More details on SM Town Paris online broadcasts

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Poster for the “SM Town World Tour in Paris” concerts, scheduled on June 10 and June 11 at Le Zenith de Paris.

Paris K-pop concerts will be posted online

The highlights of two upcoming K-pop concerts in Paris will be broadcast on YouTube and Facebook.

SM Entertainment plans to hold the “SM Town World Tour in Paris” concerts on June 10 and June 11 at Le Zenith de Paris as part of the 2010-2012 Visit Korea Year(s), the country’s largest entertainment agency said.

The company added the June 11 show after hundreds of French K-pop fans in May rallied in front of the Louvre Museum calling for an extra concert. Tickets for the June 10 concert at the 7,000-seat venue, priced from 45 euro ($65) to 200 euro, had sold out in just 15 minutes. The rally that followed involved a flash mob and a group dance to Korean pop music.

Pop groups performing in the Paris concerts will include TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee and f(x). The “SM Town Live World Tour” has been held in Seoul, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Shanghai. On Sept. 3-4, it will head to Tokyo.

SM Entertainment said it will edit highlights of the concerts immediately after each show and upload them onto the company’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/smtown and Facebook page at www.facebook.com/smtown.

Fans will also be able to view video clips of their idols’ departure and arrival at airports, as well as behind-the-scenes and rehearsal footage.

The agency’s Facebook page, which opened on June 1, had attracted more than 170,000 “like” button-clicks as of Wednesday. It said an increasing number of K-pop fans from the U.S., Mexico, Australia and Italy are requesting concerts in their countries through the Facebook page.

Two other major agencies, JYP Entertainment and YG Entertainment, are also running YouTube channels, uploading the latest music videos and short video messages of their K-pop groups.

Jung Tae-soo, a researcher at the Samsung Economic Research Institute, said in a recent report that social media is playing a crucial role in globally distributing content of Korean pop groups.

“So many video clips show how much effort Korean idols are putting in in practicing singing and dancing. Plus, a surge in the number of Koreans studying abroad has partly contributed to the spread of hallyu,” Jung said.

However, he said that regional differences in cultural content will be narrowed down in future.

“It is important to continually differentiate the content from others. To do so, there should be a wide range of diversity in cultural content,” he said.

Source: Kim Yoon-mi @ The Korea Herald

Comments

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Also if you are in Paris and don't have a ticket, you can still get one as Live Nation France seems to have some tickets available again for both dates:
http://www.livenation.fr/event/214448/smtown-live-world-tour-in-paris-tickets?omq=smt

[bulleusekat.livejournal.com]

Wait I don't understand... why LNF has some tickets ? o.O
Wait !! now I want to goooo ~~...

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

because people cancel and the ticket becomes available

[itangeisha.livejournal.com]

Someone put a ad on a post at the bottom of my building (i live in chinatown though).... this is so funny. after all the wank 'we don't have tix add another date', it's really funny.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Well the both dates were initially sold out, but I guess some people canceled their tickets or something.

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

i have a slight feeling this might be some of the scalpers who can't sell their tickets anymore for ridiculous prices...

[prlsb4swiine.livejournal.com]

ngl, i was hoping for live streaming

[saumon.livejournal.com]

me too.....

[chraka.livejournal.com]

I thought there'd be one

[iylover.livejournal.com]

your icon!!!! XDDD Love it.

[icedevil0289.livejournal.com]

same here

[eccentricvibe.livejournal.com]

same.

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

same here but some people on tumblr seem to think there is one.

[cher-ex3.livejournal.com]

MTE. Misleading article is misleading.

[rosamajalis.livejournal.com]

I will weep tears of joy if there is ever a smtown concert in Brisvegas.

[jxsica.livejournal.com]

Brisvegas is where it's at tbh. SM should get onto that.

[letseaticecream.livejournal.com]

lol ace.

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

i would totally fly over just to see them tbh! 8D brisvegas is worth a visit <3

[puffy-wuffy.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I'm super happy that they'll give us concert footage, not as good as going, but still pretty good.

