The 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards, known as “MAMA,” the K-pop industry’s biggest annual music awards show, is returning to South Korea again for the first time in 11 years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s MAMA will be held online with no live audience on Sunday. Hosted by actor Song Joong-ki, the show will feature top K-pop acts such as BTS and Twice.
Originally, boyband Wanna One, which rose from the second season of Mnet’s reality show Produce 101 series, was expected to stage a reunion performance at MAMA. After the court revealed last month the names of trainees who were excluded from the group due to a vote-manipulation scandal, the TV channel confirmed that the group, which disbanded in January last year, will not appear at the event.
The show will also be broadcast live in Taiwan by friDay, an online video platform of Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. According to friDay, its live broadcast of a k-pop concert on Nov. 21 successfully attracted nearly 800,000 viewers, boosting its music download services by 60 percent.
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(Eddy Chang, Taipei Times)
二○二○「Mnet亞洲音樂頒獎典禮」(簡稱MAMA),是韓流界的年度盛事,在睽違十一年後首次重返南韓。受武漢肺炎(新冠病毒,COVID-19)影響,MAMA將在本週日以無現場觀眾的方式線上直播。節目將由人氣男神宋仲基主持,表演陣容則包括韓流天團防彈少年團(BTS)和Twice等多組豪華卡司。
之前傳聞指出,自選秀節目「Produce 101」第二季脫穎而出的夯團Wanna One,有可能在頒獎典禮上合體開唱。不過韓國的法院稍早在上個月,公開了因該節目的作票醜聞而被排除在男團外的訓練生名字,隨後該頻道即宣布這個去年一月解散的團體將不會在MAMA現身。
在台灣,遠傳電信旗下的friDay影音平台也將轉播該節目。而根據friDay表示,該平台於十一月二十一日所轉播的另一場韓流演唱會,成功吸引了近八十萬人次收看,同時音樂下載服務亦暴增百分之六十。
(台北時報張聖恩)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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