How Girls´ Generation´s `Gee´ paved the way for K-pop in the US
(WorldNews Japan)

How Girls´ Generation´s `Gee´ paved the way for K-pop in the US SM Entertainment/Courtesy On Jan. 5, one of the century´s most influential pop songs quietly celebrated its 10th anniversary. Yet surprisingly, if you turn back the clock to 2009 and take a look at the U.S. Billboard charts, that song is nowhere to be found, not even in the depths of the low 90s. The so-called Hallyu wave, the term for the rapidly expanding popularity of South Korean cultural artifacts around the world, had been impacting nearby China and Japan for a decade, but it had not yet crashed upon Western shores. But in 2009, when the wave did come to North America and Europe, the sound it made as it swept across...