Stray Kids Drives Fans Wild in Historic Rock in Rio Debut

It took a while for Brazil’s major festivals to give K-pop a space proportional to the strength the genre has already achieved worldwide.

On Friday (Sept. 11), Rock in Rio changed that scenario by dedicating a night of the Palco Mundo (World Stage) to the genre for the first time. And it fell to Stray Kids to close out this historic chapter as headliner.

Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. were, without a doubt, the most anticipated artists of the day. From early on, STAYs took over the Cidade do Rock with custom lightsticks, group T-shirts, fans, and plenty of…