China, which has never officially acknowledged the ban, has more confidence in its own entertainment now and is looking to boost consumer spending, experts say. The concert was set to be small but ...

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- Speculation is growing over whether K-pop concerts could be held in China as early as next month, raising hopes of a shift in China’s long-standing “Korean Wave ban,” which ...

In the fall of 2025, it seemed only a matter of time before K-pop found its way back to mainland China — until it became ...

(RTTNews) - RBW Inc. said it has entered into a strategic copyright partnership with NetEase Cloud Music, China's music streaming platform. The collaboration is set to mark a new chapter in ...

When EPEX takes the concert stage on May 31, the boy band won’t just be holding the China stop of their Youth Deficiency Asia Tour but marking a major potential thaw in cultural barriers and a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran Taiwanese singer Jeff Chang – known among fans as the "Prince of Love Ballads" – says he wants to "open the gate" between East and West with his pop music, as he prepares ...

Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng performing at a concert in Lincoln Center, New York, the U.S., July 1980. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Teresa Teng Foundation Several years ago, an employee at Universal ...

Like millions of Chinese millennials, I spent my childhood summer vacations planted in front of the TV, binging a near-endless stream of reruns of the 1986 TV adaptation of “Journey to the West” — one ...

“Who wanna rock with Jennie?” After the reveal of the 2025 nominees, the Asian Pop Music Awards clearly do as the superstar leads this year’s field with nine nominations that reflect the pull of her ...

A comparison of the former Eastern Bloc and China's ways of dealing with the social implications of rock music as an alien cultural import from the West reveals significant analogies. The paper traces ...

HONG KONG — The concert was set to be small but significant: the first by an all-Korean K-pop band in mainland China after an unofficial ban on such shows for almost a decade. That was exciting news ...