To commemorate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and India, Korean Cultural Centre India (KCCI) in association with LG Electronics is organizing All India KPOP Contest 2023.The event will be held throughout pan India over a period of about six months with four rounds; online, regional, semi-finale and grand finale.
The online qualifiers round was held from April 26th to May 13th in which 11,071 teams participated from Pan India, the biggest participation ever since the inception (2011) of the contest in India. The selected participants from online preliminaries will participate in the regional round to be held at 11 cities.
Kolkata opened the regional round contest with H.E. Chang Jae-Bok, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to India, and 20 participants from both dance and vocal categories competed. The auditorium was packed with K-pop fans and the team of Korea National Sports University gave special performances. This year, All-India K-Pop Contest will be an offline festival event. Jeon Hong-Ju, M.D. of LG Electronics India said, “We are delighted that more than 10,000 teams has sent their submissions & numerous people have shown interest.”
