K-pop prospects brighten on China market hopes as Seoul and Beijing sign content exchange deal

K-pop prospects have brightened after Seoul and Beijing signed a content exchange deal, potentially paving the way for South ...

A town in northeast China has shrunk by a third since 2010. Here's one family's story

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...
NBC New York

China warms up to K-pop as it pursues cultural diplomacy, strives to boost consumption amid trade worries

Locked in a trade war with the United States and struggling with weak domestic consumption, China looks set to make a U-turn on an unlikely sector: K-pop. It was announced on April 28 that K-pop group ...
The Rakyat Post on MSN

K-Pop, C-Pop, J-Pop… MY-Pop? 7 Malaysian Artists Who Are Taking Over Asia Like It’s No Big Deal

Meet Lingling — budak Klang, polyglot, and now the leader of K-pop girl group KIIRAS. She speaks Malay, Mandarin, English, ...
Agencia EFE

A decade after end of one-child policy, China faces population decline

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

Will Xi Jinping’s visit end China’s unofficial ‘ban’ on South Korean culture?

The Chinese leader's Apec stay raises expectations that an unofficial boycott would be lifted, but official bodies urge calm ...