KCON Announces Full Artists for 10th Anniversary Festival in Los Angeles

KCON finally returns to Los Angeles to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Korean Culture Festival.

After virtually moving from the first two years of the pandemic to five KCON-laden series: the TACT series, which has attracted more than 22 million viewers worldwide, KCON has become a hybrid model this year with events in May in Seoul, Tokyo and Chicago. More than 6 million participants from 171 territories around the world.

But CJ’s franchise began in Southern California when the first KCON was held in 2012 (two generations ago in K-pop terms) at the now-defunct Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California. At the time, there were 10,000 K-pop fans in Orange County, but seven years later, the last KCON (which was held in Los Angeles, although the festival was also held several times a year in nine mainland cities) easily attracted . 291,000.

KCON’s return to Los Angeles is a much-anticipated event and the festival has revealed a group of 15 artists who will perform at the Los Angeles Convention Center August 19-21 and at the stadium formerly known as Staples: K-pop groups Ateez. , Cravity, Enhypen. , Itzy, Kep1er, Lightsum, Loona, NCT Dream, NMixx, StayC, The Boyz, TO1 and WJSN, as well as Japanese boy bands JO1 and INI, formed during the first two seasons of the reality show produced by CJ. Production 101 Japan.

The successful Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ ENM is best known in Hollywood circles as a producer and distributor. Parasite, but his K-pop business is also extensive. Enhypen, Kep1er and TO1 also formed through competitive shows broadcast on CJ-owned music network Mnet. Kep1er, Loona, and WJSN just clashed in Mnet’s second season. QueenWhile Ateez, The Boyz, and TO1 competed in different versions of the franchise’s male counterpart, Kingdom.