Boom in K-pop shows as Korean Wave hits the west [updated]
Acts such as Big Bang, Girls' Generation and Exo are driving unparallelled growth for South Korean pop music in Europe and the Americas
News By IQ | 6 May 2016
The number of K-pop concerts in the west is on the rise as Korean artists become increasingly popular among North American and European audiences.
An infographic by live music crowdsourcing website MyMusicTaste, provided to Billboard, which analyses the spread of K-pop outside its home of South Korea and traditional stronghold in east Asia reveals that, from 2013 to present, the US was the foreign country with the third-highest number of K-pop concerts (102), behind only Japan and China.
The ‘Korean Wave’ has…
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