Celebrating its eighth anniversary this year, the Changwon K-pop World Festival is a global k-pop festival featuring K-pop-loving foreigners from all over the world and is qualifying in 92 cities in 75 countries ahead of the finals in October.
In Australia, they are participating in two cities, Melbourne and Sydney.
With the K-pop festival just around the corner, Melbourne closed its application for the online audition on June 2, July 5, The second round of auditions will be held to select finalists, and for the Sydney area, the first round of audition applications will be completed on June 30, with the final round to be chosen on July 20.
Last year, the Changwon K-pop World Festival, which was expected to be visited by more than 30,000 people, was held in the city.
Due to the influence of Typhoon Kong-Rey, the K-pop World Festival this year has been canceled on the day of the event, which will hold for the first time in two years.
Meanwhile, a concert in Australia by famous Korean musicians such as pianist Yiruma and singer Baek Ji-young was held in the past week.
It ended successfully.
Pianist Yiruma completed tour concerts in three cities, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Especially in Melbourne, where the first tour of Australia began, the concert hall was filled with 3,500 people and the Brisbane concert sold out a week before the show.
Singer Baek Ji-young also performed at the Big Top concert hall in Luna Park, Sydney, on the day pianist Yiruma performed. Only in Sydney, the singer Baek Ji-young's concert was held.
Fans from all over the country, including Brisbane and Melbourne, filled the concert hall to draw attention, and singer Yoo Seong-Eun, who was the runner-up in the audition program Voice Korea, came together as a special guest and received an enthusiastic response.
Following the Stray Kids, Eric Nam, Schurphy, and Sik-K, Baek Ji-young and pianist Iruma. Following the Korean k-pop wave, Korean stars continue to visit Australia this year as well as Black Pink and Epik High set to hold tour concerts in Australia on June 13 and July.
