A new K-pop boy band made their global debut on Friday with two members who defected from North Korea and an album that ...

Kim Seok, the other North Korean defector in the group and also 25, used to live in a border town near China. He was exposed ...

In a quiet corner of Seoul’s Hyuga Cafe, a warm, honey-toned space nestled inside what once served as the dormitory for K-pop ...

With two out of five of its members North Korean defectors, the K-pop group 1VERSE is breaking new ground as it debuts its ...

Yet despite the danger, North Koreans avidly tune in to K-dramas.A survey of defectors in 2016-20 by South Korea’s unification ministry found that 83% had watched such shows before defecting.

Two North Korean defectors, Seok and Hyuk, have debuted as K-pop idols under the new boy group 1VERSE. Both Seok and Hyuk ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Wednesday switched off loudspeakers that had been broadcasting K-pop songs, news and other propaganda into North Korea for the past year — one of the first ...