K-pop seduces youth in communist Cuba, birthplace of salsa

In Cuba, teenagers are passionate about K-pop, joining the millions of fans around the world of the South Korean phenomenon. Photo: AFP

In Cuba, the home of salsa, young people are being seduced by a music phenomenon from a place that could hardly be more geographically – or ideologically – remote.

K-pop, the South Korean sensation that has already swept over much of the rest of the world, has made it to the shores of a communist isle that once banned the music of the Beatles.