K-POP World Festival Launches New Twitter Popular Choice Award 2017

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA--(Marketwired - Sep 14, 2017) - Twitter, the best place to see what's happening in the world of K-POP and to talk about it, will collaborate for the first-time with the K-POP World Festival 2017 to provide a variety of #OnlyOnTwitter exclusive content to engage a global audience on its live public communications platform. In addition, the new Twitter Popular Choice Award will allow K-POP fans from all over the world to participate in the festival and will be livestreamed to the world through Twitter.

The 2017 K-POP World Festival, which celebrated its 7th anniversary this year, is the largest K-POP festival in the world, co-organized by KBS, South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Korea Culture and Information Service (KOCIS). This year, there are 13 country team finalists that have passed the global qualifying stage from 88 regions of 72 countries and who will come to the final stage in Changwon on 29 September 2017.

The New Twitter Popular Choice Award 2017
This year's festival will feature the new Twitter Popular Choice Award which will provide special memories for participants and fans. From today to 12pm KST on 29 September 2017, each of the 13 country team finalists will upload a variety of content, photos and videos on their Twitter accounts to communicate with their fans. The team that gets the highest engagement from Retweets, Likes, Replies and video views on Twitter, along with the usage of their official team account and hashtags, will win the new Twitter award.

COUNTRY TEAM FINALISTS (listed in alphabetical order):

• Canada
  -- Team account: @1PCE
  -- Team hashtags: #KWF2017Canada or #KWF2017CA
  -- Launch video Tweet: https://twitter.com/KBSWorldTV/status/907860564071690240 
  
• Hungary
  -- Team account: @R3DSeven
  -- Team hashtags: #KWF2017Hungary or #KWF2017HU
  -- Launch video Tweet: https://twitter.com/KBSWorldTV/status/907861504799547392 
  
• India
  -- Team account: @ImmortalARMYIN
  -- Team hashtags: #KWF2017India or #KWF2017IN
  -- Launch video Tweet: https://twitter.com/KBSWorldTV/status/907861079958577152 
  
• Indonesia
  -- Team account: @tiffaniafifa
  -- Team hashtags: #KWF2017Indonesia or #KWF2017ID
  -- Launch video Tweet: https://twitter.com/KBSWorldTV/status/907862404163190784 
  
• Madagascar
  -- Team account: @Antsa_fie
  -- Team hashtags: #KWF2017Madagascar or #KWF2017MG
  -- Launch video Tweet: https://twitter.com/KBSWorldTV/status/907861938234736640