The synergy of good looks explodes at ‘MAMA’.

The ‘2024 MAMA AWARDS’, which has established itself as a hot award ceremony that global music fans eagerly await every year with differentiated attractions and a feast of diverse performances, is raising expectations to the max by spoiling the stage of the boy group collaboration band that was previously announced through the press premiere.

The collaboration band formed by members of global boy groups that are receiving explosive love around the world, including TOMORROW X TOGETHER, ENHYPEN, and ZEROBASEONE, is named ‘Self-illuminating TOENZE’.

‘Self-illuminating TOENZE’ members include Tomorrow x Together‘s Beomgyu and Huening Kai, Enhypen’s Jay, and Zero Base One‘s Kim Tae-rae and Han Yoo-jin. As the members of a group with overwhelming performances and versatile skills have come together, attention is focused on a stage that will break down boundaries between each other and genres.

They will travel back in time to 1995 and fully express the emotions and excitement of their school days on stage. Expectations are also high for what instruments each member will use on stage. The members who met at the pre-VCR site all had the commonality of winning the Rookie of the Year award at the ‘MAMA AWARDS’, which surprised them and allowed them to get to know each other better. Among them, Beomgyu and Huening Kai of TXT, and Kim Tae-rae of Zero Base One shared their experiences of being in a band during their school days, which is said to have strengthened their determination to create an amazing stage. The stage of the five-member band ‘Sanghwagwang TOENZE’, which will feature a different side of themselves than ever before, including Enhypen’s Jay who is crazy about the guitar and Zero Base One‘s Han Yu-jin who is determined to show the passion of the youngest member, can be seen on Chapter 1, which will be held at Kyocera Dome Osaka in Japan on Friday, November 22.

The ‘2024 MAMA AWARDS’, the first K-POP awards ceremony to be held in the United States, will be broadcast live all over the world, beyond offline, through a relay transmission from the United States to Japan.

Based on Korean time, it will be held at the Dolby Theater in LA, USA on November 22nd and at the Kyocera Dome Osaka, Japan on November 22nd and 23rd, and will feature aespa, Anderson .Paak, BIBI, BOYNEXTDOOR, Byun Woo-seok, ENHYPEN, G-DRAGON, (G)I-DLE, ILLIT, INI, IVE, izna, JYPark, KATSEYE, Lee Young Ji, ME:I, MEOVV, PLAVE, RIIZE, SEVENTEEN, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, TREASURE, TWS, YOUNG POSSE, and ZEROBASEONE were listed as performing artists.

The ‘2024 MAMA AWARDS’ can be viewed not only on Mnet, but also on YouTube channels Mnet K-POP and Mnet Plus.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com Reporter jhj@donga.com