The annual Korean Music Festival 2012 greeting its historical 10th year sponsored by Korea Times took place at world’s best outdoor stage Hollywood Bowl with about 20,000 enthusiastic audiences.

The audience was filled up with Korean American immigrants as well as non-Koreans who have traveled from North America, South America and as far as Europe proving the event to be the recognized as an international festival leading the communication between different ethnicity, countries, and generations through K-Pop. The diverse audience proved distance and language wasn’t an issue in attending the concert.

Korea’s leading artists performed with all their strength during the concert that lasted for four and a half hours showing their energetic and powerful performances that was responded by cheers and shouts of fans that echoed throughout the entire venue.

Korea’s most popular idol group’s MBLAQ , Brown Eyed Girls, Bobby Kim & The Buga Kingz, including G.O.D’s member of Son Ho Young, Kim Tae Woo, Danny Ahn, Park Joon Hyung reunion for the Hollywood Bowl performance, and Lena Park delivered a powerful performances that heated up the venue with the shouts and screams of fans.

There were several friends Mark Clarson, David Kington, Sheila Kington, Max Wilson, and Cory Welburton from Salt Lake City, Utah that came to attend the concert. Clarson, who lived in Korea for 2 years, spoke fluent Korean shared excitedly, “I became immersed in Korean music and introduced many of my friends to K-Pop and heard about the large music festival taking place in LA, so we came out here to attend the concert.”

Justin Tunieth group of 5 friends also came to Hollywood Bowl all the way from El Paso, Texas. Tunieth shared, “I learned about ‘Korea Times Hollywood Bowl Korea Music Festival’ through Facebook and decided to take the trip out here to LA. Although this is our first year here at Hollywood Bowl, however the long distance travel is not a problem. Today’s performance was amazing that I will come here every year.”