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Fangirl moment: Sharon Cuneta in tears while attending K-pop concert

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Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Sharon Cuneta teared up after seeing her favorite K-pop stars perform at ‘Begin Again: K-pop Edition’ at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, May 29, 2022. Photo: Twitter/@kakiep83" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/entertainment/05/29/20220529-sharon.jpg"/><figcaption>Sharon Cuneta teared up after seeing her favorite K-pop stars perform at ‘Begin Again: K-pop Edition’ at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, May 29, 2022. <em>Photo: Twitter/@kakiep83</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA – The “Megastar” is also a mega K-pop stan.</p><p>Veteran singer-actress Sharon Cuneta was unable to hold back her tears after seeing her favorite South Korean idols perform in Manila late Sunday, based on a photo shared by her daughter Frankie Pangilinan.</p><p>In the photo posted by Pangilinan on Twitter, a teary-eyed Cuneta could be seen doing a heart pose and holding a light-stick of K-pop band SHINee while attending the “Begin Again: K-pop Edition” concert at the Araneta Coliseum.</p><p>“Kim Kibum, [i]kaw lang ang nagpapaiyak ng mama ko na ganto,” Pangilinan said in a reply Twitter post to the photo. </p><p>(Kim Kibum, you’re the only one who can make my mom cry like this.)</p><p>Pangilinan was referring to SHINee member Key, one of the four acts that played at “Begin Again,” which marked the return of live K-pop concerts in the Philippines since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Here at the Araneta Coliseum for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeginAgain_KPOP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeginAgain_KPOP</a>, the first live K-pop concert in the country since the pandemic began. <a href="https://twitter.com/SHINee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SHINee</a>’s Key, <a href="https://twitter.com/NCTsmtown_DREAM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NCTsmtown_DREAM</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/WEi__Official?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WEi__Official</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/IOK_ALICE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IOK_ALICE</a> make up the show’s lineup. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBNNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/BF8luCPHF1">pic.twitter.com/BF8luCPHF1</a></p>— Jaehwa Bernardo 재화 (@jaehwabernardo) <a href="https://twitter.com/jaehwabernardo/status/1530828638211522560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2022</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Cuneta, 56, has been open about being a K-pop fan, revealing in one of her YouTube vlogs her admiration for SHINee and its labelmates NCT.</p><p>On Instagram, Cuneta posted a screen capture of her daughter’s post, writing in the caption: “Nakakahiya man pero SHINee (this time si Key pa lang) ang nakakapagpaiyak sa akin ng ganito.”</p><p>(It’s embarrassing to admit this but SHINee – this time only Key – can make me cry like this.)</p><p>In a separate Instagram post, Cuneta said she flew all the way from Ilocos just to watch Key and NCT Dream, a sub-group of NCT that also performed at “Begin Again.”</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" 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superstar shared a video of fellow audience members cheering as she entered the concert venue.</p><p>“Thank you, fellow K-pop fans! I felt like I was with friends,” she wrote in the caption.</p><p>Other acts that performed at “Begin Again” were girl group Alice and boy band WEi.</p><p>Cuneta is no stranger to K-pop concerts. In 2019, she attended the K-pop World Music Festival, where she had the opportunity to meet and take a photo with boy band NCT 127.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/06/10/19/look-sharon-cuneta-daughter-meet-k-pop-group-nct-127">LOOK: Sharon Cuneta, daughter meet K-pop group NCT 127</a></li></ul><p>Earlier this year, the Philippine government eased restrictions on travel and mass gathering, allowing foreign artists to hold concerts in the country again.</p>

Sharon Cuneta was unable to hold back her tears after seeing her favorite South Korean idols perform in Manila late Sunday.

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Fangirl moment: Sharon Cuneta in tears while attending K-pop concert

Jaehwa Bernardo,

ABS-CBN News

Published May 29, 2022 11:11 PM PHT

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Updated May 29, 2022 11:39 PM PHT

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