Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) on Monday announced light shows and themed traffic lights to welcome fans of South Korean pop group Twice to the port city.
The group is to play Kaohsiung on Saturday as part of its “This Is For” world tour. It would be the group’s first performance in Taiwan since its debut 10 years ago.
The all-female group consists of five South Koreans, three Japanese and Tainan’s Chou Tzu-yu (周子瑜), the first Taiwan-born and raised member of a South Korean girl group.
Photo courtesy of Live Nation Taiwan
To promote the group’s arrival, the city has been holding a series of events, including a pop-up store that opened on Saturday and runs through Sunday at the Eslite Spectrum Fashion Square, offering limited-edition items and special perks, Chen wrote on Facebook.
It is also lighting up Kaohsiung with the “Tour Visual Blue” light show promoting the “Twice World Tour” across the city, he said.
The city government hosted a similar event, with pink lights, when K-pop girl group Blackpink played in the city last month.
Photo courtesy of the Kaohsiung City Department of Transportation
The “Tour Visual Blue” light show, which began yesterday, is to run through Saturday every evening from 5:30pm to 11pm at seven landmarks, including the Great Harbor Bridge (大港橋), Weiwuying National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Exit 1 of the Central Park MRT Station, the Kaohsiung Pop Music Center, Love River (愛河), Kaohsiung Port Travel Center and Formosa Boulevard MRT Station, Chen said.
From yesterday through Saturday, some traffic lights in Kaohsiung would remind people to “Look Twice” and “Twice 2025 Kaohsiung,” he said.
The voices of Twice members would also encourage fans to take public transportation in announcements across the Kaohsiung MRT system, starting from tomorrow to Saturday, Chen said.
The mayor also changed his hair to blue in his social media profile, similar to when he changed it to pink when Blackpink was in Kaohsiung.
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