Korea Host R 16 Championship 2012

Last week end was awesome with some beautiful performances from Korea, USA, Japan, Philippine, Finland, Germany, Italy and Taiwan in the R-16 B-Boy championship. The R 16 Is a championship for the world B Boy masters. Over 200 leading artists from major cities around the world join the urban arts festival of the championship.

 

The R16 Urban Arts Festival & World B-Boy Championships were developed to champion the growth and creativity of urban youth cultures and set the stage to introduce the world to the creative potential of Korea’s urban artists.

 

Urban Street Culture, a global trend created by the young and restless from not always the best environments, encompasses all genres from Hip Hop to skateboarding and other extreme sports to indie and punk rock to an untold many more youth created cultures. Urban Street Culture was once simply classified as “underground”- but now it is at the cutting edge of mainstream society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Such groups, with members in the hundreds of millions, have not only created expanding empires, but thriving global industries in their own backyards with annual revenues in the tens of billions. These local practices with international implications effectively set the standard for global trade.

 

They signify what is cool in youth culture. Urban Street Cultures strength can be attested by its sheer influence on trends, trends that continuously attract the interest of blue chip investors worldwide. Thus creating a global network of the world’s truest tastemakers forging relationships based on an international ideology of sharing ideas and ideals.

 

 

 

 R16 has been designed as a platform where different cultural lifestyles in the world can converge and interface in a boundless environment fertile for growth and sharing creative knowledge. Beyond procuring the stage and setting for these lifestyle mavericks, R16 also attempts to bridge the gap between Koreans near and far, to join ranks and take part in this growing society of grassroots activists and revolutionaries. Creating leaders within the local regions of our nation and the world, providing the general youth with role models of their own peers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rapid growth and decline in our societies is becoming more apparent due to cultural, economic and social standards, we can no longer neglect these widening divides. Through the R16 we hope to counter these processes by providing a place for the weary and uninspired to come and learn – to discover the limitless options available for them out there; customize life and make it your own. We plan to show them how.