CAREER (2010)

Major Debut in Japan, Beautiful Journey, and Success in Taiwan

In the months January and February, the boys started touring in Asia. The tour visited Japan,Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, and Singapore. Tickets were sold out quickly, representatives of the band believe it was due to the popularity of Lee Hong Ki starring in the drama, "You're Beautiful".

After celebrating their 1000th day in music industry, they traveled to Japan where they stayed until the end of August to prepare for their major Japan under their new major Japanese label, Warner Music Japan. They also began a new Japanese show which began airing starting 7 April 2010. On May 19, 2010 F.T. Island released their new single "Flower Rock" under Warner Music. "Flower Rock" entered the Oricon daily charts at 3rd position on May 19, 2010, the day of its release, and held the fourth position of that week. On July 14, 2010, F.T. Island released another single named "Brand New-Days," which included songs written and composed by the F.T. Island member Song Seung Hyun and Choi Jung Hun. F.T. Island performed a five-city concert tour in Japan after releasing both singles. They also performed at the international rock festival "Summer Sonic 2010" in Maishima Arena, Osaka, Japan.

After promotions in Japan, F.T. Island focused on their comeback in Korea in mid-August 2010. Their new mini album "Beautiful Journey" and the music video for their main title song " Love Love Love" were released on August 25, 2010. F.T. Island held their comeback performances in Korean on August 17, 2010. The title song topped many popular music charts in South Korea and also gained international notice, especially in Taiwan. Choi Jung Hun co-wrote and co-composed one of the songs, titled Don Quixote's Song, making it the first Korean songs that includes the composition from F.T. Island itself. During November and December, F.T. Island balanced two separate concerts, the Beautiful Journey Concert and So Today... Concert, in both Korea and Japan.

While promoting their second Korean mini-album, F.T. Island recorded another Japanese single titled So Today... to be released in November. All three songs were co-written by Lee Jae Jin; the song, Boom Boom Boom, was composed by Choi Jung Hun. The single ranked 6th on the Oricon Daily Chart. With F.T. Island's 3rd single taking the 6th position, they now have a record of all their singles ranking top 10 in the Oricon charts. About 10,000 fans turned up at their promotional events in Osaka and Tokyo on 20 and 21 November.

Due to their immense popularity in Taiwan, F.T. Island held a concert on December 25, celebrating Christmas together with 9000 fans. F.T. Island is Korea's first rock band to hold a big scale concert in Taiwan and they had no other special request beside asking for the best sound systems and hardware. Former vocalist and guitarist, honored quest Oh Won Bin, performed his first single as a solo artist and a brand new song, which has yet not been released, at the concert. F.T. Island performed songs in three languages, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Though they have only entered the Taiwan music industry for a short period of 10 months, with an album sales record over 10, 000, F.T. Island won favorable comments in the Chinese media. Just for the concert tickets and merchandises alone, the revenue for FTIsland's (Beautiful Journey) concert have exceeded a total of NT$20Million. They have been named the Korean artistes who earned the most money for the end of 2010 and F.T. Island also wished to visit Taiwan again soon. Four main news agencies namely, China Times, Yonhap News, Apple Daily and Liberty Times, covered news on the concert, showing the band's high popularity. F.T. Island also broke several records in Taiwan with 500, 000 hits on mobile downloads and 10, 000, 000 hits on music downloads.