Popular male group TVXQ crossed over to the birthplace of
popular culture, America, and gave the charms of K-Pop greater exposure.
On November 25 at 4:30 p.m. (local American time) at the press
conference for the “2011 Billboard K-POP Masters” held at the Conference
Room within MGM Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, America, TVXQ said, “We are
happy that we have an opportunity to be able to spread the influence of
K-Pop in the famous city of Las Vegas. Compared to seeing this place
merely as another particular performance venue known as America, we feel
blessed to be able to spread Korea’s culture here. With the heart that
we are all national representatives (of Korea and K-Pop), we will be
working very hard so we hope for lots of love and concern.”
A local American reporter asked if TVXQ knew of the fact that
they are hugely popular in America. U-Know Yunho answered, “(Hearing
those words), I feel very shy. I think of it as being able to let
America know more about Korea’s culture to the extent of that
recognition. We’ll show our gratitude through tonight’s show.”
Regarding his thoughts about TVXQ taking part in this performance,
U-Know Yunho revealed, “Every group’s performance is so good that there
is nothing to find fault with. At the end, we’ll sing “Arirang”. Because
we wanted to share the atmosphere together with the audience, we
specially prepared this stage. It’ll be great if everybody shows their
feelings of enjoying the show through cheers and responses. We will
spend this day in an interesting fashion.”
When asked if there are any American musicians whom they
would like to work together with, U-Know Yunho answered, “I’ve grown up
listening to music from a variety of singers. If I really had to pick
just one singer, it will be really difficult. If there is a good
opportunity which comes along, I would like to work together with them.
It’ll be great if we have opportunities to create even better albums.”
