K-POP Nordics Festival & K-POP Workshop 2025
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Who’s the ultimate K-pop talent in the Nordics?
Apply now to the 2025 K-POP Nordics Festival for a chance to be named “The Best K-pop Singer/Dancer in the Nordics” and win amazing prizes and exclusive benefits! Welcome to the 2025 K-POP Nordics Festival (KNF 2025), a premier celebration where the dynamic world of K-pop meets the exceptional talent of Northern Europe. Mark your calendars for the 3rd edition of KNF, taking place on June 7, 2025, at Oscarsteatern (Kungsgatan 66, 111 22, Stockholm), where K-pop enthusiasts will captivate the audience with breathtaking singing and dance cover performances. |
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K-POP Workshop 2025
On Sunday, June 8th, the Korean Culture Center Sweden (Koreanskt kulturcenter) will offer a K-POP workshop for free for the K-pop Nordics Festival 2025 finalists.
It is a co-production together with K-pop Dance Hopspot Stockholm.
The workshop will be offered to the KNF 2025 finalists first-hand, and then after two weeks, it will be open for the public to register if any spots are available.
Workshop Schedule
Every class is 75 min with 15 min in the end for questions, photos and filming.
10:00-11:30 K-pop dance Beginner open level (max 45 students)
Class description: Learn classical K-pop moves and get inspiration as well as a solid basic technique.
Teacher: Jongmin "Jco" Kim (read more about the teachers below)
12:15- 13:45 K-pop dance Boy-group advanced (max 45 students)
Class description: Advanced level with a focus on energetic and dynamic movement technique.
Teacher: Jongmin "Jco" Kim
12:15 - 13:45 K-pop singing coach (max 25 students)
Class description: Sunyoung Kim will share insights into how vocal training is approached in Korean entertainment agencies. This includes methods and techniques used to nurture voices in a highly professional environment.
Beginners are more than welcome to join. The only requirement is a willingness to actively explore their voice and participate in the exercises. Enthusiasm and curiosity are all that’s needed! There will also be a Q&A for 30 minutes.
Teacher: Sunyoung Kim (read more about the teachers below)
14:00-15:30 K-pop dance Girl-group advanced (max 45 students)
Class description: Advanced level where you learn how to shape beautiful body lines and how to work with formations.
Teacher: Jongmin "Jco" Kim
Workshop Location
Kuhlers Dance Studio, Tegnerlunden 6, Stockholm. Once you are registered you will get a code to enter the dance studio.
Registration
Registration is open for KNF 2025 finalists on 7th of May.
All the finalists will get an invitation via email where there will be a Google Form link to use for a registration.
On the 21st of May, the registration opens here on this homepage for the public, depending on if there are any spots left.
Price
For free and sponsored by the Korean Culture Center Sweden (Koreanskt kulturcenter)
The teachers
Sunyoung Kim
Sunyong has been teaching students from various countries, including the USA, Korea, China, Japan, Europe, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, both online and in person. Over the past eight years, she has collaborated with well-known Korean entertainment companies to provide idol training. Her main expertise is in vocal training, and she has trained students to become professional singers.
While working with major entertainment companies and recruiting talented students, she noticed a significant gap for beginners. Many students had the potential to become great singers, but their skills were not yet at the minimum level required to enter major entertainment agencies.
Therefore, in 2016, she decided to establish a training company in Seoul. The goal of this company was to help beginner-level students reach an intermediate level. Her company was successful, attracting students from all over the world. She also hired several vocal and dance instructors to support their training.
However, in 2019, her husband was recruited as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Umeå University in Sweden. As a result, they decided to relocate to Umeå.
Currently she is working as a vocal instructor at Folkuniversitetet and she also teaches vocal lessons online to students worldwide.
She has worked as a vocal trainer for members of OH MY GIRL, Lovelyz, I.O.I, Gugudan, KARD, AOA, Cherry Bullet, Billlie, Young Posse, BADVILLAIN, A8TON and many more.
Jongmin "Jco" Kim
Jco (Jongmin Kim) attended a sports university in Korea before switching his major to the “Department of Dance Art” at Seoul Arts College, and later studied Dance Pedagogy as a Master’s degree at Dongguk University.
This is where he seriously began his life as a dancer and dance teacher.
In Korea, he gained experience teaching idol trainees in various entertainment and dance studios, and also worked on choreographies with several idols. At the same time, he participated in numerous dance battles and performance competitions in Korea, winning many of them.
