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Ride the K-Wave

K-Wave Festival

케이웨이브 축제

📅 November 21, 2026Free entry📍 3651 Avalon Park E Blvd, Orlando, FL 32828
The 2025 K-Pop Dance Contest winners on stage with their prize checks under the Ride the K-Wave banner

A day built around the annual OKCC K-Pop Contest, where dancers compete for cash prizes in front of a live crowd. Come to compete, or come to watch the best performers in Central Florida.

OKCC holds an annual K-Pop Dance Contest, giving out cash prizes to the best performers. The semi-finals are here at K-Wave and the finals at the Orlando Korea Festival in December.

The 2025 K-Pop Dance Contest winners on stage with their prize checks under the Ride the K-Wave banner
2025 winners — Group: Kharisma Krew (1st), 8DAT Crew (2nd), After Dark (3rd). Solo: Blue Moon (1st), Blaze (2nd), Wings Like Eagles (3rd).

What happens

  • 1K-Pop Dance Contest semi-finals (30+ teams)
  • 2Random Dance Play
  • 3K-Pop karaoke
  • 450+ food, retail and service vendors

Still being confirmed The full schedule and contest rules for 2026 are being finalized.

The line-up

Who is setting up.

The line-up goes up here.

Vendors are confirmed in the weeks before the festival. Come back closer to the date — or take one of the spots yourself.

Apply as a vendor

Poster

Everything on one sheet.

K-Wave Festival poster

K-Pop Dance Cover Contest

Dance in it.

Audition, then dance in front of a live crowd for cash prizes. The semi-finals are at the K-Wave Festival in November and the finals at the Orlando Korea Festival in December — one application enters you for both.

  • Semi-finals · K-Wave Festival

    November 21, 2026

  • Finals · Orlando Korea Festival

    December 11–12, 2026

Last year

What it looks like.

  • The crowd forming a circle for Random Dance Play under the tents
  • A packed crowd between the tents in the late afternoon
  • Dancers in the middle of a Random Dance Play round, the crowd close around them
  • Festival-goers gathered under the tents as the sun goes down
  • The front rows of the crowd waiting for the next dance
  • The lit-up K-WAVE marquee letters
  • A dancer mid-move in the Random Dance Play circle, the crowd cheering around him
  • Trays of tanghulu — candied strawberries, grapes and mandarins on skewers
  • A visitor browsing keychains and pins at a vendor stall

Take part

Vendor, contestantor volunteer.

Apply for any of it, here.

K-Wave Festival

Sell food, goods or services at the festival. Applications are reviewed as they arrive, and each category is limited so the line-up stays varied.

Open the vendor form→

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