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Every year, on August 15, there is a public holiday in South Korea to commemorate the day the Korean peninsula was liberated from Japanese colonial rule. On this day, there is a longstanding tradition whereby South Korean presidents outline their vision for Korean unification – Korea has been divided between the North and South since 1945.
K-pop giant JYP Entertainment recently launched VCHA, an all-female idol group composed entirely of members from Canada and the United States who had passed auditions held in North America. The band says its members’ backgrounds include Korean, white, Latino, black, Vietnamese and Hmong ancestries.
Consuming and sharing foreign media in North Korea can be punishable by death. But that did not stop more than 83% of those who escaped the country between 2016 and 2020 using increasingly sophisticated means to access foreign music, TV shows and films before they left.
SEOUL – In video footage released by an organisation that works with North Korean defectors, the North Korean authorities are seen publicly sentencing two teenagers to 12 years’ hard labour for watching K-pop.
While the two have not directly confirmed their relationship, fans appear convinced of their romantic involvement, citing online posts about their visit together to a local restaurant a few months ago.