K-Town For You Enters Musical Actor Management Market… First Recruitment is ‘Promising Seedling’ Kim Na-young

Nov 08, 2024

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Musical actress Kim Na-young. Photo courtesy of K-Town4U
Musical actress Kim Na-young. Photo courtesy of K-Town4U

K-POP platform expands business by nurturing musical actors… “Will lead the globalization of K-musicals”
K-POP online and offline platform K-Town For You is making a full-fledged entry into the musical actor management business. On the 6th, K-Town For You announced that they have established a management team and recruited potential rookie Kim Na-young as their first exclusive actor.

Kim Na-young is a talented graduate of Seogyeong University‘s Department of Performing Arts, Musical Acting, and is a prepared actor who has steadily gained stage experience since childhood.
In 2008, as a member of the five-member children’s singer group ‘Children‘s Generation’, she displayed her talents by releasing an album of kidnapping prevention songs and nursery rhymes such as ‘Be Careful Song’. In 2012, she played the role of ‘Bori’ in held at the National Museum of Korea’s Yong Theater, leaving a deep impression on the audience with her excellent acting skills despite her young age.

In addition, Kim Na-young participated in the ‘Actor‘s Dream’ project in 2016 and 2017 and performed on the stage of the National Theater’s KB Youth Sky Theater. She proved her skills by being confidently selected through auditions for the roles of ‘Joanne’ in and ‘Tracy’ in and playing the lead roles. Through these experiences, Kim Na-young is receiving favorable reviews for growing into an actress with solid acting skills and stage manners.

Through this entry into the management business, K-Town4U plans to grow beyond a simple K-POP platform and become a comprehensive entertainment company. The policy is to discover talented new actors based on a systematic system and not spare any support.

Choi Jong-im, head of the business division at K-Town4U, expressed his aspirations by saying, “As the musical industry is rapidly growing both domestically and internationally, we will help promising actors grow through a professional management team and ultimately take the lead in the globalization of K-musicals.”

Starting with the contract with Kim Na-young, K-Town4U plans to pursue exclusive contracts with more new musical actors in the future.

Musical actress Kim Na-young. Photo courtesy of K-Town4U
Musical actress Kim Na-young. Photo courtesy of K-Town4U


Reporter Yang Hyeong-mo hmyang0307@donga.com