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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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