Blackpink recalls Tao Quan 2016 and the story behind the conical hat

At My Dinh Stadium, the 4 girls from YG Entertainment know how to win the hearts of Vietnamese fans. They wore conical hats and greeted the audience in Vietnamese.

Photo: Instagram Jisoo/VTV

With the professionalism and class of international stars, Blackpink melted Vietnamese fans with two explosive music parties at My Dinh Stadium on the evenings of July 29 and 30.

Blackpink carefully prepared the script, including special gifts for Vietnamese audiences. The four Korean girls spoke Vietnamese and wore conical hats when interacting with tens of thousands of fans in the truly hot atmosphere of My Dinh.

Before coming to Hanoi , Blackpink 's Rosé also confided that she was particularly impressed with a Vietnamese dish and would definitely try it when performing here, which is pho.

On the second night of the show, keeping her promise, Rosé said she ate pho and said it was delicious.

These shares from the Blackpink group make Vietnamese fans feel closer and more cared for than ever.

However, more than 10 years ago, in 2012, when the top actor of the Hallyu wave (Korean Wave) Song Seung Hun came to Hanoi, he also shared that he especially liked pho and went to eat pho as soon as he arrived in Hanoi.

Image of Blackpink members wearing conical hats at My Dinh Stadium. Photo: Screenshot

Song Seung Hun became popular when the movie “Autumn in My Heart” took over screens across Asia, including Vietnam. In 2012, Song Seung Hun went to Hanoi with Kim Tae Hee – who was then a famous beauty after appearing in the movie “Stairway to Heaven”.

Blackpink did not attend the press conference or meet the media in Hanoi, but the two top Korean stars of 2012 had an intimate conversation.

During the meeting, they repeatedly affirmed that they liked Vietnam, liked eating pho, and at the end of the meeting, they also happily took photos with... conical hats as souvenirs.

Since 2012, 11 years ago, when Song Seung Hun and Kim Tae Hee came to Vietnam, they said they loved pho and took pictures with conical hats. Photo: Screenshot

The story of pho and conical hat was mentioned tragically in Tao Quan 2016. In it, People's Artist Tu Long played Tao Tinh Than.

That year, Tao Tinh Than enthusiastically participated in the year-end meeting with a song parody of the work "Someone else's wife" (Phan Manh Quynh).

Tao Tinh Than boasts that he has promoted the country's image to the world by selling spring rolls, pho, and conical hats... at international fairs. And that any foreign visitor to Vietnam will love to eat pho, spring rolls, and wear conical hats.

When Tao Tinh Than enthusiastically reported the achievements, Ngoc Hoang, Nam Tao and Bac Dau asked the question, why have so many years passed, the lower world has entered a period of great development, the industrialization and modernization have achieved many achievements, life has changed rapidly... but the cultural symbol for tourism has only stopped at conical hats and pho?

Tao Quan 2016 raised the question of how to promote the tourism image of "our paradise" and why it has only featured pho and conical hats for the past decades? Photo: VTV

Tao Tinh Than was confused, struggling to explain. Tao Tinh Than himself did not understand why, could not explain, why all international visitors knew about "our paradise" until now was still pho and conical hats.

During the meeting 7 years ago (2016), the Jade Emperor requested the Spirit God to have a strategy and plan to promote the image of "our heavenly court" internationally in a more diverse and rich way when life and society are constantly developing and integrating with "other heavenly courts".

Perhaps, during that audience, the Jade Emperor could not have imagined that 7 years later, at My Dinh Stadium, a world-famous band would come to perform, still talking about pho and wearing conical hats.

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