Indyplus video: Move over One Direction, South Korea's Super Junior is taking manufactured pop to a whole new level

Friday 08 November 2013 22:02 GMT

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They are the epitome of manufactured, commercialised pop – and they are coming overhere. Super Junior, a 13-piece South Korean boyband and “super franchise” are playing their first UK headline gig at Wembley Arena tonight before delivering a guest lecture at the Oxford Union on Sunday, representing a new high watermark in the apparently unstoppable rise of “K-Pop”.

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