Han-Pop
| Han-Pop | |
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| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | 1990s Ionland |
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| Pyongsan | |
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Han-Pop or Hanguk Pop Music or 한국 대중 음악 in Hangul is a popular brand of music found in Ionland. It originates from the 1990s Pyongsan music scene where musicians began experimenting with combining various forms of music and visual styles and music companies began experimenting with group creation and the concepts for album and single releases. In began to be a worldwide phenomena in late the 2000s and early 2010s due to the video sharing websites and social networks. The Monarch of Ionland even congratulated and thanked various artists during the yearly Christmas party in 2014 where he awarded attending artists with the Cultural Contribution Award of Ionland for their contributions to Ionite culture and their representation of Ionland to the world. Alongside Han-Pop, the Hanguk Entertainment industry in Ionland has dramatically evolved due to the popularity in Ionland.
The Industry
The Big Five Agencies
The music scene is mainly dominated by five agencies, the first of which is Pyo ENT which helped spearhead the new music genre in the late 90s alongside Pyo ENT, Royal Productions, Yi Byeong-Ho Entertainment or commonly known as YBH Entertainment, PM Scene, and Absolute Music all are major agencies that house some of Han-Pop's biggest groups and artists.
Debuts, Concepts, and Comebacks
A big part of the industry is about groups and their concepts, a group is formed after years of training in the agency. During the early years the industry this practice gained negative attention from the media but since the mid 2000s, the industry has created guidelines and cut back on working and training hours to allow performers to have a less hectic schedule. A group or artist that releases a new album or single goes through what is called a comeback, generally a comeback consists of a new concept from their previous album or single, they then promote it on various variety shows and performance stages. Various visual and audio agencies create a concept, some groups focus on different sub-genres and others like to focus on other sub-genres.
Sales
The Han-Pop industry is a major factor in the generation of profit and the success in the Ionite economy, yearly projections of the Han-Pop industry reach upwards to five to seven billion dollars each year.
Popularity
National Popularity
Han-Pop is the most popular brand of music found in Ionland, both Slavic and Hanguk Ionites in a recent survey selected Han-Pop as their favorite genre. National music billboards are generally filled with atleast 60-70% Han-Pop songs. Han-Pop concerts are generally sold out within hours of ticket releases within Ionland and generally fill out whole arenas. Every second Friday in July, in Pyongsan a Han-Pop festival is held in Pyongsan Park which nearly hundreds of thousands of Ionites and Foreigners attend.
International Popularity
Due to the power of video sharing and social networking, Han-Pop has caught on internationally in various parts of the world. Pyongsan and other Han-Pop music centers in Ionland have heavy traffic of tourism thanks to Han-Pop.
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