Pluto‘s Hwanhee “SM Forever”… Collaboration Stage with Rise Sohee (SM 30th Anniversary Concert)

MUSIC Jan 12, 2025

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Photo | SM Entertainment
Photo | SM Entertainment

Fly to the Sky‘s Hwanhee shared the stage with Rise’s Sohee.

On the 12th at 5 PM, ‘SMTOWN LIVE 2025 [THE CULTURE, THE FUTURE] in SEOUL’ was held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro-gu, Seoul, following the previous day‘s ‘STOWN LIVE 2025 [THE CULTURE, THE FUTURE] in SEOUL’. Both performances were live streamed simultaneously through the global platform Beyond LIVE and Weverse.

On this day, Hwanhee performed Fly to the Sky’s third full-length album title song ‘Sea Of Love’ with Rise‘s Sohee instead of Brian. After finishing the stage, Hwanhee said, “I’m sincerely grateful for inviting me to the SM 30th anniversary concert. As a singer who debuted under SM, I have new feelings being with so many singers today. I feel good that there are more talented and cool singers like Sohee now,” he said. He continued, “I was happy and glad to have performed the ‘Sea Of Love’ collaboration stage with Sohee,” and “I think SM will last forever. He said, “I hope you always stay healthy and receive many blessings.”

This concert will feature SM Entertainment (hereafter referred to as SM) artists such as 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, 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.

Photo | SM Entertainment
Photo | SM Entertainment

As it is a concert held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of SM, SM It was filled with various stages such as colorful stages of affiliated artists, pre-stages by artists of 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 performance.

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

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