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Asia Song Festival, A-Song-Fe or ASF, is an annual Asian pop music festival held in
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
, since 2004. It is hosted by Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange (KOFICE) and features artists from Asian countries. Participating artists are awarded a plaque of appreciation by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and ''Best Asian Artist'' by the chairman of Korea Foundation for International Culture and Exchange (KOFICE).
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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TVXQ is the only act to have participated for five consecutive years, since the 1st festival in 2004. This festival is recorded and broadcast on
Seoul Broadcasting System Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) () is one of the leading South Korean television and radio broadcasters. The broadcaster legally became known as SBS in March 2000, changing its corporate name from Seoul Broadcasting System (서울방송). Its f ...
in Korea and Fuji TV in Japan; and other major broadcasting stations around the world including United States,
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
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Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...
, Thailand, Malaysia,
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
, Brunei, the
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, Vietnam and Singapore. The theme song for the 2011 Festival "Dreams Come True", a duet by Lee Donghae of
Super Junior Super Junior (; stylized in all caps), also known as SJ or SuJu, is a South Korean boy band formed by Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment in 2005. They are also dubbed by the media as the "King of Hallyu Wave" due to their prominent ...
and Seohyun of
Girls' Generation Girls' Generation (), also known as SNSD, is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment. The group is composed of eight members: Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Seohyun. Originally a nine-piece ensembl ...
was released on 11 October 2011 as a digital single. The proceeds from the sale were donated to Unicef to help children in African countries."Music and charity as Asia Song Fest wraps up its eighth year"
''Joongang Daily''. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-27


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Awards


Participating countries


See also

* List of music festivals in South Korea *
K-pop K-pop (), short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, experimental, rock, jazz, gos ...
* J-pop * C-pop ** Mandopop ** Cantopop ** Hokkien pop * V-pop * Thai pop *
Pinoy pop Pinoy pop or P-pop (also known as Philippine pop or Pilipino pop) refers to a contemporary pop music in the Philippines originating from the OPM genre. With its beginnings in the late 1970s, Pinoy pop is a growing genre in year of the 2020s. T ...
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Malaysian pop Malaysian popular music, sometimes called shortly Malaysian pop ( ms, Pop Malaysia) or abbreviated as M-pop, refers to popular music forms in Malaysia. Although popular music in various languages such as Mandopop are popular and have been produce ...
* Indo pop


References


External links


Asia Song Festival official site
(in Korean) * {{South Korean Music Award Shows , state=collapsed Music festivals established in 2004 Pop music festivals in South Korea South Korean music awards K-pop festivals Annual events in South Korea Autumn events in South Korea