South Korean bands 24K, A.CIAN, FLASHE, B.W.B. Family and Meivley will gather next week at Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center for a show.

    K-pop is a musical genre that originated in South Korea and is characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements. Although it comprises all genres of “popular music” within South Korea, the term is more often used in a narrower sense to describe a modern form of South Korean pop music covering a wide range of styles, including dance-pop, pop ballad, electronic, rock, metal, hip-hop music and R&B.

    Korean pop culture is becoming an increasingly global phenomenon, caused in part by the K-pop industry’s adeptness at tapping into social networking services and the video sharing platform YouTube. Since the mid-2000s, the K-pop music market has experienced double-digit growth rates. In the first half of 2012, it grossed nearly US$3.4 billion and was recognized by Time magazine as “South Korea’s Greatest Export.”

    Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 18-19

    Tickets: 280-880 yuan

    Venue: Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center, 2106 Nanshan Boulevard, Nanshan District (南山区南山大道2106号南山文体中心)

    Metro: Luobao Line, Taoyuan Station (桃园站), Exit B

    (SD News)