Dong Bang Shin Ki ended their 1 year 4 months of Asia concert tour on 12th June

On 12th June, idol group Dong Bang Shin Ki ended their 1 year and 4 months long asia concert tour.

Dong Bang Shin Ki had their last Beijing Asia performance for their second concer tour "The 2nd ASIA TOUR CONCERT "O"'. The concert that lasted for 2 hours and 40 minutes, a large crowd of 20,000 fans coming from different countries like Thailand, Japan, Singapore and other asian countries, including from China, turned up.

During this 1 year and 4 months, Dong Bang Shin Ki performed and met up with about 39,000 asian fans, and this proves their popularity in the Asia area. And a representative of SM Entertainment had revealed that "This breaks the record for the largest number of fans mobilized for Korean singers."

Dong Bang Shin Ki started their second asia tour last February in Seoul, and travelled to countries like Taipei, Bangkok, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing , 6 cities, with 13 concert performances, seeing a total of 39,000 fans at their concert performnances.

When the tickets for their Seoul concerts were available online, there was the case where 300,000f ans had all rushed to get the tickets at the same time, causing the website server to be down. And also for 2 years consecutively, they have been the foreign singers who managed to mobilize the largest numbers of fans in Thailand.

And when they had a concert in one of the popular shopping malls in Thailand, 15,000 fans turned up and occupied the whole mall, and the 125 shops present had to stop their business temporarily even though it was the bustling weekend, a good time for business at the mall.

There was one incident in 2007 October where Dong Bang Shin Ki had to cancelled one out of their two Taiwan concert performance and Dong Bang Shin Ki had promised their fans that they will return again. And they did, they returned to Taiwan last May for their fans.

TVXQ concludes 2nd Asian tour in Beijing
www.chinaview.cn 2008-06-13 19:36:40 Print

BEIJING, June 13 -- South Korean boy band TVXQ held a concert in Beijing's Fengtai Stadium on Thursday, the last show of their second Asia tour.

Nearly 20,000 people, including fans who flew in from Korea, Japan, Thailand and Singapore, attended the three-hour gig.

Since February last year, TVXQ have performed 13 concerts in Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Beijing, in addition to two separate tours in Japan.

More than 390,000 fans attended their shows, setting a record for Korean bands.

The quintet will now for their home audience this Sunday at Seoul's Jamsil Olympic Stadium. The show, titled "2008 Super Triple Concert", aims to raise funds for children with leukemia and cancer.

TVXQ will also release a new album this fall.

Source: CRIENGLISH.com + ranju@soompi

"This breaks the record for the largest number of fans mobilized for Korean singers."