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China's unofficial ban on K-pop is quietly cracking, and the industry is already preparing for a flood of money

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Add DMNews to your Google News feed. Tension: China’s informal ban on K-pop was never officially codified, and now it’s dissolving the same way — through unwritten signals and quiet market shifts that the Korean entertainment industry has been preparing for since 2016. Noise: The assumption is that China represents a dam about to burst for K-pop revenue, but the Chinese entertainment landscape has fundamentally transformed during the ban years,…
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dmnews.com broke the news in on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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