China to open doors to K-pop performers?
For the first time in nearly a decade, China could be easing its unofficial ban on Korean entertainment with two scheduled K-pop shows
News By Hanna Ellington | 21 August 2025
China looks set to host its first K-pop concert in nearly a decade next month, potentially relaxing the country’s unofficial ban on Korean entertainment.
Girl group Kep1er is scheduled to perform at the Fujian Meeting Hall in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, to an estimated 1,000 attendees, agency Klap Entertainment confirms to The Korean Herald.
The group’s government-approved performance follows in the footsteps of boy group EPEX’s planned show in the same city, which was cancelled earlier this year due to unspecified “issues in the local region” three weeks out.
If it goes ahead, Kep1er’s China show will be the first concert by Korean artists in nine years after the Chinese government issued an unofficial ban on Korean culture and products in retaliation for…
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