Nigeria welcomes 6th K-pop dance competition
By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Nnenna Ukandu
Photos = Nnenna Ukandu, Korean Cultural Center in Nigeria
Korean pop songs, generally branded as “K-pop” since the mid-2000s, have earned fans around the world and Nigeria is no exception.
This "Korean Wave" is surprisingly making waves in Nigeria, too, and the yearly competition that the Korean Cultural Center in Nigeria hosts is creating more awareness among youth as the number of entries keeps increasing every year.
The Korean Cultural Center in Nigeria hosts a yearly K-pop dance competition in Nigeria to pick the best group that will represent Nigeria in Korea. So far, it has been a tough competition whereby people from different parts of the country send in entries.
For two consecutive years, Nigeria has made us proud in Korea by bringing home awards as the first-placed team in 2015 and the best performance in 2016 at the K-pop World Festival in Changwon, Korea, in those years.
This year’s competition was held on July 8 at the Nicon luxury hotel in Abuja after preliminary online screenings of 39 entries from both the student and adult categories. Seven entries were selected from each category, making a total number of 14 entries. Only the best group from the adult category would represent Nigeria in Changwon this year.
This is my third K-pop dance competition in Nigeria, and it has never disappointed us K-pop fans in Nigeria. I always look forward to this day every year because to me it’s like an entire K-pop concert. We don’t get to have real K-pop concerts here, so we can do this competition, instead.
This year’s competition ended so well. In the adult category, the group I rooted for, K-night Africa, won covering the song “Without You” by Romeo. In the student category, the group Crew 101 won by covering the BTS song “Not Today."
Guess what! We got free K-pop caps and it made my day!
I pray and hope that the Nigerian group will make us proud once again this year in Changwon.
wisdom117@korea.kr
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