[sincronia.livejournal.com]

SO ESSITED :3 i get to relive the LA concert, kinda :')

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

I find it amusing that their Facebook page is so up-to-date, it's almost freaky. They're really pimping their page up. They even posted freaking airport pictures just like some fansite. :)

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Well they are in facebook really late (compared to YG artists for instance), so SM probably wants those likes to go up quickly. LOL

[jxsica.livejournal.com]

Haha, ikr. Hiring photographers to take official stalker airport pics before the noona fans even have time to whip out their multi-zoom camera lenses.
Good job SM!

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

The fact that they posted before Cassies and Shawols is just an amazing feat in itself.

[prlsb4swiine.livejournal.com]

they probably hired some hardcore cassies and shawols to do all that jazz for them

[lee-chikin.livejournal.com]

I swear: if the facebook thing manages to bring more concerts in Europe I will never again bad-mouth it in favor of tumblr.

[jxsica.livejournal.com]

It said an increasing number of K-pop fans from the U.S., Mexico, Australia and Italy are requesting concerts in their countries through the Facebook page.

Omg, Australia finally got a mention. We exist!

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

YG also added you into that poll in Big Bang's facebook. (But considering you only have around 2000 likes I don't think BB will visit you)

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

germany forever irrelevant XD

[say-o-kay.livejournal.com]

If they go to Aussie I'm going to fly over from Sheepland. >:O

[chraka.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously looking forward to the fancams

[hazelbeans.livejournal.com]

I thought they will have a live stream. This is better than nothing I guess.

Also I saw that SM overtook facebook.com/superjunior and facebook.com/shinee pages. I bet a Homin page is somewhere there. Did anyone find it?

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

and here I was super excited, thinking we would have a live stream....

[panna-pierogowa.livejournal.com]

(...)priced from 45 euro

it had to be some lucky bidding on ebay.

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

clearly..becuz the cheapest ticket originally was 55.XD

[weerainbow.livejournal.com]

I had no chance of making it so I'm excited that they'll put up some concert footage on youtube. Hopefully it'll be some good quality shots!

[shocko-o.livejournal.com]

wow they're really starting to use their yt and fb now for more than practice videos and jonghyun's dog

[slayerizedcarol.livejournal.com]

lol jonghyun's dog omg yes I'm happy for this

[iylover.livejournal.com]

Oh I came here thinking it would be live. What an awesome weekend this will be. Come back home after the JYJ Busan concert to find this waiting for me <3 YAY!

[poison-cheeks.livejournal.com]

200€
hilarious.

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

well people pay to see their artists rehearse...XD

[imanat.livejournal.com]

I thought their FB was going to die after like the first 2 days, but they've actually been updating it a lot, I'm pleasantly surprised~

[stormsandsins.livejournal.com]

It bothers me whenever people don't superscript the "er" and "e" in numbers.

/grammar nazi

[stormsandsins.livejournal.com]

Also, it's about time SM realised they ought to use social media. You are good job at last.

I'll take what I can get!

[kayleen-san.livejournal.com]

(http://www.gifsoup.com/view/2630723/pig-power-in-the-house.html)
GIFSoup (http://www.gifsoup.com/)

EXCITED

[jeugd1.livejournal.com]

can't wait for someone to post the vids here so we can have lil
viewing party

[luvey.livejournal.com]

Finally SMe got involved and reached out to more international fans. I hope whomever they hired to do their social media keeps up the good job, and actually reads some fan notes. Personally I do hope they take notice that Super Junior has over three million likes from fans (including those outside of Asia) and really makes the next Super Show a true world tour. I know teuk mentioned south America, but it is k pop waiting to troll stans into heartbreak at any moment.

[say-o-kay.livejournal.com]

They're doing a great job at updating their Facebook. Looking forward to more juicy goodies. :D

[jetaime-pyon.livejournal.com]

wait so one thing i don't get, why the eff is this world "tour" going back to tokyo for ANOTHER two days, that's kinda unfair. ~_~ how is this even a tour anymore.