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K-pop dance in Germany: what's behind its rise?
DW (English)
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7/10/2024
These dedicated dancers are heavily influenced by South Korean pop culture and they're not alone. The popularity of all things South Korean has been growing internationally since the 1990s but has really taken off in recent years.
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I want to be somebody, I want to be me, I want to be me, I want to be me, I want to be me, I want to be me
00:09
We can't say K-pop is hip-hop, K-pop is voguing or K-pop is breaking, it's just kind of its own genre
00:20
It's that big that we have multiple contests in a year
00:26
Alone in Hamburg we have at least two or three contests, but there are a lot of them over Germany
00:33
There are always at least 100 participants, if not even more
00:37
Itzy also has newspaper articles about a performance of theirs on a stage and we were inspired by that
01:24
Oh, that was my stage
01:26
It was exciting because it was something new and you looked for more and more videos and fell in love with the music and culture
01:56
I used to show my mom the music videos and teach her the names of the K-pop members
02:13
I'm already on the older side because I'm 23. I know it's not that old, but it's considered the older side
02:19
I would say most of them, I don't know them that well, but there are a lot of people who are 17 or 18
02:49
Oh, I like the ears
03:19
It's very hard to do both, but if there are options for a dance shop someday, I would love to
03:24
I'm still not good enough, I would say, but I am practicing a lot, so yes, I really do enjoy dancing
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