INCHEON, Seoul--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The most popular Hallyu stars, the three members of JYJ (Kim Jaejoong, Park Yoochun, Kim Junsu) are named as publicity ambassador for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games.
2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (President, Kim Young Soo) held an ambassador appointment ceremony for JYJ at Lotte Hotel in Sogong-dong, Seoul, on February 20, 2013.
The Committee said that they have picked JYJ, a popular K-pop trio gaining massive popularity in Asia, as their publicity ambassador to step up their efforts to increase people’s awareness of the event and for its publicity in the Asian region.
"JYJ's appointment as publicity ambassador means a lot to us because it is the first step to promote the event overseas," said Kim Young Soo, the president of the organizing committee. "We hope that the Incheon Asian Games will successfully be known to the 4.5 billion Asians in the world with JYJ gaining Asian-wide popularity as the ambassadors of the 2014 Asian Games.”
"We are honored and thankful to have this great chance to be selected as publicity ambassadors for the Incheon Asian Games, one of major national events," said JYJ. "We will do our best to promote the Incheon Asian Games, as well as Incheon as the host city of the upcoming Asian Game to our fans both at home and abroad."
JYJ will participate in making songs, dances, and music videos for Incheon Asian Games and they will also join the Road Show, which will be held in October and November in Hanoi, Vietnam and Guangzhou, China to wish the success in Incheon Asian Games.