{"id":25336,"date":"2018-08-09T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T22:16:32","slug":"kcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/kcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance the Night Away at KCON in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/nicedan.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is K-pop band, Twice, featured at the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-kcon.html\">KCON<\/a> at Los Angeles Convention Center through Aug.12, 2018. Guests are invited to &#8220;dance the night away&#8221; with the group, one of dozens of K-pop bands such as Crush, Dreamcatcher, Golden Child and Momoland, appearing at the nation&#8217;s largest convention dedicated to Korean pop entertainment, a $5 billion industry.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing all things &#8220;Hallyu&#8221; (Korean wave &#8212; music, entertainment, videos, fashion, etc.) to California since its first convention in Irvine in 2012, KCON has grown to encompass two cities (Los Angeles and New York) with attendance at approx. 128,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re like many who would rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/santa-cruz-beach-concerts.html\">see a free concert<\/a> such as Blue Oyster Cult at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk this weekend, Pat Benatar at L.A.&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/los-angeles-pershing-square.html\">Pershing Square<\/a>, or Ronnie Spector &amp; the Ronettes at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/san-francisco-concerts.html\">San Francisco&#8217;s Stern Grove<\/a>, the whole Korean bubble gum culture thing may escape you. Here&#8217;s what you are missing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top-rated K-pop artist, Psy, who was named the King of Youtube, not only enjoys more than 3 billion viewers for &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; song, but also has earned $45 million!<\/li>\n<li>California has the largest Korean community in the U.S. Greater Los Angeles also claims the largest such population of any city in the nation.<\/li>\n<li>Parents hoping to help their children acquire K-pop stardom attend KCON for sessions about music, dance lessons, costumes, makeup and essentials for navigating its choppy waters.<\/li>\n<li>With music that includes rap, pop and many contemporary genres, the K-pop fan base is expansive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is K-pop band, Twice, featured at the annual KCON at Los Angeles Convention Center through Aug.12, 2018. Guests are invited to &#8220;dance the night away&#8221; with the group, one of dozens of K-pop bands such as Crush, Dreamcatcher, Golden Child and Momoland, appearing at the nation&#8217;s largest convention dedicated to Korean pop entertainment, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25337,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions\/25337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}