A to Z Blogging Challenge 2015: World Music: K is for K-Pop

K-Pop simply stands for "popular music from Korea," particularly South Korea. Above is a playlist of of well-loved "K-Pop" tunes.

First gaining popularity in East Asia in the late 1990s, K-pop entered the Japanese music market towards the turn of the 21st century. In the late 2000s, it grew from a musical genre into a subculture among teenagers and young adults of East and Southeast Asia. Currently, the spread of K-pop to other regions of the world, via the Korean wave, is seen in parts of Latin America, Northeast India, North Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and immigrant enclaves of the Western world.

(source: Wikipedia)

By learning about one another through our music, we begin to see that we really all have very much the same basic needs and concerns.

~DJ Illin' Illsa~