{"id":182734,"date":"2025-12-13T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182734\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:03:10","slug":"k-pop-events-in-china-disrupted-as-beijing-tokyo-tensions-affect-entertainment-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182734\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop events in China disrupted as Beijing-Tokyo tensions affect entertainment sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/aabb4417-fcae-4d4d-9fc1-0c7b971b6543.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 427; width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"Girl group Le Sserafim \/ Courtesy of Source Music\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Girl group Le Sserafim \/ Courtesy of Source Music<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\"> Growing tensions between China and Japan are apparently affecting Korea&#8217;s K-pop industry, with recent events involving groups with Japanese singers being either canceled or altered in China, according to industry sources Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Girl group Le Sserafim canceled a fan signing event for its single &#8220;Spaghetti,&#8221; which was slated for Sunday in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The event organizer said the cancellation was due to an &#8220;uncontrollable factor,&#8221; without specifying the reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Industry watchers believe the ongoing dispute between China and Japan likely played a role, given two members \u2014 Sakura and Kazuha \u2014 of the group&#8217;s five-person lineup are Japanese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Boy group Close Your Eyes held a fan meeting in Hangzhou on Dec. 6, but Japanese member Kenshin did not participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">On the same day, a fan event featuring trainees from Incode Entertainment scheduled in Shanghai was abruptly canceled hours before it started. The lineup included Japanese trainees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Such disruptions affecting teams with Japanese members have raised concerns in the K-pop industry, where multinational lineups, particularly including Japanese members, are common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;It seemed as though the ban of Korean culture in China was easing, but now it looks like a new ban on Korean-Japanese culture is emerging,&#8221; an industry official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Girl group Le Sserafim \/ Courtesy of Source Music Growing tensions between China and Japan are apparently affecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-182734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}