Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Locked out of
China, South Korea's K-pop stars are heading to the US
A deployment
of a new missile defense system doesn’t seem to have secured businesses as
usual for South Korea.
Difficulties
arose from the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Are Defese, THAAD, system against
Beijing’s protest have significantly declined the sales of Korean companies in shopping
malls and department stores, automobiles, and electronics in China. Also, arrivals
of Chinese tourists to Korea, which represented nearly a half of total tourist
arrivals last year, dropped sharply. And the impact doesn’t seem to stop there.
Entertainment business is also severely affected.
China had
been a big market for Korean pop culture until this anti-Korean sentiment was
created. Now as K-pop groups have lost opportunities to hold concerts in China,
they are developing US market by touring across the country. That’s good news
for young K-pop fans in America who had been given no chance to enjoy their
on-stage performance and excitement.
Who could
have imagined a missile system would divert K-pop tours from China to the US? It
seems that the world is getting more unpredictable these days.
Try
predicting what could happen if North Korea deploys a missile offensive system.
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