K-Pop Academy 2022
K-Pop Talk & Dance

On Sunday 23 October as part of the K-Pop Academy 2022 project, the Korean Cultural Centre in Italy organized the show "K-Pop Talk & Dance" at the Nuovo Teatro Orione.

More than 1000 people flocked to the show, registering the sold out of the 980 seats available with about fifty people who unfortunately did not manage to enter, but who still wanted to stay out of the theater until the end of the show.

Upon entering the hall, the public was able to see a promotional video projected on the stage for the candidacy of the City of Busan for Expo 2030.

The show was conducted by the famous YouTuber Seoul Mafia with whom the audience was able to interact on several occasions by answering various questions about Korea and the world of K-Pop.

In addition, special guest Xinuz who actively collaborates with the BTS group, which in turn responded to all the curiosities posed by the audience in the hall by also showing short performances of his skills as a dancer.

The K-POP Academy KPOP Talk & Dance show was one of the most successful events of all the events organized by the Institute so far and people from Bolzano, Florence, Perugia, Naples, Bari and etc. came to watch the show with people queuing outside the theater already 6 hours before the event.

The 980 spectators in the hall made themselves heard for the entire duration of the show during the performances of the dance cover crews and during the moments of interaction with Seoul Mafia and Xinuz. Even at the end of the show many people stayed in and out of the theater.

Even the representatives of the Nuovo Teatro Orione were pleasantly surprised and satisfied by the huge audience attendance and the Director Carlo Oldani said "it was a very successful show and I was surprised by all the people who came to the theater" while the head of the masks of the theater Francesco Taffuri said "I didn't think that so many guys could come to the theater. Also the passion and the response of the audience was amazing, it was a great success!".

In this edition of the K-Pop Academy, a show was organized for the first time in addition to the classic workshop, thus giving the opportunity to many more people to participate in the event and it was also an opportunity for all lovers of K- Pop in Italy to meet and share their passion together. We hope the event could have been a stimulus to implement the activities of the various groups of K-Pop fans in Rome and Italy.

On the other hand, the Institute is committed to supporting the K-Pop events organized in Italy so that the K-Pop movement in Italy can grow by organizing other events of this kind in person.