[OSEN=??? ??] Group BIGBANG’s T.O.P has met actress Zhang Ziyi.

It has been known that world-famous Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi came to BIGBANG’s Las Vegas concert and had a friendly time with T.O.P after the concert.

On the 7 this month, YG Entertainment’s president YANG HYUN SUK (“YG”) posted a photo on his social media network, to draw a big attention. In the photo, T.O.P and Zhang Ziyi are standing next to each other, smiling with their fingers creating the shape of heart.

Zhang Ziyi was found to be a long-time fan of T.O.P. Her visit to BIGBANG concert is not that surprising as many top stars come to BIGBANG concerts, but the fact that T.O.P and Zhang Ziyi had dinner together after the concert is raising people’s curiosity about the connection between the two.

The fact that the photo was posted on YANG HYUN SUK’s social media account, not T.O.P’s, is also notable. Some are speculating that this may be suggesting something official, not just showing Zhang Ziyi’s visit to a BIGBANG concert.

An insider of YG Entertainment said, “It is true that Zhang had dinner with T.O.P after watching BIGBANG concert, but they met for the first time there and I don’t know what they talked about at the dinner”.

Meanwhile, Zhang was known to have married singer Wang Peng in May this year and registered the marriage in Hong Kong.

As part of their world tour “MADE”, BIGBANG held concert at Mandalay Bay Event Center, Las Vegas, on the 2 (local time), at Staples Center in Los Angeles on the 3, and at Honda Center in Anaheim on the 4. More than 30,000 tickets for those three concerts were all sold out and the tour was finished in a great success. BIGBANG will continue with their world tour in New Jersey in the States on the 10 and in Toronto, Canada, on the 13.


2015. 10. 7.
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[?????=?? ??] The LA Times highly praised BIGBANG, who is on a tour in the US, and wrote that BIGBANG “proved why they’ve lasted through this sea change in K-Pop’s place in America.”

On October 5 (local time), The LA Times published an article about BIGBANG’s US tour entitled “BigBang explodes K-Pop convention at the Honda Center.” As part of their tour, BIGBANG held three concerts in Las Vegas, LA, and Anaheim from October 2 to 4.

The LA Times article first introduces BIGBANG as”the established quintet is one of the most successful boy bands going in all of K-Pop today, with a sound that spans American hip-hop, R&B balladry with a local twist, and the high-octane electronic dance music that defines pop the world over” and as a group that “only maybe Adele, Beyonce and Taylor Swift have earned the same, simultaneous caliber of critical praise and concert tickets sold.”

About their US tour, the article says BIGBANG “escalated the craft of live K-Pop…into a sleeker and more adventurous kind of arena spectacular” and that the concert in Anaheim “proved how they used an absence to re-imagine this stalwart group as one of the most inventive, aesthetically visionary acts in its genre.”

It went on to say that K-pop “has long been the lingua franca of pop in Asia, and is no longer a rising curiosity or Internet subculture in the States” and that BIGBANG’s tour “is an incredibly significant moment for K-Pop right now” and that “the BigBang members have done stellar jobs of pushing their music, fashions and places in the public eye to challenging new terrain. “



The article explained that BIGBANG is spearheading K-pop’s global popularity and wrote “If a band like BigBang can keep performing at this caliber of arena dates in America, that old saw of a “crossover” question will be permanently answered.”

The New York Times also wrote about BIGBANG’s US tour saying “the tour comes to the Prudential Center in Newark on Oct. 10 and 11” and that BIGBANG will “Bring ‘Made’ to Newark.”

BIGBANG’s US tour concerts drew 9,000 people in Las Vegas, 14,000 in LA, and 11,000 in Anaheim. The tickets for all the 34,000 seats were sold out. Also, many show business people and celebrities such as Black Eyed Peas, The Fast and the Furious star Sung Kang, Steve Aoki, and American Idol judge Randy Jackson came to concert.

BIGBANG will hold concerts in Mexico City, Mexico on October 7, in New Jersey, US on October 10-11, and in Toronto, Canada on October 13 for their tour.

2015. 10. 6.
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