Asia’s largest K-pop award show, scheduled for Friday evening and Saturday at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium, will be downsized in light of the Tai Po fire, with boy band Mirror pulling out of the event.
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 Choo Kheng and Chow Yun-fat.
Makerville, the 12-member group’s management company, made the announcement on Mirror’s Instagram account.
The fire at Wang Fuk Court, a private residential estate, killed at least 128 people including a firefighter, and injured 79, including 11 firefighters.
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’s worst conflagration in decades.
A MAMA Awards spokesman said on Thursday that the red carpet walk would be cancelled and performances would be adjusted, with a moment of mourning planned.
The awards show 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. - SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
