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Young Russians dance to K-pop and watch anime amid Asian culture boom

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MOSCOW — A few years ago, Ms Karina Marakshina had to explain what K-pop was when asked to describe the musical style of her Moscow dance studio. Now she says she hears it blasting out from nearly every mall where she shops.

Choreographer Polina Ivanovskaya, 22, leads a dance class at a branch of GSS K-pop studios in Moscow, Russia on Feb 2, 2024.

Ms Marakshina's K-pop dance school, GSS Studio, started in 2016 with only two groups practising in halls rented by the hour. It now has thousands of students practising in three big studios in Moscow, and more in other cities. "What I like about this trend is that you dance as a whole group," she says."You feel the togetherness of a group of people."

 

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