K-pop dance in Germany: what's behind its rise?

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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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00:00I 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

00:09We 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

00:20It's that big that we have multiple contests in a year

00:26Alone in Hamburg we have at least two or three contests, but there are a lot of them over Germany

00:33There are always at least 100 participants, if not even more

00:37Itzy also has newspaper articles about a performance of theirs on a stage and we were inspired by that

01:24Oh, that was my stage

01:26It was exciting because it was something new and you looked for more and more videos and fell in love with the music and culture

01:56I used to show my mom the music videos and teach her the names of the K-pop members

02:13I'm already on the older side because I'm 23. I know it's not that old, but it's considered the older side

02:19I would say most of them, I don't know them that well, but there are a lot of people who are 17 or 18

02:49Oh, I like the ears

03:19It's very hard to do both, but if there are options for a dance shop someday, I would love to

03:24I'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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