RIIZE: Billboard Cover Photos

When RIZE goes out to dinner, it's a 20-person affair.

On this particular Sunday night, upstart South Korean mega-label SM Entertainment booked a private room at a hot spot in Los Angeles' Koreatown popular with music artists for its new band. The six members testify around a long table — along with an SM-related translator (who is occasionally assisted by two other team members), a publicist from RCA Records (SM's partner for RIIZE), a veteran manager from Seoul and eight additional crew members sitting in a nearby booth.

The Korean group is in town for their RIIZING DAY Fan-Con tour tomorrow — a “fan concert” where the group intersperses choreographed performances of their own K-pop hits with casual games, casual on-stage chats with each other, and special covers of both two K -Pop classics and global boy hits such as One Direction's 'One Thing'. This is RIIZE's first time headlining a show in the United States, but their third visit to Los Angeles as a group. Prior to the May 20 concert, the group flew here in August to attend the annual mega-fest KCON K- town pop and also filmed two music videos in town: the upbeat “Memories” (a pre-debut single that generated buzz for the group that month) and its official debut single, “Get a Guitar,” a slick, bubblegum ear released in both Korean and English that is now RIIZE's most streamed song worldwide, with 219.6 million official on-demand streams since its release in September, according to Luminate.

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