Super Junior, Girls' Generation to Perform at Asia Song Festival

The popular bands Super Junior and Girls' Generation will represent Korea at the 2009 Asia Song Festival slated for September 19 at the Seoul World Cup Stadium. Singers from nine countries including Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Vietnam will participate. Co-organized by the Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange and the Seoul metropolitan government, the festival marks its sixth anniversary this year. The performers will include rock singer Gackt and duet Mihimaru GT from Japan, popular Chinese star Li Yuchun from China, Show Luo Zhi Xiang from Taiwan, singer/actor Leon Lai from Hong Kong, the five-member group K-Otic from Thailand, singer/actress Ho Ngoc Ha from Vietnam, and Agnes Monica from Indonesia, who will be paritcipating in the festival for the second straight time.

Last year, the Asia Song Festival was recorded and broadcast in 30 countries, including the U.S. and Europe. This year, it will also feature Ukranian singer Ruslana, who is a former Ukrainian lawmaker and the winner of the 2004 Euro Vision Song Contest, a prestigious singing contest in Europe.

The second lineup, which will be announced in August by the Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange, will include a top Korean artist and two groups as well as a special guest artist from Asia. The foundation will also announce the winner of the New Artist Award.

The foundation director, Kim Young-hoon, said, "We organized this festival to boost the stagnated music market and promote Asian music as a whole. We will nurture it into a top brand of cultural exchange and collaboration in Asia."

(Source: Kbs )