Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Korean in Music

The Korean Wave is The Sound of Music

Dynamic and unique, Korean pop music is sweeping through markets across Southeast Asia. Artist such as Clan, Rain, HOT, NRG, Kangta, and Baby Vox are at the top of Chinese pop Music charts while BOA’s grand entrance into the Japanese market was a huge success

The domestic market for online and mobile music is supported by Korea’s Advanced IT technology which has allowed new business models, such as streaming music’s to flourish and reach profitability in record time


A New Era in Musical Theatre & Performance

On Broadway the original Korean stage show, “The Last Enpress”, was praised as “the Korean Evita”. The shoe “NANT”, which launched a new era of percussion-based performance, continuing the legacy of Korean musicals by acquiring its own performing arts groups, such as Dokebi Storm and Kim Duk-Soo Korean Folk Instrumental Music Squad are entertaining the eyes and ears of the world through a modern interpretation of Kukak—traditional music drawn form Korea’s 5000 years of history and transformed into distinctive contemporary rhythms and melodies

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