(CNN) On Halloween in 2009, a perky quintet known as Wonder Girls became the first K-Pop group to crack the Billboard Hot 100 with their catchy, music-video driven, Korean-language single "Nobody." All of which opens up a larger set of questions around how the Korean pop music industry needs to evolve and adapt as it goes global, and increasingly faces the sometimes awkward, occasionally catastrophic outcomes of cultural convergence. And yet, the Korean music industry has been actively engaged in its own attempts to internationalize its product, recruiting talent from around the world in hopes of leveraging and expanding K-Pop's enormous international fan base. JUST WATCHED K-pop group BTS takes over 'SNL' Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH K-pop group BTS takes over 'SNL' 01:33To promote her tour, Liu had visited popular Los Angeles-based YouTubers Just Kidding Films to record a set of videos , including one in which the crew satirically commented on current events. Join us on Twitter and FacebookBut it's even easier to forget that these are issues faced by pop music artists everywhere -- including America and the UK.

Source: CNN November 27, 2019 11:03 UTC