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Speaker 1: Now the Northern Territories Korean Association and M three Dance

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Speaker 1: Association of joint forces to host Darwin's first ever K

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Speaker 1: Pop dance festival in April. The not for profit groups

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Speaker 1: are collaborating to provide some new and exciting fun activities

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Speaker 1: for local youth to get involved in. And joining me

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Speaker 1: in the studio to tell us more about this awesome

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Speaker 1: event is the festival organizer, Derek Jung.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Derek, Good morning Katie. It's great

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Speaker 2: to be here.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it is lovely to have you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your time. Tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about you know about this festival. It's the first

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Speaker 1: time it's ever happening.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about a little bit about M

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Speaker 3: three Dance Association first. Yeah, sure, And we're a new

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Speaker 3: dance association and we do multicultural mainstream dance activities, so

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Speaker 3: we do things like keypop, afrobeats, dance and also a

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Speaker 3: bit of Bollywood awesome and this year we have the

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Speaker 3: fortune of collaborating with the Korean Association of the Anti

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Speaker 3: to do Darwin's very first K pop festival. It is

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Speaker 3: on April thirteenth at Casuarina Square at the quarter And

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Speaker 3: what can.

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Speaker 1: People expect, you know, if they're listening this morning and

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Speaker 1: they're going, I don't really know what K poppy is,

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Speaker 1: what can I expect?

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Speaker 3: Just in case you don't know, K stands for Korean,

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Speaker 3: So it's Korean pop music. If you've ever heard of

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Speaker 3: BTS or Black Pink, that's K pop music.

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Speaker 1: Oh my kids went through this phase where they listened

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Speaker 1: to Black Pink all the time.

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Speaker 2: Out of the phase now.

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Speaker 1: A little bit, a little bit, but some awesome loo.

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Speaker 1: It's actually some awesome music right for dancing to?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. It's great.

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Speaker 3: So during this festival, there will be a K pop

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Speaker 3: dance competition where the winner or winners will get to

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Speaker 3: go to Melbourne and compete at the Melbourne k Festival.

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Speaker 1: You're right, And so like, howho is going to be

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Speaker 1: judging this? Who's going to be determining who wins?

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Speaker 2: Is that your job?

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Speaker 1: Derek?

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Speaker 3: I know I'm actually going to be the MC. I

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Speaker 3: decided that because I have some students competing that will

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Speaker 3: be not I'll be definitely be biased if I'm the judge.

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Speaker 2: Yes, some beans.

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Speaker 3: Professionals and some people of Korean backgrounds judging and.

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Speaker 1: So how many people are we expecting to potentially get involved.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're hoping they have ten groups performing. And get this,

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Speaker 3: we are going to sponsor to up to two thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars of travel expenses for the people going to Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, So.

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Speaker 1: Those winners will get that funding to be able to

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Speaker 1: then go down there and be able to compay that is.

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Speaker 3: Right, and they will be performing at Federation Square. Now

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Speaker 3: the winners over there will go to Korea for the

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Speaker 3: Channel one K Pop Festival to perform there.

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Speaker 2: How cool?

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Speaker 1: Now, look, you know to those out there listening that

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Speaker 1: maybe don't know a huge amount about this kind of

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Speaker 1: dance and thinking to themselves, oh, how big a deal

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Speaker 1: is it to kind of get to go then over

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Speaker 1: to Korea potentially to be able to take part, like

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Speaker 1: that's huge?

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Speaker 3: Right, yes, yes, first time ever. Now, if you want

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Speaker 3: to sign up it can you need to add us

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Speaker 3: on Instagram? It is you add us on M three

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Speaker 3: Dance Association.

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Speaker 1: All right, so you can jump on there find out

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Speaker 1: a little bit more on there as well. Are you

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Speaker 1: like in terms of people getting involved, can anybody get

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Speaker 1: involved to come along and take part in the event

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Speaker 1: that's happening at Casuarina.

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Speaker 3: Other than the competition. After the competition, we also have

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Speaker 3: this thing called the K Pop Random Dance Game. I'm

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Speaker 3: not sure whether you're familiar with the Random Dance Game.

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Speaker 1: I'm not, but I'm assuming, like, is it just everyone

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: So what happens is people stand around the dance base. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and then we're going to play random choruses of K

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Speaker 3: Pop songs and people just run in and dance.

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Speaker 2: Oh cool.

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Speaker 3: So even if you don't want to compete, you can

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Speaker 3: just come for the Random Dance Game and we're going

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Speaker 3: to give us some vouchers for the people who know

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Speaker 3: the most dancers and best dressed.

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Speaker 2: So just come.

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Speaker 3: It's all just a lot of fun. But if you

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Speaker 3: want to compete, you have to add us on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Go to the link and sign.

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Speaker 2: Up and you'll be able to sign up there. But

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Speaker 2: we don't then just come along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking it would be great fun to just

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Speaker 1: come and watch. So it's happening on the nineteenth vipral

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Speaker 1: you said didn't thirteen thirteenth, Sorry, my apologies. Thirteenth of

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Speaker 1: April and it's there at the quarter at Casuarina Square,

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Speaker 1: so anybody can come along to actually watch. But you

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Speaker 1: are still after people to get involved to compete, aren't you. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so definitely if you're keen, jump on Instagram and you'll

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Speaker 1: be able to follow that page and be able to

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Speaker 1: put forward your registration so that you are able to

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Speaker 1: take part. Oh, come along and watch, I reckon. I

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Speaker 1: don't know about me dancing though, mate, I've got two

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Speaker 1: left feet.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to teach you a black being dance, Katie,

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Speaker 3: and you're going to get on there and do the

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Speaker 3: cap pop random downs.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Derek, it is lovely to speak with you this morning.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate you coming in mate. Are you going

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Speaker 2: to be pretty proud as.

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Speaker 1: You watch your students dance as well those that you

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Speaker 1: do teach.

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Speaker 3: Well, I will, but I'll be even proud of they

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Speaker 3: win and actually go to Melbourne and then maybe Korea. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but you know, just just getting on stage and being

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Speaker 3: proud of their work and having a sense of accomplishment

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Speaker 3: that's good enough.

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Speaker 1: It takes a lot, like it does, take a lot

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Speaker 1: of confidence to get out there and actually perform in

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Speaker 1: front of people as well. And it's also it's quite

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Speaker 1: a you know, it's a wonderful way to sort of

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Speaker 1: celebrate your culture too, isn't.

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Speaker 2: That Yes, it is so.

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Speaker 3: In the future we hope to have more different events,

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Speaker 3: not just keep up Afrol beats Bollywood. So yeah, just

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Speaker 3: just check us out. It's going to be a big,

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Speaker 3: big years in dancing.

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Speaker 2: Oh Derek, it.

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Speaker 1: Is lovely to speak with you this morning. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us in the studio and all the

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Speaker 1: very best. I'm very keen to come along and watch.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll see you so and Katie, thank you,

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Speaker 2: great stuff. Thank you