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Asia Pacific|Large Video Screen Falls During Mirror Concert in Hong Kong,
Injuring 2

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LARGE VIDEO SCREEN FALLS DURING MIRROR CONCERT IN HONG KONG, INJURING 2

Two dancers for the popular boy band were hospitalized, a local news outlet
reported. Hong Kong officials promised an investigation.

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Video on social media showed a video screen falling during Mirror’s performance
at the Hong Kong Coliseum on Thursday night. Credit...via Associated Press


By Mike Ives

July 29, 2022

The Hong Kong authorities will investigate why a large, heavy video screen fell
from the ceiling during a concert by a popular boy band at a government-run
venue, injuring two dancers, officials said on Friday.

The accident happened during a performance on Thursday night by Mirror, a
12-member band in the Chinese territory whose popularity has grown during the
coronavirus pandemic.

In footage from the concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum, audience members scream
after the video screen lands directly on one dancer, edge-down, apparently
striking his neck. The South China Morning Post newspaper later reported that
one of the two male dancers had suffered neck injuries and was in intensive
care. It said the other was in stable condition.



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Kevin Yeung Yun-hung, Hong Kong’s secretary for culture, sports and tourism,
told reporters on Friday that one of the screen’s suspension cables had broken.
Each of the screens for the venue’s four-sided projection system measures 5
meters by 3.9 meters, or 210 square feet, according to the Leisure and Cultural
Services Department, which manages the coliseum.


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Emergency workers treated the injured dancers. Credit...Vivian/Associated Press


John Lee, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said in a statement early Friday that he
had asked the leisure department and other agencies to investigate the accident
and “review the safety requirements of similar performance activities.”

“I am shocked by the incident,” Mr. Lee said. “I express sympathy to those who
were injured and hope that they would recover soon.”

The Hong Kong authorities said in a separate statement that the government had
contacted the concert organizers on Wednesday — the day before the accident —
about “stage incidents in the past few days.” It did not elaborate, and the
leisure department could not immediately be reached for comment.



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On Tuesday, a member of Mirror, Frankie Chan Sui-fai, fell off the stage at the
Hong Kong Coliseum during the second day of the band’s scheduled 12-day series
of concerts, The South China Morning Post reported. He fell about a meter and
was not seriously hurt, according to the report.




Makerville, the concert organizer, apologized for the Thursday night accident in
an Instagram post early Friday, adding that Mirror’s remaining concerts at the
venue would be canceled. The band’s management did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.

Mirror, which draws on K-pop as an influence, formed in 2018 through a reality
show designed to manufacture a hit boy band. Its members sing in Cantonese, a
Chinese language spoken widely in the former British colony.

The band’s escapist lyrics have been a balm of sorts for an anxious population
during a tumultuous period of Hong Kong history.

In 2019, the city was consumed by months of mass protests triggered by a
proposed law to allow extraditions to mainland China. Then came a thicket of
pandemic-related restrictions that have battered Hong Kong’s economy, as well as
a sweeping national security law that has curtailed freedoms with breathtaking
speed.

Mirror’s popularity soared as Hong Kong struggled. The band sold out concert
halls, accounting for some of the city’s only large-scale events during the
pandemic. Its members’ faces have been plastered on billboards, buses and subway
ads.

The coliseum where Mirror was performing on Thursday opened in 1983, according
to the leisure department’s website. It seats about 12,500 people, the site
says, and meets local demand for a “world class indoor stadium.”

Zixu Wang contributed reporting.








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