Asia\u2019s largest K-pop award show, scheduled for Friday evening and Saturday at Hong Kong\u2019s Kai Tak Stadium, will be downsized in light of the Tai Po fire, with boy band Mirror pulling out of the event.<\/p>\n
The group announced on Friday that they would not appear at the two-day 2025 MAMA Awards, following earlier rumours over the withdrawals of film stars Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-fat.<\/p>\n
Makerville, the 12-member group\u2019s management company, made the announcement on Mirror\u2019s Instagram account.<\/p>\n
The fire at Wang Fuk Court, a private residential estate, has killed 94 people, including a firefighter, and injured 76, including 11 firefighters, as of Friday morning. Rescue work entered its third day after the blaze ignited at Wang Cheong House on Wednesday and quickly spread to seven other buildings in the estate, quickly spiralling into Hong Kong\u2019s worst conflagration in decades.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for MAMA Awards said on Thursday that the red carpet walk would be cancelled and performances would be adjusted, with a moment of mourning planned.<\/p>\n
The awards show, the first in seven years, will take place at the 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium, which has a capacity about four times larger than AsiaWorld-Arena, where the event was last held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asia\u2019s largest K-pop award show, scheduled for Friday evening and Saturday at Hong Kong\u2019s Kai Tak Stadium, will…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[192914,192912,171,8464,185753,192913,192267,38569,192911,975,76921,67,132,68,192265],"class_list":{"0":"post-409946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-asiaworld-arena","9":"tag-chow-yun-fat","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hong-kong","12":"tag-kai-tak-stadium","13":"tag-makerville","14":"tag-mama-awards","15":"tag-michelle-yeoh","16":"tag-mirror","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-tai-po","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wang-fuk-court"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115625691897482015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}