K-pop conquers America
July 30, 2019
BTS, a seven-member Korean boy band that had begun in a small Seoul agency, sold out stadiums across the United States and topped the Billboard charts in English and Korean alike. Their fan army, called ARMY, organized global activism and bought their songs to the top of every algorithm. Cultural gravity had moved east.
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Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.