On 13th and 14th of July R16 Korea (B-Boy world championship) was held at Olympic park stadium. The biggest event in B-Boy field, organized mainly by Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). It was a 2-day event, the first day, July 13, being the solo battle
championships for B-Boy dance, locking, and popping. July 14th was crew battle day. Countries that
represented included Korea, Japan, Australia, Russia, USA, France,
China, and Taiwan.
On Saturday, I went with two of my Korean friends, Hyeonsook lim and Hogeun kim. A big thanks to KTO for providing us free tickets to the show. On Sunday i went with another Pakistani friend.
This event was the 3rd event of B-Boy series, first was Freestyle Session three months ago at KTO headquarter and the R16 National Qualifier Competition in Uijeongbu two months ago. But this time it was World championship so i was more than excited.
When we arrived at the venue we saw many crazy b-boy, popping and locking lovers from different parts of the world to attend the R16
World B Boy event of 2013. Before the start of show, we took our tickets from KTO booth. It was raining but even the bad weather couldn't stop us from reaching the R16 Korea event.
The year 2013 is the 7th year of R16 Korea, first time I
heard about it two years ago when the organizers and the Korea
Tourism Organization (KTO) stepped up their campaign to promote this
international bboy competition. I first attended R16 Korea in 2011 when I got a
free ticket from KTO, and then in 2011 when I again got free ticket from KTO under K-Performance supporters program. So this year was my third consecutive year again under K-Performance supporters program.
At the end of the first day, Bboy Issei of Japan was the solo B-Boy champion, Nao of Japan was the solo locking
champion, and Hoan of Korea was the solo popping champion.
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Second day of R16 Korea was more exciting. I always loved crew battle and "Morning of Owl" as my favorite crew was there. Morning of Owl was the winner from Korea to participate in this championship.
In the start all 8 countries crew have presented team performances. and all of them was amazing. Later on they went for quarter finals for B-Boy championship 2013. Each team had shown great team work with excellent performance. in the end there were Body carnival (Japan) and Morning of Owl (Korea) in the finals.
For the winner award ceremony, President of KTO was there. He asked about how was the show and whether we want to see this happening again in Korea or not... OF COURSE...!!!
For the Team performances, Japan's Body carnival won the first award and it was not finish for them, they were in finals so they were expecting to have won the title as well.
KTO president announced the B-Boy world championship winner by raising his hand to the Morning of Owl side. wohoo, Korea won against Japan. my favorite team has won :)
At the end of R16 competition, Jap Park who is the ambassador for R16 Korea, came up the stage and sang his new song which was composed for only B-Boy competition. He got amazing round of applause from the audience.
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