Korean girl group Twice will go ahead with its concert at the 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium over the weekend, despite several others being cancelled or postponed after Hong Kong’s most fatal fire in decades.
The concert organiser on Friday also said it would donate part of its revenue from ticket sales to support relief measures for fire victims, without specifying the amount.
The K-pop group’s management company JYP Entertainment announced on social media that Twice would press on with the concerts over the weekend, their first in the city.
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A Kai Tak Stadium spokeswoman said on Friday that attendees would be allowed to enter the stadium from 11.30am on Saturday, six and a half hours before the concert began at 6pm.
JYP Entertainment said it had “considered carefully and discussed in-depth whether to go ahead with the event at such a painful moment” and was “monitoring the situation together with organiser Live Nation”.
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“Given it was a decision made in such a difficult situation, we will solemnly prepare for and execute the performance.”
The deadly fire that broke out in Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court last week has claimed at least 159 lives, including a firefighter’s, and left an estimated 4,000 people homeless.