Welcome To Their Galaxy - YG Family 2014 Galaxy Tour In Singapore Press Conference

It was one of the most highly anticipated media events of the year - the press conference of YG Family Galaxy Tour featuring some of the hottest pop acts from Korea today!

Singapore was the only Southeast Asia stop for this extravagant concert, hence fans from the surrounding Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia were expected to turn up for the 2-day concert taking place in Singapore Indoor Stadium on September 13 and 14, 2014.

The stage was turned into a mini 'United Nations' setup to house the 16 artists for the short Q&A session. PSY did not attend the press conference, although he will be performing in the concerts.

BIGBANG

Prior to the start of the event, the media was informed that SeungRi of Big Bang was hospitalised in Seoul, due to an accident that he was involved in, hours earlier, hence not able to make it for this concert.

The members of the top Korean boyband took turns to answer the various questions that were directed at them.

When asked about their favourite food in Singapore, DaeSung revealed their overdose of chilli and pepper crabs during their last concert here, which left them walking sideways (like crabs).

TOP listed YG's latest boyband WINNER as an inspiration "I don't have a special reason for WINNER being our inspiration. They inspire us just because they are winners and we will also like to work with 2NE1 as well as EPIK HIGH," keeping it all within the family.

TaeYang expressed happiness being able to perform with other members of the YG family "We have concerts before, but have never been on a tour together, especially with new groups like WINNER. We have also never performed with EPIK HIGH before, hence I'm sure we'll showcase a good variety of music and performances tomorrow."

GDragon, without uttering a word, still attracted the media's attention with his spontaneous actions whenever his colleagues gave interesting responses throughout the event. For a person whose seat was placed right in the middle of the stage, there's so much to be said.

WINNER

SeungYoon, one of the 5 young lads who had won all 3 rounds of public voting in the reality-survival program 'Who is Next: WIN' chose being in the Singapore, performing together with YG's senior artists as one of the most memorable moment since their debut. As a show of support to his juniors, GDragon took his sponsored mobile phone to capture a close shot moment of SeungYoon and MinHo.

SeungYoon further elaborated "It is a great honour to be with them (the senior artists) on stage, we have always been just the audience, but now, we get to perform with them. It's a good experience and we will push ourselves to perform as well as them".

WINNER gets their inspirations from the music of their seniors when composing their own songs, showing the love everyone has for each other in the family.

EPIK HIGH

On the genre of their upcoming 8th album, DJ Tukutz preferred to remain secretive "We don't want to spoil things by revealing too much today, but we promise that it'll be a great project. Definitely, the album's going to be amazing" earning laughter from his fellow colleagues.

Since this is the first time that EPIK HIGH has visited Singapore, Tablo finds the place beautiful and he's sure that their fans tomorrow at the concert will also be very beautiful. With reference to the hot weather in the sunny island, Tablo claimed "I love it, I like the sun, and I like heat, so I love it", earning giggles from his neighbour, GDragon.

When asked who will EPIK HIGH choose to collaborate with, from the YG family, Tablo coolly stated "Without a doubt, the boss of YG, Yang HyunSuk. We will like to do a collaboration with him... it will be a rap and dance collaboration" earning more smiles and admiration from his famous neighbour.

2NE1

As part of the divas in YG, Dara professed that style is really important to them, which is effortlessly found in all Samsung phones, which are great for selfies (self-taken photos), especially with the big screens.

On the difference between the concerts, Dara declared "Although we do enjoy the solo concerts, it is during the YG family concerts that we are able to show different sides of us, which we have never showed before. We also have different collaboration stages which will be very exciting for our fans to see." However, she refused to further elaborate, asking the media to attend the concert tomorrow instead.

For interesting individual project that 2NE1 will like to embark on, Dara said "I've always like to try acting like what TOP does, to be in the movies" prompting TOP to immediately query "Can you actually show us a teary scene right now?"

Dara brought the heat a notch higher with "I'll rather try out a kissing scene, so I will show you next time!" and with hints from Taeyang, she picked MithraJin (from EPIK HIGH) as the lucky guy whom she'll like to do the scene with. While Taeyang chanted "right now, right now..." GDragon bowed his head in laughter.

CL finds Singaporean fans so welcoming and warm "we love their support, so it's always nice to be back. I'm sure we'll have a great time at the concert as the fans are already very familiar to us" thereby ending the Q&A session.

All then proceeded with the photo-taking session while posing with their sponsored mobile phones. The fun and sometimes over-the-top interactions within the artists do present the close relationship they have within the YG family, making the family concert a must-watch for everyone.

Special thanks to Samsung for inviting KpopStarz.com to cover YG Family 2014 GALAXY Tour: POWER in Singapore Press Conference.

Writer: Wang | Photo Credits: Ong Melin

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