The Dominican Republic is one of the most active k-pop countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The local movement is so strong that the Korean embassy in the country once again organized the “K-Pop World Festival” on Sunday, July 23 at 3:00 p.m., at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). ).
On the day, 10 dance groups and 5 singing groups that were also selected from the online qualifier will compete.
The groups that win this preliminary will be evaluated by KBS (Korea Public Broadcasting) and those that pass the KBS evaluation will be able to participate in the final phase on Friday, October 20.
The first place winner in the dance category will receive the prize equivalent to 17,000 pesos and second place, 8,500 pesos. First place in the singing category, a prize equivalent to 17,000 pesos.
The festival becomes more and more competitive and the capacity of the Dominican groups becomes more and more excellent that the arrival to the final phase is not seen so far away, the organizers indicated in a statement sent to Listín Diario.
This event is carried out by the Korean Embassy in the Dominican Republic with the cooperation of the Hallyu Fair, which invited lovers of k-pop and Dominican Hallyu to participate.
Since 2011, MOFA (Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and KBS (Korea Public Broadcasting) have organized a contest called “K-Pop World” for all k-pop lovers in the world. Festival”.
Seoul, the capital of Korea, is a city that had previously created world stars such as BTS, Blackpink and the most representative 4th generation groups Ive, New Jeans, Aespa, etc., which have received awards and fame on social networks from the aforementioned groups obtained, is recognized in much of the world.
In the case of BTS, this group was awarded, until November 2022, five times in a row at American Music Awards, six times in a row at Billboard Music Awards. Likewise, they won more than 287 prizes in total, and of which 70 of them are of the “Grand Prizes” level.
Just as the number of followers of Blackpink’s official YouTube channel is within the world Top 15.
Apart from that, the 4th generation groups were awarded at the national music awards, the great awards and the rookie of the year awards.
K-pop is not only popular with the youth generation, but with adults as well.
PSY is one of the representative examples of this case, since in 2012 he generated a “Gangnam Style” boom and registered in second place on the Billboard Chart.