The rising crime rate in Los Angeles is a hot-button issue in this year’s race for Los Angeles mayor. And the issue just hit closer to home for one candidate.
23.08.2022 - 01:27 / variety.com
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKorean pop-culture fest KCON LA wrapped up an in-person edition on Sunday with a second multi-act concert that largely filled Los Angeles’ Crypto.com arena.The mania for Korean culture seemed barely diminished by the COVID hiatus, during which time the genre’s digital natives gathered virtually and KCON morphed into KCON:TACT.The seamless flow between fandom’s online and offline iterations was a dominant feature of the convention, held in person for the first time since 2019. And organizers Monday confirmed that the three-day convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center attracted more than 90,000 real world visitors, plus a further 7.17 million worldwide via video streaming. “The Asian American community, they existed 12 years ago [when KCON started].
They were at home. Now they are everywhere. They didn’t have a community,” said Kevin Woo, a San Francisco-native singer and actor who was trained and achieved success within the Korean talent system.
He is next heading to Broadway with “K-Pop: The Musical” in mid-October.At a presentation Friday, Woo talked about his own journey through K-Pop and the genre’s intense and unceasing fandom. “I envy this generation. You can use social media, create dance covers [in the U.S.] see them go viral and people back in Korea watch them.” But Woo also confirmed the Korean music’s industry’s all-consuming stresses.
“You’ve got to love the attention. You’ll have to sacrifice your private life for five years. Minimum,” he said.On the convention floor, those stresses and strains were largely put aside and replaced by a fast-paced succession of fan events (idols meet college-age crowds), dance teach-ins and dance competitions, one billed as a ‘Dance
.The rising crime rate in Los Angeles is a hot-button issue in this year’s race for Los Angeles mayor. And the issue just hit closer to home for one candidate.
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