Park Jin-young to hold 30th anniversary concert in Tokyo, Japan next February

MUSIC Nov 13, 2024

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Singer Park Jin-young will hold a concert to celebrate his 30th anniversary since his debut in Tokyo, Japan in February 2025, and shine as a ‘Worldwide Ddan-ttara’.

From December 27 to 29, 2024, Park Jin-young will hold a year-end solo concert ‘Still JYP’ to celebrate his 30th anniversary since his debut for three days at the Olympic Hall in Olympic Park, Songpa-gu, Seoul, and as an ‘eternal Ddan-ttara’ and ‘Emperor of Year-End Performances’, he will move the stage to Tokyo, Japan in February next year to meet with local fans.

JYP Entertainment made a surprise announcement of the Tokyo concert news and poster image as part of ‘Still JYP’ on its official Japanese SNS channel at 8 p.m. on the 12th.

Accordingly, the Japanese concert will be held in 2025. It will be held at Tokyo Dome City Hall on February 20th and 21st. Park Jin-young‘s performance in Japan will be his first in about two years since his solo concert ‘’GROOVE BACK‘ IN JAPAN’ in January 2023.

In particular, Park Jin-young has been enjoying high popularity in Japan by leading the success of the ‘Nizi Project’ series, a global audition program that produced the super-large girl group NiziU and boy group NEXZ. As a representative K-pop producer with outstanding insight and a ‘living legend’ who has maintained thorough self-management, he has garnered empathy from viewers by giving helpful and encouraging comments to contestants and leading them to their skills and internal growth. In this way, as a representative K-pop producer with both talent, strictness, and warmth, he will further show off his true value as a ‘World Wide Ddanddara’ and radiate the presence of the artist Park Jin-young at the concert.

Park Jin-young released a new digital single ‘Easy Lover’ and the title song ‘Easy Lover (Tell Me No)’ on November 4 and has been very active. He appeared on KBS 2TV’s ‘Music Bank’ on the 8th, MBC‘s ‘Show! Music Core’ on the 9th, and SBS’s ‘Inkigayo’ on the 10th, heating up the online community with stages full of his own unique character. With intense dancing, solid live performances, and even a rock star-like performance with Xdinary Heroes (XH) Jung Soo and Jun Han on ‘Inkigayo’, they presented a variety of things to see. Regarding the comment section of the stage video for the new song ‘Easy Lover (Tell Me No)’, rave reviews continued such as “Park Jin-young‘s stage is definitely fun to watch”, “Amazing and respectable”, “A true dan-ttara who is true to his main job”.

After finishing his domestic broadcasting activities, Park Jin-young will also begin promotions in Japan starting on the 13th. They will perform their new song ‘Easy Lover (Say No)’ on the local terrestrial broadcaster Nippon TV’s ‘DayDay.’, and on the 15th, they will appear together with NiziU on the local representative music program TV Asahi‘s ‘Music Station’ (hereafter ‘Msete’). ‘Msete’ will be an unprecedented collaboration as the two artists will perform NiziU’s pre-debut song ‘Make you happy’, which was written and composed by Park Jin-young and became a sensation in Japan. ‘Msete’ has been considered one of the most popular music programs in Japan since its first broadcast in October 1986.

Meanwhile, Park Jin-young, who showcased his solid 30-year music history as a singer and Asia‘s top producer in the Chuseok special KBS 2TV project ‘Ttanttara JYP’, is currently active as a judge on KBS 2TV’s new audition program ‘The Ttanttara’, which seeks out ‘Ttanttara’, a diamond in the entertainment industry with versatile charm. ‘The Ttanttara’ airs every Sunday at 9:20 p.m.

Reporter Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com yyynnn@donga.com