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The K-pop Wave has lead to a number of growth in dance groups that does dance covers of K-pop music and teach K-pop choreography. In the K-pop World Festival, AO Crew represented Australia three time- 2013,2013, and 2016- in the competition. Also, another dance cover group, IMI Dance, was the opening show for the RapBeat Show in 2017. There are dance studio that provide classes that are based on K-pop choreography. Dance group Crave NV teaches a K-pop class every Saturday at their dance studio in New Zealand.

As the Korean Wave spread, teenagers started to become interested in the K-pop training and wanted to undergo it. In 2016, The Academy was created. This is a Sydney-based agency that runs experimental K-pop boot camp, choreography, TV style workshops, and other programs. This agency gives people the opportunity to work with professional trainers and consultants from top agencies in Asia. This helps to open doors for talent scouts to look for talent teenagers that may be a good fit to the Korean music industry. The Academy is for anyone and everyone that is interested in the K-pop training and had dreams of becoming a K-pop idol.

Oceania plays a part in bring talented Koreans into the K-pop stage and industry. BLACKPINK's Rosé, ZE:A 's Kevin Kim, One Way's Peter Hyun,  JJCC's Prince Mak, CCLOWN's Rome, Stray Kids' Bang Chan and Felix, EvoL's Hayana, and LEDapple's Hanbyul are Korean Australian's that made it to the K-pop stage.

KCON, an annual K-pop music and cultural convention, was launched for the first time in Australia on September 2017. They are the seventh country to host KCON since 2012. It was held at Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney. The lineup for the event was Pentagon, WannaOne, Girls' Day, Cosmic Girls (WJSN), EXO, SF9, VICTON, MONSTA X, and UP10TION.

Concerts Held in Oceania
In 2011, the K-Pop Music Festival at the ANZ Stadium was held in Sydney, featuring Girls' Generation, TVXQ, B2ST, SHINee, 4minute, miss A, 2AM, and MBLAQ. There was also demand for concerts from New Zealand.

In August 2012, NU'EST visited Sydney Harbour and the University of New South Wales, as judges of a K-pop contest being held there. The following year, 4Minute were judges at the same contest in Sydney. In October, Psy toured Australia after his single "Gangnam Style" reached number one in Australia on the ARIA charts.

In May 2016, B.A.P held a concert in Auckland, becoming the first K-Pop group to perform in New Zealand.

In May 2017, BTS came to Sydney as part of their Wings Tour. The show sold out in less than 48 hours, and attracted fans from other Australian states and New Zealand. It was the group's second time visiting Australia after their Red Bullet Tour in 2015.