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K-ballad
K-ballad, known in South Korea simply as ballad (발라드), is a style of Korean popular music reshaping soul and R&B to Korean sentiment, popular since the 1980s.
K-indie
K-indie, also called Korean indie, is the independent popular-music scene of South Korea, anchored in Seoul's Hongdae district since the 1990s, with a 2000s surge and growing global streaming.
Korean R&B underground (Crush, Dean era)
The Korean R&B underground was a 2010s Seoul movement of languid, self-produced R&B made outside the idol system, anchored by Crush and Dean and spread through independent labels and crews.