At the close of 2024, K-pop is becoming territorial in a different sense. Earlier this month, the BLACKPINK member Rosé and the girl group TWICE, two of the genre's towering figures, released new ...

Karol G has gained a similar level of success as Shakira, but she’s done so without needing to record her albums in English. That alone speaks volumes to how far Latin music has come in the United ...

For much of its history, K-pop has been at least one step removed from the culture it predominantly echoes, owing to what the social theory scholar John Lie referred to as the "temporal gap" — the ...