BTS Performed Mic Drop and DNA At The K-Pop World Festival 2017 and List of Winners

There’s a saying in this world “Once you enter the world of K-POP, there’s no turning back from the obsession”.
With the everyday increasing popularity of Bangtan Sonyeondan AKA BTS, K-Pop is literally dominating the world through their impactful videos, creative music and great looks.

Live from South Korea, at 7:00 PM KST on the twitter account of KBS World- the biggest K-Pop World Festival was live streamed. From Peru to USA, artists from 13 countries including Malaysia, Canada, Hungary, India and more competed in the final stage of the competition.

Along with the performers, the K-Pop World Festival 2017 in Changwon Sports Park Stadium featured live performances from some of the biggest K-POP groups and artists like- BTS, NCT127, TWICE, AILEE, MONSTA X and ASTRO.

Throughout the live stream and even long before that #KWF2017 was trending No.1 on Twitter and became a hot topic all around the world.

And during the show, there was one thing that was too difficult to not to notice and that was- there were more ARMY bombs then Light Sticks which further proved BTS's popularity when they took the stage performing their song popular song Fire along with DNA and Mic Drop from their new album Love Yourself: Her, whose tracks has already made it to Billboard Hot 100 list. During the BTS covers and their performance The ARMY Chant was one thing that was consistent which made many fans think that it was more like a BTS concert then KWF itself.

This year’s festival pits 13 finalist country-teams who battled for the top prize- Daesang, performing K-Pop vocal and dance covers. The country-teams that performed in the festivals were:  The US (@IV_KWF), Hungary (@R3DSeven), Canada (@1PCE_), Indonesia (@tiffaniafifa), Madagascar  (@Antsa_fie), India  (@ImmortalARMYIN), Malaysia (@KingsmanKWF), Nigeria (DE_FRAGILEDC), Peru (@analuciatlr), Russia (@partyhard_dt), Turkey (@sinemkadioglu), Singapore (@mynameisakif) and Vietnam (@Oops_Crew).

Out of whom Tiffani and Alphiandi from Indonesia took home the Grand Prize which was presented by their favorite idols BTS. Other prizes like Best performance, Best Vocals and Famous choice award were also presented to the winners during the ceremony by K-Pop idols like Twice and Monsta X.

List of Winners of K-Pop World Festival 2017

Congratulations to all the winner. Keep up with all the news and conversations about the festival by looking up the hashtag “#KWF2017” on Twitter.