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KoREa In Canada
                                  KoREa-Canada Blog 2015







                    K-pop world festival


                  Canadian Preliminaries





                                  by Jun Yu Gao (Ottawa, ON)



































                ith the ever increasing popularity of K-pop among Canadian youths, more K-pop
          Wdance groups have arisen in the Canadian east coast, and I must say, this summer
          has been abundant with K-pop conventions, concerts, cover contests and the like. In parallel
          with many K-pop artists coming to Canada this year (ailee, Jay Park, nU’EST, and Bigbang
          in october), there has also been more support for dancers who actively cover their songs.
          Recently, Pop goes the World hosted the 2015 Toronto K-pop convention, in which

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