CD Sales Are Booming in the K-Pop World, Where Album Design Takes Center Stage – Eye on Design
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K-pop encompasses a lot more than just the common label of popular music from South Korea. It’s an entire industry, with productions that range from EDM to acoustic ballads, incorporating even the most unusual genres to the mix (see: reggae; drum ‘n bass). It’s also an industry known for paying as
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