Korean girl group Twice will go ahead with its concert at the 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium this weekend, despite several shows being cancelled or postponed after Hong Kong\u2019s deadliest fire in decades.<\/p>\n
The concert organiser on Friday also said it would donate part of the revenue from ticket sales to support relief measures for fire victims, without specifying the amount.<\/p>\n
The K-pop group\u2019s management company, JYP Entertainment, announced on social media that Twice would press ahead with the concerts over the weekend, their first in the city.<\/p>\n
A Kai Tak Stadium spokeswoman said on Friday that attendees would be allowed to enter the stadium from 11.30am on Saturday, ahead of the 6pm start time.<\/p>\n
JYP Entertainment said it had \u201cconsidered carefully and discussed in-depth whether to go ahead with the event at such a painful moment\u201d and was \u201cmonitoring the situation together with organiser Live Nation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven it was a decision made in such a difficult situation, we will solemnly prepare for and execute the performance,\u201d JYP Entertainment said.<\/p>\n
The fire that broke out in Tai Po\u2019s Wang Fuk Court last week has claimed at least 159 lives, including a firefighter\u2019s, and left an estimated 4,000 people homeless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Korean girl group Twice will go ahead with its concert at the 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium this weekend,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[117616,18,117610,117,4202,19,17,26189,117611,117612,117615,117613,92268,337,117614,82621,26190,113008,117617],"class_list":{"0":"post-216848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-angela-hui-ching-wan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-emperor-entertainment-group","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jyp-entertainment","16":"tag-kai-tak-stadium","17":"tag-kaohsiung","18":"tag-karen-mok-man-wai","19":"tag-ken-hung-cheuk-lap","20":"tag-live-nation","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-tai-po","23":"tag-this-is-for","24":"tag-twice","25":"tag-wang-fuk-court","26":"tag-world-vision-hong-kong"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115667176716217668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216848","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=216848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}