{"id":81064,"date":"2014-07-31T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T01:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=52836"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:49:55","slug":"thai-pop-band-promotes-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/thai-pop-band-promotes-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Pop Band Promotes Nagasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nagasaki is becoming a popular destination for Thai tourists thanks to music videos filmed there by the Thai pop trio La-Ong-Fong. Bass player Pongchuk Pissathanporn visited Nagasaki this March as reporter for an online travel show and thought the laid back atmosphere would be perfect for a music video. He came back to Nagasaki in May with his bandmates and filmed two videos, one for a new song (whose English title is \u201cMiss\u201d) and one for the Japanese version of their hit single \u201cIma Sugu Aitai\u201d, which features children from a local nursery school. Surprised by this sudden upswing in popularity, Nagasaki City has dubbed the three band members tourism ambassadors. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 7\/30<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-52971\" alt=\"10407830_824407760916646_4296755052564732912_n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10407830_824407760916646_4296755052564732912_n.jpg?w=640\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10407830_824407760916646_4296755052564732912_n.jpg?w=850&amp;ssl=1 850w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10407830_824407760916646_4296755052564732912_n.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/10407830_824407760916646_4296755052564732912_n.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Official videos:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cMiss\u201d <\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Ong Fong - \u0e04\u0e34\u0e14 (Miss) | (OFFICIAL MV)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vUG5LdkbnC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cIma Sugu Aitai\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Ong Fong - \u0e41\u0e2d\u0e1a\u0e0a\u0e2d\u0e1a : \u3044\u307e\u3059\u304f\u3099 \u3042\u3044\u305f\u3044 (JP Version)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6wpmdMg7N14?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagasaki is becoming a popular destination for Thai tourists thanks to music videos filmed there by the Thai pop trio La-Ong-Fong. Bass player Pongchuk Pissathanporn visited Nagasaki this March as reporter for an online travel show and thought the laid back atmosphere would be perfect for a music video. He came back to Nagasaki in May with his bandmates and filmed two videos, one for a new song (whose English title is \u201cMiss\u201d) and one for the Japanese version of their hit single \u201cIma Sugu Aitai\u201d, which features children from a local nursery school. Surprised by this sudden upswing in popularity, Nagasaki City has dubbed the three band members tourism ambassadors. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 7\/30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81064","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}