A total of 16 teams participated in the final round of the 2011 K-pop Cover Dance Festival on Monday at the Gyeongju Gymnasium in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. The winning team had the honor of joining K-pop stars on stage at the Korean Wave Dream Concert, which was held on the same day.
Popular K-pop groups such as Girls’ Generation, BEAST, MBLAQ and T-ara participated in the final round of the festival as the jury, while Girls’ Generation members Tiffany and Yuri, comedian Jeong Hyeong-don and rocker Yoon Do-hyun were the event hosts and performed as well.
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Teams participating in the 2011 K-pop Cover Dance Festival on stage Monday at Gyeongju Gymnasium in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province (Yonhap News) |
Hosted by the Visit Korea Year Committee, the festival was held to bring together K-pop fans from around the globe. Cover dance refers to emulating the original choreography used in popular K-pop dances.
More than 1,700 amateur dance teams from 64 countries submitted video entries via online for the first round. The second round was held offline, in six cities- Moscow (Russia), Sao Paolo (Brazil), Los Angeles (U.S.), Tokyo (Japan), Bangkok (Thailand) and Madrid (Spain).
A total of 66 participants from 10 countries were selected for the final round.
By Park Min-young (
claire@heraldcorp.com)
