Local pop group F4 to play at NTU today
Central News Agency / taiwannews.com.tw
2007-10-28 12:48 AM
A performance by local pop group F4 for nearly 5,000 fans from Japan and South Korea will take place at the main stadium of National Taiwan University today, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday. Tourism officials estimated that the fans will bring in at least NT$100 million (US$3.03 million) in tourism revenue.
The officials said the fans have come mostly on package tours, paying an average of NT$20,000 apiece. In addition to watching the performance, they will also be taken to various scenic spots around the country.
The bureau has also prepared limited edition notebooks and passport holders featuring the F4 members, as well as manuals on backpacking in Taiwan.
Today's F4 performance will be the second sponsored by the Tourism Bureau, following on the success of the first one in April, which brought 4,000 Japanese and 1,000 South Korean fans to see their idols. Today's performance will be by attended 4,100 Japanese fans and around 500 South Korean fans, they said.
F4, originally four little-known actors, shot to fame after their appearance in a TV drama titled The Meteor Garden that began broadcasting in April 2001. The four members were cast in the drama as handsome and arrogant students from one of the richest and most influential families in Taiwan.
The band members have been invited by the Tourism Bureau to serve as Taiwan's tourism ambassadors in Japan and South Korea.
A performance by local pop group F4 for nearly 5,000 fans from Japan and South Korea will take place at the main stadium of National Taiwan University today, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday. Tourism officials estimated that the fans will bring in at least NT$100 million (US$3.03 million) in tourism revenue.
The officials said the fans have come mostly on package tours, paying an average of NT$20,000 apiece. In addition to watching the performance, they will also be taken to various scenic spots around the country.
The bureau has also prepared limited edition notebooks and passport holders featuring the F4 members, as well as manuals on backpacking in Taiwan.
Today's F4 performance will be the second sponsored by the Tourism Bureau, following on the success of the first one in April, which brought 4,000 Japanese and 1,000 South Korean fans to see their idols. Today's performance will be by attended 4,100 Japanese fans and around 500 South Korean fans, they said.
F4, originally four little-known actors, shot to fame after their appearance in a TV drama titled The Meteor Garden that began broadcasting in April 2001. The four members were cast in the drama as handsome and arrogant students from one of the richest and most influential families in Taiwan.
The band members have been invited by the Tourism Bureau to serve as Taiwan's tourism ambassadors in Japan and South Korea.
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