U-Kiss Visa card Issued in Japan

U-Kiss Visa card

The Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, one of Japan’s top three banks, has issued a Visa card featuring members of the seven strong K-pop boy band U-KISS.

Photos of the boys feature on both sides of the card. Users of it can accumulate points that can be used to receive group-related products.

U-KISS, affiliated with NH Media, comprises Soo-hyun, Eli, Ki-seop, Kevin, Dong-ho, Hoon and AJ and debuted in 2008 in Korea and in Japan in 2011.

The group is the first K-pop band to be featured on Sumitomo’s visa cards. The bank has previously featured Japanese singers such as Dreams Come True, X-Japan’s Yoshiki and L’Arc en Ciel.

After releasing its third full-length album “Collage” in March, the group splintered off into unit activity uBEAT the following month with Eli, AJ and Kevin. It is currently in preparation for a tour to South America at the end of this month and in

July.