K-Pop is everywhere online. On TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, fans learn choreographies, post dance covers and connect over their favourite groups. But K-Pop is not just something that exists on a screen. For a lot of fans, it also becomes part of real life.

In this report, Alicia visits 128 Dance Studios in Amsterdam and speaks to dance teachers and owners Tyrone Menig and Melody Herindra as well as their students about how they first discovered K-Pop online, how social media helped the genre grow, and how K-Pop dance classes can become spaces for community, confidence and self-expression.