K-pop replaces salsa in Cuba


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.

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