by About 6,000 spectators gathered for the Korea Day K-Pop concert held at Jubilee Park, the largest outdoor performance venue in the Dubai Expo, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on the afternoon of the 16th (local time) to confirm the hot K-pop fever in the Middle East. On this day, six artists, including Stray Kids, the public relations ambassadors for the Dubai Expo Korea Pavilion, and world stars Psy, Sunmi, Girls, Golden Child, and Forestella, appeared and performed a passionate performance for 2 hours and 30 minutes.
President Moon and his wife, who visited the concert hall, got up at the introduction of singer Psy and waved their hands to the audience, and cheers equaled no less than the stars who performed in the audience erupted from the audience. After the performance, President Moon and his wife made a surprise visit to the waiting room to encourage our K-Pop artists, ambassadors to introduce Korea to the world.
About 1,000 K-pop fans gathered at the ‘Korea Day’ event held at the Dubai Expo Al Wasl Plaza before the concert, realizing the Korean Wave in the Middle East. In the cultural performance, the Little Angels Art Troupe, a Korean children’s folk dance and choir, performed a flower dance and a fan dance, and the K Tigers, a Taekwondo demonstration group, received a lot of applause for their performance that combined dynamic Taekwondo and street dance through K-pop. In particular, when the performance of Stray Kids, a popular group in the UAE, started, the fans rushed to the site all at once, took up their cell phones, and filmed with cheers.
The Korean Pavilion is already known as a ‘hot spot’ at the Dubai Expo, which has been in progress since October last year, with 191 countries participating. It is the fifth-largest scale among participating countries because traditional culture and advanced technology are in harmony. You can experience Korean content with AR (augmented reality) technology, and you can enjoy Korean culture while lying down in the ‘Vertical Cinema’ that extends from the ceiling to the wall. K-pop performances and experiences were also popular, and the cumulative number of visitors last month exceeded 500,000.
