K-Pop Isn’t Just Making Fans Outside of Korea. It’s Trying to Make the Genre’s Next Stars

Stray Kids execute for the Billboard Music Awards at Hwajung Gymnasium in Seoul onNov 19, 2023. Credit – Penske Media/Getty Images

F or Koreans, coming to be a K-pop idolizer is claimed to be tougher than winning the lotto game. For those outside Korea, the course to fame in the category might appear also rarer– however quickly, sector execs and aiming stars around the globe alike are wishing, those probabilities might be beginning to adjustment.

Last week, some 70 trainees in Singapore obtained a preference of what it takes to come to be a K-pop idolizer, having actually invested 5 days participating in a K-pop training school shown by some of the sector’s most popular dancing and singing instructors that took a trip to the Southeast Asian country fromSeoul The camp was arranged by the Singapore Raffles Music College (SRMC), which is preparing to open– pending authorization from Singapore’s education and learning ministry–the first K-pop high school outside of Korea …