{"id":317087,"date":"2025-11-27T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317087\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:30:09","slug":"2025-mama-awards-to-continue-as-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/317087\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 MAMA Awards to continue as scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 2024 MAMA Awards at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 23, 2024 [CJ ENM]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3d9f20f4-c160-4ae8-b0fc-1f4a57e6f7e0.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">The 2024 MAMA Awards at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 23, 2024 [CJ ENM]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   The 2025 MAMA Awards will continue as scheduled on Friday and Saturday despite the catastrophic fire in Hong Kong, CJ ENM confirmed.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cWe express our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in the Hong Kong fire,\u201d CJ ENM said in a statement released late on Thursday, less than 24 hours before the show\u2019s scheduled 7:30 p.m. opening on Friday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cBelieving in the healing and unifying power of music, we are making careful plans for and readjustments to the [show], focusing on comfort and hope rather than grandeur,\u201d it said. \u201cWe hope that music can bring even a small measure of solace and courage to your hearts.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   CJ ENM plans to hold a moment of remembrance for the victims of the fire and make a donation to support those affected.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   This year\u2019s MAMA Awards, one of the largest K-pop award shows in Korea, had been slated to take place at Hong Kong\u2019s newly completed Kai Tak Stadium. But after a major fire broke out at an apartment complex in the city, questions arose over whether the event could proceed as planned.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>                                                           <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Firefighters work to extinguisha fire that broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories on Nov. 26. [AP\/YONHAP] \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3eb083fb-d6d0-402b-86e9-5af32a2dbea0.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Firefighters work to extinguisha fire that broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong&#8217;s New Territories on Nov. 26. [AP\/YONHAP] <\/p>\n<p>                      Kai Tak Stadium sits about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the apartment complex. The fire began on Wednesday and has left at least 55 dead, with hundreds reported missing.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   According to local reports, organizers are considering canceling the livestream and airing the show at a later time. However, CJ ENM said that no final decision has been made.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Meanwhile, SM Entertainment donated 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($128,600) to the Hong Kong Red Cross to support its relief efforts. SM\u2019s girl group aespa and boy band Riize also donated 500,000 Hong Kong dollars and 250,000 Hong Kong dollars, respectively.  <\/p>\n<p>BY SHIN HA-NEE   [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"483b202126662029262d2d08222727262f29262f662b2766233a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2024 MAMA Awards at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 23, 2024 [CJ ENM] \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-317087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317087","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=317087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}