SHANGHAI, April 10 (Reuters) - In a studio tucked inside a Shanghai mall, Shirley Chen is living out her K-pop idol dreams ... Korean reality TV shows where idols dress like high school students.

Hong Kong’s support for K-pop is so huge that the annual Mnet Asian Music Awards chose to host the show in the city for ... the attractiveness of the Korean idols was what drew me in.

He never listened to banned K-pop music but, after defecting to the South, he's about to debut as an idol. Hyuk is one of two young North Koreans in a new K-pop band called 1Verse — the first ...