K-Pop from South Korea being imitated in Brazil

K-pop attracts devoted imitators in South America

VITORIA, Brazil–Instead of doing the samba, eight young Brazilian women begin dancing in rhythm to a lively South Korean pop song in a room of a building here on a Sunday afternoon.

All of the songs they swing their hips in unison to are those of the popular South Korean female K-pop group Girls’ Generation. Fascinated and attracted by the beautiful South Korean pop group members, these women formed a group in 2010, named the Genies, to imitate them. Read Article