K-pop

By Mackenzie Harrington
  • Teachings

    Teachings

    An american missionary named Henry Appenzeller began teaching American and British songs at school to koreans.
  • First K-pop song

    First K-pop song

    The first k-pop song to be made was made by Nakhwayusu.
  • Arrival of western culture

    Arrival of western culture

    Culture from America started to appear in Korea.
  • Hippie and fold influences

    Hippie and fold influences

    The younger generation preferred the U.S. lifestyle and played folk music, which Koreans were integrating into their own music.
  • Lee Soo-man

    Lee Soo-man

    Lee comes back from America, founds SM Entertainment, uses what he learned from pop music in America to create some of the first K-pop songs.
  • The Kim Sisters

    The Kim Sisters

    The Kim Sisters were the first Korean artists to release an album in the U.S. pop market
  • Ballads

    Ballads

    There was a rise of ballad singers (a ballad singer is a person who recites a story, derived from the oral history of a specific place or a person by singing it)
  • Idols

    Idols

    Koreans begin implementing an idol business model used in J-pop
  • Development of Modern K-pop

    Development of Modern K-pop

    Korean pop musicians start to incorporate hip hop, rock, jazz, and electronic dance into their music
  • K-Pop Agency

    K-Pop Agency

    SM Entertainment was established
  • K-pop agency 2

    K-pop agency 2

    YG Entertainment was established
  • First Idol boyband

    First Idol boyband

    H.O.T. was one of the first idol boybands, they catered to the teenage audience.
  • K-pop agency 3

    K-pop agency 3

    JYP Entertainment is established
  • Popularity

    Popularity

    The term K pop becomes popular especially internationally
  • Domination

    Domination

    K-pop dominated a huge portion of the East Asian music market