Broken Record

In the shadow of K-POP's global rise, there's a poignant history of Korean pop music. As South Korea's economy rapidly grew in the late 1970s, the government began to suppress freedom of expression by regulating and monitoring popular music under various pretexts. With a new government in 1980, it seemed that the era of suppressed pop music might be coming to an end, but the next administration continued the ban on popular songs. When would the day come when people could sing freely again?