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K-pop band 1VERSE debuts with 2 North Korean defector members

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With two out of five of its members North Korean defectors, the K-pop group 1VERSE is breaking new ground as it debuts its single album Friday. The band represents an unusual ...

The Splinter Cell-ish game where you're a North Korean soldier guarding a K-Pop star has gone dark: Its YouTube channel is silent and we haven't seen the director since …

Even before everything in that second paragraph happened, fans of Mudang began to suspect something had gone awry with the ...
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Can two North Korean defectors take a new K-pop boy band to global superstardom?

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 megaband BTS, two young men sip iced americanos, sketching out their own ...
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Here's the first K-pop group with North Korean defectors

1Verse is the first K-pop group in the world to feature North Korean defectors. Its other members have roots in Laos, Thailand, China, Japan and the U.S. They're the latest K-pop idols to market ...