Stray Kids won the Prime Minister's Citation at the '2023 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards'

Stray Kids won the Prime Minister's Citation at the '2023 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards'.

Stray Kids was honored with the Prime Minister's Award at the '2023 Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards' held at the Haeoreum Theater of the National Theater in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 21st. The 'Korea Popular Culture and Arts Awards' is an awards ceremony that started in 2010 to express gratitude for the hard work of popular culture artists and workers who contributed to the development of popular culture and arts and to inspire pride. was raised once again.

Stray Kids held a solo performance at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on October 21st and 22nd, so they were unable to directly participate in the awards ceremony. Instead, through his agency JYP Entertainment, he said, "We are truly grateful for this meaningful Prime Minister's Award. In addition to our gratitude to the many fans at home and abroad who have cherished Stray Kids' music, we hope that they will empathize with and gain energy from our music and stage. “He expressed his feelings about receiving the award.

Stray Kids is clearly imprinting its presence as a ‘K-pop trend’ with various global achievements this year. In April of this year, 'Stray Kids 2nd World Tour "MANIAC"' entered the Bank of California Stadium (BMO Stadium) in Los Angeles, USA as an encore performance, becoming the second North American stadium performance by a K-pop male group. and sold out records. The 3rd full-length album '★★★★★ (5-STAR)' (Five Star), released in June, surpassed 4,617,499 copies in the first week (album sales for a week based on the release date) according to the album statistics site Hanteo Chart, making it the K-pop album. They set a new record for the first time in history and wrote a new history in the music industry. In addition, with this album, it ranked first on the US Billboard main chart 'Billboard 200' for three consecutive years and became the highest-selling K-pop album in the US in 2023 (based on tally as of August 28, local time).

In July, he became the first K-pop artist to headline 'Lollapalooza Paris', enthralling over 60,000 audiences, and the group's producing team 3RACHA graced the stage of the '2023 Global Citizen Festival' held in New York's Central Park in September. . In addition, they appeared for the first time at the '2023 MTV Video Music Awards', an American popular music awards ceremony held on September 12th (local time), and won the trophy in the 'Best K-Pop' category with the title song 'Special' of their 3rd full-length album, and on October 5th. They gained momentum by being selected as 'Next Generation Leaders' by the American current affairs weekly TIME. Japan's first EP album 'Social Path (feat. LiSA) / Super Bowl -Japanese ver.-', released on September 6th, had album shipments as of September 29th. It surpassed 1 million copies and became the first K-pop 4th generation group to obtain Gold Disc Million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan.

Recently, they are successfully leading the '5-STAR Dome Tour 2023', which was 'the first of the 4th generation K-pop boy group' to hold a large-scale dome tour in 5 cities in Korea and Japan for a total of 10 times and sold out all tickets. Following performances at Fukuoka PayPay Dome, Vantelin Dome Nagoya, and Kyocera Dome Osaka, the group successfully completed a solo performance at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul for two days from October 21st to 22nd. On October 28th and 29th, the group will mark the grand finale of their first dome tour with performances at the Tokyo Dome.

Meanwhile, Stray Kids will release their new mini album '樂-STAR' and the title song 'Rock (樂)' on Friday, November 10th at 2pm (00:00 ET).

Reporter Junho Yoon, Ten Asia delo410@tenasia.co.kr