K-POP World Festival Global Audition Information & Notice

2017 K-POP World Festival Production Schedule

1st Final Evaluation : 4 August

2nd Final Evaluation/ Announcement of the winners : mid August

Winners for the Final & Schedule of visit to Korea: 19 Sept - 1 Oct

The Final (Changwon): 29 September

○ Limitations of teams:

- Allow only 2 back dancers for each singers entering the finals.

- No limitations for dancers

※ For dancers, we might limit the number of your team members to make identical to the number of original music performers.

○ 1st Final Evaluation (4 August)

- Professional judges (K-POP experts + production crew):146 teams → 20-25 teams

- Deadline for submitting videos is 24:00 (Korea Standard time) 2 August.

- Participants required materials:

· Singers: Performance video from regional final (we accept additional video)

· Dancers: Performance video from regional final(we accept additional video)

Video of both singing and dancing

※ Dancing performers should reshoot a video of both singing and dancing and submit it with a video from the regional final. (Memorization of the lyrics is necessary. If selected as the finalist, the team will be recording the voice for the performance in Korea)

○ 2nd Final Evaluation (Mid August)

- It is not required to submit an extra video, unless we ask for it. 1st and 2nd final evaluations will be made based on the same video.

- Professional judges (K-POP experts + production crew): 20-25 teams → 12-14 teams

- Deadline for submitting videos is 24:00 (Korea Standard Time) 15th August (Monday).

※ Production crew may ask singers to change the song or to edit the video.

※ It is required for dancers to practice and rehearse for AR production.

○ Announcement of the Finalist (Mid August)