloween festivities in South Korea for the reason that pandemic started and strict guidelines on gatherings have been enforced.
BigHit Music, who did not point out the stampede in central Seoul, stated the corporate will inform followers and followers concerning the up to date schedule in future.
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“We would like to inform you that the schedules scheduled for October 30-31 have been postponed. 10/30 12PM (KST) Stationhead Listening Party 10/31 0AM (KST) ‘The Astronaut’ Lyric Video.”
“We will inform you of the schedule again through a notice at a later date. We ask for your understanding, fans. Thank you,” the company stated within the tweet.
According to Korean leisure portal Soompi, broadcaster SBS additionally cancelled the premiere on its weekly music programme “Inkigayo”.
“Today, October 30, ‘Inkigayo’ won’t be airing (Episode 1160).
Accordingly, we’re informing you that at this time’s pre-recording and fan admission to the stay broadcast has additionally been cancelled,” the channel stated in a press release.
SM Entertainment — the company behind in style Ok-pop teams like Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, Red Velvet and EXO — known as off its annual Halloween celebration within the wake of final evening’s Itaewon tragedy.
The firm was initially planning to stream the pink carpet for its “SMTOWN WONDERLAND” bash on-line for the primary time this yr.
“We are informing you that the stay broadcast of the ‘SMTOWN WONDERLAND 2022’ pink carpet, which was scheduled to be streamed stay totally free at this time for KWANGYA CLUB ACE members on the worldwide platform Beyond LIVE for roughly one hour ranging from 6:15 pm, has been cancelled.
“Since the ‘SMTOWN WONDERLAND 2022’ event itself has been cancelled, there will be no livestream of the red carpet either,” SM Entertainment stated.
NEW DELHI: BTS’ administration company BigHit on Sunday stated all schedules associated to member Jin’s newest music “The Astronaut” have been postponed.
The announcement comes after the deaths of a minimum of 151 folks, principally of their teenagers and 20s, who acquired trapped and crushed on Saturday evening after an enormous Halloween celebration crowd surged right into a slender alley in a nightlife district in Seoul.
An estimated 100,000 folks had gathered in Itaewon for the largest outside Halloween festivities in South Korea for the reason that pandemic started and strict guidelines on gatherings have been enforced.
BigHit Music, who did not point out the stampede in central Seoul, stated the corporate will inform followers and followers concerning the up to date schedule in future.
ALSO READ | Crush kills a minimum of 151 at Halloween festivities in Seoul
“We would like to inform you that the schedules scheduled for October 30-31 have been postponed. 10/30 12PM (KST) Stationhead Listening Party 10/31 0AM (KST) ‘The Astronaut’ Lyric Video.”
“We will inform you of the schedule again through a notice at a later date. We ask for your understanding, fans. Thank you,” the company stated within the tweet.
According to Korean leisure portal Soompi, broadcaster SBS additionally cancelled the premiere on its weekly music programme “Inkigayo”.
“Today, October 30, ‘Inkigayo’ won’t be airing (Episode 1160).
Accordingly, we’re informing you that at this time’s pre-recording and fan admission to the stay broadcast has additionally been cancelled,” the channel stated in a press release.
SM Entertainment — the company behind in style Ok-pop teams like Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, Red Velvet and EXO — known as off its annual Halloween celebration within the wake of final evening’s Itaewon tragedy.
The firm was initially planning to stream the pink carpet for its “SMTOWN WONDERLAND” bash on-line for the primary time this yr.
“We are informing you that the stay broadcast of the ‘SMTOWN WONDERLAND 2022’ pink carpet, which was scheduled to be streamed stay totally free at this time for KWANGYA CLUB ACE members on the worldwide platform Beyond LIVE for roughly one hour ranging from 6:15 pm, has been cancelled.
“Since the ‘SMTOWN WONDERLAND 2022’ event itself has been cancelled, there will be no livestream of the red carpet either,” SM Entertainment stated.
