Changwon K-POP World Festival Finals to Be Held on the 24th ... Changwon Buzzing with Festival Excitement

Changwon is set to buzz with excitement as it hosts a K-POP festival.

Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam will kick off the glamorous ‘2024 Changwon K-POP World Festival,’ a global Hallyu event, at Changwon Sports Complex from the 24th to the 25th.

Notably, this year’s event has been extended to two days. On the 24th, the final competition will take place at Changwon Sports Complex starting at 7 p.m., and on the 25th, at the same venue from 6:10 p.m., performances by K-POP stars will be broadcast live both domestically and worldwide through KBS’s flagship music program, .

Now in its 13th year, the ‘2024 Changwon K-POP World Festival’ is the largest K-POP festival on the planet, with global preliminaries held in 64 regions across 63 countries. Contestants who passed the preliminaries were invited to the final stage on the 24th after the first and second rounds of judging by K-POP experts. This year, a total of eight teams from the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Singapore, Kazakhstan, and Myanmar will compete in the finals.

With top talent from around the world gathering for fierce competition, the final stage will feature a special performance by the boy group xikers, whose name means “boys who travel through time and space to find coordinates,” and the multinational girl group tripleS, which boasts the largest number of members in Korea. In addition, the competition will be hosted by Kevin of THE BOYZ, drawing much attention from K-POP fans both in Korea and abroad.

The performance on the 25th will also take place at the same venue from 6:10 p.m. Featuring 20 of Korea’s top K-POP artists, the show will be broadcast live as a Changwon special on KBS 2TV and KBS WORLD’s to more than 145 countries around the world.

The Changwon special will be hosted by actor Moon Sangmin and Minju of ILLIT, with a star-studded lineup. ITZY, ILLIT, Kang Daniel, Kwon Eunbi, JD1, tripleS VISIONARY VISION, Choi Yena, CRAVITY, AB6IX, and other K-POP artists are preparing spectacular performances, promising a hotter response than ever before.

Meanwhile, tickets for the ‘2024 Changwon K-POP World Festival & Music Bank in Changwon’ will be available on Ticketlink starting on the 8th, with reservations open from 8 p.m. on October 15. The event is free (with a reservation fee of 3,000 KRW), and further details can be found on Ticketlink.

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