by The Arirang TV world tour program ‘Simply K-Pop Contour’ leaves for Italy, a country full of Mediterranean passion.
Based on the long history and art of the ancient Roman Empire, Italy is a European cultural powerhouse with fashion, gourmet and romance! Here, not only K-pop but also Korean cultures such as movies, dramas, and food are emerging as popular trends.
Korean films such as ‘Parasite’ and ‘Minari’ occupied the Italian box office. New Italian film directors produced five Korean short films featuring K-pop and Korean food and held screenings. The popularity of K-pop is growing so much that pre-orders for the Milan K-Pop Festival had last year were closed in just two days.
In addition, Korean traditional Korean paper was recognized for its excellence and beauty enough to be used for preserving and restoring Italian cultural heritage. In particular, the drama ‘Squid Game’, which was loved worldwide, also captured Italians’ hearts. It is creating a craze in Italy enough to fly.
A global popera trio loved by people worldwide, Il Volo, a national Italian popera singer, an international popera trio loved by people worldwide, Il Volo, sent a video message to fans.
Il Volo, who debuted as a super rookie in 2010 and has been active until now, has established itself as the world’s best popera group in name and reality. The group, who was loved by fans worldwide with their tribute album to Ennio Morricone released last year, introduced the songs they wanted to recommend among the pieces in the album and sang without accompaniment, resulting in an explosive response. Also, when asked about K-pop, member Piero said that he likes ‘BTS’ the most among K-pop singers and often listens to ‘My Universe’.
Il Bolo, who will be on a world tour to Europe and America from the second half of this year, ended the interview by saying thank you for always supporting music fans worldwide. If you have a chance, you can meet Il Volo’s video message, Simply K-Pop Contour, which conveyed his desire to visit Korea as soon as possible.
Italian K-pop covers the dance team ‘M2B (M2B).’
“I fell in love with Korean and Korean food.”
Nine people formed a team after meeting for the first time at the 2014 Milan K-Pop Competition, and now 20 members are active in Italy K-pop cover dance team ‘M2B’ greeted each other through.
The ‘M2 B’ team is so talented that it took first place in the dance group category at ‘2021 K-POP PARTY’ hosted by the Italian Cultural Center last year. ‘M2B’, which said that K-pop dance changed lives, expressed interest in Korean culture and K-pop. Members Alessia and Marsia said they were learning because they were interested in Korean, and member Jiexi said they were learning Korean for Ice Americano. He also confessed his love for Korean food, saying that he might be able to move to New York.
Interview with ‘M2B’ who loves K-pop enough to say that K-pop is everything! You can find it on Simply K-Pop Contour.
Global trend idol ‘Billy’ presents a surprise song at the request of fans’ Billy’,
which is attracting attention from overseas K-pop fans. In the Italian edition of, Italian lover ‘Gemma’ Rain had a face-to-face meeting.
In response to a fan’s request to show their favourite choreography in ‘GingaMingaYo’, the Billy members immediately introduced a point choreography and a song to demonstrate. In addition, the fan ‘Gemmma’ said that he liked when member Haram sings the most and requested ‘Believe’, a fan song among the songs on the album released this year.
In addition, member ‘Tsuki’, who recently became a hot topic through a fancam on this day, presented a three-piece set for the fans and made the fans flutter with their colourful expressions that fit the modifier of ‘expression master’.
