{"id":323753,"date":"2025-12-01T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323753\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:59:05","slug":"k-pop-bands-pledge-donations-to-support-victims-in-hong-kong-tower-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323753\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop bands pledge donations to support victims in Hong Kong tower fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 K-pop<\/a> band aespa and other South Korean pop stars have announced a flurry of donations to support victims of an\u00a0apartment fire in Hong Kong<\/a>\u00a0that killed at least 128 people in one of the city\u2019s deadliest blazes.<\/p>\n

Girl group aespa said they will donate<\/a> 500,000 Hong Kong dollars ($64,000) to the Hong Kong Red Cross, according to a post on their official Weibo account. \u201cWe express our deepest sorrow regarding this heartbreaking news,\u201d the band said.<\/p>\n

Stray Kids pledged 1 million Hong Kong dollars ($129,000) through World Vision Hong Kong for temporary housing and other support for affected children and residents. \u201cWe were all very heavy-hearted upon hearing the unfortunate news from Hong Kong,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n

SM and JYP Entertainment, two of South Korea\u2019s biggest entertainment companies, donated a combined 3 million Hong Kong dollars ($385,000) for emergency relief and disaster recovery.<\/p>\n

Other K-pop groups that also pledged donations included boy bands Riize, EXO-CBX and KickFlip contributed 100,000 Hong Kong dollars ($12,900) through World Vision Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

Organizers of the MAMA AWARDS, an annual two-day K-pop awards ceremony scheduled for Friday and Saturday in Hong Kong, faced online criticism in South Korea for not canceling the event in light of the fire tragedy.<\/p>\n

South Korean entertainment company CJ E&M canceled both days\u2019 red carpet events but said the main ceremony would proceed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe express our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in the fire in Hong Kong,\u201d CJ E&M said in a statement. The company said the awards would add a \u201cSupport Hong Kong\u201d message and include time for mourning. Organizers also pledged to donate 20 million Hong Kong dollars ($2.6 million) to the support fund established by the Hong Kong government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe in the healing and solidarity power of music,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 K-pop band aespa and other South Korean pop stars have announced a flurry of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-323753","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\/323753","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=323753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}