Forget Gangnam style: K-pop could make Changdong Seoul's next big thing
(CNN)Forget Gangnam style. There's a new area of Seoul that, if the South Korean government gets its way, is about to become synonymous with K-pop.
Once a rundown district, Changdong is being transformed into a mecca to K-pop -- the manufactured music genre that has taken Asia by storm.
Sales of Korean music, and related TV shows, films, animations, games and other publishing, earned the country nearly $5 billion in 2015, according to a Korean Trade Investment Promotion Agency report.
Now the Seoul government is leveraging the "hallyu wave" -- as this cultural phenomenon has been dubbed -- to revive Changdong.