2025 MAMA Awards Return to Hong Kong After 7 Years, Set for November at Kai Tak Stadium
May 29, 2025
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CJ ENM announced on the 29th that 'Mama Awards' will be held at Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong for two days on November 28 and 29.
The '2025 Mama Awards' will be held in Hong Kong for the first time in seven years since 2018. In the year of Mnet's 30th anniversary, Hong Kong is back in the spotlight as the venue for the largest number of 'Mama Awards' ever and a key K-pop performance market. Launched in 1999 as 'Mama Awards', 'Mama Awards' has led the globalization of K-pop by being held in various regions such as Macau, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Japan. Since then, with the growth of the Korean music industry, it has rebranded from 'Met ASIAN MUSIC AWARDS' to 'MAMA AWARDS', and last year, it entered the U.S., the world's No. 1 music market, for the first time at the K-pop Awards, and worked with fans around the world through live relay broadcasts from LA to Osaka, Japan.
The 「Mama Awards」, which has solidified its influence and position as a global K-pop awards ceremony, will visit China for the first time in a long time this year to decorate another page. Hong Kong, which is also a region that has built the history of the 「Mama Awards" from 2012 to 2018, is not only based on many global media and companies, but has also played a role in expanding K-pop's global influence as an accessible hub for K-pop fans around the world.
The scale is also about four times larger. As it will be held at the mega stadium, which will be Hong Kong's new landmark, it is expected that there will be a large number of Iconic scenes that express original stage and differentiated directing power. Hong Kong 'Kaitak Stadium' is a large stadium that opened in March this year and can accommodate up to 50,000 people. The '2025 Mama Awards' is an award ceremony created with K-pop fans around the world beyond offline through real-time live broadcasting through various digital platforms, and is expected to decorate the end of this year. As CJ ENM is making every effort to prepare for the global K-pop awards ceremony, which focuses on its 30 years of global music business know-how, stage technology, and content capabilities, attention is focused on the news of the hosting of the "2025 Mama Awards".
Shin Hyung-kwan, head of CJ ENM's music content business division, said, `We will do our best to highlight artists and industry officials who have led the K-pop trend this year and show the global competitiveness and status of K-pop"It will provide an iconic moment with creative stage production and technology unique to the Mama Awards" that many people are looking forward to."
Visa, a global payment technology company, has participated as an exclusive sponsor for three years and has been a title sponsor since last year.
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