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K-pop Boosts Industry Production by Blns of Won

SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of Korean pop culture abroad helped increase production of the country’s cosmetics, gaming, tourism and beverages industries by billions of won in 2014, data showed Sunday. The growing popularity of hallyu, or the Korean wave, the name for Asianwide popularity of Korean pop culture, has been making inroads [...]

Tuttle Publishing Announces Release of the Ultimate Guide to K-Pop

NORTH CLARENDON, VT, Feb 09 (Korea Bizwire) – In 2012, Psy’s “Gangnam Style” music video hit YouTube and blew every other video out of the water, to the tune of 1.8 billion views and counting. This phenomenon took the global awareness of K-pop to a whole new level inspiring author Mark James Russell to write K-POP [...]