“KPop Demon Hunters” singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami carry out through the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball live performance in Inglewood, California, Dec. 5. Reuters-Yonhap
A Ok-pop live performance might be held in Hong Kong in February and aired throughout mainland China by a state-run broadcaster, the organiser mentioned, amid rising hopes of cultural exchanges between China and South Korea after almost a decade of an unofficial ban.
Chinese language President Xi Jinping final month visited South Korea for the primary time in 11 years and held a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, the place the 2 leaders additionally mentioned cultural exchanges, elevating hopes of China lifting its unofficial ban on Korean tradition.
The unofficial ban was launched in 2017 as China protested in opposition to the U.S. deployment of a missile protect system in South Korea and has in impact meant no Korean live shows or TV reveals have been authorized by the Chinese language authorities.
Dream Live performance 2026 might be held at Kai Tak Sports activities Park on Feb. 6 and seven, and the recording might be broadcast by China’s state-run Hunan Tv, in line with From Leisure, a South Korean agency organizing the occasion.
“Will probably be the primary time for a Ok-pop live performance to be broadcast in mainland China since cultural exchanges had been severed. First in years,” an official at From Leisure mentioned on Tuesday.
China’s overseas ministry mentioned on Tuesday it was not conscious of any deliberate live shows or lifting of the unofficial ban on Ok-pop.
The 2 nations are additionally coordinating a go to by Lee to China early subsequent yr, South Korean Overseas Minister Cho Hyun mentioned in an interview with Yonhap Information on Monday.
The From Leisure official gave no particulars of which Ok-pop acts could be performing.
Nevertheless, shares of Ok-pop companies rallied on Tuesday, with HYBE rising 5 %, SM Leisure gaining 8 %, JYP Leisure including 3 % and YG Leisure leaping 4 %.
Dream Live performance, a Ok-pop occasion hosted yearly by the Korea Leisure Producer’s Affiliation, was held this yr in Abu Dhabi in November, after South Korean media reported that earlier plans of holding it in mainland China and Hong Kong had been canceled.
South Korean leisure agency CJ ENM additionally hosted its annual MAMA Awards in Hong Kong final month.
