Seventeen shares thoughts about their recent ‘MAMA’ experience

By Dianne Sencil / Dec 11, 2016 12:06 PM EST
(Photo : Getty/ ANTHONY WALLACE ) KPop group Seventeen during the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) at Asia-World Expo in Hong Kong.

South Korean rookie boy group Seventeen was recently featured on the popular radio program, the “Cultwo Show”. During their guesting, the band revealed their exciting and overwhelming experience during the prestigious “2016 Mnet Asian Music Awards”.

According to the group members, they were all astounded of the amazing performances during the show. On winning the “World Performer Award”, the boys revealed that they were blown away to receive such recognition.

"It was amazing, and we were very happy. We prepared hard for every stage and receiving the 'World Performer Award' overwhelmed us… Wiz Khalifa's performance was amazing beyond words,” said the group as quoted by All KPop.

They added: “We received an award with Zico sunbaenim, and during his award speech, he said it's an honor to be receiving an award with Seventeen so we were very thankful… Sunbaenim, who we always admired, thank you for mentioning us, and we will make sure to greet you in person to share thanks."

Meanwhile, Seventeen has recently made their comeback in the South Korean music program “Music Bank” with their single "BOOMBOOM". Aside from the group, KPop groups including B1A4LABOUMUP10TIONMAMAMOO, Snuper, and NC.A also showed off their explicit performances in the show, All Kpop Reports.

Seventeen made their entertainment debut in 2015 under the management of Pledis Entertainment. It is made up of 13 members who are separated into three different sub-units namely the “hip-hop unit”, “vocal unit”, and “performance unit”.

On December 4, the band has released their third mini album titled “Going Seventeen”. The record is composed of 8 tracks namely “Beautiful” (Mix Unit), “Boom Boom”, “Highlight” (Performance Team), “Expect” (Hip-Hop Team), “Fast Walk”, “Let's See” (Mix Unit), “Don't Listen” (Vocal Team), and “Smiling Flower”.

Check out the music video of Seventeen's "BOOMBOOM" here!