K-Pop fan club HallyuWave Nagaland has been selected as the regional host for organising K-Pop India Contest 2023, Kohima regional round between May-June.
Korean Cultural Centre India has announced K-Pop India Contest 2023. This year, the K-POP India contest will be held in celebration of 50 years of Diplomatic ties between Korea and India.
The contest will be held with three rounds of competition in India. The first round will be the Online audition round. The second round will be the regional round. This year regional rounds will be held in 11 cities across India, namely, Kolkata, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Kohima, Lucknow and Mumbai.
The winners from the regional rounds will later move on to compete at the National round which is the K-Pop India Contest 2023 grand finale. The winners of the national round will get a chance to participate and compete at the K-Pop World Festival in South Korea.
Registration for the online round will begin from April 24 to May 7. The results for the online round will be announced on May 15. Regional round is scheduled to take place between May-June.
The details to qualify for an entry into the contest for the two categories – vocal and dance are written below. To apply for the K-Pop contest, contestants need to: record a vocal/dance cover of their favourite K-Pop song (only K-Pop songs will be allowed; any entries of non-K-Pop songs, or songs by a K-Pop artiste in a different language will lead to disqualification.).
The total duration of the cover needs to be two minutes. Once selected, the participant will be asked to cover the full song for the next round. Once they have recorded their cover head over to the K-Pop website and fill in the correct details.
Contest will allow both group and solo covers where participants can apply for both vocal and dance categories but submission of two different songs in one single category will lead to disqualification.
Further details about the contest will be released shortly.
(HallyuWave Nagaland Team)
HallyuWave Nagaland to host K-Pop India contest regional round
