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December 15, 2011

News: Youtube Finally List "K-Pop" as Music Genre


The largest and widespread video sharing in web, Youtube finally announced new addition of K-Pop genre of music in their music category in December 15, 2011.

K-Pop is now joining the likes of other popular musical genres such as Pop, Rock, R&B, Rap, Folk, Latin, and more. Furthermore, it is the first country-specific musical genre to be added to the list.

This project was shared with Google, called 'Korea Go Global', which  already been discussed with Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, while visiting Korea back on November 7th.

As a result, the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and Google Korea came together to sign a business agreement stating that through YouTube, many activities will occur in order to promote Korean culture to the fullest.

Google Korea CEO Yum Dong Hoon in different occasion said that, very pleased and excited to see the various K-Pop artists being renowned by Youtube with their genre of music spreading into the world. The Google Korea also planning in continuing various activities and events to further spread the Korean culture, including K-pop, to the rest of the world via ‘Korea Go Global‘.



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