{"id":30471,"date":"2025-07-23T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30471\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:16:10","slug":"squid-game-stars-byung-hun-lee-and-yim-siwan-to-appear-at-kcon-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30471\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Squid Game\u2019 Stars Byung Hun Lee and Yim Siwan to Appear at KCON L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSquid Game<\/a> actors Byung Hun Lee and Yim Siwan are set to make an appearance at KCON<\/a> L.A. 2025, the festival announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair will appear during the K-pop festival\u2019s first night concert, branded M Countdown, on Aug. 1 to present \u201ca memorable moment for global fans\u201d and reflect \u201cKCON\u2019s commitment to creating special connections between artists and fans,\u201d according to a release. Yim will also visit the K-Content by CJ ENM exhibition zone of the first day of KCON L.A. 2025 at the main festival grounds located at the L.A. Convention Center. <\/p>\n

\n\tYim is scheduled to attend CJ ENM\u2019s partnership event <\/a>with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, dubbed \u201cK-Culture Night at Academy Museum with\u00a0KCON.\u201d The event is scheduled to be held the day before (July 31) and will also feature newly announced Paramount and Hybe K-pop project star <\/a>Eric Nam, Choi Hojong, Lee Youngji, P1Harmony<\/a> and Is:sue. Yim will participate in a special session and Choi will perform a dance routine to the soundtrack of Bong Joon Ho\u2019s Oscar-winning film Parasite. The event sold out in two hours, making it the fastest event to sell out in the museum\u2019s history, according to a release. <\/p>\n

\n\tBoth Lee and Yim have ties to the world of K-pop. Prior to his career as an actor, Yim was a member of K-pop boy group ZE:A. He will participate in a special talk session during the Academy Museum even to discuss his transition from K-pop star to actor. Lee recently voiced the villain Gwima in Netflix\u2019s surprise hit KPop Demon Hunters. <\/p>\n

\n\tKCON, the world\u2019s No. 1\u00a0K-pop<\/a>\u00a0festival, will return to downtown\u2019s Los Angeles Convention Center and Crypto.com Arena for a three-day event Aug. 1 through Aug. 3, giving local K-Pop fans a chance at seeing several of their favorite acts under the same roof. Amazon Music<\/a> will be exclusively streaming the festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s KCON lineup<\/a> includes HxW (Hoshi and Woozi of Seventeen<\/a>), NCT 127, Aespa<\/a>, Monsta X, Key<\/a>, IVE<\/a>, NMIXX<\/a> and Zerobaseone. Baby DONT Cry<\/a>, Riize<\/a>, Hwasa, Meovv, Nowz, Idid, Izna, Jackson Wang, J-pop group JO1<\/a>, Roy Kim, I-dle, Yuqi, AllDay Project, Cravity and Kep1er will also perform throughout the festival\u2019s three-day-long concert series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Squid Game actors Byung Hun Lee and Yim Siwan are set to make an appearance at KCON L.A.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,25702,25703,216,22042],"class_list":["post-30471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-k-pop-news","tag-kcon","tag-music","tag-squid-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}