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22-year-old publicly executed in North Korea for listening to K-Pop.

The persistent crackdown on K-pop is part of North Korea’s effort to protect its citizens from the “corrupting” influence of Western culture, a campaign launched by the former supreme leader Kim Jong Il and intensified by his son, Kim Jong Un. Despite this, K-pop’s groundbreaking global popularity continues to grow, showing no signs of abating. Recently, the K-pop group Seventeen Made history as the first K-pop group to appear on Glastonbury Festivalthe largest Greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. According to a human rights report released by Ministry of Unification of South KoreaKim Jong Un’s regime ordered