KWAVE DANCE FESTIVAL business briefing session will be held for the successful APEC in Gyeongju 2025
Jul 22, 2025
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This event wishes for the success of the '2025 APEC Summit' and will be held as a venue for the K-Dance Festival to communicate with domestic and foreign audiences on two occasions.
The first event will be held on an outdoor stage in front of Sebit Island in Banpo Han River Park in Seoul for two days from October 11-12, 2025, and will be held as a pre-event to pray for success with citizens and artists from all over the country. It will then be held on the 26th at an outdoor stage near Cheomseongdae in Gyeongju, and it will be a symbolic stage to inform the world of Korea's cultural capabilities and strengthen the global status of K-Dance.
Dance companies and artists from various genres representing the domestic and foreign dance arts world will participate and decorate it splendidly.
Major cast and organizations
- Ahn Eun-mi: A world-renowned modern dancer who draws attention with her unconventional and philosophical stage production
- JBLACK : Dance influencer loved for sensual performance
- Department of Taekwondo at Yongin University: The organization with the longest history and authority in the field of Taekwondo
- Rock 'n' roll crew: dynamic sword dance and energetic rocking performance group
- Seoul Ballet Theater: A leading organization of creative ballet that combines popularity
- Moher Dance Company: A group that presents modern Korean dance with elaborate sword dance
- K-Ballet Theater: A ballet organization with beautiful stage production
- L.D.A. (LDA): A group that has won two presidential awards and the most wins in Korean hip-hop competitions
- Project M.C: An organization that leads the audience to immersion with experienced composition
- Traditional Performing Arts X Han Dance Company: Traditional Arts Performance Team with Korean Traditional Percussion and Seol Jang Dance
- Dance: The representative work of Kim Baek-bong, the godmother of the new Korean dance, an organization that preserves and inherits the fan dance
- Ringcart: Story-oriented creation composed by fusion singers and dance teams 'Chang' Performance
- Jubin Company: An organization that attracts attention for its powerful and intense Korean creative dance
- Organizations over 20 years of age: Korea National University of Arts, Seoul National University of Arts, Sungshin Women's University, Sookmyung Women's University
- Organizations under the age of 19 participating: Seonhwa Arts Middle School, Yewon School, Gyewon Arts Middle School, Seoul Arts High School, Goyang Arts High School, and Gyewon Arts High School
The event was attended by figures from various culture, arts and public sectors, including Yang Jeong-soo, chairman of the organizing committee, Ko Young-woo, chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Railway GEN Audit Committee, Kim Yong-gi, chairman of the Daejong Film Festival, Kwon Hye-soo, chairman of the Seocho Cultural Foundation, and Kang Hye-ryeon, professor of Gyeonggi University, to share the purpose and vision of the festival and formalize the launch of the organizing committee for the successful promotion of the event.
At the business briefing session, Ko Sang-soon, a Gwangjin-gu councilor, Kim Sung-soo, a professor of political and diplomatic studies at Hanyang University, Kim Hong-tae, a professor of performing arts at Konkuk University Graduate School of Arts and Design, and Bae Jae-sung, former. Former KBSN Vice President Bang Sun-kyu. Ten new organizers were officially appointed, including Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Park Seo-hwi, announcer of Arirang TV, Song Jin-woo, manager of Sejong One Stone Semi Professional Baseball Team, Yoon Wan-sik, standing advisor to IBK Industrial Bank's financial growth system, Han Kyu-sun, CEO of Sports Chosun, and Han Ki-beom, CEO of the Han Ki-beom Basketball Foundation, to establish a pan-national organizing committee system involving experts from all walks of life, including culture, arts, sports, media and administration.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee Yang Jung-soo said, "The 3rd K-WAVE DANCE FESTIVAL in 2025 will gradually grow and establish itself as a representative cultural and artistic tourism festival that exchanges K-Dance culture. In particular, this event, which will be held at Sebit Island in Banpo Hangang Park and Cheomseongdae in Gyeongju, will serve as an opportunity for the world to develop into a mecca for global culture and art that informs the world of the potential of Korean culture."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
