Aespa‘s Winter shared her thoughts on her collaboration with senior SES’s Bada.

On the 12th at 5 PM, at ‘SMTOWN LIVE 2025 [THE CULTURE, THE FUTURE] in SEOUL’, Aespa‘s Winter shared her thoughts on the collaboration with SES’s Bada for ‘Dreams Come True’ the day before.

He said, “Not the Aespa version, but the SES seniors‘ version, I performed ‘Dreams Come True’ with senior Bada. It was a fun and glorious stage. He said, “We’ve prepared an energetic stage like yesterday, so don’t get tired and I hope you’ll keep burning until the end today.”

At this concert, SM Entertainment (hereafter referred to as SM) artists including Kangta, BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation’s Hyoyeon, SHINee’s Key and Minho, EXO’s Suho and Chanyeol, Red Velvet, NCT 127, NCT DREAM, WayV, aespa, RISE, NCT WISH, Navis, Zhoumi, and Raiden, as well as SMTR25, a group of 25 trainees and artists from SM’s affiliated labels such as Mavistar, SM Jazz Trio, and Min Ji-woon, and SMTOWN Family including H.O.T.’s Tony An, S.E.S.’s Bada, and Fly to the Sky’s Hwanhee, British boy group Dear Alice, which SM participated in producing, and trot idol Mytro also took the stage.


SM Foundation As a concert held to commemorate the 30th anniversary, it was filled with diverse stages including colorful stages by SM artists, pre-stages by artists under affiliated labels, special collaboration stages between SMTOWN Family and SM artists, etc.

In addition, songs from the 30th anniversary commemorative album ‘2025 SMTOWN: THE CULTURE, THE FUTURE’ (2025 SMTOWN: THE CULTURE, THE FUTURE), in which SM’s representative hit songs were remade by senior and junior artists to fit each team‘s color, were revealed for the first time through this concert.

‘SMTOWN LIVE 2025’ will begin a global tour starting with the Seoul concert.

Jeong Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com