Afterward, he went to Sapporo, Hokkaido (Japan) to teach K-pop dance, before returning to Korea to teach as a lecturer at Seoul Arts Occupational Training College.
He then moved to Germany and completed his Master of Arts in Dance Composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Since 2015, he has been teaching various genres such as K-Pop, Hip-Hop and Modern Dance in Germany.
Currently, he runs a dance studio called Town-K and also works as a Hip-Hop instructor at Millennium Dance Complex.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: [email protected]
Welcome!
It is a co-production together with K-pop Dance Hopspot Stockholm.
The workshop will be offered to the KNF 2025 finalists first-hand, and then after two weeks, it will be open for the public to register if any spots are available.
Workshop Schedule
Every class is 75 min with 15 min in the end for questions, photos and filming.
10:00-11:30 K-pop dance Beginner open level (max 45 students)
Class description: Learn classical K-pop moves and get inspiration as well as a solid basic technique.
Teacher: Jongmin "Jco" Kim (read more about the teachers below)
12:15- 13:45 K-pop dance Boy-group advanced (max 45 students)
Class description: Advanced level with a focus on energetic and dynamic movement technique.
Teacher: Jongmin "Jco" Kim
12:15 - 13:45 K-pop singing coach (max 25 students)
Class description: Sunyoung Kim will share insights into how vocal training is approached in Korean entertainment agencies. This includes methods and techniques used to nurture voices in a highly professional environment.
Beginners are more than welcome to join. The only requirement is a willingness to actively explore their voice and participate in the exercises. Enthusiasm and curiosity are all that’s needed! There will also be a Q&A for 30 minutes.
Teacher: Sunyoung Kim (read more about the teachers below)
14:00-15:30 K-pop dance Girl-group advanced (max 45 students)
Class description: Advanced level where you learn how to shape beautiful body lines and how to work with formations.
Teacher: Jongmin "Jco" Kim
Workshop Location
Kuhlers Dance Studio, Tegnerlunden 6, Stockholm. Once you are registered you will get a code to enter the dance studio.
Registration
Registration is open for KNF 2025 finalists on 7th of May.
All the finalists will get an invitation via email where there will be a Google Form link to use for a registration.
On the 21st of May, the registration opens here on this homepage for the public, depending on if there are any spots left.
Price
For free and sponsored by the Korean Culture Center Sweden (Koreanskt kulturcenter)
The teachers
Sunyoung Kim
Sunyong has been teaching students from various countries, including the USA, Korea, China, Japan, Europe, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, both online and in person. Over the past eight years, she has collaborated with well-known Korean entertainment companies to provide idol training. Her main expertise is in vocal training, and she has trained students to become professional singers.
While working with major entertainment companies and recruiting talented students, she noticed a significant gap for beginners. Many students had the potential to become great singers, but their skills were not yet at the minimum level required to enter major entertainment agencies.
Therefore, in 2016, she decided to establish a training company in Seoul. The goal of this company was to help beginner-level students reach an intermediate level. Her company was successful, attracting students from all over the world. She also hired several vocal and dance instructors to support their training.
However, in 2019, her husband was recruited as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Umeå University in Sweden. As a result, they decided to relocate to Umeå.
Currently she is working as a vocal instructor at Folkuniversitetet and she also teaches vocal lessons online to students worldwide.
She has worked as a vocal trainer for members of OH MY GIRL, Lovelyz, I.O.I, Gugudan, KARD, AOA, Cherry Bullet, Billlie, Young Posse, BADVILLAIN, A8TON and many more.
Jongmin "Jco" Kim
Jco (Jongmin Kim) attended a sports university in Korea before switching his major to the “Department of Dance Art” at Seoul Arts College, and later studied Dance Pedagogy as a Master’s degree at Dongguk University.
This is where he seriously began his life as a dancer and dance teacher.
In Korea, he gained experience teaching idol trainees in various entertainment and dance studios, and also worked on choreographies with several idols. At the same time, he participated in numerous dance battles and performance competitions in Korea, winning many of them.
Afterward, he went to Sapporo, Hokkaido (Japan) to teach K-pop dance, before returning to Korea to teach as a lecturer at Seoul Arts Occupational Training College.
He then moved to Germany and completed his Master of Arts in Dance Composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Since 2015, he has been teaching various genres such as K-Pop, Hip-Hop and Modern Dance in Germany.
Currently, he runs a dance studio called Town-K and also works as a Hip-Hop instructor at Millennium Dance Complex.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: [email protected]
Welcome!