In the mid-1990s, South Korean record labels injected the burgeoning new genre of K-pop with the first generation of “idol” boy groups – charismatic teens who helped build a global audience in the pre-Youtube era
Many Kpop fans have heard of first-generation boy groups like H.O.T. and Sechs Kies. But even they stand on the shoulders of the 1980s and early 1990s boy groups that literally created Kpop as we know it today