Thai troupe outshines locals in K-Pop festival

Thai troupe outshines locals in K-Pop festival

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The moves are Korean, but the dancers, despite the colour of their hair, are locals.

Millennium Boy won the top cover dance prize in Korea.

Millennium Boy, a team of 12 male dancers from Thailand, has snatched first prize at the 2013 K-Pop Cover Dance Festival in South Korea.

The contest was organised last week in Gyeongju, a coastal city located 365km southeast of Seoul. The Thai band beat 14 other teams from Europe and Asia, including competitors from Japan and South Korea, by perfectly covering Wolf and Growl, two songs by Sino-Korean boy band Exo. Millennium Boy was representing the Kingdom at the international finals in Gyeongju after it came first in K-Pop Cover Dance's Thailand heats held in Bangkok last month. For that appearance, the 12 young men performed Exo's Growl.

In an interview he gave to the media after Millennium Boy came first in the Bangkok heats, dancer Soravis Suebsamran said he and his colleagues had been performing Exo's songs for about two years and that it was a band they all looked up to.

The victory is sure to delight Millennium Boy's Thai fans, some 90,000 of whom follow the ensemble through its Facebook fanpage.

Millennium Boy is only the second Thai group to come first in the K-Pop Cover Dance Festival; Lollipop CZ carried off the same award in 2012 for a cover of Big Bang's Fantastic Baby.

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