{"id":204033,"date":"2025-11-28T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204033\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T02:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:02:30","slug":"exclusive-yg-founder-yang-hyun-suk-may-skip-mamas-amid-deadly-hong-kong-fire-yg-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204033\/","title":{"rendered":"[Exclusive] YG founder Yang Hyun-suk may skip MAMAs amid deadly Hong Kong fire, YG official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YG says the final call depends on both MAMA\u2019s pending announcement and updates on efforts to contain the Hong Kong blaze<\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/news-p.v1.20251127.b6dc774dde5946cc8f3e19a94ac66ef6_P1.jpg\" alt=\"Yang Hyun-suk, founder and chief producer of YG Entertainment (YG Entertainment )\"\/>     Yang Hyun-suk, founder and chief producer of YG Entertainment (YG Entertainment )  <\/p>\n<p>Yang Hyun-suk, founder and chief producer of YG Entertainment, may not attend the 2025 Mnet Asian Music Awards scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Hong Kong\u2019s Kai Tak Sports Park, as the city grapples with a high-rise fire that has claimed at least 55 lives and left hundreds missing at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex, a company official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has not departed yet and is closely monitoring the situation. The final decision will likely depend on CJ ENM\u2019s official announcement, but given that the ceremony is supposed to begin tomorrow, I don\u2019t think he will go under the current circumstances,\u201d a YG Entertainment official told The Korea Herald. CJ ENM is the host of the 2025 MAMAs.<\/p>\n<p>Yang\u2019s potential appearance had drawn wide attention across the K-pop industry, as it would mark his first on-site return to a major music event in 11 years, though he was not scheduled to participate in any official capacity. His decision to visit Hong Kong was largely driven by YG Entertainment\u2019s idol groups Treasure and Babymonster, whose performances he intended to watch in person to provide support and encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Babymonster is slated to deliver a special collaborative stage with Netflix\u2019s animation hit \u201cKPop Demon Hunters.\u201d Members Pharita, Ahyeon and Rora were set to reenact elements of the film\u2019s storyline in a \u201cWonder Stage\u201d performance that had raised industry expectations, particularly with Yang\u2019s presence anticipated on-site.<\/p>\n<p>jaaykim@heraldcorp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YG says the final call depends on both MAMA\u2019s pending announcement and updates on efforts to contain the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[111054,111055,40224,11037,18,117,4202,111873,19,17,112300,4923,112299,337,39891,112298],"class_list":{"0":"post-204033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-2025-mama-awards","9":"tag-babymonster","10":"tag-cj","11":"tag-cj-enm","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-hong-kong","15":"tag-hong-kong-fire","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-kai-tak-sports-park","19":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","20":"tag-mama","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-treasure","23":"tag-yang-hyun-suk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115624866395697758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}