Actress Han Hyo-joo will attend this year’s Mnet Asian Music Awards, or MAMA, in Hong Kong on Dec. 2 as a presenter.

Han, who recently starred in flick “The Beauty Inside,” will grace MAMA’s stage for the first time in four years since the 2011 ceremony in Singapore.

Han Hyo-joo (OSEN)

MAMA is one of the major K-pop music award ceremonies organized by music cable channel Mnet of CJ E&M. An array of A-list celebrities and singers from South Korea and also from other countries such as China, Japan and Hong Kong will attend the star-studded event.

The festival kicked off in 1999, under the name “Mnet Music Video Festival” to award the top music videos of the year.

The name changed to MAMA in 2009 and since 2010, the festival has been held outside of Korea, including in Macau, Singapore and Hong Kong.

By Ahn Sung-mi (sahn@heraldcorp.com)

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