SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign K-pop fans are voluntarily coming up with addictive dance moves to start a series of online challenges. An Indonesian influencer came up with an easy dance move for K-pop rookie TREASURE’s song “DARARI,” which started a wave of “DARARI challenges” on TikTok worldwide. The song was used 730,000 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Danielle Teale, a leader in the field of dance treatment aimed at better health spoke at the “Dance for Dementia” symposium held at Chungmu Art Center in Seoul yesterday regarding educational dance programs for dementia patients. “The Dance 4 Dementia program has been created for dementia patients so that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Dance costumes are selling at a furious clip in South Korea, thanks to the blooming dance culture among the middle-aged in their 40s and 50s. According to Gmarket, one of the nation’s leading online shopping malls, sales of dance costumes grew by a striking 713 percent from January to [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul is hosting a K-pop dance festival this week amid the rising popularity of Korean pop culture worldwide, the metropolitan city government said Thursday. The five-day 2016 K-pop Cover Dance Festival, which kicked off Wednesday, has gathered some 13 teams from nine countries who made it to the semi-finals [...]
JEONJU, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – B-boying was huge in Korea in the late 90s and early 2000s. A Korean dance group even won the 2002 Battle of the Year, which is one of the most prestigious international dance competitions. During every break at middle and high school, boys would try to impress the girls [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced that they will manage a program where foreign visitors can learn the latest K-pop dances. Participants will tour the SM Town studio in Samseong-dong for 30 minutes, and learn the latest K-pop moves from a professional choreographer for 60 minutes. According to a survey conducted [...]