Lee Hyori will return to the stage for the first time since marrying Rollercoaster guitarist Lee Sang Soon back in September, in the Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) television special "Gayo Daejun 2013," with a little help from her friend.

2NE1 rapper and frontwoman CL will join Lee Hyori for the live televised performance, scheduled for Dec. 29, according to the group's record label YG Entertainment.

"Lee Hyori and CL will be holding a collaborative performance at SBS's '2013 Gayo Daejun,' an annual music program to be aired live on Dec 29," read a YG press release from Monday.

"This is the first time the two will be showcasing a performance together."

The two K-pop superstars have been reportedly been speaking frequently to discuss their upcoming performance.

"Lee Hyori and CL are contacting each other on the phone often to discuss what they will be showing [the crowd] at the 2013 SBS 'Gayo Daejun,'" the record label release read.

The collaboration reportedly grew from a conversation the two artists had at an afterparty for this year's Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong.

According to the YG Entertainment statement, CL and Lee have become quite close.

"The two have shown great affection for each other," the label's statement read. "Such friendship played a big role in making the upcoming collaboration happen.

The 2NE1 rapper and former Fin.K.L singer's friendship may come as a relief to some fans, who wondered whether Hyori was serious when she took to the microblogging website Twitter back in May to call out CL's group (along with the K-pop boy band BEAST) for knocking her single "Bad Girls" out of the number one spot on the charts.

"CL, yo gizibe," Lee tweeted, referencing CL's Korean nickname, which roughly translated means "bad girl."

"Your senior was trying to be number one, but you won't come down. Yo, bad gizibe. And then there's BEAST. Yo punks, pre-releasing a song now? You bad punks!"

But fans of K-pop's original bad girl have to be a bit used to this sort of thing by now.