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10 Reasons That Will Make You Fall in Love With Seventeen’s Mingyu

If you haven’t heard the news yet, popular rookie group Seventeen is coming to #KCON16NY! We know we know, there are quite a few members you will need to learn about (13 to be exact) but don’t worry, we will be informing our lovely readers about all of our artists coming to KCON through various news posts and more! In celebration of Mingyu’s birthday, we bring you 10 reasons that will make you fall in love with him!

[HINTS] Mamamoo at #KCON16NY

How excited were you to find out that these four fierce girls will be at KCON New York this year?! Mama! Moo! Mama! Moo! We can’t get their songs out of our heads! We CANNOT wait to sing along to their songs on the KCON stage! 

[HINTS] Seventeen at #KCON16NY

KCON-ers! We are so excited to announce that Seventeen will be coming to KCON New York this year! We can’t wait to see all thirteen boys perform “Manse” and “Adore U” on the KCON stage! Vanessa and Danny had a blast on the first #KCONLiveChat and we are very excited to share this information with you!

Play with MAMAMOO at #KCON16NY!

MAMAMOO MAMAMOO is a girl group composed of 4 girls, Solar, MoonByul, WheeIn and HwaSa. With explosive vocal and fantastic performance, MAMAMOO has become one of the top girl groups in Korea. Since 2014 and their debut song ‘Mr. Ambiguous’,  the team has continuously delivered awesome songs to the public. A Korean top producer, Kim Do Hoon, himself discovered and produced the girl group and presented his first and finest masterpiece ‘MAMAMOO’ to the public with confidence. The team name ‘MAMAMOO’ comes from a word ‘MAMA’ which is the first sound that people make after birth, and it demonstrates their will to get their friendly and intimate music out in the world. In the year of debut, MAMAMOO received two awards respectively from the ‘2014 SEOUL SUCCESS AWARDS’and Gaon Chart K-POP AWARDS for being the Rookie of the year. Moreover, in 2015, the team was selected as one of the Top 5 K-Pop Artists to Watch in 2015 by Billboard. In June 2015, Mamamoo has acquired the nickname of “Dark horse of the battle of girl groups” after the success of ‘Um Oh Ah Yeh’, with their lively looks and performances. With their first full-length album <Melting> which was released in February 2016, they perfectly swept first places of online music charts, album sales and music programs with their ‘girl crush’ charms.

Play with SEVENTEEN at #KCON16NY!

SEVENTEEN (세븐틴) is a band of thirteen members, from Pledis Entertainment. They decided to call themselves as SEVENTEEN as it is total sum of 13, 3 and 1, which are symbolic numbers as there are 13 members, 3 units as a 1 team. The team is consisted of 3 units; the Hip Hop unit (S.coups, Wonwoo, Mingyu, Vernon), the Vocal unit (Jeonghan, Joshua, Woozi, DK, Seungkwan) and the Performance unit (Jun, Hoshi, THE8, Dino). SEVENTEEN trained with their own system called ‘Pre-Debut System’, which showed their training process to the public through online broadcasting show ‘17TV’. The final members were selected after 5 seasons of the show. On April 2015, SEVENTEEN started promoting their debut through the reality show ‘Seventeen Project: Debut Big Plan’. The show was about how they complete the given missions for the reward which is a chance to debut through a special 1 hour live broadcast on May 26th. It made them the first group ever to hold a live debut showcase in Korean Pop Music History. SEVENTEEN is planned for not only the team activity based on K-Pop music, but also the units and individual activity. SEVENTEEN will lead the trend of various entertainment industries.