101221 U-Kiss Japan First Album Commemoration Release Event Was Successfully Held!

U-KISS, Japan first album commemoration release event was successfully held! With an outstanding performance and voices, U-KISS which has rising popularity in Korea, as well as Japan, on December 10, at ZEPP - TOKYO, as a commemorative release of Japan first album, together with the fan club (KissMe Japan) members, hold a limited event and press conference .

The fan club members only-limited event was started with loud chanting of "U-KISS!!"along with <Man Man Ha Ni> heard from the assembly hall.

After personal introduction by each member, Kibum said "Today is indeed a special day~"and excitedly announced the release date of 『First KISS』, and Soohyun went "This album is an intricate album which symbolyzes U-KISS' sweat and great effort, and everyone's love. It's an album made for the people in Japan. It's only due to the existence of fan club KissMe Japan, the release could have been possible," and from the assembly hall, loud applause was heard.

During the Talk corner, the member's respective role was revealed: Alexander the mother, Soohyun the father, Kibum the uncle, Kiseop the foster child, Eli the manly son, Kevin the daughter, and finally Dongho the pet dog. The family was invented to foster closer relationship.

During Game corner, charade (game using hand gesture), Taboo game prohibiting talking in foreign words, etc. brought up the level of excitement. Soohyun sharing his memory of his audition days "I had to go for audition 9 times before I finally got accepted to join the company. Till the end, without giving up, I'll try my best. Getting familiar with the current members makes me happy," Dongho going "I would like to ask if I can start a new hobby, perhaps going for a joint party)", snd many more. Such plain talk constantly drew loud laughter, the time was spent enjoyably.

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As the ending, during <Shut Up!! (original title: Shikkeureo)>, a strong stage performance was skillfully displayed. The (atmosphere at) assembly hall was heated up to the highest level.

After the event ended, the hi-five party with 2000 fans commenced. This was followed by private press conference attended by numerous press assembling inside the venue. The 7 members were introduced formally, again. "Good afternoon, we are U-KISS" they greeted in high spirit.

Regarding the sale of Japan first album, Alexander went "I'm happy because since long time ago, we have been having this dream to start releasing album in Japan. I'm determined to quickly be able to sing in Japanese for our next album" while Kiseop added "I'm really honored. I'll remember the fans' support."

Regarding the good point of the album, Soohyun appealed "From music released during our debut till the latest music, everything is included inside this one album. From the sweet song during our debut time till the manly song, our entirety, you can feel it in this album."

About impression of their live concert in Osaka on the 6th (of December), "The warm welcome by Osaka fans made us happy, The food was delicious, too. Takoyaki, okonomiyaki and yakisoba are our favourites," "Meccha sukiyanen ("I really like it") was the impression left. (Laugh)," and Osaka-ben were certainly favourites to Kevin.

Concerning their future activity, Eli said "Since we have international members, I want to have world-wide activity." Dongho showed his ambition "The goal for near future for Japan activity is I want to see us stand on the stage of the gigantic Tokyo DOME. I want to do stage performance on variety programs, drama and movie."

About the change of image from debut, Kibum replied in Japanese, "At the beginning, we have youngster image, but our most recent is the manly image. We also sing strong beat songs now. We age...(Laugh)," inviting some laughter from the press.


At 7pm, LIVE performance.

In the darkness, the pink penlight brought colour to the whole area. To make the opening more hyped up, the audience made loud and reassuring sound, chanting along to <Before Yesterday> and <Shut Up!!>.

U-KISS appeared in white tuxedo, The light from the lighting effect added on to their suit colour, created a dye-like effect. On the stage, <Binggeul Binggeul>, <Talk To Me>, <Man Man Ha Ni>,and some other beat songs and the debut songs <Not Young> formed the beginning part of the concert. Inclusive of the cover songs and encore songs, there were 17 song performed. During Boyz II Men <End of the Road>, Backstreet Boys <As Long As You Love Me>, Kibum and Kevin teared up as they were overwhelmed with gratitude seeing how the whole concert arena was singing along while being enveloped in a twirl of emotion.

Immediately following, an important news was announced to the audience. Kibum with tearing eyes conveyed the news about the first album ranked #2 on Oricon Daily Ranking. The excitement from the entire concert arena was at the climax! All the members conveyed their feeling of deepest gratitude to the audience. The members hugged each other and exchanged praises.

Each fan holding on to their penlight, creating pink Christmas illumination which wrapped the members in impressive broadcasting-like light effect; this ended the middle act of the live concert with a huge success.

The audience's cheering was the best Christmas present for the members. Kibum who fascinated the audience with his skillful Japanese; Dongho who would like to broaden the scope of activies beyond being a singer, such as becoming an actor; Model-like Kiseop; Alexander who spoke in 6 languages; The US citizen Eli; The similarly US citizen member Kevin who has solid singing career; The one with magnificent singing voice, Soohyun; That is the excellently talented group U-KISS. Hereafter, being the artist whom you have chosen, we will try hard to increase our presence.

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