Inside the world of K-pop
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Welcome to the energetic, catchy, family-friendly world of South Korean music-better known as K-pop. Its best-known artists maybe the boy band BTS, nominated in three different categories at tonight's Grammy Awards , and the most-listened-to group in Spotify history. UCLA professor Suk-Young Kim, who has written about the K-pop phenomenon, said, "It's way more than music. It is a total entertainment that incorporates choreography, fashion, lifestyle. "We used to have very prominent boy bands and girl groups, such as New Kids on the Block, Spice Girls, One Direction. I think K-pop really hits kind of a vacuum that Western pop cultural trends left behind," she said. The K-pop band Stray Kids performs "Maniac." JYP Entertainment "Sunday Morning" visited the 10th annual KCON convention in Los Angeles, an expo dedicated