{"id":167087,"date":"2026-08-27T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=167087"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:53:26","slug":"anime-nyc-organizers-launch-kpex-korean-pop-culture-expo-2027-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/08\/27\/anime-nyc-organizers-launch-kpex-korean-pop-culture-expo-2027-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime NYC Organizers Launch KPEX: Korean Pop Culture Expo 2027 in New York\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">LeftField Media, the organizers behind Anime NYC and Anime Frontier, formally announced the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpexevents.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPEX<\/a>: Korean Pop Culture Expo in New York at the Javits Convention Center. The first show is scheduled for May 29-31, 2027 and will feature K-Pop, K-Dramas, K-Comics, K-Games, K-Food, and K-Beauty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The organizers will feature industry veterans including <strong>Greg Topalian<\/strong> (co-creator of New York Comic Con), <strong>Robert Khoo<\/strong> (co-creator of PAX), and <strong>Peter Tatara<\/strong> (co-creator of Anime NYC).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The event has secured support from Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), a governmental agency focusing on expanding K-Content worldwide, and Ize Press (from Yen Press), the US publisher of Korean comics and novels including <em>Solo Leveling <\/em>and <em>Omniscient Reader&#8217;s Viewpoint.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">Ticket sales are scheduled to begin on September 18 at 12:00 PM EDT.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Press release<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeftField Media, the organizers behind Anime NYC and Anime Frontier, formally announced the launch of KPEX: Korean Pop Culture Expo in New York at the Javits Convention Center. The first show is scheduled for May 29-31, 2027 and will feature K-Pop, K-Dramas, K-Comics, K-Games, K-Food, and K-Beauty.\u00a0 The organizers will feature industry veterans including Greg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[759,4440,12860],"class_list":["post-167087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime-nyc","tag-ize-press","tag-kpex"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/KPEX-LOGO.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-HsX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167166,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167087\/revisions\/167166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}