K-Pop Cover Dance Festival in Japan ‘I overcame my weary heart with K-Pop.’

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“The moment the announcement was made, the members looked at each other and wiped their tears with their eyes wide open with a look as if time had stopped. I remembered my last year of school life, where I spent every night practicing until late at night.

I want to show the best stage in the global finals held in Seoul by not stopping here but by making improvements.” Time) It was held at the Cool Japan Park performance hall in Osaka Castle Park in Osaka, Japan.

The event, co-hosted by the Korean Cultural Center in Osaka (Director Jeong Tae-gu) and the Seoul Shimbun, brought in even the audience who had been challenged to gather due to the coronavirus, making the Korean Wave feverish again.

Participating teams from all over Japan, such as Tokyo, Kansai, and Hokkaido, performed high-quality cover dance performances. Aya, a visitor who came to support a friend who participated in this festival, thanked the friend who invited him, saying, “These days, seeing a stage full of passion just seems to energize my life.”

After the heat, ‘DESUP,’ who performed with NCT U’s ‘UNIVERSE,’ won the championship. ‘D-Sup,’ composed of the first to third year of high school, is a team of seniors and juniors from the same school. I will practice hard every day and achieve an excellent final stage.”

Jeong Tae-goo, director of the Korean Cultural Center in Osaka, said, “Despite the corona situation, seeing the audiences from children to the elderly fill the venue, K-pop in Japan is now a culture enjoyed by all generations, beyond the genre enjoyed by the younger generation. “I felt like I was settled,” he said.

The ‘K-Pop Cover Dance Festival, which marks its 12th anniversary this year, is the world’s first and largest K-pop online and offline Hallyu fan communication program. The winning teams from each country will be invited to the final finals of the World Finals to be held in Seoul in October. The festival was sponsored by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Korea Entertainment Producers Association, Korea Music Performers Association, Seoul Tourism Foundation, New Era, All K-Pop, and Pentacle.

On the other hand, after the main stage was over, a ‘Special Pop-up Dance Class’ was held at the Korean Cultural Center in Osaka, where applicants for dance education were selected through pre-registration. The event was attended by a Japanese dancer, Renan, who is very active in Korea. Due to the enthusiasm of the dance dreamers who came to hear this news, the lights did not go out until late at night.

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