Cultural post 2

[Yewon Son]

Korean music and especially Korean "idol" groups are becoming world-wide sensations, and while there were groups like Girls Generation and Shinee that had been popular outside of Korea before, the scale of their popularity is incomparable to groups like BTS who are trending nowadays. While the korean music that most people know is generally called "k-pop," there are actually several different music genres that are combined both in the korean music industry and in most popular Korean songs. For example, two of the most popular genres that "k-pop" utilizes are jazz and hip hop. There are jazz undercurrents or the specific rhythms associated with jazz, present in many popular korean songs by various artists like Heize or Dean, and hip hop is featured in songs by boy groups like Ikon. There is also a subgenre for korean hip hop specifically that is making its way into mainstream, worldwide attention with artists like Jay Park and Gray.