The Politics of Pop Culture: 22 year old publicly executed in North Korea for listening to K-Pop

The persistent crackdown on K-pop is part of North Korea's effort to protect its citizens from the ‘corrupting’ influence of Western culture, a campaign initiated by former supreme leader Kim Jong-il and intensified by his son, Kim Jong-un.

Despite this, K-pop's groundbreaking global popularity continues to rise, showing no signs of fading. Recently, K-pop group Seventeen made history as the first K-pop group to perform at the Glastonbury Festival, the world's la

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